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Send us a textFrank Lavin served under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush in positions as varied as personnel, national security, international trade negotiations, Ambassador to Singapore, among others. In this conversation, we discuss his 8+ years in the Reagan White House from 1981-1989 - which is chronicled in his recent book Inside the Reagan White House. In the Reagan White House, he wore several different hats, was in hundreds of meetings with President Reagan, worked alongside some of the most influential administration officials - culminating in his stint as White House Political Director during the 1988 elections.IN THIS EPISODEFrank grows up in small-town Ohio in a tensely political time...Frank talks the establishment vs. conservative sparring in the GOP of the 1970s...Frank's early campaign activities in the late 70s and working for an IE backing Reagan as a college student in 1980...An important political lesson Frank learned from James Baker in Baker's 1978 race for Texas Attorney General...Memories of how Jim Baker ran the Reagan White House as Chief of Staff...How Reagan borrowed from FDR to become a powerful political communicator...How Reagan led the White House in meetings behind closer doors...Frank's first White House job of letting unsuccessful job applicants down easy...How the White House was a tug-of-war between "true believers" and "pragmatists"...Memories of his time at the Office of Public Liasion and how the President would "freeze" the first 10 minutes of a meeting...The 1984 Democratic challenger the White House was most worried about and how Reagan bounced back from a bad '82 midterm to win an '84 landslide...The difference in "desk truth" and "street truth"...How Reagan staffer Mike Deaver fundamentally changed the way a White House handles presidential travel...Frank's time as a White House national security staffer negotiating with the Soviets and spending time with President Reagan and Margaret Thatcher at Camp David...Frank demystifies his role as White House Political Director during the 1988 elections...The origin of the famous Reagan "11th Commandment" maxim...How Reagan initially won - and successfully held - the voters who came to be known as "Reagan Democrats"...Frank's memories of being around President George H.W. Bush...The low point of Frank's time in the Reagan White House...Quick memories from Frank of prominent figures including Karl Rove, Colin Powell, Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Roger Stone, and Pat Buchanan...AND Al Haig Disease, Lee Atwater, Jimmy Carter, George Christopher, Bill Clinton, creative tension, Peter DelGiorno, Terry Dolan, Tony Dolan, Frank Donatelli, Mike Dukakis, exotic tendencies, the FEC, fireside chats, forced marriages, force multipliers, Gerald Ford, John Glenn, Barry Goldwater, Mikhail Gorbachev, Bob Haldeman, Warren Harding, Kamala Harris, Gary Hart, hatchet men, horizontal management, LBJ, jelly beans, Dick Lyng, Paul Manafort, Eugene McCarthy, George McGovern, Ed Meese, Walter Mondale, Brian Mulroney, Daniel Murphy, Ed Muskie, NCPAC, neutral recapitulations, the New Left, non sequiturs, Oliver North, John Poindexter, the Reykjavik Summit, Stu Spencer, Robert Taft, Donald Trump, Bob Weed, George Wortley...& more!

This Week's Guests: Matt Kibbe - The founder of Free the People Episode 352 Matt Kibbe is President at Free the People, an educational foundation using video storytelling to turn on the next generation to the values of personal liberty and peaceful cooperation. He is also co-founder and partner at Fight the Power Productions, a video and strategic communications company. Kibbe is the host of BlazeTV's Kibbe on Liberty, a popular podcast that insists that you think for yourself. He was senior advisor for a Rand Paul Presidential Super PAC in 2016, and later co-founded AlternativePAC to promote libertarian values. In 2004 Kibbe founded FreedomWorks, a national grassroots advocacy organization, and served as President until his departure in 2015. Steve Forbes said: “Kibbe has been to FreedomWorks what Steve Jobs was to Apple.” Newsweek pronounced Kibbe “one of the masterminds” of tea party politics. MSNBC's Keith Olbermann called Kibbe “The second worst person in the world.” Dubbed “the scribe” by the New York Daily News, Kibbe is the author of the #2 New York Times bestseller Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff: A Libertarian Manifesto (HarperCollins 2014), and Hostile Takeover: Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America (HarperCollins 2012). He coauthored Give Us Liberty: A Tea Party Manifesto (HarperCollins 2010). Kibbe has appeared frequently on national television, including FOX News, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN, MSNBC, and PBS. Before launching FreedomWorks, Kibbe served as a congressional Chief of Staff and House Budget Committee Associate. He was also Budget Director for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and Senior Economist for the RNC under Lee Atwater. Kibbe did graduate work in economics at George Mason University and received his B.A. in economics from Grove City College. He lives in Washington, DC with his awesome wife Terry, and their objectivist cats, Ragnar and Rearden. Kibbe is also a fanatical DeadHead, drinker of craft beer and whisky, and collector of obscure books on Austrian economics. "Rethink Production presents "Live From America Podcast" - a weekly show that combines political commentary with humor. Hosted by the comedy cellar owner Noam Dworman and producer Hatem Gabr, the show features expert guests discussing news, culture, and politics with a blend of knowledge and laughter. Follow Live From America YouTube @livefromamericapodcast twitter.com/AmericasPodcast www.LiveFromAmericaPodcast.com LiveFromAmericapodcast@gmail.com Follow Hatem Twitter.com/HatemNYC Instagram.com/hatemnyc/ Follow Noam Twitter.com/noam_dworman #MATTKIBBE #FREETHEPEOPLE #Libertarian

Send us a textIt is just days before the Republican National Convention and the campaign of George H. W. Bush is losing, badly. It appears unfocused and seems to be reacting to events instead of controlling them or leading them. The worsening economy has the argument for change being made by Bill Clinton stronger with each passing day. Finally, Ross Perot decided to withdraw and did so on the last night of the 1992 Democratic National Convention delivering for Governor Clinton an enormously huge audience to listen to his acceptance speech. One of the problems is that George Bush is without two of his most trusted political advisors. Lee Atwater, the native South Carolinian, who had helped guide Bush to the Presidency had died of brain cancer, and James Baker, his former campaign manager, had moved on to the job of Secretary of State. Bush needed them badly and he finally went to James Baker and asked him to take over the campaign for that final stretch. James Baker was, as James Carville once said of him, "the Joe Montana of American Politics" (Montana is a widely heralded Super Bowl MVP Quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers) Baker arrived in Washington D.C. when his friend George Bush had moved from Texas in the early 1970s.  He got a job working for President Gerald Ford in 1975. He then moved over and almost pulled off one of the greatest comebacks in political history moving Ford from 33% points down to only losing by one in 1976 to Jimmy Carter. He took Bush from an asterisk in the polls to almost wrestling away the 1980 nomination from Ronald Reagan, he then helped guide the Reagan Presidency in its first term, was Secretary of State to Bush as they soft landed the Cold War, and now Bush was calling him back in to pull off yet another miracle and get him re-elected to the Presidency. As you will see, it almost worked, if not for the Sinister forces of a Special Prosecutor. Here is the story of James Baker stepping back in to take over the 1992 campaign of George H. W. Bush, on the eve of the 1992 Republican National Convention.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comMary is a political consultant and former TV and radio host. She served under Presidents Reagan, HW Bush, and W Bush. She also co-founded Threshold Editions, a conservative publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster. She's married to Democratic consultant and Dishcast guest, James Carville, whom she wrote two books with: All's Fair and Love & War. She also wrote Letters to My Daughters. We got to know each other decades ago, but lost touch. After her husband Carville's pod, I asked her. She lives on a farm now — and is as fun and sharp as ever.We had no specific topic at hand so the convo is a bit sprawling, like two old friends reconnecting in the Christmas break. Or something like that. For two clips of our convo — on finding yourself through suffering, and the last days of Lee Atwater — pop over to our YouTube page.Other topics: growing up in south Chicago around steel mills; being the only white woman at beauty school; dropping out of college many times; worked her way through law school; the “explosion of ideas” under Reagan; converting to Catholicism; Vatican II undermining the liturgy; leaving the Dem Party over identity politics; black people against “Defund”; the Catholic view of the individual; why flaws are the most interesting parts of people; Mary's close friendship with Donna Brazile; hairdressers as priests; Augustine; Pascal; the epistemological humility of Socrates; Stoicism; my mother's mental illness; the crucifixion of Jesus; Mel Gibson's version of the Passion; Willie Horton; Bernie one of the few pols championing class; the redistribution of wealth during Covid; the lockdowns; Boris and Partygate; George Floyd and BLM groupthink; Kyle Rittenhouse; Jussie Smollett; the narrative of structural racism; MLK envy and “the right side of history”; the Ferguson effect; innovative police work in NOLA; Mary fighting sex trafficking in NOLA; Tony Blair cementing the legacy of Margaret Thatcher; the lack of accountability from political consultants; the profundity of Winnie the Pooh; and which great Americans we should emulate today.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Adam Kirsch on his book On Settler Colonialism, John Gray on the state of liberal democracy, Jon Rauch on his new book on “Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy,” Nick Denton on the evolution of new media, and Ross Douthat on how everyone should be religious. Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.

In this episode of Welcome to Cloulandia, We delve into a range of topics, starting with the impact of natural disasters like hurricanes, discussing their unpredictable effects and the challenges of recovery in affected areas. The conversation transitions into a discussion about health, where insights on traditional Chinese medicine and its approach to addressing common illnesses are shared. We highlight how ancient practices like herbal treatments and scraping therapy remain relevant today. We then explore a fascinating scientific discussion on fructose and its historical role in human survival, as well as its connection to modern health issues like diabetes and dementia. The implications of diet and sugar consumption are examined with insights from experts who have dedicated their careers to studying these links. Turning to technology, We discuss the evolving role of artificial intelligence (AI), highlighting its potential in creative and practical applications SHOW HIGHLIGHTS Dan and I discuss the impact of hurricanes, focusing on their unpredictable effects and the recovery challenges faced by affected regions. I share insights on traditional Chinese medicine, including treatments like herbal remedies and scraping therapy, and how these methods address common health issues. We examine the role of fructose in human survival and its modern connections to health problems like diabetes and dementia, drawing on expert perspectives. We explore the evolving applications of artificial intelligence, discussing its potential in creative fields, communication, and education. The conversation touches on the limitations and risks of AI, including concerns about quality and the pace of technological adoption. We reflect on the technological history of politics, discussing how innovations like FM radio and cable television have influenced public discourse over time. We share observations on the psychological and societal effects of rapid technological advancements, including shifting expectations for speed and efficiency. The episode highlights examples of AI in action, such as automated customer service and editing tools, and their implications for productivity. Dan and I discuss the contextual complexity of decision-making, emphasizing the importance of considering multiple factors in understanding trends and behaviors. We conclude with reflections on how these topics intersect, offering a perspective on the evolving relationship between technology, society, and individual experiences. Links: WelcomeToCloudlandia.com StrategicCoach.com DeanJackson.com ListingAgentLifestyle.com TRANSCRIPT (AI transcript provided as supporting material and may contain errors) Dean: Mr Sullivan, you have survived the hurricane, I survived the hurricane. Yes, we actually got almost nothing in Winter Haven. Dan: Yes. Dean: Winter Haven lived up to its name. Dan: No, I checked the weather condition in Winter Haven just in case I'd have to send an emergency package. Dean: Yeah, emergency, that's right we ended up. It was very. You know, it's a perfect example of you know when the hurricanes are coming. Of course you start out with that. You know the national news oh boy, there's a hurricane brewing, there's a tropical storm, it's forming in the Caribbean right now, or it's forming below Mexico or below Cuba, and then every day this is intensifying all the language, all the total emotional language, and then this is going to be devastating. And then you see the big buzzsaw working its way through the Gulf of Mexico on its approach to the mainland, and it could go anywhere, dan the cone of probability. And this one luckily stayed far enough to the west that we really got nothing. I mean, I got one band of wind and rain. It was like one of the outer perimeter bands, but not to say that it wasn't a devastating hurricane, because the whole the Gulf Coast, like in Tampa and St Petersburg and especially up in the Panhandle, they got really like rocked with this. And then North Carolina is getting pummeled with flooding and I mean like unbelievable stuff that's going on. Yeah, it's wild. You know our friend Chad Jenkins. He's got a place in, or had a place in, the mountains and the whole road going into the community just washed away, you know those guys are gonna be. I mean it's gonna be a long cleanup to get up from under all the flooding and stuff that's happened in North Carolina and most of you know Georgia and North Florida, but just shows you what it was? Dan: Well, it must have gone pretty far north, because Joe Polish was doing an event, supposedly today. Dean: In Cincinnati, yeah. Dan: In Cincinnati and the stage got destroyed. Dean: I saw that. The whole event, so it got pretty far north yes, yeah, because cincinnati I mean I think two things there, right that that's. Most people don't realize actually how far south cincinnati is, as you know, you know, it's almost kentucky, basically kentucky. Dan: So yeah, you can see. Well, comington is right across the river. You know Exactly. Dean: But still. Dan: I mean compared to Florida, it's pretty far north. Dean: Oh yeah, You're absolutely right. Yeah, you're home safe. Dan: Oh yeah, yeah, no, it's been nice here, it's been you know we've had probably the classic summer in September this year, I mean here it is almost the end of the month and all the leaves are completely green. We have a big Lots of leaves. We have lots of leaves with big oak trees that we have in our compound. We have six or seven, I think, seven big, seven big trees. But, nothing's turned yet, none of the colors have started yet, but it's been warm. It's been. You know, yesterday was 73, 74, which is great. Dean: It's the best. It's the best. Dan: Yeah, it's been terrific, and yeah sorry you couldn't make it to. Dean: Genius Phoenix, yeah. Dan: It was great. It was great. Who'd you catch that call from? I forget. Dean: Oh my goodness, Super spreader, super spreader Sullivan, that's you. Dan: Yeah, what was that? But? Dean: that came on fast. Dan: You know he. Dean: We had brunch on Saturday were there was nothing going on. We had dinner sunday night at your house and then monday, you were like full in the throes of it. And then we had dinner monday night and of course I was right beside you and by by Wednesday I went downhill, you know, and I could tell that it was coming on bad and I was supposed to speak at Giovanni's big event in the Arcane Summit, but I could tell I was going downhill. And then, thursday I switched my flight to come back to Florida because the original plan was I was going to speak at Giovanni's event and then on Sunday, fly to Phoenix for to be with you guys. Dan: Yeah, but anyway I made it home. Dean: I made it home just in time. I went full immersion in you know self-care, nipping in the bud, I think the warm, moist air really a lot to get rid of it yeah, well, you still sound like you, I was just gonna say you still sound yeah, no, I still, yeah, I still have it. Dan: Yeah. So we went to we have a really great chinese doctor here in toronto and uh you know, he does everything through pulse and he took my pulse and yeah his name's dr zhao and you know I've got a track record going back 20 years where you try this, it doesn't work. You try this, it doesn't work. You go to a doctor, it doesn't work. Then you go to dr zhao and within three or four days, then take these little. Dean: I went to a chinese doctor one time. No, they're herb. Dan: He gives you little packets of herbs and you make them like coffee and it's foul tasting, as it should be, and three or four. I can feel myself coring up already. I went on Friday and we have a Vietnamese massage therapist going back 30 years now. She's been with us since 32 years and she does scraping. Do you know what scraping is? Dean: I do not. Dan: Is that? No, it's. You know, she scrapes the skin hard. You know it's hard. Yeah, it's painful, it's actually quite painful. She did it on me. I just came from that about an hour ago. Dean: What is she scraping it with? Dan: Well, I don't know what it is. It's like stones. A special tool, it's like stones, oh, like bones. Yeah, sharp stones, you know. Dean: Bone things. Dan: yeah, and she doesn't take the scalp. You know she doesn. She doesn't take your scalp off, she just scrapes your back and scrapes your chest and it releases all the phlegm. You know the interesting word phlegm? So Chinese and Vietnamese in a space of three days and I'll be as good as new on Wednesday. In about a week. Takes about two or three days. Takes about two or three days you know I'm very, you know I've got a lot of compartments in my brain and people say you don't believe in that stuff. No, I do. And I said I think it works, even if you don't believe in it. Dean: Right, that's exactly it. Dan: Yeah. Dean: It's not up for debate. That's funny. Yeah, well, you went to the Chinese have. Dan: yeah, well, you went to the chinese have lasted. Dean: The chinese have lasted a long time, you know, and I guess some of it works did you go to canyon ranch? Dan: this time no we just we went to richard rossi's. Oh, that's what it was, I knew there was something yeah yeah, what was the big. Dean: It was good. Yeah, what was the big yeah, there he had to. Dan: Richard is just terrific in his curating of scientists. You know, he had a lot of scientists come in and talk and we had two especially one of them around 70. And he's been looking into the impact of fructose pretty well for 60 or 70, 50 or 60 years. And he really says that fructose is basically involved in anything bad that happens to you. You know, almost every kind of ailment and disease there's a fructose trigger to it. And he said and it was once a very good thing, when you know, thousands, tens of thousands of years ago, when we couldn't count on food, you know the food supply was not a predictable thing and he's just traced it to three or four genes. That got changed back in the prehistoric times when it was very necessary to stock up on fruit. You know, eat fruit as much as you could before the famine season came, usually winter, you know, sort of. You know there wasn't any food. And Buddy said then it's, you know, it was good at one time, but now we're in different conditions and now it's a problem. So anyway, he was great and I'm going to have him as a speaker at CoachCon 26 in Orlando. His name's Richard Johnson. Yeah, fascinating guy. Yeah, fascinating guy. And his whole career has been based on taking his research as far as he can and then finding someone in the world who has mastered the whole area that he's just entered. And he does a collaboration with them and then they create something new, and his whole career has been these collaborations with people who are more expert at what he's just discovered. And then they together do something even beyond what either of them have done before. So he's going to do one day on fructose and he's going to do the next day on collaboration. Dean: Oh wow, is he mad at fruit? Is he mad at fruit? Is fruit considered the same thing or is he talking about? No, it's Coke, it's Coca-Cola. Dan: That's what I mean. Like the fructose corn syrup, but not naturally. No, he's not against fruit. He the process, the intense fructose that they use, you know, to get people addicted to other kinds of foods yes, oh exactly, yeah yeah wow, but it was very interesting just how step by step, how step, he tracked down sort of the culprit. You know, and he said that pretty well, almost anything bad that can happen you. There's a fructose trigger in it. And you know and he said that pretty well, almost anything bad that can happen to you. There is a fructose trigger in it. And you know, then, including dementia, like including dementia and well diabetes leads to dementia. You know. They now have a pretty clear connection between diabetes and dementia. Dean: And yeah, that was what they're saying. I heard somebody refer to it as pre-dementia. Diabetes is pre. Like you know, everybody's walking around with pre-diabetes and the next level of diabetes is pre-dementia. Dan: Yeah, yeah, and then pre-dementia is pre-presidency. Dean: Oh my goodness, exactly. It's almost like a requirement. Dan: It's almost like a requirement. It's almost like a requirement. It's almost like a merit badge. Yeah, when we're coming down the stretch it shows one thing We've had a virtually uncapable person in the White House for four years and the country still runs. That's what I mean. Dean: That's what I really see. I think it's yeah. Dan: I mean, I don't think it gives you the sense of momentum that probably a good president would do. But here we are, you know, and who knows who's actually been making the decisions for the last four years. You know, it's an interesting test case, you know. Yeah, I don't think the israelis could get away with that oh my goodness, I just saw I think, they need someone. I think they need somebody right on the job, you know in the moment at all times they don't have much margin for error no, exactly yeah, that's wild huh. Dean: Well, I mean, uh, I just saw you were coming now into october, very around the heels here. So we're coming down the home stretch ready for the october surprise. Dan, everybody is all wondering what's the October surprise going to be, you know? Dan: Yeah, there may be no surprise. Dean: That could be the surprise, right there. Dan: Yeah, yeah, it's hard. It's hard to, you know, impose the past on the future. You know I mean it may, nothing may happen, it may just go along the way it is. Nothing may happen, it may just go along the way it is. But I feel that the Kamala is losing ground. Each week I get a feeling that there's this kind of erosion. that's happening week by week but she doesn't have any message. As a matter of fact, she's avoiding messages and I think it's hard to get the ground troops excited when you don't have a message. It's hard to get you. You know it's hard to get the check writers interested, probably in the last 33 or 34 weeks when you don't have a message. Dean: One of my favorite things that happened was I don't know whether it was an official ad or whether it was a meme, but it was Kamala saying if Donald Trump wins, there'll be the largest mass deportation in American history. Can you imagine what that would even look like? And then it ends and it goes. I'm Donald Trump. I approve this message. How perfect is that. Dan: Can you even imagine what that would look like? I'm Donald Trump. I approve this message. Dean: How perfect is that? Can you even imagine what that would look like? I'm Donald Trump. I approve this message. Dan: I think he's a rascal. Dean: But that's like so funny. Now we're getting somewhere. Dan: Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah. Even my opponent is working for my campaign. Dean: Exactly. Oh my goodness, so funny. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But you know, I think that there's kind of like an American center at any given time, like yeah, this is my yeah. What is it I started voting in? 68 was the first year that I voted. First presidential election because it was. The voting age was 21 when I was 20 and 64. I was 20 and 60. So I couldn't vote for the presidency in 64, so I had to wait until 68. And so you know, that's a whole number of years. It's 32, it's 56 years, so this is my 14th election and the thing is that at any given point there's sort of a center to things and I think the center moves around. But the person whose activities and message most corresponds to the American center during presidential year wins. You know, they just win I think it moves and I think America is a bit of an ADD country, you know that hyper, focusing on something different. you know every presidential cycle something and I just get the sense that there's she's not in the center. You know, you get a feeling that what she says and how she talks about it, it's just not in the center. Dean: Oh, and there was another ad showing. You know it was taking her words from 2020 and then exactly saying the opposite right now. Like every you know so like, thing after thing, her complete change on positions. You know it's pretty wild to see when you and she says things with such conviction and matter of fact it's like there can be no other way than this. Like how do? you not see this as the thing, and then she's saying it with the same tone and the same conviction the exact opposite thing. It's pretty amazing. I started watching last night, about halfway through, a documentary about Lee Atwater. Does that sound familiar? He? Dan: was quite Lee really changed American politics. Dean: Yeah, I didn't really know about him. I'd heard the name, of course, but yeah, this documentary really kind of digs into it. I didn't realize he was Karl Rove's mentor and so pivotal in Ronald Reagan and the Bushes. Dan: Yeah, he was the first of the take no prisoners, so there's a lot of shenanigans going on, so there's always been shenanigans. Dean: I guess that's really the thing Whenever the stakes are high, clever people are going to dream up shenanigans. Dan: Yeah, he was the one who George Bush Sr the outrouter was this is 88, 1988. Dean: Yeah. Dan: And he took down Dukakis in about three weeks. Yes, dukakis was kind of a, you know he was a governor of Massachusetts and sort of solid you know solid record and everything else. But boy, he was not prepared at all for the type of things that happen when you run for president, I mean when it's nationwide governor who's been basically in one state for all his political career, you know, just doesn't have the experience to deal with what can happen on a national level. I think that's one of the things that gives Trump the edge, I think is the fact that this is his third complete national campaign. So you know, from everything I've read about him and everything, I think he's a fast learner. You know he adjusts quickly to new circumstances, and so I think that just understanding how the entire campaign works, in it. you know it really starts about 18 months before the election day and you know to know exactly, step by step, what's happening, I think is a huge advantage. Dean: And it became clear watching the Lee Atwater thing that it's really it's most with what I was, you know, thinking, reading in same as ever. You know where the whole thing is, that good news takes, you know, build slowly and against resistance, and bad news gets is immediate, and that was what his thing was, what he found, what he said he found fascinating is you could end somebody's entire career in a day, that it could all fall apart. You just had the right thing that hits the right chord and it catches fire. And in another election he was accused or suspected of arranging this third party candidate to say the things that the primary candidate couldn't say, draw attention to this candidate's lack of belief in God, and it was really something. Dan: I think he died around 90, 1991. He got cancer or something. He died young. I mean he wasn't very old. I think he was in his 40s when he died. It's really interesting when you look at the technological basis for politics and you know the left, you know, goes frantic. Left and right is an event. I don't know if you know where left wing and right wing or the listeners do. It comes from the French Revolution. Dean: The French. Dan: Revolution, they had a national assembly and on the right were the traditional landowners in France. So these were families that maybe for half a millennia had owned land and there was always suspicion in how rich people got their land back then. You know, you never knew how they got their land. And then there was the church, and the church was on the side of the landowners. And then there was the government, you know the monarchy. They were the supporters of the monarchy and they were on the right, and the ones on the left were actually the new news media, the new intellectual class and actually the bureaucrats, the new bureaucrats who you know the state was getting big and you had these bureaucrats and they were on the left. And so that's really you know where that term right wing and left wing really starts, and and you know it's gone through different shapes and forms over the last 250 years or so. And but what I believe is that after the Second World War, the mainstream of the university were basically the mainstream and they were actually. Today we would say that they were sort of left wing and there really wasn't any right wing. There really wasn't right wing, because they controlled the magazines, they controlled the newspapers, they controlled the radio. Television was just, you know, just in its infancy, and there was one technological change that actually brought what we call the right wing today to the forefront, and it was FM radio. And FM radio was possible in the 1930s or 1940s. They already knew the technology of it, but that NBC, which was the dominant network. Back then you had ABC, cbs and NBC, but NBC was the dominant and they didn't want FM radio. So they literally stopped it for 30 years and then the government had to overrule them and allow FM radio to exist. And when FM radio came in it became the radios of the big city because it's got very limited bandwidth. Dean: You know it reaches. Dan: I don't know bandwidth, I mean FM doesn't go more than about 30 miles. Pardon me, but it became the radio station of the universities and the big cities. Dean: New York. Dan: Chicago, boston and everything else, and they moved out of AM radio and they said we don't want that small town stuff, am radios. So they left a vacuum. What we would call the left wing today moved to FM radio like national public radio is all FM radio, which is left wing. The NPR is the left wing medium. Based on today's landscape it's left wing and it just left the entire right wing with many more stations, but they had tremendous reach, like AM radio. You know, on a clear night in Ohio when I was a kid, I could get New Orleans, I could get St Louis, I could get Chicago, I could get New York, Philadelphia and I could get the charlatan radio from Mexico. Yeah, mean that was a million watt, million watt, radio station. Dean: So you had these really powerful radio stations and they were just abandoned was the idea behind fm, that it it was a shorter length but a higher quality signal. Is that what was? Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, and you know, and it was available. So all these bandwidths were taken over by big city stations because you couldn't get the reach. You know you couldn't get the reach, but what you could make up with it was a denser population. So you would have a, you know, a big city would have a much denser population. So you would have a big city would have a much denser population. And what these stations got taken over by were religious congregations, preachers and everything like that, and they were against the mainstream government. Know, that's where Rush Limbaugh came along. you know he became the and Billy Graham came along. Dean: Right. Am radio is where you often think about. That was you know became talk radio. That's really where that all started, right. Dan: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Democratic left in the United States just lost its control of AM radio, you know, and that was a big technological change. And then cable television came in. Of course you could have any kind of station, TV station. Dean: So there was a technological basis to politics technological basis to politics. Yeah, this is. I was listening. I've just been exposed in the last week here to the I think it's called Google Notebook, and it's the AI that you can load up you know some text or you know information into train, the kind of whatever the language tool is that it's drawing from, and it will create a podcast that's two people talking and explaining. You're making content about what you load up, for instance, like I just thought you know, it's pretty like it's amazing to hear these no, I listened to it. Dan: I listened to it. Oh, you did okay for the first time. Dean: Yeah, hamish what's? Dan: hamish mcdonald's. Uh, yeah, yeah, it was a particular piece of legislation in. Prince Edward Island. And so the government was using Google notebook to explain it, and it's a man and a woman talking to each other. And they said, and I mean the discussion quality and the voice quality was really terrific Like it sounds like two real people but the thing was they were just uniformly enthusiastic and positive about the regulation or the regulations that were doing that and that was my tee off that this is phony. Not phony, but artificial, right, you know I mean. I mean artificial. One of the meanings of artificial is phony. You know and everything. But it was really interesting to listen to it and I think it's good for education, explaining things you know. Dean: Yes, yeah. Dan: Because they go back and forth with each other, so I thought it was pretty good. Dean: Huh, and just like. So you look at this as this, if this is crawling, you know, if you look at that as the beginning of it, because that's the first I've seen of that capability. It's really pretty. It's really pretty amazing what we're up against. Just to put it in context, I heard someone talking about where we are now, the new I don't know how they number them, but the 0.01 or 01 or whatever now is the latest level of it context of a scale like the phases, the level five kind of thing, being the peak. You know, general intelligence, that that knows everything, this 101 or 10 or whatever it is. It was just tested at 120 IQ, which is higher than 91% of the population. Dan: And it means that 91% of the population isn't going to understand it. Dean: That could be. I mean, that's exactly right. Dan: Or listen to it. Yeah, but they're saying that if we look at the scale. Dean: If we look at the scale from 1 to 5, we're at about 2 right now, on the way to 5 by say 20 or whatever. Dan: I don't know really what that means. Iq 120 about what? Yeah, I mean. Dean: Yeah, I don't know I mean even IQ itself. Dan: You know it's being more and more discounted, as you know, as any kind of, I mean. What it means is pattern recognition. I think the Q now comes back to pattern. But, for example, above 150, I mean there's's people, there's an organization called mensa I mean yeah, you know which is people? I think it's 160 or above and what they find is that they're kind of dismal failures. You know, yeah, you know. Dean: No, I heard a thing that the actual, most, the most beneficial iq is about 125. Dan: that it gets in the way yeah, yeah, yeah, I think it's the practical realm, the practical realm is 120 to 140. And you know that people think better than other people, but they also make better decisions and they take better actions. I think that's probably the realm, and it's very interesting when they compare all the IQ tests of men and women. They have different curves. And so there's far more males below 100 than there are females in relationship to how many males. So a higher percentage of males are below 120 or below 100 and a much bigger percentage of males are above 140. And the women control the area between 100 and 140. I mean just statistically based on yeah, and so the idiots and the geniuses men have they struggle, that's funny, I had them. Dean: so, yeah, I, yeah, I did. Years ago as an adult, though, I did my IQ just for fun, to see what. See where I'm at, and it's always 140, and which was see where I'm at. I was 140, which was very superior intelligence, dan, they call it VVSI on the tip of the I knew that the moment I met you. That's so funny. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Dan: It was a good choice of restaurants. It was on Avenue Road. Dean: That's exactly right, yes, yeah, that's right. Yeah, boba, yeah, yeah, so funny. So I think that this I remember saying to you a few years ago. I remember somebody tweeting which I thought was funny. They were saying however bullish you are about AI and circa 2030, you are insufficiently bullish, is what they were saying, and I thought those words just struck me as funny. But now we're starting to see, like, because that was even before ai, that was before t came out, because that's really only it's. It'll be two years in november, right that we? got the very first, 30th, 30th of november well, the very first sorry, that's okay the very first taste of it. And look at how it's changed in two years. You can only imagine what it's going to be in 2030. Dan: But I don't see any real impact of it out in the world. I don't see any impact. Dean: Yeah, let's talk about that. It's not obvious. Dan: Yeah. Dean: I don't see anything. Dan: Yeah, my sense is that we're sort of in a tinkering stage right now and that you give AI to one person and they do something with it. You give it to another person and they do something different with it. You give it to a million people and a million people do a million different things with it, but I don't see any unity or focus to it whatsoever, any unity or focus to it whatsoever. And it's bothering the investment markets, like Goldman Sachs, the big investment bank, who they're sort of alert to trends in the market because that's how they make their money. They said that they're very disappointed that in two years there's been billions and billions and billions of dollars spent in corporations bringing in AI, but they don't see any results whatsoever yet. So I think it's. My sense is that it's having a great impact, but it's not measurable by standard economic standards. It's not measurable, it's invisible standards. Dean: It's not measurable, it's invisible, right, and I I wonder, like you know, I've been talking about and thinking about this. You know I almost liken it to the way when the iphone came out. We had all the capabilities that went with it, right, like the gyroscope and the geographic, you know, knowing where you are geographically and the accelerometer and the touch screen and all of those capabilities that it could do, and, of course, the first things that people did was make games that you could you know, the other thing is photography yeah photography really changed huh, and now you see, like yeah, because now the, but being able. The big difference now with the ai is the sort of generative creativity, the photography and the things. I was laughed. There was about several years ago when AI was first start of sort of really getting legs. Before GPT, there were just the micro capabilities that AI was using. There was a website, and still is called thispersondoesnotexistcom, and every time you push refresh on the thing it creates a new image, photo image of a person that is an amalgam of all of the photo. You know millions of photos, and so it just is infinitely combining characteristics and hair color, hairstyle, eye color, skin tone, facial features, all of that to make a unique person that does not exist. Those are now along with the. When you couple that with the capability now of creating video avatars, like the AI videos, that you can have them say your script you know in, and it looks like a real person doing those things and it's just. I think, as all these capabilities come together, it's going to be a lot like the app store, where people are going to corral these capabilities into a very specific outcome. You know that you can. You know that you can tap into. I mean what a time to be a creative right now, you know, in terms of having vision and being able to pair up with infinite capabilities. Dan: Yeah, it's kind of you know I mean, there's some interesting insights about that that you're still constrained by one thing, because that on the receiving end of all this, people can still only think about one thing at a time. Okay, and you know so, you're not going to speed up anybody's intelligence on the receiving end. You may speed up your intelligence on the grave, but you're not going to speed. As a matter of fact, you may be dumbing them down at the other end. But what I think it's going to do is big systems. I mean, one of the great big systems that's been created over the last probably 50, 60 years is air traffic control. So there's not been a commercial accident in the air. I think it. You know, it may be 15, 20 years, I don't know. The last time, two planes collided in the air Right, right Like a collision in the air. And there you know, if you go back to the 30s, 40s and 50s, there were quite a few, you know, fog or something and everything like that, and so I think it's going to be big systems, like big electrical systems. That's where you're going to see the impact. I don't think it's going to be at the individual level. I think it's going to be at the big system level, and my sense is the Israelis are doing a lot of this at the big system level and my sense is the Israelis are doing a lot of this. I think the Israelis and you know the precision bombing they're doing now is really quite extraordinary, like they killed the head of Hezbollah on Friday. Dean: I just saw that. I saw something about that. I didn't have a chance to dig in, but that guy yeah. Dan: And they? First of all, they phoned everybody in the neighborhood within 500 meters and they said get out within the next 20 minutes because we're going to be bombing some buildings. So they have everybody's phone number. like in Beirut and Lebanon, they've got everybody's text number and phone number and they just mail them and says you know, get out of your building because there's bombs coming, you know. And so it was colossal. They cleared a block. I mean, when you look at it's three buildings and there's nothing but rubble and everything like that, well, there are hundreds of people around there. I think two people got killed and you know 50, 50 were injured, but I think you know typically technology leaps ahead in warfare, you know 50-50, we're injured, but I think you know typically technology leaps ahead in warfare, you know that's number one. Number two is games, you know, and the gaming industry is probably using this extraordinarily quickly and you know, and other forms of entertainment, other forms of entertainment, that's where it happens. But yeah, I'm not seeing the big jump. You know, I hear, you know Peter Diamandis sends out this is going to happen. And then you extrapolate in a straight line Well, because they're IQ 120, you know, in five years is going to be IQ 180. But most humans with 180 IQ are pretty worthless yeah you know they can't change a tire. You know they have problems in practice, right exactly yeah, they become more impractical and it's not clear that, beyond a certain amount of it, that intelligence is that great an advantage? You know, I don't know, I'm not, you know I'm, don't know, I'm not, you know, I'm just not convinced. Yet I mean, I use, you know, perplexity, and you know I really like perplexity because it gives me nice answers to things. I'm interested in, but not once has anything I've done on perplexity actually entered into my work. Dean: Right, you know it's Stuart Bell who runs my 90-minute book team. You know we were having a conversation about it and you know they're integrating into the editing process some. Dan: AI. Dean: So the first two passes of editing are now AI. First two passes of editing are now AI and he was amazed actually at how good it is. Most of the time the editing process is reductive, meaning that there's less. You put in this many words and you come out with something less than that many words. But this past, the way they've got it going now is it actually is a little bit expansive and you come out with about 10 more words than what it was, but reads. But reads very, you know very easily. So so he's very impressed with the way that's gone and it happens in moments rather than days of going through a traditional editing process. That was always the biggest time constraint. Dan: Bottleneck is the editing process, but that means that you can only charge less for it. Time constraint, bottleneck is the editing process, you know. Dean: Yeah, but that means that you can only charge less for it. I mean, let me just pose a counter possibility. Wait a second now yeah, possibility. Dan: I had a lawyer once and he said everything went to hell in the legal industry when fax machines came in, and he was explaining this to me that he said it used to be that you'd go and have a meeting with the client and then you'd go back and he would grant you three or four days to make revisions and then you know, send it by courier and over yeah and he noticed that over the first two years of fax they expected the revisions to be back that day so if things speed up people's expectations. People's expectations jump to saying well, you know, you just ran that through the ai, so why should I pay you for? You know I would. It take you three minutes to do this, you know why should I but? You put yeah. So my sense is that there's an economic factor that doesn't increase when the speed increases. Actually, the economic factor decreases as the speed increases. You know it used to be that they gave you two weeks to come up with a. You know a script for a play. Now they want it back an hour after you've talked you know, because they say well, we're not. We know you're using the ai and so you know we expect it to happen sooner you watch. I mean, we'll just keep track of this on our podcast as we go over yeah, but once you have a tech, once you have a speedier technology, people's expectation of speed goes up to match what other evidence is there for that? Dean: what other analogs? Dan: well, fax machine, yeah, fax machines and an email. Yeah, email very definitely, but the world hasn't slowed down with faster technology. Dean: No. Dan: No, everything's gotten faster. It's like sugar. Dean: Yeah, sugar. Dan: Everything speeds up. Everything speeds up with sugar. Dean: Yes, exactly, I don't know. Dan: You know, all I know is, in my 50 years of being an entrepreneur, I don't feel I've ever been at a disadvantage by adjusting to technology slowly. Dean: Yeah, it's just I just see now, if you take the through line of where things are going. Like I was really kind of amazed by this couple on that Google Notebook podcast, Like just that as a capability is pretty amazing. You know, I think you know and you're seeing now, those AI, you know telephony things where you can talk to an AI. Dan: A lot of it is things in sales they're doing. Chris johnson yeah, chris johnson in prezone really has an amazing. It's a calling service yeah so he had 32 callers and now he's got five callers and that's a real noticeable thing. And the software and I he gave a an example is about a minute and a half of the caller calling a woman and she's got it. It's. She's got a slight accent I can't quite tell what the accent is, you know, and but she's very responsive. You know she's very responsive and their voice modulation goes up and down in response to the person who answers the phone call you know, and, as a matter of fact, he's the person who answered the phone sounded like a real deadhead. So we were about halfway through and I said to Chris. I said which one's the robot? I can't quite tell. Dean: Which one is the? Dan: robot. The person who answered the phone was just really dead. He was really monotonic and everything like that. Dean: But the caller. Dan: She says, oh well, she says you know. She says you indicated interest in finding out more what our company does. And I'm just calling to schedule where we can give you a little bit more information. I'm not the person who does that. I'm just going to set up a meeting where someone can talk to you and it won't last more than 10 minutes, but they're really experts, and so I'm looking at the schedule for tomorrow and I've got 10 o'clock and I've got 3 o'clock. Would one of them be useful for you? He said something like 3 o'clock and I've got three o'clock. Would one of them be useful for you? He said you know something like three o'clock. He says, good, I'll put you in there. And he said you know, we just want to give you the kind of information that would indicate if you want to go further in that and everything like that. So thanks a lot for this and it was really good. But that that AI program can make 25,000 calls a minute. Dean: That's crazy isn't it? Dan: In other words, if people answered the phone as a result of sending this out, you could have 1,000 people talking at the same time. Now, I see that as a real breakthrough. Dean: Yeah, agreed, I mean that's kind of ridiculous. but yeah you think about that? I you know, when I started out in real estate I would do. I was making a hundred cold calls a day, but I was doing a survey. Was my, was my approach right? So I was saying the same thing. My idea was that I was going to call through the phone book for Georgetown, but I didn't want to, and then I would make a record of I had little or D, and I would only, of course, then follow up with the ones who were willing, happy and had a potential need in the future. That was my game plan and I would make these calls. I was just thinking now how easy it would be for an AI to do that now, like I would just call people. I'd say hey, mr Sullivan, it's Dean Jackson calling from Royal LePage. We're doing a quick area market survey. I wonder if you have a minute to be included, and most of the time they'd say no, or sometimes they'd say yes. But even if they said no, or I would just say it's just five questions that take one minute, I promise, and most people would go along with that and then I would just ask them have you lived in Georgetown for more than five years and how many years in your current house and how'd you happen to choose Georgetown? And then, if you were to move, would you stay within Georgetown or would you move out of the area? And then, whatever they said, I said when would that be? When would that be? That was the punchline of the whole thing and it was so. You know, it was so amazing, but I could you imagine making 25 000 of those calls in one minute. You call george, every household in geor, those calls in one minute. You call every household in Georgetown in one minute and identify all the people who were, because I could imagine an AI saying having that exact interaction that I just shared with you, right? Oh yeah, just the yeah, we're just doing an area market survey. Wonder if you'd have a minute. It's just five questions, one minute, I promise, and then go right into it. I mean that's pretty amazing. You know, if that's a possibility, that's a pretty. Dan: Well, I think you know. I mean, here's where you're. You know we're at the crawling stage with it, but again it all depends on whether people answer the phone or not, right? Dean: We're finding about a third. So we've got a lot of our realtors and others are, you know, following up with people who request books. So when they dial about a third of the people will answer the phone. Dan: Basically you just never reach me. But yeah, my sense about this is that there's very definitely an increase in quantity and I'm not convinced yet that there's an increase in quality, you know right. Right, you know quality of experience and so, for example, you know quality of experience and so, for example, what Hamish McDonald was sending me had to do with the piece of legislation, because there's something that they want to do and it requires following the rules of government ministry. But it was a little too cheerful and enthusiastic. I found the couple's talk. There would be no negatives in it. And I've never had any experience with government that didn't have a negative in it. So, from a possibility. Dean: I wonder if you could have. I wonder if you could, you know, prompt one person to take the positive one, to take the negative or debate it. Dan: You know, debate fun to take the negative or debate it. Yeah, you know, debate could be, you know, yeah, but my, my sense is that we get better at spotting dishonesty. You know like yeah, my sense, I think one of the like I. I have people who use ai all the time and you know, and they send me something and I read it and then we have a discussion over the over Zoom usually, and I'll say I didn't quite get it from what you wrote. There was something missing from. So I'm just going to ask you a whole bunch of questions like content wise. But the context is the real. You know, context is hard to grasp unless you're telling the truth, you know, and the reason is because you have to be touching about 10 different points, and one of the things I find with perplexity the AI is I've got this sort of way of approaching and perplexity always has to tell me 10 things about the subject I'm interested in. Okay, so 10 things. For example, I asked, I put in 10 reasons why evs are not being adopted as quickly as was predicted okay and 10 and phew, 10 of them, and you could see that each of them was a little bit of a game stopper. But when you put all 10 of them together it really gave you a sense of why there's a lot of late nights in the EV world right now, trying to figure out why things aren't happening as fast as they could be. So that's a contextual answer. It's not just, and what I've discovered from working with perplexity is there's no reason. There's no one reason for anything in the world. There's always at least 10 reasons why something happens or why something doesn't happen, and everything else. Dean: Yeah. Dan: I'm being educated. I'm being educated, but it's just something that's developed in the relationship between me and the AI. You know, because if you say what are the reasons why AI is not or E-MAT being adopted as quickly as we thought, I think the answer that came back would be very different from my tell me 10 reasons, because it just does what you ask it to do. That's exactly it. Dean: All of it has to. You have to have somebody driving. Yeah, holy cow, it's top of the hour. Dan, that's so funny. I put up a post on Facebook today about just before we got. I told you, ai makes things happen faster it really does just even our real life conversation when you talk about AI, the hour just speeds by. Dan: It really does anyway. Yeah well, you know it's a forever subject because we're going to be with it from now on. Dean: I think that's true, yeah. Yeah, love it All right. Well, you have a great day, all right, and I will talk to you next week. Okay, Thanks, Bye.

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Communications expert Tucker Eskew has been a participant in some of the most seminal moments in American political history over the course of the past 30+ years...a protege of the famed Republican strategist Lee Atwater, senior aide to the Bush 2000 win over John McCain in the fractious South Carolina primary, working in the White House the morning of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a stint representing the Bush Administration at 10 Downing Street in London, one of Sarah Palin's lead handlers during her whirlwhind 2008 VP experience...among many other momentous experiences during his decades in and around politics. In this conversation, Tucker talks his path to politics and his time as both observer and player in some of the most important moments in recent American history.IN THIS EPISODETucker's roots as the son of a journalist growing up in the Southeast...The DC internship that set him on a path toward working in politics...A couple of his favorite Strom Thurmond stories...Tucker, in his mid 20s, becomes Press Secretary for South Carolina Governor Caroll Campbell...Tucker remembers lessons learned from his mentor - the famed GOP operative, Lee Atwater...Tucker's role on the ground during the bruising, fractious 2000 South Carolina primary between Bush and McCain...Tucker talks the strategic acumen of Karl Rove...Tucker's role as a Bush spokesman in West Palm Beach during the 2000 post-election chaos...Tucker recounts his amazing story of working in the White House on the morning of the 9/11 terrorist attacks...Tucker works out of 10 Downing Street for months, partnering with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the aftermath of 9/11...Tucker's stint as one of the senior handlers for Sarah Palin during her tumultuous 2008 VP experience...Why John McCain had a sense of relief after losing the 2008 presidential race...Lessons learned from 19 years as a partner at the corporate comms firm Vianovo...AND Whit Ayres, the BBC, Doug Bailey, James Baker, Dan Bartlett, John Buckley, Blaine Bull, Alistair Campbell, Chad Man, Lon Chaney, Dick Cheney, Bill Clinton, the Coalition Information Center, Candy Crowley, Matthew Dowd, emergency bunkers, Ray Eskew, flashbulb moments, fog of war, Gerald Ford, Michael Gerson, the Greenville News-Piedmont, Albert Hawkins, Karen Hughes, Jesse Jackson, Greg Jenkins, Lafayette Square, Jim Lake, Joe Lieberman, Larry Lindsey, low bono, Mary Matalin, Bob McAllister, Anita McBride, Tim McBride, mimeographs, next man up, the News Literacy Project, Richard Nixon, Bob Novak, pocket doors, the Presidential Campaign Hotline, the Reagan/Bush 1984 war room, red light moments, Condaleeza Rice, the Roosevelt Room, Mark Sanford, South Lawn moments, sucker optimists, James Taylor, UPI, The University of the South, ugly babies, George Wallace, Jim Wilkinson & more!

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You know that phrase, “All's fair in love and war”? Even though “politics” isn't on that list, nowadays I'm sure seems like it could be. The smear campaigns, the attack ads - sometimes it just feels like politician care more about making their opponents look bad rather that actually talking about their own policies and strengths (wait a second…). And even though these kind of tactics have probably been around forever, there's one year and one election in particular where they took centerstage.Rob teaches Ray and Daniel all about the U.S. presidential election of 1988 and the numerous defining moments from the campaign of that year; the notorious political operator Lee Atwater and his bag of “dirty tricks”; Michael Dukakis's unfortunate use of military headgear in one of his ads; Rob's feelings on why debates have gone so downhill in the last few decades; and how Lee Atwater's coded “Southern Strategy” has given way in modern times to a more explicit expressions of prejudice.If you like what we're doing, please support us on Patreon, or you can subscribe to our bonus content on Apple Podcasts. And we'd love to find even more listeners, so if you have time, please leave us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. And if you have any other thoughts or feedback you'd like to share with us, we'd love to hear from you - feel free to email us or send us a message on social media.TEAMRay HebelRobert W. SchneiderMark SchroederBilly RecceDaniel SchwartzbergGabe CrawfordNatalie DeSaviaARTICLESEPISODE CLIPSGov. Clinton at 1988 Democratic National ConventionBentsen vs. Quayle: The 1988 vice presidential debateLee Atwater's 1981 Interview on the Southern StrategyBentsen vs. Quayle: The 1988 vice presidential debate

With just a week to go before the Iowa Caucuses and 15 days before the New Hampshire primaries, Ben gives historical background about the importance of the early states in shaping the outcome of the presidential race. He draws on primary history from Ronald Reagan's showdowns with his eventual Vice President, George H.W. Bush, as well as the battles between Bush, Dole, and various other Republican also-rans.  Plus, Ben shares an anecdote from the infamous and consequential Republican fixer, Lee Atwater. Follow Ben on Twitter: @BDomenech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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In this episode we tune in to the race between Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Vice President George H. W. Bush. as they debate each other in a debate that saw Dukakis answer one of the hardest hitting questions ever asked in my memory of any candidate. His answer came off like a robot and with that the slide began that would lead to Bush's victory. We will join an August, 24, 1988 campaign rally in California that will feature George Bush's other ace in the hole, the then current President, Ronald Reagan. You will see a vintage Reagan as he delivers a speech in the effort to elect his Vice President to carry on the work he had begun over 8 great years as President. Finally you can relive the election of George H. W. Bush as we drop in on the coverage on election night 1988 when George Bush closes in on victory after climbing over a 17 point deficit with the voters and eventually defeats Michael Dukakis to become the nation's 41st President.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

In this episode we get an overview of the 1988 Presidential election field of candidates. On the republican side the race has 8 candidates but it really is a battle between two:  George H. W. Bush and Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole.  There is also a new rising force that would play a major role in the campaign primaries and continue to do so to this day.  It is the role of Evangelical Christians.  their leader , televangelist Pat Robertson, would turn the Iowa Caucus on its head with a far stronger showing than anyone had predicted and hand Bob Dole the win and the lead finishing second and knocking Bush to third. George H.W. Bush would have to claw his way back into the race in New Hampshire and he would do it with some of the most skillful use of television ever produced. It would be a fight that would lead to an angry eruption from his vanquished foe on primary night. On the Democratic side, we see a little known Massachusetts Governor emerge after helping the early demise of a Senator  who had widely been seen to that point as a rising political star for nearly two decades. Senator Joe Biden had been elected at the age of 29, and had risen in the Senate to Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Michael Dukakis would see to it that it was a short lived campaign for Joe Biden, the first of possibly five Presidential forays the Senator has made on the Presidential level over the past four decades. We will also tune in on the campaign of Jesse Jackson, that really did shatter the race barrier for national elections, that would open the door twenty years later to the election of Barack Obama as President.  It was 1988, a historic campaign year, that showed an entire generation of political consultants the rules to the game, of what to do, and what not to do, in order to win. They have been perfecting it ever since.  Questions or comments at , Randalrgw1@aol.com , https://twitter.com/randal_wallace , and http://www.randalwallace.com/Please Leave us a review at wherever you get your podcastsThanks for listening!!

DFR ? With The FAA recently approving test flights by way of special certification for a new $300,000 flying car by Alef Aeronautics ... Does this open Pandora's Box to a future that resembles the traffic scene from Bruce Willis' The Fifth Element? Time Stamps (3:56) "They Cloned Tyrone" movie (6:55) Scrap Metal Media; Why flights are so crazy right now (9:00) 1973 Oil Crisis (10:15) Congressional Hearing on UFOs and the reaction from people (22:35) Age restrictions, how about age limits? Dianne Feinstein & Mitch McConnell's "episodes" (24:33) The Southern Strategy & 14/88 RFK Jr. allegedly showing signs of being a sleeper. I may be wrong so, make up your own mind. Lee Atwater, Goldwater, & some mindsets shared by hate. (38:15) BxB Predicts: Commercial Flights in the future will be completely piloted by robots/A.I. Share, Subscribe, & Please Leave 5 Stars. Thanks for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dear-future-robots/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/dear-future-robots/support

"Understanding the Co-Optation of "Woke Culture" and the Power of Language-Bonus Round Series" Season 4 Episode 8 Today we have an engaging topic to explore: "Woke Culture" and "Woke Ideology." Before we dive in, let's set the stage with some context. According to a CNN story titled "Opinion: The fight against 'woke' is really conservative gaslighting," we can trace the co-optation of language by conservative circles back to previous decades. In the 1960s, the term "Black Power" emerged as a symbol of empowerment and self-reliance, championed by figures like Kwame Ture, known as Stokely Carmichael. However, conservatives reframed the term, using it as a catch-all phrase to stoke fear among White voters that African Americans were seeking domination. Fast forward to later years, when former California Governor and President Ronald Reagan introduced the infamous "welfare queen" narrative. This narrative falsely portrayed public assistance as primarily benefiting Black individuals, despite statistics showing that more White people have been recipients of federal aid programs over time. The co-optation of language has intensified in recent years, partly due to the rise of social media, allowing for the rapid dissemination of divisive narratives. It's essential to acknowledge the legacy of figures like Lee Atwater, the mastermind behind racially charged political strategies such as the Willie Horton ad. Though Atwater expressed regret for his actions near the end of his life, the impact of his racist tactics persists. Today, the list of terms weaponized by conservatives is extensive, and one term in particular has become almost ubiquitous: "woke." Understanding the Co-Optation of "Woke Culture" and the Power of Language In today's ever-evolving social and political landscape, the term "woke culture" has become a topic of intense discussion. However, the origins and meaning of this term have been obscured by its politicization and co-optation by various actors. In this Bonus Round episode we will explore the historical precedents of language co-optation, examine how the term "woke" has been weaponized, and shed light on the power dynamics at play. I. The Origin and Meaning of "Woke"    A. Historical Roots B. Shifting Definitions II. Language Co-Optation and Fearmongering A. Historical Precedents B. The Welfare Queen Narrative C. Lee Atwater and the Southern Strategy III. The Weaponization of "Woke" A. Political Motivations B. Social Media's Influence IV. The Power of Language and Constructive Conversations A. Encouraging Genuine Awareness B. Critical Thinking and Discourse By understanding the historical precedents of language co-optation and recognizing the power of language in the social media era, we can engage in constructive conversations that promote genuine awareness and progress. Keywords: Woke culture, language co-optation, social justice, weaponization, fearmongering, welfare queen narrative, power of language, social media influence, constructive conversations ** Feel free to LIKE, SHARE AND COMMENT. If you are featured here and we don't have your link(s) posted, please let us know. Follow The Contrast Project online: ** https://www.thecontrastproject.tv/ ** ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/TheContrastP..⁠⁠. ** ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/the_contras..⁠⁠. ** ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ContrastProjTV⁠⁠  ** https://www.youtube.com/@thecontrastproject7242/videos ** Streaming on all major platforms. ** The Contrast Project Lounge Podcast is proudly created in part using the Riverside.fm platform. By using this link you are helping to support this show. Thank you so much: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/3BH3q2t #WokeCulture #LanguageCoOptation #SocialJustice #Weaponization #Fearmongering #WelfareQueenNarrative #PowerOfLanguage #SocialMediaInfluence #ConstructiveConversations --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-contrast-project/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-contrast-project/support

  "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." We misattributed this quote to Lee Atwater. It was in fact Lyndon B. Johnson.  Don't feel bad for Atwater; he was no peach either.  Here's audio of him spelling out how Republicans should signal that they support racist policies without actually saying racist things. TW for some seriously fucking brutal racial terms.   Fauci could have handled the AIDS crisis better.  This Frontline tells you all about it.    The Justins in Tennessee. (the link is a gift article; enjoy!)   The GOP won't change their policies to get more voters. They'll just get rid of democracy.   Protest works. There were sustained protests in East Germany before the wall fell like the Leipzig prayer protests every Monday. ACT UP used unapologetically confrontational die-ins to force progress on AIDS funding, research, and treatments.   Conservatives don't want their kids learning about Ruby Bridges or Rosa Parks.   RIP Congressman John Lewis and let's all make good trouble.       Buy Faith's book! It's the mid 1990s, and a high school guy in Georgia is grappling with his queerness, his faith, his friends, and his future in Disgusta by Faith DaBrooke. Support us on Patreon to help us keep making great content, and to get some cool rewards! Check out our website for our latest episodes!    

We take a look at the Los Angeles City Counsel Scandal through a counter racist lens. What is Latino? What is Hispanic? Is Language a Race? We use interviews/recordings of Neely Fuller Jr, Gus T. Renegade(The C.O.W.S.), Kristina Mora(Making Hispanics), George Lopez, Dr. Raul Perez(The Souls of White Folks), Leron Bennet(Forced Into Glory) Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Lee Atwater, NPR, Tavis Smiley and Mainstream Media to add context.

Charlie Black is a legendary figure in Republican politics, working his first presidential campaign with Ronald Reagan in 1976 and being involved at a high level with both Presidents Bush and names like Kemp, Dole, McCain, Romney, Kasich and more. In this conversation, Charlie talks his roots in the conservative movement of the 1970s, his work as a political consultant in some of the most famous races of the era, and offers stories, insight, and lessons learned from one of the most impactful political lives of his generation.IN THIS EPISODE                                                    Charlie's roots in Wilmington North Carolina…Barry Goldwater draws Charlie to the GOP…How his early Republican activism leads to his first real campaign job with Jesse Helms first Senate race in 1972…Charlie talks the political strength of Jesse Helms that led to a 30-year Senate career, including the titanic '84 race between Helms and Democratic heavyweight Governor Jim Hunt…Charlie talks the rise of direct mail fundraising, Independent Expenditures, and the development of the conservative movement throughout the 1970s…Charlie's role running several states in the insurgent Reagan '76 primary challenge to Gerald Ford…Charlie talks the strategic decisions that led to Reagan winning the GOP nomination in 1980…Charlie goes into political consulting, working for scores of Senators, Governors, and House members…The question Ronald Reagan asked himself every morning in the White House…Charlie helps George H.W. Bush turn a 17-point deficit in 1988 into a landslide win…Charlie's longtime friendship with George W. Bush…The Charlie Black 101 on effective campaign management…Charlie talks his relationship with Lee Atwater, one of his best friends…Charlie manages Jack Kemp's 1988 Presidential campaign…Charlie on the Democratic politicians who've most impressed him…Charlie talks his work in government relations and former business partners Roger Stone and Paul Manafort…Charlie's take on how the Republican Establishment lost control of the party to the Trump wing…Charlie's best practices for crisis-communication…AND 80% friends, the ACLU, Roger Ailes, American University, John Anderson, Howard Baker, Jim Baker, Bigness, Boston Harbor, Bill Brock, Pat Buchanan, Buckley v. Valeo, the California guys, Bill Clinton, John Connolly, the Conscience of a Conservative, courtroom lawyers, Phil Crane, Michael Deaver, Terry Dolan, Kitty Dukakis, Michael Dukakis, John East, Jim Ely, Newt Gingrich, Bob Graham, the greatest Senate race ever run, Pete Hannaford, Paula Hawkins, the Hill newspaper, Willie Horton, Peter Kelly, Kemp-Roth tax cuts, Jim Lake, the League of Women Voters, C.S. Lewis, little bastards, Trent Lott, Mac Mathias, George McGovern, Ed Meese, Walter Mondale, Nashua, nativists, negative advertising, Nixon's coattails, noblesse oblige, Lyn Nofziger, Scott Pastrick, Pauley Pavillion, Ross Perot, Prime Policy Group, the RNC, Reaganites,  Karl Rove, John Sears, Richard Schweiker, Bernie Shaw, Arlen Specter, Stu Spencer, Bob Strauss, Donald Trump, Tom Turnipseed, University of Florida, Richard Viguerie, Paul Volcker, Paul Weyrich, YAF, Young Republicans…& more!

Episode Notes Following the U.S. Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, the language about how we talk about race (and tap dance) changed. In the new era of color-blind speech, one must navigate a slippery slope of semantics to uncover the racial subtext underneath. Host Tristan Bruns takes a look at the book "Tapworks" by Beverly Fletcher—the official tap dance reference manual of the Dance Masters of America—regarded by Bruns as a tap dance history written under the lens of a color-blind racial ideology. Bruns references the work of sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, historian Tyler Anbinder, linguistic anthropologist Jane H. Hill and others in an attempt to prove why color-blind tap dance history is bad tap dance history. Hoo-boy! This is a long one, so here are some time stamps to help you navigate this episode: 0:00-5:40 Theme Song/Series Summary/Beverylt Fletcher and "Tapworks" Introductions 5:41-25:55 What is a racially color-blind ideology? 25:56-37:38 "Introduction" of "Tapworks" 37:39-44:20 European Influence and "African Heritage" 44:21-54:34 Notes on the slave trade/_Happy Slave Ship Dancers Theory/_Stono Rebellion 54:35-1:04:00 Five Points/William Henry Lane a.k.a. "Master Juba" 1:04:01-1:10:15 The Appeal of Blackface Minstrelsy 1:10:16-1:13:20 Some good history/Comparison to "The Book of Tap" 1:13:21-1:17:12 Theories about the "Death of Tap Dance" 1:17:13-1:18:53 The final page/Tap Dogs and _Riverdance/_African "steps" and Irish "feel" 1:18:54-1:21:23 Clip from the Either/And Podcast by Bril Barrett about Riverdance 1:21:24-1:24:56 Living in a white habitus/Lee Atwater interview on the "Southern Strategy" 1:24:57-1:28:20 Two anecdotal accounts: Story of "Nick"/Listening to "UTC" 1:28:21-1:31:45 Learning lessons from history/Anonymous testimony about Fletcher 1:31:46-1:35:00 What is "personalism"? 1:35:01-1:35:55 Anecdote #3: Forced happiness in dance competitions 1:35:56-1:42:22 "Tapworks" and the Dance Masters of America 1:42:23-1:47:25 The U.S. dance industry as one large white habitus/Call to Action 1:47:26-1:48:32 Disclaimers and acknowledgements 1:48:33-1:53:25 Tap Dance Podcast Roundup Support this program by joining us on Patreon. 50% of all support goes to the M.A.D.D. Rhythms Tap Academy at the Harold Washington Cultural Center on Chicago's historic South Side. Link to our Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/GFADAF Or support this program through a one time donation in our tip jar! Thank you to Patreon supporters Liz Rancourt-Smith, Junior Laniyan and Pamela Heatherington. The Gasps From A Dying Art Form Podcast is a member of the M.A.D.D. Rhythms Podcast Network. #RespectTheDance Support Gasps From A Dying Art Form by contributing to their Tip Jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/gasps-from-a-dying-art-form This podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Episode Notes:Asha provided lots of resources to educate you about the racist agenda behind the religious right's obsession with abortion laws. She suggested reading Politico Magazine's The Real Origins of the Religious Right and watching Netflix's Reversing Roe. Read more about California banning non-consensual condom removal. If you want to hear more of Keith, check out Episode 51: Donald Trump has Left the Building (ft. Keith Boykin). Also read his book Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America. Pass the PopcornIn this episode, Jarrett wants to add some perspective to the Texas SB8 abortion law and help you understand why Texas's new law is so dangerous, impacting impoverished and people of color worse. Asha joins Jarrett to help guide the discussion. DIS/Honorable Mentions DM: Asha mentions that R. Kelly was finally convicted even though he should have gone to jail years ago, back when he first assaulted singer Aaliyah, which brings us to . . .  HM: The brave victims that were named in the R. Kelly case. HM: Ted Winn and his new recording of Marvin Gaye's classic Inner City Blues (Makes Me Wanna Holler).HM: Jarrett for taking a vacation.Our Sponsors This WeekRayconFANTI listeners can get 15% off their Raycon at BuyRaycon.com/FANTI.BetterHelpFANTI listeners get 10% off their first month at Betterhelp.com/FANTI.Go ahead and @ usEmail: FANTI@maximumfun.orgIG@FANTIpodcast@Jarrett Hill@rayzon (Tre'Vell)Twitter@FANTIpodcast@TreVellAnderson@JarrettHill@Swish (Senior Producer Laura Swisher)@Rainewheat (Producer Lorraine Wheat)FANTI is produced and distributed by MaximumFun.orgLaura Swisher is senior producer and Lorraine Wheat is producer. Episode Contributors: Jarrett Hill, Laura Swisher, Tre'Vell Anderson, Lorraine Wheat, Keith Boykin, Asha DahyaMusic: Cor.eceGraphics: Ashley Nguyen

Other than those who've been elected President, I'm not sure anyone in his generation has had a more remarkable political career than Haley Barbour. Running Mississippi for Nixon while he was still in college...ED of the MS GOP at a critical building phase in the 70s...battling a Senate Giant in his unsuccessful first race in '82...running the Reagan White House's political operation...chairing the RNC during the '94 GOP wave...2-term Governor...and starting what has become one of the most successful lobbying government affairs firms in the country. Great conversation hearing about Haley Barbour's rise from small town Mississippi to the highest corridors of political power. IN THIS EPISODEHow Haley Barbour got into politics “totally by fluke”…Running Mississippi for Nixon in '68…What made a young Haley Barbour gravitate to the Republican Party…The rise of Thad Cochran and Trent Lott…Haley Barbour's time in the early 70s as executive director of the Mississippi Republican Party…The story of Haley Barbour's lone political loss in the 1982 Senate race against longtime Dem incumbent John Stennis…Haley Barbour's rules for candidates and campaign managers…Haley Barbour's time running the political operation in the Reagan White House…Haley Barbour tells his favorite Jim Baker story…The connection between Haley Barbour and serial killer John Wayne Gacy…Why was Barbara Bush so angry at Haley Barbour in the '88 campaign?Why Haley Barbour turned down working out of the White House?The one time Ronald Reagan overruled Haley Barbour?The early days of the rise of Newt Gingrich…Haley Barbour beats two future US Senators to take over the Republican National Committee in 1993…Haley Barbour talks the GOP wave of 1994…Haley Barbour talks his 2003 Governor's campaign ousting a Democratic incumbent…How he overcame the “lobbyist” label in the Governor's race…Getting close to jumping in the 2012 presidential race…How Haley Barbour started one of DC's premier lobbying firms…Haley Barbour rules for being an effective lobbyist…AND…Spencer Abraham, John Ashcroft, Lee Atwater, James Baker, Lloyd Bentsen, Kirk Blalock, Remy Brim, Barbara Bush, Bob Calloway, Gil Carmichael, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton Mitch Daniels, Democrats for Eisenhower, Walt Disney, Bob Dole, James Eastland, Frank Fahrenkopf, Don Fierce, Gerald Ford, Kirk Fordice, Jim Free, Lanny Griffith, Mike Huckabee, Paul Johnson, Paul Laxalt, Ron Lewis, Zell Miller, Ronnie Musgrove, Lyn Nofziger, the OEB, Mike Parker, Heather Podesta, Tony Podesta, Scott Reed, Ed Rogers, Ed Rollins, Mitt Romney, George Shultz, Sam Skinner, Stu Spencer, John Sununu, Jim Thompson, George Wallace, Wendell Willkie, and MORE!

00:00 What does it mean to be Christian or Jewish? https://twitter.com/lukeford/status/1379499997310328834 03:00 Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ 10:00 Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=138249 21:00 Why Mental Health Treatment Often Fails, https://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2021/04/why-mental-health-treatment-often-fails.html 22:00 Science Plays the Long Game. But People Have Mental Health Issues Now., https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/health/mental-health-treatments.html 29:00 What constitutes the good life? https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2013/05/09/what-good-life/ 30:00 Men become more dependent as they age, women become more independent 33:00 An Analyst Questions the Self-Perpetuating Side of Therapy, https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/health/psychology/10conv.html 42:00 Talking back to Prozac, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2007/12/06/talking-back-to-prozac/ Audible book: Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941–1942 , https://www.amazon.com/Pacific-Crucible-War-Sea-1941-1942/dp/0393343413 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford Feel free to clip my videos. It's nice when you link back to the original.

Episode Notes Please rate, review, and/or subscribe on Apple Podcasts to help promote this show! Previous entries on Left of the Movies 1 Medium Cool (+ discussion of the 2016 & 2020 Democratic convention) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/medium-cool-left-of-the-movies-1-episode-4/id1521758273?i=1000489192396 2 Climactic class Violence in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Joker, The Irishman & Parasite (+ discussion of 2020 reflected in these 2019 films) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/parasite-joker-irishman-once-upon-time-in-hollywood/id1521758273?i=1000499250140 For more thoughts on politics in 2020-21, visit my most recent patron episode... Episode 76 bonus - Political reflections: Pandemic, Protest, Election, Insurrection & The Future https://www.patreon.com/posts/48925118 You can explore all of my podcasts, including over 200 hours of Patreon content, on my website https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/film-in-focus.html & https://www.lostinthemovies.com/p/film-capsule.html OTHER LINKS Politically Incorrect - Boots Riley - part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9qBY-Bypk & part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xDd6ZzKnMM Rising - Krystal and Saagar: Bernie HEADS To Alabama As Amazon Union Drive Becomes National Flash Point (The Hill - Rising video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnG99AuPm-s ...including PODCASTS on Sorry to Bother You (available on iTunes as well): Champagne Sharks 107: Sorry to Bother You feat. Michael Brooks (@_michaelbrooks) (07/22/2018) https://soundcloud.com/champagnesharks/cs-107-sorry-to-bother-you-feat-michael-brooks-michaelbrooks-7222019 The Michael Brooks Show - 50 - Dave Rubin's Dumb & Sorry to Bother You ft. Ana Kasparian & Briahna Gray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zr2fTR_fbg The Film Comment Podcast: Sorry to Bother You https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-podcast-sorry-bother/ The Film Comment Podcast: Boots Riley and Questlove https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/film-comment-podcast-boots-riley-questlove/ I Think You're Interesting with Emily VanDerWerff - Sorry to Bother You director Boots Riley on labor unions, capitalism and his hit movie https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/vox/i-think-youre-interesting/e/55504024 Jacobin Radio - The Dig: Boots Riley on Sorry to Bother You and Communism https://www.blubrry.com/jacobin/36134236/the-dig-boots-riley-on-sorry-to-bother-you-and-communism/ • My recent work: NEW ON MY SITE Mad Men - "Public Relations" (season 4, episode 1) https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2021/03/mad-men-public-relations-season-4.html & Start of Spring update https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2021/03/start-of-spring-update.html & Images from a return to Twin Peaks (2 of 2): Mark Frost, Other Collaborators, and The Return https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2021/03/images-from-return-to-twin-peaks-2-of-2.html ALSO NEW ON PATREON ($1/MONTH) - in addition to political episode mentioned above... Episode 76: Twin Peaks cinema - Kings Row (+ Twin Peaks Reflections: Nicky, Dougie, Hide-Out Wallies, Timber Falls Motel, Milford family/The Secret History of Twin Peaks, Lee Atwater documentary, updates on Journey Through Twin Peaks/Lost in Twin Peaks & more) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48934221 & Episode 76 bonus - Film capsules: Us, Brideshead Revisited, The Roosevelts, Reagan (+ A Letter to Three Wives, The Enchanted Cottage, Waking Sleeping Beauty, Knights of the Round Table, Rasputin and the Empress & more) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48919348 & Episode 76 bonus - Listener feedback: Twin Peaks & video games, Audrey/Cooper, what led to Cooper's downfall, Sunset Blvd., importance of season 2 subplots, "wrong turn" in season 3 climax?, Mark Frost in collaboration and tension w/ David Lynch, Laura (1944), Seattle connections, 2014 zeitgeist vs 80s/90s era & now (+ why podcasts are late, upcoming installments & more) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48631588 & Episode 76 bonus - Podcast recommendations (1 of 4) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48891344 (2 of 4) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48896274 (3 of 4) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48908252 (4 of 4) https://www.patreon.com/posts/48916266 PREVIOUSLY ON THIS PODCAST The Lobster https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lobster/id1521758273?i=1000511495686 This episode's home page on my site, active at 8am on March 25, is https://www.lostinthemovies.com/2021/03/sorry-to-bother-you-left-of-movies.html

00:00 Jonathan Haidt on understanding moral disagreements: http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/show/episode-252-understanding-moral-disagreements-jonathan-haidt.html, 15:30 A black anti-racist tries to persuade OV to not be racist, https://youtu.be/Qz0m_JEuAnU?t=3721 20:50 OV was a liberal prior to seeing Richard Spencer destroying Sargon of Akkad 44:00 Police vs press, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/an-uncomfortable-comparison/ 53:00 Cop shows won't just disappear. How can we reinvent them?, https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/6/11/21284719/cop-shows-canceled-the-wire-babylon-berlin 55:00 Dennis Prager, the LAPD, and the Inner City, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JnF-OO6W7M 59:00 Dennis Prager's Poor, Poor Wife, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqNxl0vzw_E 1:04:45 Nick Fuentes vs Lady MAGA, https://www.bitchute.com/video/W6utR3e9S6ok/ 1:08:20 BASKETBALL ANNOUNCER CAUGHT BY HOT MIC USING N-WORD TOWARD TEAM KNEELING DURING ANTHEM, https://www.bitchute.com/video/0F1qZOyYp6qs/ 1:11:00 Is Reform Possible? Interviewing The Former Nazi Who Sparked Twitter Outrage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQFxdCvo98s 1:17:20 Why fascists should support LGBT, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vTTOap1Vo 1:21:00 Trump's 'Racist Base' Calls The Thom Hartmann Program!, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UawLefGpqew 1:25:30 Lee Atwater's Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/ 1:27:00 Political consultant Lee Atwater, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater 1:31:00 How #MeToo Led to QAnon, https://www.unz.com/isteve/how-metoo-led-to-qanon/ 1:37:00 The Dishonesty is Exhausting, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/the-dishonesty-is-exhausting/ 1:45:00 How much prep time do I put in before a show? 1:52:00 Elite Private Schools, Race, and Fear of the Woke, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com/elite-private-schools-race-and-fear-of-the-woke/ 2:03:00 Shorter Martin Gurri, http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/shorter-martin-gurri/ 2:06:00 The importance of the sacred, including a national anthem 2:11:00 The remarkable rise of the Czech Pirate party, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-remarkable-rise-of-the-czech-pirate-party 2:21:00 Dennis Dale joins to discuss Portland, public transport, signs of social class 2:41:00 America Is Not Made for People Who Pee, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/06/opinion/sunday/public-toilets-united-states.html 3:00:00 Shakespeare 3:01:00 What's Wrong with Attacking Our Own Society?, https://fakenous.net/?p=2154 3:03:00 Carl Schmitt, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=136904 3:12:00 Aussie racism: 'Two Wongs don't make a white', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Calwell Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFVD7Xfhn7sJY8LAIQmH8Q/join https://odysee.com/@LukeFordLive, https://lbry.tv/@LukeFord, https://rumble.com/lukeford https://dlive.tv/lukefordlivestreams Listener Call In #: 1-310-997-4596 Superchat: https://entropystream.live/app/lukefordlive Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lukeford/ Soundcloud MP3s: https://soundcloud.com/luke-ford-666431593 Code of Conduct: https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=125692 https://www.patreon.com/lukeford http://lukeford.net Email me: lukeisback@gmail.com or DM me on Twitter.com/lukeford Support the show | https://www.streamlabs.com/lukeford, https://patreon.com/lukeford, https://PayPal.Me/lukeisback Facebook: http://facebook.com/lukecford iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/luke-ford/id1557388726

WARNING some of the audio files in this episode contain racial slurs and ethnic/racial offensive content! Republicans are telling Democrats its time to heal, but do they mean it? Are Republicans the cause of the hurt? We go over key speeches from Donald Trump Jr. , Rudy Giuliani, and Donald Trump from the January 6th “Stop the Steal Pep Rally". We will also listen to actual audio from former Republican President's Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, as they share their thoughts on Blacks, Jews, and the Irish...including the introduction of the Republican Super-Villain “The Welfare Queen”, and an explanation of “The Southern Strategy” from Lee Atwater. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/eric-on-air/support

With the 2020 Presidential Election drawing closer, we thought it only be fitting to continue our race and racism series, this time delving into issues like dog-whistling and voter suppression. We kick off the show with a clip from Lee Atwater, a well-known Republican Party consultant where he talks about ways to enforce racism without being able to say the N-word. This leads into a discussion on dog-whistling—the use of covert, coded language, which by all accounts appears neutral but is loaded with racist rhetoric. Terms like ‘inner-city', ‘God's country', ‘suburban', and ‘urban' are all widely used to invoke images that foster division and fear. These insidious displays of racism are very much alive and well in today's United States, and another common, furtive racist tactic is voter suppression. While it may be easy to relegate voter suppression to a time passed, it is incredibly prevalent and naturally disproportionately affects communities of color. We look at a study of Harvard students taking the 1964 Louisiana Literacy Test and the correlations it has to the obstacles that voters still currently face. Some of these new and improved voter suppression tactics include limited absentee ballot drop-boxes, like in Texas, prohibitive ID laws that exclude 21 million people from voting, and subtle ‘watchful eyes' under the guise of preventing voter fraud. All elections are significant, but this might arguably be the most important one of many of our lifetimes. Your vote absolutely does count, regardless of what you have been led to believe. If it didn't, why would so many people be trying to stop you from voting? While we acknowledge the very real obstacles that are placed in the way of the Black and community of color's way to vote, we encourage you to get out there on election day to have your say on the future of the country. 

In 1988, George H.W. Bush overcame a 17-point deficit in the polls and won the election. In this bonus episode, journalist and author Tom Rosenstiel looks back at Bush’s campaign manager Lee Atwater – and why Donald Trump survived an avalanche of oppo in 2016.

We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s. Joshua C. Myers teaches Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He serves on the editorial board of The Compass and is editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. Latif Tarik is Assistant Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University located in Elizabeth City, NC. He is Elizabeth City State University history program coordinator, editorial board member for the digital journal Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre, and serves as book review editor for the Southern Conference of African American Studies, Latif is a contributor to Race and Ethnicity In America From Pre-Contact to the Present, Islam and the Black Experience African American History Reconsidered, African Religions Beliefs and Practices through History, and Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s. Joshua C. Myers teaches Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He serves on the editorial board of The Compass and is editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. Latif Tarik is Assistant Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University located in Elizabeth City, NC. He is Elizabeth City State University history program coordinator, editorial board member for the digital journal Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre, and serves as book review editor for the Southern Conference of African American Studies, Latif is a contributor to Race and Ethnicity In America From Pre-Contact to the Present, Islam and the Black Experience African American History Reconsidered, African Religions Beliefs and Practices through History, and Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university's appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s. Joshua M. Myers teaches Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He serves on the editorial board of The Compass and is editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. Latif Tarik is Assistant Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University located in Elizabeth City, NC. He is Elizabeth City State University history program coordinator, editorial board member for the digital journal Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre, and serves as book review editor for the Southern Conference of African American Studies, Latif is a contributor to Race and Ethnicity In America From Pre-Contact to the Present, Islam and the Black Experience African American History Reconsidered, African Religions Beliefs and Practices through History, and Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s. Joshua C. Myers teaches Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He serves on the editorial board of The Compass and is editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. Latif Tarik is Assistant Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University located in Elizabeth City, NC. He is Elizabeth City State University history program coordinator, editorial board member for the digital journal Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre, and serves as book review editor for the Southern Conference of African American Studies, Latif is a contributor to Race and Ethnicity In America From Pre-Contact to the Present, Islam and the Black Experience African American History Reconsidered, African Religions Beliefs and Practices through History, and Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We Are Worth Fighting For: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989 (NYU Press, 2019) is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university’s Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the sixties and a unique challenge to the politics of the eighties. Upset at the university’s appointment of the Republican strategist Lee Atwater to the Board of Trustees, students forced the issue by shutting down the operations of the university. The protest, inspired in part by the emergence of “conscious” hip hop, helped to build support for the idea of student governance and drew upon a resurgent black nationalist ethos. At the center of this story is a student organization known as Black Nia F.O.R.C.E. Co-founded by Ras Baraka, the group was at the forefront of organizing the student mobilization at Howard during the spring of 1989 and thereafter. We Are Worth Fighting For explores how black student activists—young men and women— helped shape and resist the rightward shift and neoliberal foundations of American politics. This history adds to the literature on Black campus activism, Black Power studies, and the emerging histories of African American life in the 1980s. Joshua C. Myers teaches Africana Studies in the Department of Afro-American Studies at Howard University. He serves on the editorial board of The Compass and is editor of A Gathering Together: Literary Journal. Latif Tarik is Assistant Professor of History at Elizabeth City State University located in Elizabeth City, NC. He is Elizabeth City State University history program coordinator, editorial board member for the digital journal Evoke: A Historical, Theoretical, and Cultural Analysis of Africana Dance and Theatre, and serves as book review editor for the Southern Conference of African American Studies, Latif is a contributor to Race and Ethnicity In America From Pre-Contact to the Present, Islam and the Black Experience African American History Reconsidered, African Religions Beliefs and Practices through History, and Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A huge thanks to Joseph McDade for his generous permission to use his music: https://josephmcdade.com/ Thanks to Palmtoptiger17 for the beautiful logo: https://www.instagram.com/palmtoptiger17/ Discord Discussion Board: https://disboard.org/server/474580298630430751  ***For an alternative perspective on the rise of the abortion issue among conservative Evangelicals, check out the following article. While I think the author makes some good points and helps to balance a true, growing concern for abortion, I think the race issue is clearly the catalyst. So while I disagree with the morality of abortion now, the reason the issue was shot to prominence so quickly seems to be as a result of racism. It's hard to explain the seismic shift in worldviews about the personhood of fetuses without a motivator, as I argue in the episode. Nevertheless, decide for yourself: https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/fact-and-fiction-about-racism-and . You can also find a version from the Gospel Coalition here: https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/evangelical-history/christian-right-discovered-abortion-rights-transformed-culture-wars/Lee Atwater's famous quote about Republican and Religious Right implications and understanding in politics:  https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/You start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states' rights, and all that stuff, and you're getting so abstract. Now, you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.” The 1971 SBC Resolution on Abortion: http://www.sbc.net/resolutions/13/resolution-on-abortion  Brief explanation of the origins of the anti-abortion movement in Evangelicalism: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/20/734303135/throughline-traces-evangelicals-history-on-the-abortion-issue  Detailed article about the origins of the anti-abortion movement in Evangelicalism: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133 The Color of Compromise: https://www.amazon.com/Color-Compromise-American-Churchs-Complicity/dp/0310113601/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+color+of+compromise&qid=1591475569&sr=8-1 The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America: This resource is a very deep overview of the history of Evangelicalism and the Religious Right. It helps paint a picture of how we got to where we are and the compromised One Nation Under God: https://www.amazon.com/One-Nation-Under-God-Corporate/dp/0465097413/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=one+nation+under+god&qid=1591475623&sr=8-1 Revolution of Values: is a great look at the history of modern Evangelicalism and the racist roots of the Religious Right from the perspective of a long-time Southern Baptist, and one who served the Republican party under Strom Thurmond:   https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Values-Reclaiming-Public-Common/dp/0830845933/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?dchild=1&keywords=jonathan+hartgrove&qid=1591475669&sr=8-1-spons&psc=1&spLa=ZW5jcnlwdGVkUXVhbGlmaWVyPUExUVZOQlVWQUhGSklOJmVuY3J5cHRlZElkPUEwMzM5MzgxTTU5SDBXSURKRlVOJmVuY3J5cHRlZEFkSWQ9QTAxMzY3NDRTQzhRWTU0Njk5NFEmd2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGYmYWN0aW9uPWNsaWNrUmVkaXJlY3QmZG9Ob3RMb2dDbGljaz10cnVl A good summary of the rise in anti-abortion sentiment: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-evangelicals-decided-that-life-begins-at-conception_b_2072716?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20vc2VhcmNoP3E9RXZhbmdlbGljYWwrYWJvcnRpb24rbW92ZW1lbnQmZm9ybT1BUElQSDEmUEM9QVBQTA&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAFK1r-ntO2NVaghH4hLP_lW3elDj6xvvJiThE7fIQ8JGqyHT_JdoYoUqFlPH78UZokykrlr4reUpQt3VYpWDtlj0N29jhWoGUq3oSH55qWnPELjR8dRMsBxOO1j6-5MZSqJJNxsFsm7VVjo0iwKcM5MLr8hhHWSacvgWAClJodGR Scene on Radio Podcast: http://www.sceneonradio.org/s4-e8-the-second-redemption/ Behind the Bastards on Jerry Falwell (explicit language): This is a three part series which is good at helping not only to paint a picture of ulterior motives in the abortion issue, but in seeing the political and business problems inherent in the religious right. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000458529023  Bob Jones Finally Drops Interracial Dating Policy in the Year 2000: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/marchweb-only/53.0.html Former SBC President W.A. Criswell (1973): "I have always felt that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person, and it has always, therefore, seemed to me that what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed." W. Barry Garrett (1973): "Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the [Roe v. Wade] Supreme Court Decision."Christianity Today symposium with the medical community (1968): “individual health, family welfare, and social responsibility” were deemed justifications for abortion.  Falwell and Other Conservatives' Pragmatic Support of Apartheid: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/08/21/world/falwell-denounces-tutu-as-a-phony.html Shea's "The Biblical Basis for War:" https://media.spokesman.com/documents/2018/10/Biblical_Basis_for_War.pdf   Episode 49 on one of my experiences of racial tension in the church: https://thefourthway.transistor.fm/episodes/49-se7-eradicating-another-virus ACE Homeschool Curriculum is a great example of racism embedded in our conservative Christian tradition. Homeschooling and Christian schooling were in large part (at least in certain places, and likely more so the further back you go) begun by groups wanting to avoid desegregation. Falwell's Liberty Academy is a great example of this, which then created the university as another entity. You can see the racism come out in ACE's pragmatic approval of Apartheid: https://www.critic.co.nz/features/article/5806/escaping-the-cult--of-accelerated-christian-educatQUOTE: ACE is also very problematic with its insensitivity towards Blacks, Jews, and Asians – in fact, anyone who isn't white. I remember sitting at my desk until five or six in the evening, toiling over a white-washed colonialist account of American History with only the odd brightly coloured comic strip incorporated within the PACES to alleviate my boredom. These cartoon strips promote segregation – students of each race attend different schools. White children attend Highland, Black students attend Harmony and Asian students go to Heartsville. The PACES go on to explicitly support racial segregation, arguing that although apartheid appeared to allow the unfair treatment of blacks, it was nonetheless a remarkably successful system, enabling the development of South Africa into a modern industrialized nation; “White businessmen and developers … turned South Africa into a modern industrialized nation, which the poor, uneducated blacks couldn't have accomplished in several more decades. If more blacks were suddenly given control of the nation, its economy and business, as Mandela wished, they could have destroyed what they have waited and worked so hard for.” Forget the misery, poverty and racism occasioned by such a scheme – as long as white Christian businessmen were in power, all was well in the world. More firsthand testimony about ACE and the origins of private schooling (25:30): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-colonialism-in-missions-feat-rebecca/id1487348559?i=1000469105255 Brief discussion of dog-whistle politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7P3yFJ-DGM In-depth discussion on dog-whistle politics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6A3NQiJpH0 (shorter version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnOGFdGY_vw) More dog-whistle examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbkNM6u44pQ Our double standards on moral/political legislation and involvement: https://www.dckreider.com/blog-theological-musings/economic-pornography-and-pet-sins From Cornel West's "Democracy Matters," chapter 5: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Matters-Winning-Against-Imperialism/dp/0143035835/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1587954394&sr=8-1"Never before in the history of the American Republic has a group oforganized Christians risen to such prominence in the American empire.And this worldly success—a bit odd for a fundamentalist group with suchotherworldly aspirations—has sent huge ripples across AmericanChristendom. Power, might, size, status, and material possessions—allparaphernalia of the nihilism of the American empire—became majorthemes of American Christianity. It now sometimes seems that allChristians speak in one voice when in fact it is only that the loudness ofthe Constantinian element of American Christianity has so totally drownedout the prophetic voices. Imperial Christianity, market spirituality, money obsessedchurches, gospels of prosperity, prayers of let's-make-a-deal withGod or help me turn my wheel of fortune have become the prevailingvoice of American Christianity. In this version of Christianity the preciousblood at the foot of the cross becomes mere Kool-Aid to refresh eagerupwardly mobile aspirants in the nihilistic American game of power andmight. And there is hardly a mumbling word heard about social justice,resistance to institutional evil, or courage to confront the powers that be—with the glaring exception of abortion." ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Without a doubt, Ray Strother is one of the founding fathers and preeminent experts of American political consulting. In this episode, I talk with Strother about his career in politics and the lessons that he has learned that can be applied to candidates running today. Ray discusses working with legendary U.S. Senators like Russell Long and Gary Hart, as well as working for Governor Bill Clinton from 1980 until 1990. Ray also shares a few stories about the Democratic party’s "Boogie Man" Republican operative, Lee Atwater, and the infamous Bill Clinton consultant, Dick Morris. Strother also reflects on his time working in the corrupt and often entertaining world of Louisiana politics, and how different today's politicians are from when he began-which is both good and bad. With his blue-collar Democratic upbringing in the oil refining small town of Port Arthur, Texas, to his days working for the most powerful politicians in the world, Ray Strother has never forgotten where he came from. Ray Strother is an American political icon who blazed the trail for today’s political consultants-in both party’s and helped start the career of many politicians. While we often profess to be living in a time of digital dominance in how we buy things or choose candidates, the professionals who can craft a compelling narrative and candidate story are still the ones who win. Raymond D. Strother is the political G.O.A.T. in this department. There is a lot to learn in this episode for candidates running today.

On this month's episode, we talk to Jemar Tisby, author of The Color of Compromise, about the shameful history of the American church's complicity with racism and racial oppression. And in One Last Thing, Dan and Tim switch personalities: Dan has been listening to a podcast, while Tim has been listening to an audiobook. Some of the things we discussed in this episode: Mr. Tisby mentioned the books The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, by Mark Noll and White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo. Mr. Tisby also talked about GT Gillespie, Myrlie Evers and the Supreme Court decision Shelby County v. Holder. He also encouraged listeners to watch all of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which too often gets reduced to the single sentence about "the content of their character." Tim brought up Lee Atwater's infamous comments about race and winning elections, and he and Mr. Tisby talked about Republicans' strange insistence on turning ballot access into a partisan issue. Dan mentioned Orval Faubus, Vincent Harding, and the book Noah's Curse, by Stephen Haynes. Dan's OLT was the podcast Office Ladies. Tim's OLT was the book Destiny of the Republic, by Candice Millard. 0:00-1:19: Introduction 1:23-34:59: Tisby interview 35:04-40:11: Dan's OLT 40:11-43:47: Tim's OLT 43:48-44:55: Credits

8.6 out of 10 - A GREAT SHOW! www.latheatrebites.com In 1980, Lee Atwater was a scrappy Southern political strategist. By 1990, he'd changed American politics forever. A year later, he was dead, his spectacular career over in a flash, and his legacy just another story to spin. SON OF A BITCH chronicles Atwater's journey from ambitious campaign manager to the “Bad Boy” of the Republican Party.

    Listen, support, and interact: https://linktr.ee/theentrylevelleft     1:19: What is white supremacy?     3:05: 2018 domestic terrorists were mostly right wing https://bit.ly/2B8OCeJ     6:03: What are some examples of white supremacist movements?     11:45: What motivates white supremacy?   21:45: How should the left respond to the legacy of white supremacy?     23:20: Alyssa Milano getting dunked on by Left Twitter https://bit.ly/2JfXNgz     30:52: Racial biases in economic and social interactions https://bit.ly/2xbU0M7   35:15: Crenshaw's district carves urban core of Houston https://bit.ly/2KO5zRY     36:15: Lee Atwater and the GOP's racist strategy: https://bit.ly/2LsqFFa     38:00: The cost of Japanese internment during WW2 https://bit.ly/2FIF4cy     42:30: Abe Lincoln on deporting free slaves https://bit.ly/2XjlBKa     44:45: How do liberals view the intersection of capital & white supremacy?     52:05: What is white privilege and how is it embedded in Western society?   59:30: How does the dilemma of “free speech” enable white supremacy?   1:05:50: Christchurch murders fueled by right wing ideas https://bit.ly/2KQskF0     Music produced by @southpointe__ on Instagram.

TW: Be advised, this episode includes a sound-byte from Richard Nixon’s chief of staff, Lee Atwater, spewing racial slurs from 22:02--22:22. In this week’s episode of Coffee with Comrades, Bree and Pearson discuss the #August21 Prison Strike and dissect the prison-industrial complex, the abolition movement, and transformative justice. But, first, a look at this week in current events: A migrant child died shortly after being released from detention by ICE Detained migrant fathers and sons stage a strike in Texas Facebook censors antifascists organizing to demonstrate in DC DC Metro union refuses to transport fascists Bree and Pearson then provide a historical context for the prison-industrial complex before diving into the legacy and goals of the abolition movement. Ultimately, the hosts of Coffee with Comrades advocate for a system of transformative justice to truly address the root causes of “crime” and create a more humane and egalitarian society. Get Involved: Educate others about the August 21st Prison Strike, the prison-industrial complex, abolition, and transformative justice Follow and promote the strike on social media using the #August21 and #prisonstrike hash-tags on social media and amplify the voices of incarcerated workers Endorse the strike by emailing your organization's statement to prisonstrikemedia@gmail.com Spread word of the strike both inside and outside--go to www.incarceratedworkers.org to print out stickers, flyers and posters Organize a phone tree in preparation for phone zaps Start an Anarchist Black Cross chapter Write to political prisoners Support the upcoming strike directly by promoting, attending, and/or creating a solidarity demonstration at a prison near you! Resources: Incarcerated Workers Organizing Community Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander 13th Documentary on Netflix The Empty Cages Collective Critical Resistance Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie Outro: "Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)" by Run the Jewels

Get ready to risk it all as we come face to face with "Tacking Into the Wind!" Author, editor, podcaster, and musician Keith DeCandido comes aboard this week to discuss an episode of Deep Space Nine that represents a culmination of years of patient and skillful storytelling in the Star Trek universe. Kira and crew stage a daring heist of Founder technology, while Worf resolves to restore the honor of the Klingon Empire, even if he has to spill blood in the process!Along the way, Keith and I cover the awesomeness that is Kira Nerys, DS9 passing the Bechdel Test with flying colors, telling war stories in Roddenberry's future, the tragedy of Damar, and the Ezri we deserve but not the one we need right now. Plus, we talk about the Theiss Titillation Theory, Worf as the Lee Atwater of Klingon politics, getting Tarantino in your Trek, Discovery and Klingon boobage, Kal reps for Team Gowron, and Keith doesn't apologize for killing Mr. Homn!What kind of a show brings you this much goodness? This one!Find out more about Keith at his personal website!http://decandido.net/Support Keith and get cat photos and more on his Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/kradGet one (or more) of Keith's many novels on Amazon!https://www.amazon.com/Keith-R.-A.-Decandido/e/B000APM94ARead Keith's Trek recaps, movie reviews, and more on Tor.com!https://www.tor.com/author/keith-decandido/Challenge our rule on Facebook and Twitter!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodFeed our war coffers on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

Get ready to risk it all as we come face to face with "Tacking Into the Wind!" Author, editor, podcaster, and musician Keith DeCandido comes aboard this week to discuss an episode of Deep Space Nine that represents a culmination of years of patient and skillful storytelling in the Star Trek universe. Kira and crew stage a daring heist of Founder technology, while Worf resolves to restore the honor of the Klingon Empire, even if he has to spill blood in the process!Along the way, Keith and I cover the awesomeness that is Kira Nerys, DS9 passing the Bechdel Test with flying colors, telling war stories in Roddenberry's future, the tragedy of Damar, and the Ezri we deserve but not the one we need right now. Plus, we talk about the Theiss Titillation Theory, Worf as the Lee Atwater of Klingon politics, getting Tarantino in your Trek, Discovery and Klingon boobage, Kal reps for Team Gowron, and Keith doesn't apologize for killing Mr. Homn!What kind of a show brings you this much goodness? This one!Find out more about Keith at his personal website!http://decandido.net/Support Keith and get cat photos and more on his Patreon!https://www.patreon.com/kradGet one (or more) of Keith's many novels on Amazon!https://www.amazon.com/Keith-R.-A.-Decandido/e/B000APM94ARead Keith's Trek recaps, movie reviews, and more on Tor.com!https://www.tor.com/author/keith-decandido/Challenge our rule on Facebook and Twitter!http://www.facebook.com/eistpodhttp://www.twitter.com/eistpodFeed our war coffers on Patreon!http://www.patreon.com/eistpodSubscribe to the show on iTunes!https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/enterprising-individuals/id1113165661?mt=2

Make the New Tax Law Work For You In this episode, I break down most of the new provisions in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.  Recording from 1981 Lee Atwater explaining the context of “The Southern Strategy” that Reagan used to beat Jimmy Carter. Specifically, how you get the racist vote in a time when you can’t say overtly racist things. Gives the coded language example of “Cutting Taxes” as the dog whistle for racists, knowing that these and similar policies will hurt black people more than white people. This allows the Republican to court the racist voter without overtly claiming to be racist   Breaking Down the Tax Law for Individuals # of tax brackets didn’t change Rates temporarily drop for all but the lowest bracket Standard deduction doubled Families are less likely to benefit from itemizing No more Personal Exemption $4150 exemption for you and each dependent is gone Family with three or more kids will lose more than they gain in rate cut Child tax credit raised from $1000 to $2000 Only $1400 refundable Other $600 only applies to reduce your liability if you owe taxes Credit applies to incomes up to $400,000 Formerly only $110,000…benefit to upper-middle class Added $500 credit for non-child dependents College students, elderly parents, etc. Cap on State and Local Tax Deduction ($10,000) Will affect people in high-tax states most Mortgage Interest Deduction on new debt capped at $750,000 (was $1,000,000) No effect on existing mortgages Student Loan interest still deductible $2500 Medical Expenses over 7.5% of your Adjusted Gross Income is deductible Formerly had to surpass 10% Teachers can still deduct up to $250 in supplies expenses Electric Car tax credit still $7500 Only offered on first 200,000 cars sold by each manufacturer Running out of time for buying from GM, Nissan, Tesla No change in tax break for selling your home 529 Savings can be used for private school tuition Up to $10,000 Alimony tax deduction goes away Applies to separation and divorce paperwork filed after 31 December 2018 Disaster deduction now only applies if loss occurred in official National Disaster No moving expense, tax prep, bicycle commuter deductions Individual Mandate penalty reduced to $0 Effectively repealed Changes how inflation is gauged for tax purposes From CPI-U to Chain Weighted CPI-U Considered more accurate because it accounts for spending adjustments make in the face of higher prices Potential for Bracket Creep Key Provisions for Businesses Top marginal rate for C-Corporations permanently dropped from 35% to 21% Pass through companies taxes go by owners’ personal tax rates Law adds 20% deduction for pass through income Applies to all business owners with personal income below $157,500 ($315,000 Married Filing Jointly) Affects income tax but not self-employment tax Certain professional services with incomes over the threshold are excluded from receiving the 20% deduction Legal, Accounting, Health, and others These firms may consider tax structure changes to C-Corp depending on their financial realities Note: Check out BuyBlack Podcast Episode 004-C, to review the advantages & disadvantages of different legal & tax business structures https://buyblackpodcast.com/podcast/solo/choosing-legal-business-structure/ More Businesses qualify for cash-based accounting versus the GAAP standard of accrual-based accounting (up from $5M in gross receipts to $25M) This is less accurate for judging a business’ solvency, but simpler and more accurate at seeing how much cash a business has on hand today. The catch to all of this is that most of the personal tax cuts and provisions expire in 2025 while the corporate cuts are permanent.  This tax law gives us a small peek into how the game is played…if we’re paying close enough attention. GOP anticipating being able to ride the “low taxes” wave into a 2020 re-election for #45 This law keeps the low taxes through the presumed second term, then ends them in January 2025, just as the new president (who we can tell they are expecting to be a Democrat) takes office Then, as taxes skyrocket and the economy crashes they can blame it on the “failing” Democrat president. They will leverage that to try to pickup up some of the Congressional seats that they will inevitably lose over the coming seven years, and hope the story sticks long enough to win back the White House in 2028. We should always be looking at the long game and how moves made today setup the chess board for the future.  I guarantee you, that’s how the people in Washington put things together, so it’s in our best interest to look at their moves through their eyes.   How can you, I, we work this new law to our advantage Take advantage of the 529 Savings Plan for private school Start a small business as a side hustle Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, LLC, or S-Corp See BuyBlack Podcast Episode 004-D for tips to help you get started https://buyblackpodcast.com/podcast/solo/set-up-your-llc/ The BuyBlack Resource List has over 200 links to sites that can help you build and grow your business as well. https://buyblackpodcast.com/buy-black-business-resources/ Convert your profitable professional services company from a pass through to a C-Corp Check with your lawyer and accountant to see if this is best for your specific business and circumstances. Do not take my word…I am not a professional…this is not legal, financial, or tax advice   How “We” Beat this System Designed to “Hurt Blacks more than Whites” Recognize that this is all a game You can’t win a game that you don’t know is being played This is a huge part of “consciousness” Being aware of the levers, pulleys, and systems in motion all around you and learning how the gears work Once you recognize the game, you learn the rules and how it is intended to be played Figure out how to make those rules work in your favor, then dominate the board This is basically The Matrix That whole movie was essentially a lesson on unleashing the intense power that we each have when we wake up and become conscious of the power systems moving the world forward Right now, the rules are being rewritten to heavily favor the producer, the creator, the owner To benefit, you must define yourself as a producer. You must create value for the market. You must build and own things with appreciating value. It just so happens, that is exactly what this podcast exists to promote in our community We are currently America’s biggest consumers; its most loyal employees; its least successful entrepreneurs This is why using coded phrases like “tax cuts”, “tough on crime” and “reducing entitlements” can actually speak to racists AND accomplish what they want…to implement policies that disproportionately harm our community When we learn the rules to this game, then use the existing structure to move our community from net consumption to net production, none of those things will hurt us. In fact, they will help us more than the majority because of our smaller population This is how Davis slays Goliath. He is smaller, more agile, quicker to react, adjust, switch tactics, and use weapons of opportunity We must become a community of economic Davids Disclaimer: I am not a Tax Attorney (or any kind of Attorney) and I am not an Accountant.  This is not Tax Advice or Financial Advice.  It’s just information.  Please speak to one of the aforementioned experts before making ANY decisions based on the information you get from this episode. Resources: If you have a website of any kind, you want to hire Ratel SEO to help you get found.  https://ratelseo.com/ Don’t waste another day living on the fifth or sixth page of Google, Bing, or Yahoo.  Darrin is a real life SEO wizard and he will get you set and teach you so much along the way. If you’re ready to get your business started, listen to BuyBlack Podcast Episodes 004A-004D.  https://buyblackpodcast.com/podcast/004-three-things-need-start-business/ They’re relatively short and packed full of information to start you on the right track.  If you have questions, I’m always available to help. Email me at gerald@buyblackpodcast.com or you can call 501-703-0363 to connect with me by phone. Thanks for listening!

George and Paco talk American politics with comedian Allen Strickland Williams. The strategies and rhetoric around campaigns, public debate, comedy in divided America, and the failures of the Left (ahem, Jon Ossoff) all come up in this discussion of Best Of Enemies.'Best of Enemies' is a documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. 'Best of Enemies' delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'Allen Strickland Williams lives in Los Angeles writing and telling jokes. He's performed stand-up comedy on CONAN and was named one of Comedy Central’s Comics to Watch. Allen performed at South by Southwest, Moontower Comedy Festival, Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, CROM Comedy Festival in Omaha, Comedy Carnivale in Salt Lake City, Hell Yes Fest! in New Orleans, and the RIOT Festival in Los Angeles.Topics discussed:What It TakesBogeyman about Lee AtwaterHaskell Wexler - Medium CoolFollow us on:Twitter: @supdocpodcastInstagram: @supdocpodcastFacebook: @supdocpodcastsign up for our mailing listAnd you can show your support to Sup Doc by donating on Patreon.

Continuing on our inadvertent Lowell series, we bring in some big guns to talk about a place that you might not think about as being similar: Hawaii. Our guest is an independent journalist from the islands who drops some knowledge and insight on us. Enjoy! Part 2 is available at http://patreon.com/wikileaksonweed

Dedication: Police Officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr, Americus Police Department, GeorgiaEnd of Watch: Wednesday, December 7, 2016Guests: Florida's Chairman of the Putnam County Board of County Commissioners Larry Harvey and Tom WIlliams; businessman and Chairman of the Putnam County Republican Executive Committee. Tom is former law enforcement,  Miami/Dade County, Florida. putnamrepublicans.orgRoan Garcia-Quintana is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba.  Born in Havana and raised in Savannah, GA. He was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Education, where he was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools.After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.He's a political consultant to candidates in SC and across the US and is now the Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the newly formed Coalition for a Traditional America. americanshavehadenough.orgSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Police Officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr, Americus Police Department, GeorgiaEnd of Watch: Wednesday, December 7, 2016Guests: Florida's Chairman of the Putnam County Board of County Commissioners Larry Harvey and Tom WIlliams; businessman and Chairman of the Putnam County Republican Executive Committee. Tom is former law enforcement, Miami/Dade County, Florida. putnamrepublicans.orgRoan Garcia-Quintana is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba. Born in Havana and raised in Savannah, GA. He was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Education, where he was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools.After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.He's a political consultant to candidates in SC and across the US and is now the Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the newly formed Coalition for a Traditional America. americanshavehadenough.orgSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Police Officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr, Americus Police Department, Georgia End of Watch: Wednesday, December 7, 2016 Guests: Florida's Chairman of the Putnam County Board of County Commissioners Larry Harvey and Tom WIlliams; businessman and Chairman of the Putnam County Republican Executive Committee. Tom is former law enforcement,  Miami/Dade County, Florida. putnamrepublicans.org Roan Garcia-Quintana is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba.  Born in Havana and raised in Savannah, GA.  He was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Education, where he was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools. After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director. He's a political consultant to candidates in SC and across the US and is now the Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the newly formed Coalition for a Traditional America. americanshavehadenough.org Southern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett.  Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey!  Southern-Sense.com

Dedication: Police Officer Nicholas Ryan Smarr, Americus Police Department, GeorgiaEnd of Watch: Wednesday, December 7, 2016Guests: Florida's Chairman of the Putnam County Board of County Commissioners Larry Harvey and Tom WIlliams; businessman and Chairman of the Putnam County Republican Executive Committee. Tom is former law enforcement, Miami/Dade County, Florida. putnamrepublicans.orgRoan Garcia-Quintana is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba. Born in Havana and raised in Savannah, GA. He was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and Department of Education, where he was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools.After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.He's a political consultant to candidates in SC and across the US and is now the Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the newly formed Coalition for a Traditional America. americanshavehadenough.orgSouthern Sense is conservative talk with Annie "The Radio Chick" Ubelis and "CS" Bennett. Informative, fun, irreverent and politically incorrect, you never know where we'll go, but you'll love the journey! Southern-Sense.com

Topic: Republicans - Don't wait until you're on deathbed to atone This is Tara Devlin, AKA Taradacktyl from http://RepublicanDirtyTricks.com on The Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn. And this is a Two-Minute Tirade Nothing good can come from an ideology based on lies. Conservatives pretend to love democracy but are the agents of oligarchy. They give lip service to the offense of income disparity while pushing policies that concentrate wealth. They profess to be about opportunity, while pulling up the same ladders they. All they have to do is dupe people into thinking otherwise –and they learned this craft from a master. Lee Atwater truly transforming the Republican party into a department of dirty tricks. He was Karl Rove’s mentor, as well as an aide to Reagan, and the Bush Crime Family and chairman of the Republican National Committee. While dying young of brain cancer, Atwater saw the error of his Republican ways and spent the last months of his life apologizing to liberals and democrats for all the harm he’d done - to them – and to America. He stated, "My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood." tellingly - Republicans eagerly followed Atwater's advice when it came to being evil, parted ways with him when he advised them to stop being evil and start doing good for once in their rotten lives. No, liberals aren’t perfect, but we don't actively work to increase suffering. We make mistakes, but Like FDR said, "Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.” The choice between Progressivism and conservatism is about trying to bring out the best in people or cultivating the worst. So, please, Conservatives. Take Lee Atwater's advice, finally! don’t wait until you’re on your deathbed to change – or you might end up like him – begging your Maker to forgive you for all the harm you’ve done to this country. This is Tara Devlin from RepublicanDirtyTricks.com. Go there find links to my Facebook Twitter and Instagram communities and keep listening for Two-Minute Tirades and more on The Progressive Voices Channel on TuneIn. We Stick together, we win. _______________________________ Listen to the best Progressive Talk 24/7: progressivevoices.com/ Tara is proud to be an FYI Nation affiliate: www.fyination.com/ Check out Tara's website at: republicandirtytricks.com/ Join the RDT Facebook Community: facebook.com/RepublicanDirtyTricks Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/RepubDirtyTrick and Instagram: instagram.com/taradacktyl/

The Times editorial page editor on Lee Atwater, racism in the Republican party, Merritt B. Garland and Marco Rubio.

The Times editorial page editor on Lee Atwater, racism in the Republican party, Merritt B. Garland and Marco Rubio.

This show is dedicated to: Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson killed during a terrorist siege at Sydney's Lindt cafe Defending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick", Kel and Dan is a discussion of events and issues. Guest: Bridget Johnson, is a veteran journalist whose news articles and opinion columns have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. She came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, as an television and radio commentator. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.  pjmedia.com/blog/author/bridgetjohnson/ Guest: Roan Garcia-Quintana, is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba. He loves the South and everything for which it stands!  He was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and the SC Department of Education. He worked for Reagan's 1980 campaign as a pollster with the late Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education's National Institute of Education, under Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.He has been a political consultant to numerous candidates and is Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the Coalition for a Traditional America.  americanshavehadenough.org It's a battle of Conservative values and principles!  

This show is dedicated to: Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson killed during a terrorist siege at Sydney's Lindt cafeDefending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick", Kel and Dan is a discussion of events and issues.Guest: Bridget Johnson, is a veteran journalist whose news articles and opinion columns have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. She came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, as an television and radio commentator. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.  pjmedia.com/blog/author/bridgetjohnson/Guest: Roan Garcia-Quintana, is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba. He loves the South and everything for which it stands!  He was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and the SC Department of Education. He worked for Reagan's 1980 campaign as a pollster with the late Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.He has been a political consultant to numerous candidates and is Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition and the Coalition for a Traditional America.  americanshavehadenough.orgIt's a battle of Conservative values and principles! 

This show is dedicated to: Sergeant Thomas Z. Spitzer, a team leader with Scout Sniper Platoon, 1st Bn., 7th Marines, was killed while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, June 25, 2014 Defending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and Dan Butcher of Pundit Press is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections. Special Guest: Roan Garcia-Quintana, is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba.  He was made in Havana (Cuba) and raised in Savannah (GA), a place that he calls home.  He loves the South and everything for which it stands! Mr. Garcia-Quintana was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and the SC Department of Education, where he also was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools in SC. After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with the late Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education's National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director. He is Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalition http://www.americanshavehadenough.org/ It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic!  

This show is dedicated to: Sergeant Thomas Z. Spitzer, a team leader with Scout Sniper Platoon, 1st Bn., 7th Marines, was killed while conducting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan, June 25, 2014Defending the Republic with Annie "The Radio Chick" and Dan Butcher of Pundit Press is an ongoing discussion of recent events, issues and the upcoming elections.Special Guest: Roan Garcia-Quintana, is an American citizen who came to the US as a political refugee from Cuba.  He was made in Havana (Cuba) and raised in Savannah (GA), a place that he calls home.  He loves the South and everything for which it stands!Mr. Garcia-Quintana was a research statistician for the SC Department of Juvenile Justice and the SC Department of Education, where he also was a psychometrician, in charge of constructing, analyzing and reporting the tests that are administered to the children who attend public schools in SC.After working for the Reagan 1980 campaign as a pollster with the late Lee Atwater, he received a Presidential Appointment to the US Department of Education’s National Institute of Education, under President Ronald Reagan, where he was a Deputy Director.He is Executive Director for the Americans Have Had Enough Coalitionhttp://www.americanshavehadenough.org/It's a battle of Conservative values and principles in defense of our Republic! 

An interview with STEFAN FORBES writer and director of BOOGIE MAN: THE LEE ATWATER STORY - a gripping political thriller about Lee Atwater, a blues-playing rogue whose rambunctious rise from the South to Chairman of the GOP made him a political rock star. He mentored George W. Bush and Karl Rove while leading the Republican party to historic victories, helping make liberal a dirty word, and transforming the way America elects our Presidents. In eye-opening interviews with elite Republicans and friends of Atwater, Boogie Man sheds new light on his crucial role in America's shift to the right. To Democrats offended by the 1988 Willie Horton controversy, Atwater was a remorseless political assassin aptly dubbed by one Congresswoman "the most evil man in America." But he remains a hero to many Republicans for his irreverent sense of humor, his deep understanding of the American heartland, and his unapologetic vision of politics as war. This film builds to a moving portrait of a cynic's desperate deathbed search for meaning.