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Who cares about dead-ass white Gary Webb from Ohio besides Maxine Waters - "the face of the Democrat Party" - from Los Angeles? Before Waters led Congressional investigation of the war criminals that robbed Deutsche Bank, she wrote the 1998 foreword to "Dark Alliance", Webb's book covering Iran-Contra and the war that leveled LA communities in the 1980s. In the present, Waters faces political challenge by proxy in the friendly face of Omar Navarro. As Election 2020 plays out across screens, the most important battleground is your state of mind. And there is a good chance that territory is virtually rubble. The Stalingrad of the Fake News War is itself fake. Television City was a Trump real estate project for NBC that popular opinion concluded failed in 1987. With hindsight, The Apprentice produced The President and the images that monopolize your memory. The war for what you remember is over the air waves and between two Television Cities: Hollywood and Manhattan.

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