Spinning Ukraine Coverage in the West (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)

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🗓️ 14 May 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The baby formula conundrum ... Mickey: Chuck Schumer has put Dems in a bad position for the midterms ... Is the Ukraine military aid bill excessive? ... How neoconish think tanks influence Western coverage of Ukraine ... Mickey asks: Would a new cold war be so bad? Bob answers. ... Kathy Barnette’s surprising surge in the Pennsylvania GOP senate primary ... If a Trumpist Trump hasn’t endorsed wins a race, is it a win for Trump? ... Is Tesla’s stock price threatening Elon Musk’s Twitter purchase? ... Musk backpedals on his free speech position ... Video of Israeli soldiers beating mourners at the funeral of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh goes viral ... Mickey: It’s much more plausible that the Roe v. Wade opinion leaker was a left-winger ... Parrot Room preview: Steve Schmidt’s meltdown, Dinesh D’Souza is at it again, the creepy views of a Disinformation Governance Board member, IQ differences in a pair of South Korean twins, J.D. Vance, the child tax credit, Station Eleven, the etymology of “black hole” and its connection to Bob, drinking spinal fluid for brain rejuvenation, Tucker Carlson, and the shifting Latino vote ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Blogging Heads TV.
0:08.7	Hi, Mickey.
0:11.7	Mickey.
0:12.9	Hey, Rob.
0:13.9	Oh, you're swigging some cola?
0:16.1	Is that cola, Mickey?
0:17.0	Is that a soft drink?
0:17.9	It's the new Mexican baby formula, Bob, that we're importing to...
0:22.8	It's like Mexican Coke. It's fabulous. I thought you were going to say that you're drinking out of
0:27.8	that because it's so hard to get a plastic straw these days because of what the eco-warriers have done
0:33.3	to your plastic straw ecosystem. But no, you're picking up on a different issue.
0:39.1	Well, yes, it's the baby formula shortage, although you can also can't find a paper coffee cup.
0:45.4	It's like society is collapsing. We can't make baby formula. We can't make paper coffee cups.
0:51.5	And you know, I have so thoroughly failed to get past the headline story of that
0:56.1	baby formula, the headline level, that baby formula story that I have to ask you what exactly
1:02.0	is going on.
1:02.6	I mean, I have heard people on Fox saying they're giving baby formula to illegal immigrants
1:07.8	at the border, but there's none for American mothers.
1:10.6	It's not that interesting. It turns out there's a supply chain problem from the pandemic,
1:17.6	and then the FDA shut down this one plant because there was a bacterial infection,
1:22.4	and at least one baby died using this formula. And it emphasizes, to me, that corporatism is inevitable.
1:34.4	I mean, there are only so many baby formula producers because of economies of scale.
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