Who To Root For In Syria?

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels have gained ground in Syria, but they aren't the nice, unproblematic, good-for the environment, nice-to-old-people rebels of our dreams. What now? Plus, part two of our interview with Ben Rhodes, former Obama Administration speechwriter and current co-host of Pod Save The World. And how coverage of the many vulnerabilities of Pete Hegseth suggests that the media might just have a few moves left. Produced by Joel Patterson and Corey Wara Email us at [email protected] To advertise on the show, visit: https://advertisecast.com/TheGist Subscribe to The Gist: https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ Subscribe to The Gist Youtube Page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g Follow Mikes Substack at: Pesca Profundities | Mike Pesca | Substack Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:05.3	2024 from PeachFish Productions. It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. And this is a week that might be a proven ground for
1:11.8	the notion, the rampantly adhered to notion that it's curtains for the old school legacy
1:19.9	mainstream media. I mean, MSNBC might be being sold, certainly being spun off and
1:25.0	CNN's ratings are terrible and every newspaper other than
1:28.3	the New York Times is slowly dying. I'm sure somewhere there are newspapers who might correct me and
1:35.0	say, no, we're quickly dying. But it has been a time when the old machinations of media have worked
1:43.7	in terms of destroying or nearly destroying, and this will be
1:48.0	the proven grounds, the candidacy of, say, Pete Hegeseth. Pete Hegeseth has been exposed by such outlets as
1:56.1	the New Yorker and NBC, as amplified by MSNBC. New York Times does follow-on reporting, so does the
2:03.6	Washington Post, and it all accrues to getting actual factual accounts of his misdeeds while
2:10.6	in previous jobs surfacing them and making his candidacy, his selection to be head of the Department of Defense, much
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