Leo R. Chavez

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1,192 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 20 Dec

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New Books in Communications · Leo R. Chavez, "The Latino Threat: How Alarmist Rhetoric Misrepresents Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation" (Stanford UP, 2025) · 20 Dec 2025 podcast

Somehow, you know, who is this guy?

Why is he here?

You know, that's another question.

But he...

So they're trying to destroy all sources of any valid information that people might be able to look up so that they are just spoon-fed their ignorance and become part of the clique that keeps putting people in the office, the cult.

And right now, I think the cult is breaking up, but there's still going to be hardcore cult members who are never going to

you know, give up the idea that, that, that Trump is telling the truth all the time, even though he lies 99% of the time, you should, you know, that his father still say that Obama wasn't born in the United States.

I mean, it's just, it's crazy.

Yeah.

Go look up the information.

But the media spectacle, even though it's fragmented, I think is still alive because it serves a purpose.

I mean, when people go to the border to stand there and rail against immigrants, they're using the media to create a spectacle.

How far it gets disseminated and who sees it, the way you see it, it may not play as much on NBC News, but it might play very well on Tucker Carlson.

you know so you might see a lot of it there uh or some other place but so i think it's the media spectacles are still useful people still want them to be there uh you know trump worked very hard to try and get a media spectacle out of the people who come to his rallies even though they've been diminishing and he'll even use old ones from a few years ago right uh and they'll downplay the the uh

the anti-Trump demonstrations and say, oh, no one showed up, right?

And try and show a picture with nobody in it, right?

When it's not true.

So they're trying to recreate their own ideas of what the media spectacle should be saying.

But it's extremely hard because it's so fragmented and no one knows which is true, which is untrue.

And then you have all the images that are created without anybody actually being in them anymore.

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