Monday, November 27 – Bunch of short blurbs to start out: we (of course)
covered South Africa winning Miss Universe, Prince Harry getting engaged to
Meghan Markle (with Trevor picturing the queen meeting the Black side of her
family,) and Trump being as tasteless and tone-deaf as possible when he was
supposed to be honoring WWII Navajo code talkers. Next was more sexual harassment, with Trump
doubling down on his support for Roy Moore and the state of affairs in Congress
with Al Franken and John Conyers. I
liked Trevor’s observation about how few Republicans have called for Franken or
Conyers to step down, likely because they realize their own houses aren’t
in. Trevor also looked at the GOP tax plan. I loved his proposal for killing
it, bombarding Trump with reminders that Obama is really rich and would get
lots of tax cuts. Author Esther Perel
was the guest, discussing her new book examining infidelity.
Tuesday, November 28 – More on the code
talker ceremony and Trump’s ongoing “Pocahontas” crack at Elizabeth
Warren. This time, though, Trevor went
over Warren’s past claims/problematic behavior that led to that nickname. I liked his point that even though Trump was
being racist, a by-product of that racism was calling out Warren’s own
uncoolness that she’s never apologized for.
I also liked the joke about it being fashionable among white people to
be “just Native American enough.” Good
story on the Washington Post catching Project Veritas attempting to trick them
into reporting on a false allegation against Roy Moore, with Trevor looking at
how the project’s tactics have shown they’re not interested in “veritas” at
all. The guest, Greta Gerwig, talked Ladybird and the divide between the male
Hollywood bigwigs who understood it (those with daughters/sisters) and the ones
who didn’t (those without.)
Wednesday, November 29 – More sexual
harassment – Matt Lauer this time, with Trevor covering his hidden door-lock
button and his female colleagues having to report on the story immediately
after learning of it themselves. Short
bit on North Korea’s latest missile launch test before moving onto Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, particularly the British press’s subtly racist jabs about
her. Gina reported on the headlines
about her “very non-royal” family,
coming from a “broken home” (so does Prince Harry, Gina pointed out,) and being
“almost straight outta Compton.”
Gross. Next was a story on the
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the latest Trump appointee to hate the
department he’s tapped to run. I liked
the absurd campaign montage of Trump’s claims to be so tough on Wall
Street. The guest was rapper TalibKweli, discussing his new album and whether the Brooklyn sound can survive
gentrification.
Thursday, November 30 – Good story on Trump’s
continued claim that the tax bill will be “so bad” for him despite overwhelming
proof that it isn’t. It led into a
larger story about Trump’s total indifference to the truth and the effects that
have on real people, the most harrowing example being another country using his
frequent “fake news” claims to cast doubt on a CNN story about slave auctions
in Libya. The idea carried into the next
segment as well, with Hasan reporting on false, fearmongering, Islamaphobic videos Trump retweeted from a British hate group. Sarah Huckabee Sanders blithely saying that
it doesn’t matter whether or not the videos are true was so slimy. Really interesting interview with Henry Louis Gates Jr. of Finding Your Roots. He shared some neat stories from celebrity genealogies
and discussed historical racial mixing to refute the idea of some “golden age”
when races were entirely “pure” and separate.
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