Hockey Mom Charm Couldn’t Save Sarah Palin
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, Slate senior writer and host of the Outward podcast Christina Cauterucci is joined by Slate senior writer Seth Stevenson to talk about Sarah Palin and her recent trial against the New York Times. In the first half of the show, they unpack what happened at Palin’s trial and dig into why Palin’s clothes are a major part of her personality. Later on, Seth and Christina discuss how Palin’s time in court mirrored her 2008 run for vice president.
In Slate Plus, our hosts discuss a piece by Jessica M Goldstein in the Washingtonian titled, “More and More Women Are Paying Alimony to Failure-to-Launch Ex-Husbands. And They’re Really, Really Not Happy About It,” and whether or not the title issue is feminist.
Read Seth’s coverage of the trial in Slate here.
Recommendations:
Christina: Studio portraits of pets.
Seth: Hate-watching Apple TV+’s The Morning Show.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the waves. |
| 0:02.0 | This is the waves. |
| 0:04.0 | This is the waves. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the waves. |
| 0:06.0 | This is the waves. |
| 0:07.0 | Hello and welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and whose job it is to yell |
| 0:19.9 | objection in a courtroom. |
| 0:23.0 | Every episode you get a pair of people talking about the thing we can't get off our minds. |
| 0:28.0 | And today you've got me, Christina Kauterucci. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm a senior writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward. |
| 0:35.6 | And me, Seth Stevenson. I'm another Slate Senior writer and I frequently cover courtroom trials. |
| 0:41.8 | Seth, I've been reading your coverage of a big trial |
| 0:46.2 | that's been going on for the past two weeks. |
| 0:48.4 | Sarah Palin and the New York Times |
| 0:50.6 | have been battling in court over one big question. Did the Times libel |
| 0:56.3 | Palin in a 2017 editorial? That piece in a kind of throwaway line, accused Palin of inciting |
| 1:06.4 | Jared Lee Lofner to perpetrate the mass shooting that killed six people and injured |
| 1:11.5 | Gabby Giffords in Arizona in 2011. |
| 1:14.9 | So Seth, I wanted to talk to you obviously because you've been in the courtroom |
| 1:19.2 | covering the trial for slate. |
| 1:21.1 | And I've been thinking a lot about Sarah Palin in general lately how she's not really the |
| 1:26.6 | main character in the news too often anymore but I'll say the residue of her 2008 vice presidential candidacy is everywhere in politics. |
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