Fear As Right-Wing Media’s Plot

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Fear As Right-Wing Media’s Plot

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Mar 13, 2019

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Virginia Heffernan talks to Nicole Hemmer, author of Messengers of the Right, about the motives of right-wing media and its impact, this week’s Tucker Carlson scandal, and the bigotry conversation surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Mar 13, 2019

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A quasi-daily podcast from Slate chronicling Donald Trump's rise to the presidency and his current administration. Journalists Virginia Heffernan and León Krauze talk to reporters, historians, psychiatrists, and other experts to help explain who this man is and why this is happening, right now, in the United States of America.

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