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The Al Franken Podcast

13: Frm. Obama Speechwriter David Litt Explains How the GOP Has Systematically Undermined Democracy.

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In his new book: Democracy: In One Book or Less fmr. Obama speechwriter and NY Times bestselling author brings fascinating and often startling detail to all the ways the GOP thwarts democracy. 

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We've got a great one today, and I don't usually say that, but we just do.

0:11.1

My guest is David Litt, who has written a book. He has a book out. It's called Democracy in One Book or Less, how it works, why it doesn't, and why fixing it is

0:24.8

easier than you think.

0:26.3

Now, I don't judge a book by its cover.

0:29.6

I judge it by its title.

0:31.8

And this title's not great, to be honest.

0:36.0

You know, and I can say that. I'm the guy who wrote

0:38.9

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot and other observations, and lies and lying liars who tell

0:44.4

them a fair and balance look at the right. I know a good title, okay? But I knew that David

0:50.2

had worked in the Obama White House, and he had been the guy who supervised President Obama's

0:57.0

White House correspondence dinner speeches, his monologues, from 2013 on, and they were all great.

1:05.4

Obama just killed at all these.

1:07.6

And the publisher sent me the book, and I read, it's great. It's great. It covers

1:14.8

everything that's wrong with our democracy, but it does it in a way. It's really insightful,

1:20.8

and it's a terrific read. It's funny all the way through. Not like my stuff, like hilarious, but still funny.

1:30.4

Anyway, we'll be talking to him in a bit.

1:33.1

Just a couple of comments about the week, about the news.

1:37.7

How about that Supreme Court, huh?

1:40.3

The good decisions, two of them, on LGBTQ rights in the workplace.

1:46.5

A great decision by Neil Gorsuch, for God's sakes.

1:51.8

Six-three.

1:53.0

I do have to say that Alito's dissent was very gay, you know, in my opinion.

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