About this episode

The episode discusses the rewriting of history in Republican narratives, using the example of Snoopy and the Red Baron to illustrate a lack of accountability.

Episode 1020 opens with a deep dive into the Snoopy vs. the Red Baron novelty songs — where continuity gets rewritten and enemies become "friends" who never have to answer for their body counts — before turning that fairy tale into a warning about how Republican history keeps getting whitewashed the same way. Snoopy shoots down the Red Baron, then toasts him as a "friend" — no accountability, no memory. Sound familiar? Bush's real damage to America's reputation got erased, replaced by t...

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Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• political commentary
• historical revisionism
• Republican history
• accountability
• media analysis

Keywords

• Snoopy
• Red Baron
• Republican history
• Bush
• accountability
• politics
• media

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Books & works: Snoopy vs. the Red Baron

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