Is Neocon Nation-Building Done For?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Elliott Abrams narrowly missed out on the State Department's No. 2 job under President Trump, and it wasn't just because of his sharp criticism of Trump, the candidate. In his book, Realism and Democracy, he argues that the U.S. should stay involved in the Arab world, going against the Trump administration's "America First" doctrine. Abrams also sounds off on Trump's use of the presidential pardon. In the Spiel, Mike weighs the New York Times' coverage of your run-of-the-mill American Nazi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast has explicit content, but that will be nothing compared to how explicit we get at our live show in Washington DC on Tuesday,
0:06.9	which might be tomorrow, might be today, depending on when you listen to podcasts.
0:10.1	Tuesday, November 28th, at the Hamilton Theatre, Washington DC, comes to us, go to Slate.com slash live for more information.
0:17.8	Explicitly.
0:18.8	It's Monday, November 27th, 2017 from Slate, it's the gist, I'm Mike Pesca.
0:28.0	Tonight, on the Network News, which I checked is an institution that still exists.
0:32.4	A new generation of anti-smoking ads will debut.
0:36.6	What they lack in sizzle they make up for in the narrator's flat affect.
0:41.2	A federal court has ordered Philip Morris, USA, Laura Lard, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, and Altria
0:47.3	to make this statement about the addictiveness of smoking and nicotine.
0:51.0	It's great!
0:52.2	No, wait, that's not what they said.
0:54.2	Smoking is highly addictive.
0:56.0	But listen to how she says it.
0:57.5	Siri, why so serious?
0:59.0	Alexa, was there a death in the family?
1:01.4	Yeah, I know.
1:01.9	Your Alexa is now going not to answer in the question.
1:04.2	I hope you don't find out anything you didn't want to know.
1:07.0	The bluntness, though, is intentional.
1:08.6	These ads are the result of an 11-year court fight.
1:11.2	Well, eight years plus smoking breaks.
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