About this episode

The episode discusses the concept of authenticity in American political media and critiques the prevalence of inauthenticity among politicians and pundits.

Episode 989 of The Professional Left takes on one of the most overused words in modern politics — "authenticity" — and asks whether anyone in American political media is actually serving the real thing, or just a smooth, processed, cheese-like substitute that melts consistently and tastes like what people want to hear. Driftglass and Blue Gal trace the long, strange history of politicians and pundits who have made a very comfortable living telling their audiences exactly the lies those audien...

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Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• authenticity
• political media
• politicians
• pundits
• lies
• audience

Keywords

• authenticity
• political media
• politicians
• pundits
• lies
• audience
• Velveeta

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Books & works: Velveeta

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