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Today, Dan and Jordan dip back to the past to check in on Alex's roots. In this installment, Alex clarifies his position on the death penalty, gets all worked up about an op-ed, and dreadfully misreports the details of a 1982 bank robbery.

==Detailed Show Notes==

Topics covered<ref>[https://knowledgefight.com/research/2022/6/19/episode-693-august-4-2003 Episode #693: August 4, 2003]</ref>:

*[[George W Bush|George W. Bush]]'s signaling to support the assault weapons ban was almost certainly [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/08/us/irking-nra-bush-supports-the-ban-on-assault-weapons.html a political calculation] he had no intention of following through with, and he was [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/12/us/the-2000-campaign-the-endorsements-to-help-bush-nra-withholds-backing.html very tight with the NRA]
*[https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-bill/2038/actions HR 2038] was dead in the water by this point, and [https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/house-resolution/769/text an attempt to have it considered in 2004] went nowhere
*Alex misreports that the Supreme Court is under the sway of international courts, basing his coverage on [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/08/04/thinking-outside-the-us/c135a249-01e4-44c5-bc3c-67aeecaa9890/ an op-ed] that he clearly hadn't read pre-show
*Alex [https://www.abc15.com/news/crime/death-row-diary-the-arizona-executions-of-the-lagrand-brothers-causes-international-stir misreports a story] about two German nationals who were executed for committing a murder during a bungled bank robbery, [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/05/us/us-execution-of-german-stirs-anger.html which became] an [https://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/104 international incident]
*Alex's story of the origin of the term "kangaroo court" [https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/kangaroo-court is dubious]
*[https://forward.com/culture/449521/mel-gibson-anti-semitism-timeline-winona-ryder/ Mel Gibson] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100212095132/http://moviecitynews.com/notepad/2004/040303_npd.html his dad] both have deeply antisemitic histories

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