S4E12 - Inauguration Part One

The Worst Wing

Hello my name is Talmidge Cregg, I'm a definitely-real person whose daughter has ascended the ranks of American Deathmatch to press secretary, and I have Alzheimer's Disease. Anyway that's the entirety of the first episode we covered, but we spend another 30 minutes chatting about genocide and unilateral intervention in the context of Sorkin's (bad) take on Rwanda in the 90s. Read Gourevitch for a quick intro and then you can subject yourself to Hatzfeld for survivor accounts. if you want to hear from the guy who tried to stop it militarily you can read Shake Hands With The Devil by Romeo Dallaire, but keep in mind he's pretty much made in the mold of The West Wing. Then you can read Dancing In the Glory of Monsters and King Leopold's Ghost and get your revolutionary anger REALLY pumping. Music from Jerry Lee Lewis, Propagandhi, and Sturgill Simpson. Watch Sound & Fury on Netflix it's very good.