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Political Experts React to Viral Midterm Abortion Ads (Melissa Murray)

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4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Former Barack Obama Communications Director and Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer is joined by Melissa Murray, Professor of Law at New York University and co-host of the Crooked Media podcast Strict Scrutiny. In this episode Dan and Melissa analyze a viral ad from Mothers Against Greg Abbott (MAGA), Republican Katie Britt (Alabama), and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

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0:00.0

Who the fuck is Greg is like a mantra to live by?

0:03.3

This is straight out of the Sarah Palin playbook, you know, Grizzly Mom.

0:07.6

Welcome to Political Experts React, where we break down political ads and media.

0:10.8

Explain what people behind them are trying to accomplish and decide whether or not they did a good job.

0:14.2

I'm Dan Fyfer, former communication director of Barack Obama, and joining me today is Melissa Murray,

0:18.8

the professor of Law and New York University and host of the Crook Media Podcasts,

0:22.1

Dricks Grootney. Melissa Murray, welcome to Political Experts React.

0:26.4

Thanks for having me.

0:27.6

This week's episode is all about how campaigns and canas are talking about abortion.

0:34.0

You have been covering this on Strict Grootney from a legal perspective,

0:37.6

from the substantive, interval impact of the course decision.

0:41.0

So we wanted to get your take on what these ads say and what we think they accomplish

0:45.0

and how Democrats can maybe push back.

0:46.6

That's great.

0:47.4

First ad we're going to start with is one that has been requested by many, many reviewers.

0:51.6

It's from a political group called Mothers Against Greg Abbott.

0:57.8

Thank you for your patience.

1:00.8

There's no easy way to say this, but your baby has a catastrophic brain abnormality.

1:06.4

What does that mean?

1:08.0

It means that parts of her brain didn't form.

1:11.2

Your daughter, if she is to survive, will live only a matter of hours after birth.

1:16.3

With, during that time, she will experience a multitude of seizures and ultimately

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