Buckle up! On today’s BradCast, we jump on board the crazy train to dissect last night’s GOP/Fox ‘News’ Presidential Debate(s)!
My guests today are award-winning blogger/journalists Heather Digby Parton of Digby’s Hullabaloo and Paul Rosenberg of Random Lengths News — both also contributors for Salon.
Can Trump ever be derailed? Fox ‘News’ and Roger Ailes sure seems to be trying. And does any of it actually matter a year and a half out from the general election and more than six months before any votes are ever cast? We discuss all of the above (after “Digby” and I take short victory lap concerning Donald Trump!) and much more in today’s post-debate roundtable!
“[Trump] has absorbed all of the rightwing tropes of the past 30 years and made them his own. He’s ingested them, digested them, regurgitated them, played with them, shaped them into figurines, and just endlessly fascinated himself with them, and invited people to play along with him,” Rosenberg tells me. “And people are happy to do so, because he is their ideal — he is a super-wealthy person who is ‘just one of us’.”
For her part, Parton says the debate actually does matter, for one reason, “because what we’re seeing are the contours and outlines of the Republican argument. I think it’s pretty clear they’re going to be running as war-mongering, tax-cutting, slash-and-burn politicians who are going to roll back everything that’s happened in the last eight years. And they’re going to do it all in the first day, so that’s good.”
A fascinating and fun discussion! Plus: Desi Doyen joins us for the latest Green News Report‘ on another new candidate in the GOP race and the pushback against the President’s new rules for emissions cuts…
What a week. An incredibly busy one, but we’ve got some really good shows to show for it, I think. Enjoy today’s!
Thank you for this great analysis of the “debates.” I was both enlightened and sickened. Technically speaking though, it was driving me crazy because Digby’s voice came in so loud and clear but Rosenberg’s voice was faint and muddy. Such is life with live radio.