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DOUBLE FEATURE: The War Room & SPIN feat. Grimm
🕑 Added 2022-07-08 23:25:58 +0000 UTCPrestigious podcaster and poster Grimm joins us to discuss two documentaries chronicling the 1992 presidential election cycle from very different perspectives.
First, we discuss Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker's lionizing character study 'The War Room', chronicling the efforts of Bill Clinton's campaign advisors, George Stephanopoulos and "Ragin' Cajun" James Carville. It's a hagiographic text owed a great deal of blame for the faux-proletarianization of democratic politics in the 90s.
Next, we cover the underseen, revelatory 'SPIN' by Brian Springer. It's a revealing look behind the scenes of 1992's biggest news items through the use of raw satellite footage that shows the multitude of ways the media surreptitiously flattens, omits, and outright fabricates the news to sell us the status quo.
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Check out SPIN, available for free on YouTube.
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Our theme song is "Mirror" by Chris Fish
Comments
Jesper Ohlsson
Sorry for being unclear. I can see how someone can read it that way. Cheers. //Got a bit of a fright realizing that someone thought I was being this level of incredibly rude to a stranger featured on a podcast. ...as for the likes of James Carville, I'd encourage everyone to be as rude as you could possibly be.
Hit Factory
ahhh...misunderstood. that makes much more sense!
Jesper Ohlsson
(just to be clear, I was refering to insincere ghouls like James Carville, not the guest on this episode.)
Jesper Ohlsson
Not really; I'm not genuinely worked up about it (and don't work in the commentariat.) I'm just a weird swede, managing my anxiety by sometimes blabbering in the commentary fields. Cheers; love.
Hit Factory
this is something you should take up with grimm. he doesn't see these posts...just aaron & carlee (the hosts of the show).
Jesper Ohlsson
...I'm pretty sure you picked these movies for this precise reason - ie, the general vibe in contemporary US politics - but the idea that you'd opt into working on a campaign, with this level of single-minded focus, when the reality is that your relation to the actual politics is essentially recreational, is genuinely perverse. Not in the hyperbolic sense, but in the "...what is actually wrong with you? What could possibly motivate you to even shave in the morning, let alone have this career?" sense.
