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The Daily Beast Podcast

Why Libs of TikTok Is a Ticking Time Bomb

The Daily Beast Podcast

The Daily Beast

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4.68.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Michael Edison Hayden tells The New Abnormal why Chaya Raichik, the woman behind Libs of TikTok, is so dangerous and why the Anti-Defamation League needs to stand up against her. Plus, The Daily Beast’s political reporter Jake Lahut discusses Congressman Dean Phillips' not so great start to his presidential campaign. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi I'm Andy Levy former Fox News and CNN H.L.N. Guy and current cable news

0:04.3

conscientious objector. I'm a former Libertarian who now sits comfortably on the left.

0:08.6

Hi, I'm Danielle Moody, former educator, and recovering lobbyist.

0:13.0

But today I'm an unapologetic woke commentator on America's threats to democracy.

0:18.0

And I'm producer Jesse Cannon, and I'm here to make sure things don't go too far off the rails.

0:22.6

We're here to have fun, smart conversations

0:25.1

with some of the most knowledgeable and entertaining people

0:27.4

in politics, media, and beyond.

0:29.5

Our goal is to try and make sense of our current crazy world, our new abnormal, and hopefully even

0:36.2

make you laugh through the tears.

0:38.1

What an excellent show we have today.

0:40.0

Southern Poverty Law Centers, Michael Edison Hayden joins us to talk about

0:43.6

Libs of Tik-Toc and how people are underestimating the implications of what she's

0:48.2

doing and how much harm it's causing.

0:50.0

Then we'll talk to Daily Beast reporter Jake Leut about Congressman Dean Phillips who's challenging President

0:55.1

Biden in the primary and the awful start his campaign is off too.

0:59.5

But first, let's have some fun.

1:01.6

So I am looking at my head of lettuce, and it's still green but wilting, kind of like all of the fan

1:10.4

fair around the new speaker of the house, Mike Johnson. This man has already begun to make

1:16.9

waves in ways that I don't even think that the people in Trump world are excited and happy about because guess what?

1:24.8

No one did any fucking vetting on this guy.

1:29.0

It feels like that what they they rallied around because three weeks of a vacancy in the house, but now the things

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