Month: July 2021

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The Daily Signal - ‘Mainstream Media Doesn’t Represent Mainstream America,’ Babylon Bee CEO Says

The so-called mainstream media has lost touch with real America, says Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, a Christian website that specializes in satire.


"Whatever you want to call it, the mainstream media doesn't, really represent mainstream America, so I do think that's a misnomer," Dillion says, adding:

It comes out in a lot of the conflicts that we have. Like when The New York Times is criticizing us, they're actually using misinformation to smear us as being a source of misinformation. It's all projection that everything that they accused us of doing, they're actually doing themselves. So I think they are probably doing more damage than almost anyone else to this country, just by manipulating the truth and acting like they're the arbiters of the truth.

Dillon joins me for a bonus episode of "The Daily Signal Podcast" recorded at Turning Point USA's seventh annual Student Action Summit in Rampa, Florida.


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The Daily Signal - Vaccine Mandates Are ‘What A Tyranny Would Do,’ Arizona Lawmaker Says

Rep. Andy Biggs says vaccine mandates are a direct violation of Americans' personal freedoms.


"It's what a tyranny would do. It's what an authoritarian government would do," the Arizona Republican told The Daily Signal, adding:


And when [White House press secretary Jen Psaki] said that [community outreach] targeted neighborhoods, and President [Joe] Biden implied it was targeted, it made me think, maybe they have a database, right? So, if they've got a database, where are they getting that information? How is that information coming to them?Are they violating [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] laws? What is going on with it?I actually wrote a letter to the president asking him these things, which we've heard nothing back on. But I view it as a tremendous violation of our rights to privacy.


We also cover these stories:

  • House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appoints Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to serve on the special committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
  • Nearly 60 organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, demand that health care workers get the coronavirus vaccine, pointing to the spreading delta variant of COVID-19.
  • The Dixie Fire in Northern California is just over 20% contained and continues to spread after merging with the smaller Fly Fire. 



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Chapo Trap House - 544 – Hit Me With Your Best Shot (7/26/21)

We take a look at the 2007 Antoine Fuqua/Mark Wahlberg film “Shooter,” a fascinating relic of the 2nd G.W. administration that asks the question “what if a hardass marine sniper operator type fuckin merked Dick Cheney?” Also, Matt brings up some deep lore from the author Stephen Hunter’s other novels that really makes him seem like a fertile well of insane ideas.
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Short Wave - Sweat: A Human Superpower

Sweating is critical to helping humans avoid overheating, and it's different than how most animals cool down. Sarah Everts wanted to understand more about how humans came to sweat like we do, and wrote a book called The Joy of Sweat - which she talked about with Rhitu for this episode.

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Read Me a Poem - “Remember” by Christina Rossetti

Amanda Holmes reads Christina Rossetti’s poem “Remember.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.


This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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Opening Arguments - OA511: More on the Censorious Right’s Unconstitutional Quest to Cancel Knowledge

In a dizzy euphoria at having had a single good interaction with a stranger on Facebook, Andrew decided to listen to an episode of Bari Weiss's podcast featuring a debate between Chris Rufo and David French on Critical Race Theory. Apparently, Andrew has too much free time and not enough things to be mad at. But it inspired part 3 on Critical Race Theory and what the likely next Pokemon evolution of the moral panic will be.

Links: The Argument of “Afropessimism”, The Political Economy of Reparations, Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope, Idaho HOUSE BILL NO.377, AZ HOUSE BILL 2898, AG Knudsen Issues Binding Opinion on Critical Race Theory, SC Bill H.4100

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The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the Strategic Communications Group CEO

Marc Hausman, CEO of Strategic Communications Group joins the show to discuss some of the key pillars of thought leadership campaigns when targeting government buyers that are more “enlightened” than ever before. We also explore some of the ways to deploy successful agency based marketing campaigns to the public sector, the best types of assets marketers should be prioritizing right now, and what marketers can expect in the coming 12 months.

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Pod Save America - “Panic! At The Delta.”

The Biden Administration grapples with the Delta surge, Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA) talks to Tommy Vietor and Jon Favreau about the January 6th investigation, and the Top Five Wildest Moments from Donald Trump’s speech in Arizona.



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