Do We Have Political Bias? Comedian Matt Friend Helps Us Find Out

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Do We Have Political Bias? Comedian Matt Friend Helps Us Find Out

Johanna Maska

May 30, 2023

If President Barack Obama gave one of President Donald Trump’s speeches, would you be able to tell the difference? As a thought experiment in bias, Johanna Maska talks with comedian Matt Friend, who has been all over social media with spot-on political impressions. Friend reads Trump speeches as though they were delivered by Obama, Obama speeches as though they were delivered by Trump and Maska tries to sift her feelings having been there when many of these speeches were delivered.

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Johanna Maska takes a fresh look at how we make political progress. As Director of Press Advance for President Obama’s White House and one of his early campaign staffers, Maska knows what it takes to move the needle on the national stage and in the presidential primaries. She takes us past the talking points to look at what it will take to make progress in today’s polarized political environment.

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