Calling It: Dan Rather

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

On the Gist, our civic obligations in 2020. In the interview, Mike talks with journalist and veteran broadcast anchor Dan Rather about his decades-long career in covering elections, highlighting a few cautionary tales learned from the 2000 race between George W. Bush and Al Gore. Rather explains that for some major networks, making the right call in 2000 was marred by corporate interference in the control rooms, plus he stresses that unexpected delays could fuel conspiracy theories. Patience will be a virtue come "voting night," he explains. Rather is the author of What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism, the host of The Big Interview on AXS TV, and the host of a documentary called Human Nature, which is now streaming on Netflix. In the spiel, Michael Moore's political predictions in 2020. Email us at thegist@slate.com Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.4	At Slate Gist, we will take it easy on the memes.
0:43.6	It's Thursday, October 22nd, 2020,
0:46.0	from Slated's The Gist, I'm Mike Pasca.
0:48.7	It is the fourth and final day of our calling it series.
0:52.3	And I knew that you'd be matter than a rain-don rooster.
0:55.2	If we did the whole thing without hearing from Dan Rather, so we shall.
0:59.3	But first, I'd like to present to you this,
1:03.0	the beginning of the end of calling it.
1:05.3	Yes, we're calling it for calling it.
1:07.4	And this is usually the part that goes in the last chapter of the nonfiction book.
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