SUPD 972 The News and OffMessage.net Brian Beutler with the best political analysis
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 November 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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I had an awesome conversation with one of the smartest political analysts working today who has also just started his own independent channel which allows him so much more freedom of thought. I really enjoying Brian's work and get a lot out of it.you should definitely consider a subscription now. Go to off message.net and also subscribe to his YouTube page decoding the news. Today's show has a 20 minute News round up and I start with Brian at about 21 minutes
Off Message is a newsletter by me, Brian Beutler, about politics, media, and culture in America, and about how to see past the distorting effects—the lies, jargon, and talking points—that can make these realms so confusing.
The hope is to re-establish a beachhead for a kind of liberal political journalism that has become a bit hard to find recently, but that embodies a more insurgent spirit—where it seems natural rather than heretical that new ideas and leaders should challenge older ones, and liberals have the confidence to confront the forces of reaction directly across a range of liabilities.
That’s the sensibility I was trained with and have nurtured over a nearly 20 year career in journalism. In that time I’ve been a beat reporter, leading coverage of Congress, policy, and politics for the news website TPM; a columnist for the New Republic; and editor in chief of Crooked Media. I’m a widely cited analyst and reporter who’s launched and hosted multiple podcasts and has been published in the country’s most prestigious outlets, including the New York Times.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there friend, hello listener. Thank you very much for joining us today. Why don't you take a deep breath and check in, make sure everything's okay. Here, I'll even do it with you. Good to be with you right here in the moment. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's do the show. |
| 0:20.0 | Yeah, I just thought that would be a fun, different way to start. |
| 0:25.0 | Maybe I'll do more of those random cold openings just to catch off guard. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello and welcome to today's episode Stand Up. |
| 0:31.0 | I have an amazing guest guess one of my favorite political |
| 0:34.0 | analysts who is also a big favorite of our friend Bill Boyle who's also a favorite |
| 0:40.8 | political analyst of mine. So it's like when you see someone who's really tall and then someone even tall or standing next to them. |
| 0:47.0 | And you think, well, those two guys must really get each other. |
| 0:50.0 | That's how I feel about Bill Boyle and Brian Boiler who know each other from their DC neighborhood apparently but anyway Brian is now the founder of off message which is a newsletter about politics media and culture without all the jargon or talking points, he says. |
| 1:05.8 | And I agree, of course, I love it. |
| 1:07.8 | Such a big fan and now subscriber. |
| 1:09.8 | He's formerly crooked media's editor and chief. He was a New Republic senior editor and worked at a bunch |
| 1:15.8 | of other places as well. But of course, Brian was the man over at the whole Pod Saves America, Pod Saves the World Company, |
| 1:24.0 | and he was there for several years from the beginning, I believe, just recently left to start |
| 1:29.1 | off message and it's so-so-good and I like to thank our conversation about his recent work is too. |
| 1:35.0 | And if you want to jump to that, you can now, it starts at about 21 minutes after my longer than I thought it would be news segment. |
| 1:43.4 | Just headlines today because it's already 445 in the morning when I'm recording this |
| 1:49.7 | and I want to get it up by 6 a.m. |
| 1:51.7 | Every once in a while, maybe once a week, sometimes less, every once |
| 1:54.8 | in a while, two times a week. I will actually realize around 7 or 8 that I've had a rough day or a long day, |
| 2:02.0 | usually just a lot of work, and so I'm tired and I don't have the kind of energy required to produce the show so I'll recognize that usually around seven or eight because it takes a lot of energy and I have to be rested to do this. |
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