The Dead Consensus
On the Media
WNYC Studios
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | With allegiance to our founders and a heart full of love for America. |
| 0:05.0 | Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. |
| 0:09.0 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 0:14.0 | And I'm Bob Garfield. The parallels between the impeachment of Andrew Johnson 150 years ago and today are Erie. They even had fox-like |
| 0:24.7 | coverage. Well, there was MSNBC too. But yes, all the press was partisan. But you had some |
| 0:33.3 | really wonderful journalists and the most surprising one was Mark Twain. |
| 0:38.2 | Also, to understand how the illiberal conservative movement coalesced, we go back to its roots. |
| 0:45.1 | We backed you for 40 years. What did it get us? |
| 0:47.8 | Gay people can get married. Abortion is still legal. |
| 0:50.6 | And it causes dear to religious conservatives, there's no progress on that front. |
| 0:55.1 | It's all coming up after this. |
| 1:01.4 | From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. |
| 1:05.8 | And I'm Bob Garfield. |
| 1:07.2 | Instead of Bing Crosby's Christmas album, we're going to have impeachment. |
| 1:11.2 | Yes, as former acting attorney general Matt Whitaker observed Thursday on Fox, it's beginning to look |
| 1:18.0 | a lot like impeachment, perhaps just in time for the holidays, when Treetops glisten and children |
| 1:25.4 | listen to hear accusations of bribery, obstruction, and abuse of presidential power. |
| 1:30.6 | With confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders, and a heart full of love for America. |
| 1:38.2 | Today, I am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. |
| 1:43.3 | In finally, giving her green light, House Speaker |
| 1:46.0 | Nancy Pelosi rejected Republican accusations of political vendetta and couched the decision as |
| 1:52.4 | constitutional duty. This setting the stage for what? For exactly the absurd spectacle we've |
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