Hollywood vs. Reality TV in Kirk fallout, w/ Reed Galen - Ep. 17
At noon on the show, the cacophony of conspiracy theorists versus the unfolding reality show in court in the Charlie Kirk killing.
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It’s Wednesday, Sept. 17. Coming up on the 17th episode of Tom LoBianco Reports, from 24sight News and our friends at Political Voices Network, the reasoning of politics, and what lies on the other side of letting yourself be canceled with
.Tune every weekday here on Substack at noon or catch the replay at 8p ET at Political Voices Network. My friend and colleague Ian B. Walters, is manning the board as we launch into Week Four of the show.
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News Top, Wednesday Sept. 17
Utah prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Tyler Robinson, after submitting evidence which included a damning text message from the suspect saying he “had enough” of Kirk’s hate, CNN reports.
Former Trump CDC Director Susan Monarez testified today at the Capitol that she was victim of a political firing by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for refusing to accede to his new anti-vaccine vaccine panel’s recommendations, NBC News reports.
Trump is on a state trip to England today where he was given a royal welcome by the King and Queen of England and “given a leather volume celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence,” the BBC reports.
The Horseshoe Theory of Whack Money
Go far enough to the right or the left and the terminally online world of political influencers (from the White House to the wilderness) seems to have agreed on just making shit up in the wake of the Charlie Kirk murder.
“No one is buying these text messages”
Who said that? Right or Left?
How about both.
Longtime Trump adviser Steve Bannon says he thinks the texts from Robinson are made-up. Outrage entrepreneur Candace Owens says Israel killed Kirk because he was turning against the nation. And all the president’s men say the murder was a vast leftwing conspiracy.
Around the other side of the horseshoe, top progressive influencers, including
(who made the above statement on X.com) say the one thing they can all agree on is the submitted evidence is bunk.(H/T to our friends
who have this excellent write-up with some much-needed clarity.)America’s Magic Bullet Fixation
Travel back in time to the heady days of the start of Donald Trump’s second term (this year) and real political junkies may recall he delivered on his promise to finally release the JFK Files (no word yet on the Epstein Files).
In a world of politics flooded with mile-a-minute conspiracy theories, this had me thinking of the granddaddy of them all, the Kennedy assassination theories.
(The reality of it, of course, was published by the fabled Warren Commission.)
I’ll be chatting with
about this and why Americans love the Hollywood conspiracy theory dramas rather than the contradictory, nuanced, uncertain stories unfolding in real time.The Why of Persistence
Friends, I want to give a big thanks to
whose wisdom and level-headedness is an anchor in modern American discourse. I always enjoy having him on, but yesterday was especially important for his message of speaking up now when powerful people are pushing silence and fear.Listen for his recollection of what he learned from Charles Krauthammer, traversing the security perimeter at the RNC in Cleveland in 2016, the lessons of why it is more important than ever for cooler heads and our best angels to keep engaged as the antidote to the poison pushed by outrage entrepreneurs.
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