Secretary Buttigieg Leaks Spin to Adam Ren of Politico

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David Sarota: Secretary Buttigieg has been leaking very obviously extremely transparently to the point where it's, I don't even think of the guy denies it. This is a classic tactic where you sort of, if you have a tax from both MAGA, Trump, Boner, 68 on Twitter, and some erudite leftists making nuanced critiques,. Also a classic, by the way, near a tandem tactic, you only respond to MAGA, Boner or 420 or whatever, right? Yeah. And he's kind of doing a version of this where he's responding to the bad faith of Republican criticism, but really not addressing criticism coming from places like the New York Times

In this News Brief, we discuss the initial lack of coverage of the devastating February 3rd train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio; the coverage of the lack of coverage; the GOP's "white genocide" exploitation; Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg's defensiveness; and the real human stakes of decades of bipartisan deregulation and union-busting.

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