The Real Context News Podcast Inaugural Episode: State of the Country (Media & Politics)

By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedInFacebookTwitter @bfry1981, YouTube) September 7, 2020

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Corrections: When I said I have “sympathy” for whites proud to be white, I meant “empathy” for their sorry state

I said the black vote for Clinton in 2016 was 86-87%.  It was 89%.

I was wrong when I suggested that black Caribbean immigrants are more educated than average Americans, but was right when I said Nigerian, African immigrants were

I said Trump was involved with Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, but it was Bear Stearns and FL Group; relevant passage from my eBook (general preview here) below:

Let us also pause here to note Trump’s direct involvement with two major financial firms—Bear Stearns and FL Group—just before they failed and were the two major catalysts for the worst global economic crises since the Great Depression.  FL Group failed spectacularly in 2008, along with Iceland’s other major banks and funds.  The firm’s failure was a major factor in the collapse of Iceland’s financial sector, a collapse that served as a catalyst for the 2008 global financial crisis and America’s Great Recession.  Furthermore, since FL Group was a stupendously bad performer even by the standards of the 2008 financial crisis, and given its close (direct and/or indirect) ties to Kremlin-connected Russian money, one could also be forgiven for thinking that they were acting more out of Kremlin interests than business ones.  In the case of Bear Stearns, its collapse would be the first big domino on the U.S. side of the global financial crises and the catalyst for the U.S. Great Recession.  The Trump deals were not insignificant and were important factors in both firms’ collapses, so, it would not be without accuracy to say that Donald Trump played an important role in causing the economic crises that erupted in 2008.”

I said there were eight investigations into Clinton’s e-mails/server but that was really about Benghazi (and there were nine), which Republicans did their best to tie to Clinton’s e-mails

References: My piece on how the current media landscape lacks proper analysis-May 2016, 2018

In terms of far-left and identity-driven injecting their opinions/pressures into news reporting at The New York Times and the mainstream media and how media elites are generally unrepresentative, see Bari Weiss’s resignation letter, Andrew Sullivan’s penultimate New York Magazine column and two of his new Weekly Dish pieces

On lack of exit polling data in 2020: Florida, strength of Biden support with young POC in SC, MS

On Biden’s stuttering and “mental sharpness, a ”NYT Column and the key Atlantic article it references

On white conservatives thinking white people are the people being discriminated by others

On the 1994 crime bill, two pieces from Vox and D.L. Hughley’s comments


The “Brian gets it WAY before virtually all his competition” pieces mentioned or relevant:

On Trump as a “serious” candidate-August 10, 2015

On Bernie being a HUGE problem for Democrats and helping Trump-February 17/18, 2016 and March 11, 2016

On Trump and Clinton sealing the nominations-February 21/22, 2016

On Hillary’s e-mails being much ado about nothing-Oct 21, 2015, Aug 10, 2016, & Sept 23, 2016

On Americans not valuing experience or expertise as a bad can of worms-May 13, 2016

On Russia being THE story-July 30/31, 2016

On Trump’s insanely shady business ties with the Russian mafia- November 4, 2016, March 28, 2016, and July 27, 2016

On what I call the First Russo-American Cyberwar & 38,000 votes deciding election-Dec 7, 2016

On Biden looking good before SC– Feb 26, 2016

On Biden having it wrapped on before Super Tuesday-March 3, 2016


Other work of mine referenced or relevant: 

On Russian disinformation (Clinton e-mails overkill)-November 19, 2019 and May 26, 2020

On the Bidens and Burisma and disinformation-December 18, 2019

On why Bernie is incapable of achieving his goals—February 5, 2016 and March 20, 2020

On GOP no longer being a legit political party and Dems facing down extremism-Nov 13, 2016

On Comey letter just before the 2016 election-October 29, 2016

My coronavirus coverage-May 26, 2010 and later

On the post-WWII U.S.-led “neoliberal” order & lifting billions from poverty-August 26, 2020

On white racism in the U.S. against African-Americans-June 13, 2020 and January 7, 2015

On the resumes of Kamala Harris and Susan Rice, compared-August 8, 2020

On Benghazi-November 3, 2015

My old podcasts (2014-2016)


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