From WNYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield. On this week's show, the media

struggle to find drama in an impeachment trial that is all but a foregone conclusion.

If it were today, I don't think there's any question. It would not lead to a removal.

Fearing restrictive laws from the new Democratic majority in Virginia, gun owners demonstrate

and whisper about armed rebellion.

And they were using a different term, boogaloo, which is this semi-ironic online term for Civil War,

and talking about, like, does the boogaloo begin in Virginia?

And as Puerto rico is shocked

by more earthquakes and revelations of official incompetence people are demanding accountability

but from whom the local government blames the federal government and the federal government

blames the local government and stocking between our three million Puerto Ricans all the time.

It's all coming up after this.

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

I announced the presence of the managers on the part of the...

Brooke Gladstone is away this week. I'm Bob Garfield.

Concerning the impeachment of Donald John Trump, president of the United States.

Maybe it would have been more dramatic if it had come as a surprise.

The Pacific Standard advertised, quote,

The Case for Trump impeachment.

On October 4th, 2016, a month before election day.

The day after Trump was elected, Google searches for how to impeach the president jumped

4,850 percent. And a mere week later, American University History Professor Alan Lichten was on CBS predicting

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