Here's last night's News Satire Roundup - I'll get caught up on today's post later tonight.
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Monday, January 23 – Great jokes on the
Eagles vs. the Patriots being the most American-sounding Superbowl ever,
especially with Trevor’s musing on them teaming up to take on the Redskins. I thought the story on the government shutdown was good. There were some fun
bits about how short it was, like saying that it was basically a regular weekend
and imagining a future in which it’d be possible to say, “Hey, did you catch
the war over the weekend?” “No I missed
it – who won?” I also liked the bit
comparing it to quitting on Friday, not telling anyone, and then marching into
your boss’s office to announce, “I’m back!” on Monday. Desi and
Dulce did a bit on the new Women’s March, looking at marchers from last year
who have since run for office themselves.
Michael Wolff, author of that book Fire
and Fury, was the guest. Nothing too
special – he mostly just teased little hints to encourage more people to buy
the book.
Tuesday, January 24 – I loved how
impressed Trevor was at Amazon reselling the idea of “stores” to us after
getting us used to home delivery. More
on the short-lived government shutdown, wherein the news focused mainly on who
the “winners” and “losers” were in the Senate, all the while losing sight of
the Dreamers whose futures still hang in the balance; Trevor’s impression of
Mitch McConnell as the ultimate player was awesome. Roy reported on representation at this year’s
Oscars, naturally giving props to Get Out
and Mudbound and really getting
behind the “openly fish” romantic male lead of The Shape of Water (I died when he told us not to judge the little
mermaid because of how limited roles for fish people were back then.) Great interview with YA author Jason Reynolds, who talked about writing stories that meet kids where they are and
making books that are cool enough for Black boys.
Wednesday, January 25 – Some quick blurbs to
start: I liked Trevor’s point that Tammy Duckworth being “the first to give birth as a serving senator” is just a
roundabout way to say most senators are men, and his impression of Li’l John
doing Elton John was awesome. Good story
on gerrymandering, our regularly-scheduled reminder that we’re incredibly
capable of tampering with our own elections without outside interference; it’s
insane to me that state legislatures are given leave to do this. Dulce and Michael took a trip to Mexico to
report on the wall, and Dulce interviewed Mexican citizens who all maintained
that the wall wouldn’t do a thing to keep people from crossing. The guest, hockey player P.K. Subban, discussed
his humanitarian work, particularly a neat-sounding program to foster
relationships between cops and disadvantaged kids.
Thursday, January 26 – After a few jokes on
cloned monkeys in China, it was onto the Russia investigation, particularly
the urging from GOP congressmen/conservative pundits to fire Robert
Mueller. I liked how Trevor framed it,
taking the flimsy “evidence” of conspiracy (an actual secret society called “the
secret society” in text messages?) and showing how it “all added up.” Desi had a piece on how to interview Trump,
based on her study of the flattering, sycophantic interviews he’s had with Fox
News; the statistic that he’s done four times as many interviews with Fox as
all other networks combined was a little staggering, though I can believe
it. Cecile Richards of Planned
Parenthood was the guest – in addition to talking about the organization’s work
(and avoiding questions about her future plans now that she’s reportedly
stepping down as its president,) she spoke about the administration’s involvement
in the March for Life.
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