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Andrew Sage

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Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

who had a giant rant about how the Twitter is not the masthead of the New York Times, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

Which again, I kind of emphasize this enough, like that he was brought in as a right-wing affirmative action hire in order to appease the demand from like the ruling class, I guess, for like pro-Trump people.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

They already had a bunch of right-wingers.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

This is completely unhinged.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

But, you know, she resigns, and she has this big press tour in the right-wing press trying to talk about how she was cancelled.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

And, of course, none of this ever even happened, right?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

We can debate the effect to which cancellation ever was even really a thing or did anything at all, but she was not cancelled.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

She literally resigned of her own free will.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

She was not forced out.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

She chose to leave in order to pursue a career as a right-wing grifter in other fields, namely Substack.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

where she ran a newsletter that was sort of rebranded as like, oh, it's a media outlet called the Free Press.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

It's like, no, this is Barry Weiss's substack.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

Come on, what are we doing here?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

What are we doing here?

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

Now, Weiss is not a journalist.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

She is a right-wing ideologue.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

She's also a hardline Zionist.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

If you want to go into all of the absolutely unhinged shit that Barry Weiss has said and done over the years, all of the just unbelievably Islamophobic shit, all of the weird racist shit, all of the anti-immigrant shit that she said, there's a very good John Oliver thing about her.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

She is part of this story, but if we spent this entire episode just talking about how much she fucking sucks, we would be here for like two decades.

Behind the Bastards
It Could Happen Here Weekly 213

Now, in a just world, none of this would matter at all.