Seymour Hersh, NYC Nail Salons, and Ebola-Free Liberia

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🗓️ 15 May 2015

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Seymour Hersh on his claim the White House version of how Osama Bin Laden was killed is a lie, how a New York City nail salon expose went viral, and Liberia: finally Ebola-free.

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0:00.0	I do counter-narrative, and that has a cost.
0:02.7	I've been around a long time.
0:03.8	I still have my fastball, and I just have learned to pretty much ignore a lot of the critics.
0:09.7	Investigative journalist Seymour Hirsch drops a bombshell about the Osama bin Laden raid and becomes a target himself.
0:16.9	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:20.5	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:22.0	Also on the show, a New York Times expoise on nail salons is more than just classic muck raking.
0:27.9	It's good marketing, too.
0:29.4	Somebody tweeted that every single woman I've talked to in New York City in the last three days has read this story.
0:34.9	That might have been a bit hyperbolic, but it actually felt that way.
0:38.2	Plus, the world celebrates the end of Ebola in Liberia, but locals say the fight isn't over.
0:44.6	Already, you can see that the complacency factor is setting in. My fear is that there may be some
0:50.7	lapses near the border, and we may have some reoccurrence. We're afraid that doesn't happen.
0:55.7	There's more coming up.
0:57.1	Stay with us.
1:01.7	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:06.0	Brooke Gladstone is out this week.
1:08.1	I'm Bob Garfield.
1:09.6	If you've read any of the thousands of journalistic
1:12.6	accounts or only seen Zero Dark 30, you know how the 2011 Osama bin Laden raid came to pass.
1:21.2	Sealed Team 6 took him out after the CIA sniffed him out.
1:25.9	Where was the last time you saw bin Laden, huh?
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