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The Gist

The Problem With America's Rich

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Can you move toward greater income equality without asking America's richest to give something up? In a word, no. On The Gist, Richard Reeves argues that the upper echelons of the U.S. are bogarting wealth that would otherwise go to the middle class. His latest book is Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It. And today, Mike pulls a Spiel from the archives: What President Trump means when he says everybody. Or anybody. Or nobody. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following content is explicit.

0:02.4

["Bad Piano Song"]

0:06.2

It's Tuesday, November 28, 2017, from Slated to the Gisdai, Mike Pasca.

0:10.9

James O'Keefe is bad.

0:13.1

James O'Keefe is also a propagandist,

0:15.8

but it must be said that James O'Keefe is a bad propagandist.

0:20.0

Now when we say bad propagandist, we usually mean he's nefarious or he's evil.

0:25.7

Yes, and James O'Keefe is that, but he's also really incompetent.

0:29.1

In competence, leveled by malevolence, tempered by mendacity,

0:32.4

a formulation we once used for someone else.

0:34.8

So yesterday, James O'Keefe's latest gambit was scrambled when the Washington Post revealed

0:40.0

that one of his minions had approached a post-reporter leveling accusations against Roy Moore.

0:46.9

But the minion's accusations did not check out.

0:49.9

Her backstory was contrived, her interests were off base,

0:54.4

her paper trail raised issues.

0:56.8

Yeah, that's right. She had a paper trail.

0:58.8

Because she used her real name, trying to sting the Washington Post.

1:02.9

Oh my god, Harvey Weinstein goes with ex-masad agents.

1:06.6

O'Keefe uses someone who listed the jerky boys and Captain Janks as a reference.

1:11.3

Those are a phony phone call, guys.

1:14.0

When O'Keefe started off the bat when he was younger, he's only 31 now.

1:18.5

Well, so much that he's done in his life.

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