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The Muckrake Political Podcast

The Fall of America: The TV Show

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6530 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

With a vote on impeachment looming, political analysts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the shortcomings of political coverage, including the role spectacle has played in creating the crisis and how partisan media has manifested a dangerous alternate reality.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I am clearly made up my mind. I'm not trying to hide the fact that I have disdain for the

0:08.0

accusations in the process, so I don't need any witnesses. And everything I do during this,

0:14.8

I'm coordinating with White House counsel. There will be no difference between the president's

0:18.8

position and our position. We all know how it's going to end.

0:22.6

There's no chance the president's going to be removed from office.

0:26.9

I want you to get up now.

0:30.3

I want all of you to get up out of your chairs.

0:33.7

I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell.

0:40.6

I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.

0:46.4

Let's go beyond the stale and tired narratives.

0:51.0

Let's use historical context and alternative perspectives to fully comprehend.

0:56.6

Let's dig deeper to tackle the news and bring a little order to these chaotic times.

1:03.0

That's what your host's Jared Yates-Sexam and Nick Houselman will do.

1:07.5

Welcome to the Muckrake podcast.

1:12.6

So, Jared, how many times have you watched Network today?

1:19.3

Oh, man.

1:20.8

First of all, I have to have to say, I'm so glad you brought up Network because that is so

1:24.9

pertinent to what we're talking about today with how this media

1:29.9

establishment that we've created in this country is really, really dire and dangerous.

1:35.8

To think that that movie came out so many years before what we have now and predicted so

1:42.0

much of what we have, if people are listening to this podcast and they haven't seen Network,

1:47.1

I'm going to do a taboo here and say, press pause on the podcast and just go watch Network.

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