How the Television Version of Governor Cuomo Differs From What We Now Read in the Newspaper

We begin with how much modern politics are driven by who is telegenic rather than who is competent and look into how New York’s Governor Cuomo was seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party whereas Governor Inslee of Washington State who did a much better job handling the pandemic than Cuomo did, came off poorly in the Democratic primary debates. Ryan Cooper, a national correspondent at The Week who is the co-host of @LeftAnchor podcast joins us to discuss his latest article at The Week, “Cuomo and Inslee: A Covid-19 tale of two governors.”  We assess the extent to which the need to find a telegenic Democrat to counter Trump’s domination of the airwaves was misguided now that the public is finding the ordinary Biden a welcome change from Trump, and how different the TV version of Cuomo is from the newspaper version of him.

 

Assessing the Sharp Rise in Racist Violence Against Asian Americans

Then we investigate the sharp rise in racist violence against Asian Americans and speak with the founder of Stop Asian American and Pacific Islander Hate, Dr. Russell Jeung, a Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University and author of Sustaining Faith Traditions: Race, Ethnicity and Religion Among the Latino and Asian American Second Generation. His group has received an alarming 3,795 reports of racist incidents against Asian Americans tied to the Covid pandemic, made worse by Trump who made no distinction in his racist remarks between the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party government of Xi Jinping.

 

Was the FBI Investigation into Charges Against Kavanaugh a Fake?

Then finally we speak with Lisa Graves, the Executive Director of the new corporate watchdog group True North Research about her testimony last week before Senator Whitehead’s Senate Subcommittee investigating the dark money influx behind judicial appointments and the inordinate influence of Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society. We also examine reports now surfacing that the FBI investigation into sexual assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was a “fake”.