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Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeve Send Welcome to WOKAP Daily with me

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Speaker 1: your girl Danielle Moody pre recording from the home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: I am super, super excited to bring to you the

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Speaker 1: conversation that I have been waiting to bring to you

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Speaker 1: all for a couple of weeks. Now you have heard

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Speaker 1: me use the term sane washing, right, This idea that

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Speaker 1: the media has been interpreting Donald Trump's absolute, incoherent ramblings

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Speaker 1: and dissecting them and then presenting the public with what

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Speaker 1: they deem to be the kernels of truth and intellect

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Speaker 1: that are at the core of his ramblings. And journalist

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Speaker 1: Parker malloy coined the term in The New Republic, say

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Speaker 1: washing this idea that we're going to take incoherent and

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Speaker 1: crazy ramblings and that everyone from the New York Times

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Speaker 1: to the Associated Press and others are going to make

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Speaker 1: sense out of Donald Trump's nonsense and sell it to

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Speaker 1: us as if he's a normal candidate and this election

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Speaker 1: is in a normal place, so that they can give

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Speaker 1: us the horse race bullshit that they love to do.

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Speaker 1: The reality is is that Donald Trump is not sane.

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Speaker 1: He is not normal, and the media needs to stop

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Speaker 1: fucking treating him that way. And frankly, you know, I

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Speaker 1: set this on Monday with regard to Maggie Haberman and

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Speaker 1: her recent comments at NPR talking about how the left

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Speaker 1: is going after, you know, journalists and undermining people's faith

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Speaker 1: in journalism. No, your fucking Saine washing is undermining people's

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Speaker 1: faith in journalism. And they are realizing right that you

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Speaker 1: have become absolutely unreliable because you need to hear Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump for yourself. And then you would wonder how the

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Speaker 1: fuck did they get a topic and a headline on

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Speaker 1: economic policy when all the man did would spout the

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Speaker 1: word tariffs and say the word economy. But if you

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Speaker 1: were just reading what these outlets write and not listening

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Speaker 1: to what Donald Trump is saying at these rallies, saying

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Speaker 1: in these spaces, you would think that he's completely normal,

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Speaker 1: when in fact, he fucking is not. And most recently, right,

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was speaking to a Jewish group to where

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Speaker 1: he told them that if he loses this election, it

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Speaker 1: is going to be Jewish people's fault and things could

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Speaker 1: get wild. Wait what, yep, folks, that actually happened. He

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Speaker 1: actually said it. And if you have not watched the

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Speaker 1: episode of Democracy Ish from Friday, September twentieth. I urge

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Speaker 1: you to go ahead and listen or head over to

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Speaker 1: my YouTube channel at Danielle Moody Underscore and watch that

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Speaker 1: episode so that you can see that video that watch

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Speaker 1: and I discuss over there, because folks, let me tell you,

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Speaker 1: he is planting the seeds for violence as well as

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Speaker 1: all of the election interference that is happening in Georgia,

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Speaker 1: in Nebraska and in other places. They are fit to

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Speaker 1: take this election regardless of what it is that the

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Speaker 1: people vote for. They are no longer going to take

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Speaker 1: our votes as our bond. They are going to manipulate,

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Speaker 1: they are going to lie, they are going to use

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Speaker 1: stochastic terrorism and more because they cannot win without it.

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Speaker 1: So coming up next my conversation with journalists Parker Maloy.

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Speaker 1: I am super excited to welcome I think for the

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Speaker 1: first time. I'm not one hundred percent sure, Parker, because

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Speaker 1: I talk to you in my head after I read,

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Speaker 1: after I read your pieces all the time, I'm just like,

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Speaker 1: m hmm, that's right. But to welcome to ok F

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Speaker 1: Daily for I think the first time award winning journalist

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Speaker 1: called The present Age that you all can subscribe to,

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Speaker 1: and as most recently written a piece that allowed for

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Speaker 1: us to put a definition, a name, and a definition

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Speaker 1: to what the media has been doing around Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: which is sane washing. In Parker Maloy's piece at The

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Speaker 1: New Republic, how the media sanitizes Trump's insanity. The political

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Speaker 1: press's efforts to rationalize Trump's incoherent statements are eroding our

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Speaker 1: shared reality and threatening in form democracy. Parker, I come

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Speaker 1: to you today after a weekend where, according to reports,

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Speaker 1: there was a second attempt on Donald Trump's life. A

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Speaker 1: talking about how the rhetoric on the left is what

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Speaker 1: has led to these attempts on his life, with other

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Speaker 1: Republicans echoing this same foolishness or what I like to

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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, yeah, so basically just for anyone who hasn't

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Speaker 2: read the piece, I'll kind of do a quick overview

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Speaker 2: of sainwashing. So sain washing is something that I had

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Speaker 2: And in ninety nine percent of cases that's fine. You know,

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Speaker 2: that has a nasty side effect. You're essentially sanitizing what

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Speaker 2: that he agrees to a debate. He says he agrees

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of this idea of sainwashing, where you'll

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Speaker 2: terrorized by a lot of this language that Trump in

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Speaker 2: the Secret Service considers an assassination attempt, but they stopped

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Speaker 2: the guy before he got there, you know, which is

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Speaker 2: great and all. But then Trump takes to truth social

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Speaker 2: Joe's then Kamala's political opponent, me has taken politics in

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Speaker 2: talk about these problems because some psychopaths are threatening violence,

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Speaker 2: it was it was very much, you know, they were

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're seeing it. And I asked

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Speaker 1: So city officials, the sheriff have all come out and said,

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Speaker 1: is that, in the course of a week that you all,

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Speaker 1: have in fact been bomb threats. There have in fact

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Speaker 1: I am seeing because frankly, this is not top story today,

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Speaker 1: the assassination attempt. There are like eighteen other stories that

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Speaker 1: say to you, Parker, when you're looking at and we

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Speaker 1: are you sensing a bit of exhaustion, a bit of

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Speaker 1: like hole humness with regard to something that, let's just

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think people are tired of Donald

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Speaker 2: Trump just consuming their lives. You know. There's an Onion

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Speaker 2: something like happy Monday, everyone, I'm here to infect every

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Speaker 2: and it was about how everything everything from sports to

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Speaker 2: and I think people are kind of just tired of it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, it's horrible that a guy showed up

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Speaker 2: obviously it has to be covered. But I think a

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Speaker 2: lot of people are just like, I'm exhausted, get this

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you think about it, it's just like

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Speaker 1: You use the right word, which is infected. It's like,

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Speaker 2: A good thing. When you think about school shooting used

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Speaker 2: it's the same way if every day. You know, Hillary

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Speaker 1: not crazy because here is somebody else that thinks that way.

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Speaker 1: I want us to tune back in, but I want

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Speaker 1: that's where journalists like yourself come into play. So Parker,

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Speaker 1: thank you so much for your work, for making the

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Speaker 1: Amazing Parker, Thank you so much and I hope to

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Speaker 1: dear friends on wok F. As always, power to the

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Speaker 1: people and to all the people. Power, get woke and

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