Journalist Soledad O'Brien sat down with Brut to explain why she has no issue calling out politicians for spreading lies during interviews.
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00:00If I can't call it out, then who's going to do it?
00:11They're constantly putting people in the administration on the air,
00:15even as they're telling us that they know those people are lying.
00:17They do an interview and they come off the air and they explain to us
00:20all the areas in that interview where they lied.
00:22Well, the third time that happens, usually you'd yank that interview.
00:25You'd say, you know what, that person will never again be live.
00:28And some of that is intentional because they recognize that there's ratings there.
00:45I think people bend over backwards to make everybody feel like, you know,
00:50just because they're saying racist things doesn't mean they're racist, which is insane.
00:55Or they don't want to believe it.
00:57My mom passed away recently and we found a letter that she wrote to the editor,
01:02to a newspaper, basically calling out housing discrimination in our town,
01:07which had no black people.
01:09And I mean, the guts to do that, right, in the town where you're raising your children was
01:13amazing. But she literally spent her entire life just calling bullshit on things that
01:18needed to be called out. And I think she felt like, if it's not me, then who?
01:21And I kind of feel that way. Like, if I can't call it out, then who's going to do it?
01:27We did something like the fifth Black in America and someone sent me an email and said,
01:40so isn't that enough? I feel like five is kind of enough.
01:44As if like, listen, you've done five whole stories. I think we're done with black people.
01:49I just think there's a lot of interesting content. I'll stop when the stories stop.