Media malpractice and a border crisis that wasn't

We've Got Issues

English - March 26, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 55 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
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Previous Episode: Are Trump's own Deep State loyalists fabricating a crisis at the Mexican border?

Next Episode: The tawdry, bizarre Matt Gaetz scandal has unleashed so much schadenfreude

This week, we're joined by Alex Shephard, a staff writer at The New Republic, to talk about why the legacy media fell so hard for a demonstrably false conservative narrative about the Biden administration's policies creating a "crisis" at our southern border. Are they just trying to demonstrate to Trump's supporters that they're going to be tough on Biden, or is something else going on? And will crying "border crisis" work for conservatives this time?

Then we welcome Stephanie Langel, a research fellow at Duke University's Human Vaccine Institute, to give us the latest on vaccine production and distribution--including a PR disaster for Astra-Zeneca--and the new Covid-19 variants, and talk Joshua out of going to a bar after he's fully vaccinated. Important stuff.

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