Episode 172: The Foundational Myth Machine - Indigenous Peoples of North America and Hollywood
Soldiers from the US Cavalry defeat the Plains Indians, securing new territory for their burgeoning empire. A group of settlers fends off an armed Indigenous tribe on horseback in their intrepid effor...
14 Joulu 20221h 30min
News Brief: Biden, Congressional Dems Partner with GOP, Media to Discipline Rail Labor
In this News Brief, we are joined by Real News' Mel Buer and Max Alvarez to discuss the media campaign to obscure Biden and Congressional Dems selling out rail workers.
30 Marras 202257min
News Brief: Law & Order's Boring Anti-Bail Reform Diatribe
Five days before the midterm elections, the long-running NBC staple removed all subtlety and character work and explicitly lobbied against bail reform in a ham-fisted, boring slog of an episode. With ...
23 Marras 202243min
Episode 171: The Vacuity of "Radical Libs Forced Voters Into the Arms of the Right" Discourse
"How The Left Created Trump," revealed Rob Hoffman in Politico in November 2016. "Blame liberals for the rise of Donald Trump," insisted S.E. Cupp in The Chicago Tribune the year before. "How the left...
16 Marras 20221h 16min
Episode 170: The Shallow, Audience-Flattering Appeal of the 'Neither Right Nor Left' Guy
"Clinton Says He's Not Leaning Left but Taking a New 'Third Way,'" reported The New York Times in 1992. "It's not left. It's not right. It's forward!" proclaimed former presidential candidate Andrew Y...
9 Marras 20221h 12min
Episode 169: How the Right Ventriloquizes "The Working Man" to Push Pro-Corporate Policy and Gut Welfare
"Yes, undocumented immigrants take jobs from working Americans. Here's the proof," an opinion piece in The Washington Post tells us. "Save our truckers, not affluent students seeking a free ride," ple...
2 Marras 20221h 8min
News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis
In this Halloween themed News Brief, we debunk the idea drug dealers are handing out fentanyl candy to our children. But we also examine why these copaganda panics are able to take hold: namely the fa...
28 Loka 202241min
A Citations Needed Live Show Beg-a-Thon: The Morality Politics of Star Trek + Pro Wrestling
In this Live Show Beg-a-Thon, recorded 10/20, we discuss the morality politics of Star Trek and Pro Wrestling with guests are Robert Greene II and Brandi Collins-Dexter.
26 Loka 20222h
