Race to the Bottom

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🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The collapse of the ISIS propaganda machine; a Cold War media battle waged in the tunnels under the Berlin Wall; and the myth of upward mobility.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:04.9	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:06.0	And I'm Bob Garfield.
0:07.9	Okay, because we must.
0:09.9	The Week in Trump.
0:11.9	Begin with Donald Trump accused of groping one woman and kissing another without consent.
0:15.9	The Palm Beach Post out of Florida quoted a woman yesterday who says that she was groped by Donald Trump 13 years ago at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
0:23.9	One story after another, after another, after another.
0:28.0	Trump's explanation, of course, a conspiracy of Democrats, Republicans, the press, and
0:34.0	the breath mint industry to deny him his throne.
0:37.2	Slander and libels that was just last night thrown at me by the Clinton machine and the New York Times and other media outlets
0:45.5	as part of a concerted, coordinated, and vicious attack.
0:50.3	Never fear, though.
0:51.3	I take all of these slings and arrows gladly for you.
0:56.3	That's right, conflating Christ and Hamlet, he's being crucified for our sins
1:01.2	while talking himself into political suicide.
1:04.9	What he's not doing very successfully is changing the subject.
1:09.1	But it's locker room talk, and it's one of those things.
1:12.7	I will knock the hell out of ISIS.
1:15.4	We're going to defeat ISIS.
1:16.8	ISIS.
1:17.7	That was at Sunday's presidential debate where Trump attempted to divert voters' attention
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