All about the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine. And of course, then, right at the time the book came out, all the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine ended up being the setting, like, the Playing Field for what President Trump got impeached for the first time he got impeached. I did not intend it to land that way. It was foretuittous, and i hope, helpful to people trying to figure out that landscape while we were looking at that first impeachment. Well, now, of course, mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time, and its kind of uncanny a lot of the things that i wrote about in that book that came out during the first trump impeachment. Theyre sort of coming home to roost now. The whole reason i wrote that book is because i think we were pretty consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry, how much sway the Oil And Gas Industry has over politics and whole governments, both here in the United States and around the world. And so, i thought it would be helpful. I thoug
1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust thatto account for how big the population was of the country, 100,000 people compared to the overall size of the country would translate to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a third party candidate in the 1936 presidential election and that huge, huge, huge rally on labor day weekend in chicago in 1936, that was os sentencely a rally in support of his presid
thanks for being with us tonight. it is very, very good to have you here so, it was labor day weekend, 1936, it was hot, it was around 90 degrees and 100,000 people turned out to see him. he himself said from the stage from the podium at the front of the crowd that the crowd was about 80,000 but the police actually said it was bigger. the police said it was 100,000 people, and, again, this was in 1936 so if you want to adjust that for inflation like it was a dollar amount, if you want to adjust that to account for how big the whole population of the country was at the time compared to now 100,000 people then compared to the overall size of the country that would translate today to a crowd of like 250,000, 260,000 people. which is a really big crowd, particularly since the person they were all there to see was just some guy with a radio show. have you ever heard of a politician named william lemke it s okay if you haven t he was a congressman, a candidate for president. a thir
party, when republican party politicians are left to do their thing, look at what they do. so now here s the question, the conservative media right now today is in one of its periodic crises they just today have lopped off another one of their episodically dominant figures who for whatever reason hasn t worked out but he really is one of a string of them. there will be someone after him. and the important question aside from the gossip and the business news and all that stuff, the important question for our country is about the success of that business, the success of that industry. whether that remarkably successful industry as a whole is today at any risk of losing its zhuzh, its power, its capacity, importantly, to drag the republican party around in its wake no matter how hapless that party is and remains.
from the gossip and the business news and all that stuff, the important question for our country is about the success of that business, the success of that industry. whether that remarkably successful industry as a whole is today at any risk of losing its zhuzh, its power, its capacity, importantly, to drag the republican party around in its wake no matter how hapless that party is and remains. that s the question. joining us now is jay rosen, a professor of journalism at new york university and longtime observer of this part of the media world. mr. rosen, i appreciate you making time to be here thank you. thanks for having me. first let me just ask you to tear me apart and tell me if you think there s anything that i m fundamentally wrong about or missing or getting the wrong way