Citations Needed | March 18, 2020 | TranscriptSpeaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. (J. Scott Applewhite / AP Photo)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/ep-105-pandemic-pelosi-and-the-people-we-consider-human[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: You can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, all your help through Patreon is so appreciated. We are this week talking about — what else? What is on everyone’s mind? — Coronavirus. COVID-19, the global pandemic that is affecting every single person on Earth pretty much except for those countries that have been lucky enough so far to avoid it and are now banning Europeans which is very smart and they should have done it about 400 years ago. But we are deciding to address what is happening right now and more specifically what we are seeing in the media around the government reactions to this and the back padding that we are seeing...

Citations Needed | March 11, 2020 | TranscriptPete Peterson[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-104-the-pete-peterson-austerity-empire-and-the-how-will-you-pay-for-it-lie[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you everyone for joining us this week. Of course, you can follow the show on Twitter @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed and become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so appreciated. We are 100% listener-funded. There are no ads, there are no corporate sponsors. That is on purpose. That is so that we can do the show the way we want to do the show and the way that happens is through your amazing support.Adam: And as always you can rate subscribe and leave feedback on Apple Podcasts. That’s always appreciated.Nima: “According to the Bipartisan Policy Center…”, “a recent study by the Concord Coalition disagrees…”, “one review of your budget by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget says…” — we’ve seen these seemingly benign...

Citations Needed | March 4, 2020 | TranscriptBarack Obama warns against “ideological purity” at an event in Berlin. (Sean Gallup / Getty Images)[embed]https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-103-the-glib-left-punching-of-purity-politics-discourse[/embed][Music]Intro: This is Citations Needed with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson.Nima Shirazi: Welcome to Citations Needed, a podcast on the media, power, PR and the history of bullshit. I am Nima Shirazi.Adam Johnson: I’m Adam Johnson.Nima: Thank you, everyone, for joining us this week. Of course you can find the show on Twitter at @CitationsPod, Facebook Citations Needed, become a supporter of our work through Patreon.com/CitationsNeededPodcast with Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson. All your help through Patreon is so appreciated. It keeps the show growing and going. We are 100% listener-funded, so no commercials, no sponsors of any kind, no corporate donors, no billionaire backers. We do this show because we are able to through your wonderful support and we cannot thank you enough.Adam: And a reminder, as always, we have mini episodes we call News Briefs for patrons. The episodes of course will always be free, but we do little quick-hit, hot-take-y stuff. We’re doing them increasingly, of...