D (2:43)

So.

C (2:43)

Right, let's talk about that first bit where they sort of jam the post that Trump made in with him rescuing this second airman in one of the planes that was shot down. You know, without noting that we shouldn't have been there in the first place and this rescue wouldn't have been necessary if we didn't enter this. Completely idiotic of choice, but expletive Laden taunting leaders. I mean, it's just bizarre.

E (3:11)

Also, the beginning of this, the whole plot of this whole thing was supposedly

D (3:15)

to liberate the people of Iran. You're going to, you're going to bomb the bridges. You've already threatened to take away their clean water.

E (3:21)

How are you liberating the people you've killed? The leaders just have their, their spawn come up who may be even worse now being in charge of the. None of this. The whole plot was lost. But the scene, watching on this shit, when they posted this, what you were just talking about, Allison, they took out the, the part that said, open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards. And the part that said praise be to Allah. I'm sure they did because they were like, what? This is what they had. Look at, look at this. They took out those. So make Trump look less fucking crazy. But this is all they put up. Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up in one in Iran. There will be nothing like it. That's what they actually said that Trump

D (4:02)

said, which is not the truth.

C (4:04)

Uh, now look at this one from the Associated Press. Trump repeats threat to strike Iran's infrastructure if Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened. US President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would strike Iran's power plants and bridges this Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to marine traffic. In an expletive laden post, Trump promised they would be living in hell if the waterway isn't opened. The living in hell is not the expletive laden part of this post. And they're also completely missing the point that Trump actually, by making it Tuesday instead of Monday morning at 7am because his original deadline was Monday morning at 7am now he's pushing it to Tuesday. That's also something that they aren't mentioning.

D (4:51)

Yeah, and then they, he did another one recently and all it says is

E (4:54)

Tuesday, 8pm Eastern time.

D (4:56)

That's it. That's all that the truth Social post says.

E (4:59)

Now obviously there's the Trump apologist.

D (5:01)

These guys make me fucking crazy. Here's David Sanger on cnn calling the Post unusually vivid.

F (5:08)

Where to the church. This was sort of an unusual way, I think, to start off the morning, and unusually vivid even for the President's true social pose. Here's the issue,

D (5:23)

really. That's what.

E (5:24)

Let's just.

D (5:25)

Are we whitewashing the Holocaust too?

E (5:27)

Are we.

D (5:27)

What are we doing here, David?

C (5:28)

Like, that's an unusually vivid. That's very colorful. Very colorful.

D (5:33)

It's not unusually vivid.

E (5:34)

It's just one of the first times.

D (5:35)

One of the only times I should say that he put it in writing.

E (5:38)

Trump talks like this behind the scenes all the time. And meanwhile you're freaked out if, you

D (5:42)

know, a female politician uses the. The says fuck in anything. It's just, it drives me crazy.

C (5:50)

No, I know. The double standard is pretty astounding. You know, we, the Democrats can't go woo hoo, but the President can say, open the fucking straight, you bastards. And it's totally fine. This one's from Politico. Trump again threatens to hit Iranian civil infrastructure. He warned in a profane and jarring post. Tuesday will be power plant day and bridge day all wrapped up into one in Iran. So they completely leave out that jarring. I'm glad you put jarring in there, at least. But you left out the jarring part when you quoted it. Yeah, and the profane, the profane shit. I'm just.

D (6:27)

The Washington Post says. This is the quote from the Washington Post.

E (6:30)

Look, Trump threatens Iran with hell over straight of her moose in profane post.

C (6:35)

That makes me think hell is the pro. Is the most profane thing in that post.

E (6:40)

Right. Instead of fucking and bastards.

C (6:42)

Yeah, and. And nobody's really even touching the praise be Allah bit of it, like, which is wild.

E (6:49)

In this Christian, this Christian country, we live in Allah. No one has a problem with him saying praise be to Allah on this truth. I just. On Easter.

C (6:58)

On Easter, I don't think anyone can figure out, like, why. I mean, I just imagine he's just mocking. Yeah, Islam. Right, of course. But anyway, this is, this is the kind of shit that really bothers me about corporate media. But I will say this. After all the backlash and within a couple of hours, the New York Times fixed their bullshit reporting, the one that you showed. And they added the lines back in that they took out. They added the, you know, open the fucking straight, you crazy bastards into Praise be Allah bit. They added it back. But the gray lady is faltering. This past weekend they put this headline in print. A North American Treaty Organization without America. First of all, NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization. How many people let this go through? In order to get a headline through, I imagine you have to put more than one pair of eyes on it. There has to be things editor that looks at that. But you know, as our friend Charlotte Clymer was like, you know what? Somebody at the Times was like haha. North American Treaty Organization leaving out America. Hahaha. What is this singer and put it in there. And it was very proud of themselves. That's probably what happened here. And it also shows a lot of like America centric, like nationalistic. Oh it's so gross view that like everything's about America. They issued a print correction for that as well and they posted about it on social media. So days, a couple days later when everybody, after everybody had mocked them mercilessly. But this, you know, Dana, this is all a resort of massive corporate conglomeration. We got a judge who just blocked NextStar Tegna takeover. We've got all of these corporate media conglomerations owned by like four or five billionaires, right?

D (8:56)

Yeah.

C (8:57)

All of it under like one roof. And that's why I'm honestly just so thankful to be part of the independent media sphere for so long now.

D (9:04)

Yeah, no, absolutely. That's what we have to worry about. All of these buyouts and these takeovers. You know, Ellis wants to purchase everything. Um, it's, it's scary. Certain media, state run media is scary. It's scary when you have those videos in you know, 17 different cities of these newscasters saying the exact same thing verbatim where you can line up the videos with each other. State run media is terrifying. And that's why you do have to support independent media like the daily beans, like Beans Talk, like all of the podcasts that on the main, you know, the, the, the MSW network.

E (9:34)

There's a reason why we have the

D (9:36)

support of so many people and so many listeners is because they know they can trust our reporting and they're not just going to be hear some bullshit propaganda out of this administration.

C (9:45)

Yeah. And as Timothy Snyder points out today on social media and multiple times in the past and in his book on tyranny, that's one of the steps toward authoritarianism is taking over the media and controlling the media narrative. So. Thanks, thanks. Just listening to whether it's our independent media podcast or whoever's independent media news that you listen to or follow, that in itself is an act of opposition and resistance. So thank you so much for being here, and we'll be back tomorrow. I'm Alison Gill.

D (10:12)

I'm Dana Goldberg.

E (10:12)

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