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🗓️ 21 February 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

How Bloomberg News is covering its owner's candidacy; politics in the influencer age; Citizens United ten years out; and fudging the past at the National Archives.

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0:00.0

A billionaire who calls women fat, broads, and horse-faced lesbians.

0:05.3

And no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump.

0:07.5

I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg.

0:09.1

The showdown for the Democratic nomination continues, and the gloves are off.

0:14.2

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

0:17.7

I'm Bob Garfield.

0:19.2

The Bloomberg campaign is spending millions on influencers and

0:23.3

meme creators, but don't turn to cable news for the smart take. Here we are months away from the

0:29.4

election, and they are so ignorant of these massive sea changes that are happening online.

0:35.1

I'm never getting invited back on cable news again.

0:43.0

Plus, the National Archives has been chronically underfunded and undervalued for years,

0:48.9

but in today's toxic political mess, that spells disaster. By the end of this year, they're going to be able to start destroying records from the first year of the Trump administration

0:52.9

when it first began to crack down

0:54.9

on undocumented immigration. It's all coming out after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

1:04.8

Brooke Gladstone is off this week. I'm Bob Carfield. Happened to catch the Democratic debate Wednesday?

1:13.2

If you did, you saw a good old Las Vegas demolition derby.

1:21.5

Elizabeth Warren slamming Amy Klobuchar about negotiating with the enemy.

1:26.3

We can't be so eager to be liked by Mitch McConnell that we forget how to fight the Republicans.

1:34.3

Pete Buttigieg slamming Klobuchar for blanking on the Mexican president's name.

1:40.3

You're literally in part of the committee that's overseeing these things, and we're not able to speak to literally the first thing about the politics of the country to our south.

1:50.1

Are you trying to say that I'm dumb, or are you moving?

1:52.4

Bernie Sanders slamming Buttigieg for taking money from rich donors.

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