So the leftist magazine, Mother Jones, ran a expose, possibly even an attempted hit piece on T-Rex arms.

And to be honest, we kind of love it.

Welcome back to another episode of T-Rex Talk.

Today we're going to be analyzing the article that was written by Lila Hassan and published by Mother Jones.

And there will be a link to the article in the show notes so you can follow along as we go.

But some of you may be curious about what kind of magazine Mother Jones is or maybe who

Mother Jones was historically. Mother Jones was the pseudonym of Mary Harris, who was a union

organizer in the late 1800s and continued to be around for a number of radical social causes. She was kind of a professional

activist and a member of the socialist party up through the early 1900s. And the magazine,

Mother Jones, was founded in 1976 and named after her because it is attempting to be a pretty radical magazine,

running a lot of political exposés and, yeah, kind of hit pieces on large corporations

and occasionally individuals. There's actually some pretty interesting journalism that is done by a lot of the folks

writing from Mother Jones. Their probably most famous piece was taking on the Ford Pinto,

back when the Ford Pinto was apparently a fireball explosion death trap. And there have been

some interesting folks contributing to the magazine like Glenn Greenwald,

who is kind of an interesting character.

And Michael Moore, who made the Bowling for Columbine film, was briefly, briefly the editor of the magazine before he was fired for reasons that nobody knows about.

So, interesting magazine with some interesting folks involved, occasionally doing interesting

journalism, but always with a specifically political direction. Again, it's named after a famous

socialist activist, so you can imagine where their sympathies generally lie. So let's talk a little

bit about the article that came out in this month's or last month's

magazine discussing T-Rex Arms.

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