PODCAST 31: RAINBOWS OVER DIXIE

A week is a long time in politics, and the last one has been one of the longest and strangest in US history. One culture war ended with the sudden imposition of gay marriage by the Supreme Court, while another began. In the wake of the Charleston Church Shooting, a major effort was made to consign the beloved symbols and heroes of the Confederacy to the "dustbin of history."

Andy and Colin look out over a political landscape suddenly bedizened in rainbow hues and dotted with defaced monuments and consider what's really going on.

DYLANN ROOF AS MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

by Colin Liddell

In the aftermath of the Charleston Shooting, a truly remarkable video has emerged, featuring an interview with the black friend of the supposed racist killer Dylann Storm Roof. (By the way, doesn't that name just strike you as all too apt given what happened?)

In the video a reporter from the BBC talks to two of Dylann's friends, one Black and one White. Dylann's Black friend does most of the talking as the reporter, apparently a lady of Indian extraction, is mainly interested in finding corroborating evidence for the main media narrative that Dylann was a hate-filled racist psychopath.