{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67c7911ffc5f88b98d0c14f9/69de3cbf7beb0a17358dacc6?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Ep 52 - Distraction on Steroids","description":"<p>Within hours of Donald Trump becoming the first openly genocidal fascist US President ..&nbsp;Ice Queen Melania Trump holds a dramatic press conference calling for \"the lies\" to end and solemnly denying she was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein - claims virtually no-one was making until she swept up to address the press pack.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Was this a bizarre political media strategy aiming at distracting attention from the President threatening that \"an entire civilisation will die tonight\" or just the chaotic violent shitshow this administration rolls out each day?</p><p><br></p><p>And Prince Harry and Megan arrive in Australia to an adoring public but to an occasionally sniggering media class. The frustrated Murdoch scribes, finding nothing negative to report, dream up a story about how much extra police resourcing might cost to provide security for the&nbsp;\"millionaire visitors\" and then encourage the new Liberal leader Jess Wilson to attack the phantom expenditure which exists only in their thought bubble.</p><p><br></p><p>Why do these two well meaning ex Royals visiting a children's hospital and hosting a wellness retreat trigger such frothing rage at News Corp?&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Denis Muller unpeels the layers of a classic beat up.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Nicole Chvastek, Denis Muller"}