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#216 - Both Sides Now (w/ Alex Shephard) (Patreon)

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2021-03-12 06:02:53
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2024-06

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America is divided, capitalism is to blame, and the only solution is... more capitalism. That's the thesis of STARS AND STRIFE (2020), another centrist documentary from the last election in which the architects of oligarchy and globalization, and big money in politics call for... an end to those things. Niall Ferguson, Rahm Emanuel, Amy Chua, Alan Greenspan, and Francis Fukuyama are just a few of the titans who deliver wildly contradictory prescriptions to America's ills in this truly dreadful documentary. We're joined by New Republic staff writer Alex Shephard to discuss. PLUS: the ongoing grift of David Brooks.

"David Brooks and the Endless Grift of the Conservative Commentariat" by Alex Shephard - https://newrepublic.com/article/161621/david-brooks-endless-grift-conservative-commentariat

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Pete Seeger

When you were mentioning Canadian shills who collect huge speaking fees across the corporate speaking circuit and launder sympathetic views of of various corporations as a feature of their writing I immediately thought “Malcolm Gladwell”. This guy presents the most galaxy brained takes on products like “McDonald’s fries actually are good and the anti cholesterol guy is the reason we’re sick and your food sucks” and “faulty cruise controls on Toyotas that are responsible for multiple deaths are actually simple motorist error”. Not to mention some terrible shit he spinned that aligned with Tobacco industry framing and being viewed in internal Philip Morris docs as a journalist friendly to their agenda. His speaking fees and training are well documented, but it would be worthwhile for someone to do a lit review on his work to document all of the instances in his writing where his counter intuitive and clever “revisions” seem to offer favorable treatment to companies. He’s also shown himself willing to go to bat for the CIA 👁

Borat Madingus
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And he's an NPR favorite of course! I remember liking him back in college when he was on every other episode of Radio Lab lol. His pro-stop-and-frisk writing was pretty bad too. Though he both-sides-ed the issue by mentioning that the killing of Amadou Diallo was bad, he sold liberals on the idea of "implicit bias" being the problem. Helping to ruin a whole generation of liberal brains on police violence, as well as create a bunch of superfluous psychology research on implicit bias.

Ken Genku Cleland Erickson

Malcom is quite a smart guy, always entertaining, always annoying, often wrong, generally ethnocentric, always a neolib. I can't manage watching all of any of his presentations.