Hard Pass

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Hard Pass episodes

  • Smoke on the Water

    The team discusses the sinking of the suspected Venezuelan drug boat as well as the meme sent out by Trump showing Chicago on fire with military helicopters circling overhead. The graphic on the meme is "Chipocalypse Now" - referring to the 1979 movie "Apocalypse Now." It seems to suggest a military intervention in Chicago.

    39 min
  • Smoke on the Water

    The team discusses the sinking of the suspected Venezuelan drug boat as well as the meme sent out by Trump showing Chicago on fire with military helicopters circling overhead. The graphic on the meme is "Chipocalypse Now" - referring to the 1979 movie "Apocalypse Now." It seems to suggest a military intervention in Chicago.

    39 min
  • Weekend at Donny's

    Rumors have been flying for days that the president is extremely ill or even dead. This seems to be based on the fact that he has not made an on-camera media hit in almost a week. The president did appear publicly to go on a golf outing but he did not speak to the press. The team talks about this latest conspiracy as well as health issues, presidents and reporting historically in the United States. This issue won't die!

    47 min
  • Weekend at Donny's

    Rumors have been flying for days that the president is extremely ill or even dead. This seems to be based on the fact that he has not made an on-camera media hit in almost a week. The president did appear publicly to go on a golf outing but he did not speak to the press. The team talks about this latest conspiracy as well as health issues, presidents and reporting historically in the United States. This issue won't die!

    47 min
  • Weekend at Donny's

    Rumors have been flying for days that the president is extremely ill or even dead. This seems to be based on the fact that he has not made an on-camera media hit in almost a week. The president did appear publicly to go on a golf outing but he did not speak to the press. The team talks about this latest conspiracy as well as health issues, presidents and reporting historically in the United States. This issue won't die!

    47 min
  • Can He Do That?

    The team examines the legality and Constitutionality of three different recent actions by the Trump administration.

    1. Deploying troops in U.S. cities
    2. Transferring Ghislaine Maxwell to a "club fed" facility
    3. The tit for tat, state-by-state efforts to gerrymander elections

    Can he do that?

    48 min
  • Can He Do That?

    The team examines the legality and Constitutionality of three different recent actions by the Trump administration.

    1. Deploying troops in U.S. cities
    2. Transferring Ghislaine Maxwell to a "club fed" facility
    3. The tit for tat, state-by-state efforts to gerrymander elections

    Can he do that?

    48 min
  • Putin on the Ritz VIDEO

    The team looks at coverage of the meeting in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They talk about coverage of the event. They also take a look at the meeting with Zelensky at the White House. What was and was not accomplished in these meetings?

    48 min
  • Putin on the Ritz (audio)

    The team looks at coverage of the meeting in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. They talk about coverage of the event. They also take a look at the meeting with Zelensky at the White House. What was and was not accomplished in these meetings?

    48 min

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White House reporter Brian Karem (Salon) and two university journalism professors, Dr. Michael Mirer (UW-Milwaukee) and Dr. Mark Mederson (Texas State University), analyze whether news media are…