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#404 - The Fall of the House of Tucker and Traffic w/ Ben Smith

The Fifth Column

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The Importance of Fan Service for Political Blocks

CNN and MSNBC have ended up mimicking where Fox has been almost from the beginning, which is that they are performing kind of fan service for political blocks. That makes for good fan service forpolitical blocks, but it makes for really, really excruciating experience for the rest of us who aren't part of those blocks. So many segments on MSNBC and CNN could really just be headlined, can you believe those Republicans? Really, like every one, you can do that. And I can't believe the Republicans either. Much or most of the time, I don't like the ideological trends of Republicans at all,. whether they govern, et cetera, etcetera.

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