The Most Absurd Republican Temper Tantrums This Year

The New Abnormal

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Conservatives get angry over the darnedest things. From Lizzo playing a Founding Father’s flute to a gay PDA in a Disney movie, 2022 was a year full of right-wing outrage that was so dumb, The New Abnormal politics podcast host Andy Levy and Media Matters’ deputy director of Rapid Response Andrew Lawrence decided to round up the most “offensive” instances in the show’s latest episode. Plus! TNA co-host Danielle Moodie interviews Treva Lindsey, professor at The Ohio State University and author of America, Goddamn: Violence, Black Women, And The Struggle For Justice, to talk about just that, and Brittney Griner specifically: “Obviously she is worth something and worth so much more than even one arms dealer for these individuals…”

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Andy Levy, former Fox News and CNN HLN Guy and current cable news conscientious
0:05.4	objector.
0:06.4	I'm a former libertarian who now sits pretty comfortably on the left.
0:09.4	Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator and recovering lobbyist, but today I'm an
0:14.4	unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.
0:18.6	And I produce her Jesse Cannon and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off
0:22.0	the rails.
0:23.0	We're here to have fun, smart conversations with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining
0:27.2	people in politics, media and beyond.
0:29.9	Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully
0:35.3	even make you laugh through the tears.
0:37.4	We're off for the holiday, but that doesn't mean we didn't take you to a fantastic episode
0:41.3	before we left.
0:42.3	Trieville Lindsay joins us as a professor at OSU in the author of America Goddamn, Violin
0:47.6	Black Women and the Struggle for Justice.
0:50.1	But first, we're joined by Media Matters Deputy Director of Rapid Response Andrew Lawrence,
0:54.5	who's going to talk to us about the year in conservative non-triversies.
0:58.4	If there's one thing Fox News and conservative media overall, like it's ginning up a controversy
1:04.2	out of whole cloth, we love to mix metaphors, don't we folks?
1:07.2	Joining me now to talk about some of the more ridiculous and some of the more dangerous
1:10.6	of these non-triversies from the past year is the Deputy Director of Rapid Response for
1:15.4	Media Matters Andrew Lawrence.
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