News Brief: US Media Pathologically Incapable of Criticizing MAGA Mobs Without Evoking Racist Cliches About "Third World"

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Following today's mob violence at the U.S. capitol building, we break down how, once again, American media would rather ignore homegrown currents of white supremacist vigilantism and their buddy buddy relationship with law enforcement and focus instead on how an anomalous President Trump makes us like those horrible poor people of the Global South.

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0:00.0	Welcome to A Citation's Needed News Brief. I am Neem Asherazi.
0:07.6	I'm Adam Johnson.
0:08.6	We come to you on this insurrection day in the United States.
0:13.2	What was generally going to be and has been a perfunctory Senate and Congressional meeting
0:20.0	to authorize the results of the November 2020 election.
0:24.6	Telegraphed well in advance that there were going to be mobs outside the capital of Trump supporters.
0:31.0	And yet, low and behold, Adam, shocking though it may seem.
0:35.8	It seems that the Capitol police were caught off guard.
0:39.2	Ah, yes.
0:40.2	Completely caught off guard and just...
0:43.2	The Steersley caught off guard.
0:44.2	We're overwhelmed by the mob that then broke into the U.S. Capitol building,
0:49.2	which was then s forth evacuated and locked down.
0:53.0	And then we have been hearing, of course,
0:56.2	once Congress reassembled at 8 p.m. in the evening on the East Coast.
1:00.8	From Vice President Mike Pence,
1:03.2	how noble the heroic efforts of the law enforcement officers were
1:07.8	that quickly cleared the building.
1:10.0	Quote, quote, unquote, quickly.
1:11.2	So hours of this surreal kind of insurrection happening,
1:17.8	shocking though not surprising, though it may have been.
1:21.8	We have been hearing throughout the day today, Adam,
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