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101: Skepticrat101 - Requiem for Sarah Huckabee Edition

Jul 23, 201934 minEp. 101
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Episode description

On this week's episode: We give Sarah Huckabee Sanders the send off ... Opioid manufacturers will admit that their “all the cool kids are doing it” marketing campaign was ill advised ... And Kellyanne Conway tries to rank the races unironically on the White House lawn.

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Headline Sources:

House holds Wilbur Ross and William Barr in contempt for withholding census question info: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/us/politics/barr-ross-contempt-vote.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Iran not fucking around: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49053383 and https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/07/19/iran-disputes-trump-claim-u-s-navy-destroyed-its-drone/1775051001/

Conway gets question about Trump's racist tweets and asks reporter "What's your ethnicity?": https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/kellyanne-conway-trump-race-ethnicity/index.html
Documents reveal that the opioid crisis was kind of the point all along: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/internal-drug-company-emails-show-indifference-to-opioid-epidemic-ship-ship-ship/2019/07/19/003d58f6-a993-11e9-a3a6-ab670962db05_story.html?utm_term=.3f251d734829

Sarah Huckabee Sanders leaving the White House: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/us/politics/sarah-sanders-leaving-white-house.html
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