About this episode

The episode discusses the misconceptions about the Democratic Party as highlighted by the firing of Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes.

Episode 997 of The Professional Left uses the sudden, very public firing of Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes as a jumping-off point to ask a much bigger question — why do the people with the biggest megaphones still have absolutely no idea what Democrats actually want, or who they actually are? Driftglass and Blue Gal trace the long, embarrassing history of elite pundits who spent decades inventing a fictional Democratic party, got everything catastrophically wrong about the Republican one, and a...

People in this episode

Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• Democratic Party
• political commentary
• media criticism
• punditry
• Republican Party

Keywords

• Democrats
• Scott Pelley
• 60 Minutes
• pundits
• politics
• media

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: 60 Minutes

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