We are watching one of these stupidest events by some of the stupidest people in American history, and history will fix this.

A cascade of impeachment facts cast as lies by the usual suspects.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

Also on this week's show, malicious myths about questionable people and how history

can fix those. What are the factors that can maybe create a world where they're treated

decently and actually maybe given the chance to tell their story and be believed? And we wouldn't

need podcasts 25 years later to circle back to them and be like, hey, wait, this was complex.

Plus, as Britney Spear seeks legal control over her life, the culture contends with its own bad behavior.

We are sorry Brittany was trending on Twitter over the weekend.

Clearly, like, we've been waiting for something to spark this.

It's all coming up after this.

From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

Bob Garfield is away this week. I'm Brooke Gladstone. Writing early

on Friday, my impeachment experience this week was incomplete, consisting of an incoherent

improvisation in the first act, that's a rare bipartisan view, and a clarion concatenation in the

second. Try listeners too often with a phrase like that, and a clarion concatenation in the second.

Try listeners too often with a phrase like that, and you're asking for trouble.

But it's so good.

Clarion, a clear ringing, stirring sound, concatenation, an interlocking sequence.

In this case, an unbreakable narrative chain wound around the Senate to extract a verdict of guilty. Some senators said they felt the case presented against Trump, built on months

of his words and deeds climaxing and violent rampage, like a physical memory of trauma.

Indeed, the point was to convey the truth in body as well as mind.

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