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Many people are saying that Shep Smith's time slot will be filled with this video running on a loop.
This Baked dude is a horrible human who was involved with the Charlottesville rally. I only post this video because it so perfectly embodies the self-immolating, mind-numbingly stupid mediocrity that is MAGA political culture.
Here's a good article on this variety of "ironic Nazi" that proliferated in 2016-17. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Here's a thread I did on this guy back in March when he made a video claiming he'd left the alt-right. I haven't checked to see if this is still the case because who cares what this guy thinks.
One of the tweets in that thread is missing. That's because I was put in Twitter jail (for my first and only time) for linking to the video where this alt-right guy recanted his fascism. Here's a blog post where I reflect on how freaking ironic that is. medium.com/@sethcotlar/wh…
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These statements by Barr have been making the rounds. Like many, I find them troubling. But as a historian, I recognize them as long-standing GOP dogma.
As this article shows, Barr has been saying stuff like this since the early 90s. au.org/blogs/wall-of-…
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Shep Smith is leaving Fox News.

A rather surprising decision given what he was being paid (a lot) and the freedom Fox News gave him.
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Anyone who says that is showing they don't know how Rupert operates

A number of people would still be at Fox if he was swayed by this sort of lobbying.
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One of the questions I pursued when working on the A12 podcast, which looked at the history behind the deadly violence in Charlottesville last year, was why the anti-Semitism of Aug 11 & 12 seemed to disappear so rapidly from the narrative. /1
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LIVE: 1 year later, we're continuing to examine the consequences of #Charlottesville, including how the events of that day have changed life and politics in America.

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