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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

RFK Anniversary: Chris Matthews on Bobby Kennedy and the Missing Element in Today's Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Chris Matthews of Hardball joins the program!! He has just finished his book Bobby Kennedy - A Raging Spirit. Chris talks about RFK and how his history and childhood, and his relationship with Joe Kennedy Senior that informed his own politics. Those politics, according to Matthews, were just starting to develop at the end of his life, as he sought to defend society's less fortunate, while keeping working people of all races in mind.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Mike Troy, host of the American Revolution Podcast on the Airwave Media Network.

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This podcast is the origin story of the United States, how we went from colonies ruled by a king to the Democratic Republic that we have today.

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The American Revolution podcast tells the story of the revolution from beginning to end. The Revolution

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I hope you will join me today on the American Revolution podcast.

0:34.7

Bobby was one guy that could talk about.

0:36.7

This isn't America. This isn't the way we do things.

0:39.4

That moral authority is just gone. It's very hard to find that person today. So, You like history and history and you like politics. You'll love my history can beat up your

1:10.9

politics. If you're not subscribe now, go to Apple

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1:19.5

W. My History Can Beat Up Your politics. dot com site.

1:24.0

Here's our interview.

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Chris Matthews is the host of Hardball on MSNBC,

1:28.0

author of the well-known book by the same name

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and now the author of Bobby Kennedy a raging spirit he

1:34.9

joins me today Chris thanks for coming on the podcast no prop Bruce I'm all for it

1:39.3

let's jump right into it I mean the are crazy political times where looking for somebody to

1:44.5

stand up here and it seems like you see something missing in today's politics

1:48.8

and compassion, courage, a single messenger maybe that can cut across racial and economic lines and you see

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