S1E5: Bonus Episode 2
Conspiracyland
Yahoo News
4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In this bonus episode, Isikoff talks about the role of Washington lobbyist Jack Burkman in fanning the Seth Rich conspiracy flames, staging a filmed reenactment of Rich's murder that distorted reality and horrified the dead DNC staffer's family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody I'm Dan Clydman editor-in-chief of Yahoo News and welcome to this bonus |
| 0:06.6 | episode of Yahoo News's Conspiracy Land, a new podcast series on the host of Conspiracy Land and Biana Goladriga, the veteran news broadcaster who's |
| 0:24.5 | reported for ABC News, CBC News is currently a CNN contributor and is our |
| 0:30.1 | former colleague at Yahoo. In these special episodes we will tell the story behind |
| 0:34.6 | the story of Conspiracy Land, explore the larger themes that this tangled and tragic case |
| 0:39.5 | raises, and hear from Mike what it was like to report on the Seth Rich murder as he plumb the depths of the dark netherworld of American political conspiracies. |
| 0:48.0 | Each bonus podcast will be available with the episode it corresponds to. |
| 0:52.0 | Today we are discussing episode 3, |
| 0:53.8 | fake news theater. |
| 0:55.9 | An amazing cast of characters in episode 3. |
| 1:00.7 | Tell us about Jack Berkman. |
| 1:02.4 | Let's start there. Jack Berkman. Let's start there. |
| 1:03.0 | Jack Berkman is this Washington lobbyist. He's been around for years, sort of known as something of a |
| 1:10.2 | gadfly who loves publicity and you know has a tendency to make absurd and |
| 1:17.6 | outrageous claims that are going to get him on TV a few years ago he was pushing |
| 1:22.4 | legislation to ban gay athletes from the NFL. |
| 1:26.8 | So no gays can play professional football. |
| 1:30.0 | He described it as a matter of common decency. |
| 1:33.1 | Obviously nobody was going to endorse such a bill, |
| 1:35.4 | but it got Berkman FaceTime on TV, |
| 1:37.8 | and he craves Face Time on TV. |
| 1:40.4 | So he, right after Seth Rich's murder saw this as a vehicle to inject himself in a big way |
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