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Statues are allegedly "found" by the sculptor chipping bits away from a giant block, but "truth" being found though a TV roundtable "conversation" is madness.

....And the Nation of Islam has been working with Scientology since 2012 or so, so it's a royal flush of nutty stuff.

I just said fuck you out loud. "Your country is being genocided by one of our closest allies so you can't criticize us", absolutely disgusting

The war in Yemen, that the US is supplying bombs for..,

No, Americans would never kill other Americans, and all illegal covert ops are always exposed and punished.

Great show, guys! I wish we could make this required listening for neoliberal #TheResistance warriors.

Jake Tapper’s career trajectory is an object lesson in how to succeed in corporate media. The formula generally goes like this: go after the fringes of the left and the right––but mostly the left. Never offend any traditional centers of power. Mug. Constantly mug for the camera. Hitch your brand to “The Troops” And-always, always––attack from the neoconservative right.
 
As previously discussed in our John McCain News Brief, the issue with John McCain was less so about the man himself but what he represented: posturing National Security state jingoism at the heart of America’s civic religion; a phony notion of self-importance that animates US militarism. Just the same, this week’s episode is less about Tapper and more about what he represents: the dead center of American corporate media; hollow, faux-adversarialism marked by military worship; less interested in original reporting than serving as a bouncer for Club Acceptable Opinion.  

We are joined on this week's episode by journalist Natasha Lennard.

Episode 55: Jake Tapper and the Art of Faux-Adversarialism

Citations Needed is a podcast about the media, power, PR, and the history of bullshit. It is hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and produced by Florence Barrau-Adams.

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