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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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Not sure in what direction that's aimed. But Swisher is becoming my new favorite podcast. And Ruhle really surprised me.
Ruhle did a bit of what I'd call "Informed Fake News Spotting." She said what finance reporters aren't supposed to say but everyone knows:
If you had assets, you've recovered from 2008, and that was by design. We only sought to rescue asset holders. If you didn't have assets, you fall into the category of people for whom
The Recession Never Ended. (Westover separates the recovered from the still struggling by location, using urban v. rural, but it's really based on assets... if you've limited or no assets in an urban area, you're also fucked.)
Swisher puts on a number of guest who look at the
"manufactured" sides in the debate of an issue and lets them ramble. This creates an enlightened skepticism of what the credulous public accepts. When you hear a TV talking head feeling safe enough to call her industry a consensus creating machine used to keep the public in manageable factions, you wonder - who with a brain believes anything they hear from the media anymore?
Of all the things I figured might undercut
the bullshit that's used to bind us, I never thought... podcasts? But yeah. Fucking podcasts.
Trump pulled the fake news genie from the bottle, but it's honest people using it surgically who are actually dismantling the establishment. With milquetoast things like... podcasts.
