1400 David Litt and David Daley + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Today I have your news and clips show plus 2 guests. My talk with David Litt is at 41 minutes and David Daley is at 1:14
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David Litt entered the White House as a speechwriter in 2011, and left in 2016 as a senior presidential speechwriter and special assistant to the president. In addition to writing remarks for President Barack Obama on a wide range of domestic policy issues, David served as the lead joke writer for several White House Correspondents’ Dinner monologues. Since leaving government, David's work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Boston Globe, among others. From 2016-2018 he was the head writer and producer for Funny Or Die D.C., and he has developed TV pilots for Comedy Central and ABC.
David's New York Times bestselling memoir, Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years, was published in 2017. His second book, Democracy in One Book Or Less: How It Works, Why It Doesn’t, and Why Fixing It Is Easier Than You Think, was published in June 2020.
David Daley is a senior fellow at FairVote. He is the author of the national best-seller Ratf**ked: Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, which has been credited with sparking the modern drive to reform redistricting and end partisan gerrymandering, and the basis for the award-winning documentary Slay The Dragon. His second book, Unrigged: How Americans Are Battling Back to Save Democracy, chronicles the victories and defeats in state efforts to reform elections and uphold voting rights. A frequent lecturer and media source about gerrymandering, he is the former editor-in-chief of Salon.com, and the former CEO and publisher of the Connecticut News Project. David's journalism has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times. the Washington Post, the Atlantic, Slate and many other publications, and he has been a guest on CNN, MSNBC, NPR's Fresh Air and Comedy Central. He has taught political science and journalism as a visiting fellow at Wesleyan University, Boston College and the University of Georgia.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Stand up. |
| 0:01.8 | Hi there. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to today's episode Stand Up. |
| 0:04.4 | I've got two great guests joining me today talking gerrymandering and why it matters so, so much, |
| 0:11.1 | with great David Daley, former editor of salon.com, author of three books and just a real smart observer of politics and law. |
| 0:20.8 | And a very important journalist in my mind you should |
| 0:23.9 | have read all of his books and before that though i have a great conversation with former |
| 0:30.2 | baroque obama president of obama speech writer and author bestselling author Litt, is back on the show. |
| 0:38.3 | He's been here several times before talked about his work, his other books, his work |
| 0:41.8 | is funny or die, real funny, real smart. |
| 0:44.7 | And this new book is awesome. |
| 0:46.4 | I think you are going to love my conversation with David Litt about his new book. |
| 0:52.2 | It's Only Drowning, a true story of learning to surf and the search for common ground. |
| 0:57.2 | And David Litt begins at about 41 minutes into today's show. |
| 1:01.2 | My conversation with David daily is at one hour and 14 minutes in. |
| 1:05.4 | So two great guests on today's show. |
| 1:07.1 | You can watch both interviews. |
| 1:08.6 | They are posted right now on my Facebook page and as well |
| 1:12.5 | over at YouTube. YouTube.com slash Stand Up with Pete. We're almost up to 4,000 subscribers. So go over there |
| 1:20.4 | and subscribe for free. YouTube.com slash Stand Up with Pete. Want to see any of the interviews I do |
| 1:25.8 | live? Just click on live once you're |
| 1:28.5 | there, and it should bring you to my most recent live conversations. |
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