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Klobuchar? How About Stacey Abrams?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Virginia Heffernan talks to analyst and Fordham professor Dr. Christina Greer about white supremacy, the case for Stacey Abrams as Joe Biden’s running mate, whether black voters care less about policy than representation on the presidential ticket, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Jill and I have always known that the only thing we want for Naomi is what your loved ones want for you.

0:06.5

Is something no one can guarantee.

0:08.9

A life of happiness, success and fulfillment.

0:12.4

The courage to get up when you get knocked down.

0:15.2

Purpose that provides meaning.

0:17.4

A good life.

0:18.5

You know, the search for one is in sharper focus lately.

0:22.1

We've all had to stop and ask ourselves what matters most to us.

0:26.4

It's our job to make sure that unemployment remains strong and that we understand the states can't do it all.

0:33.8

I did not anticipate it would be a pandemic that shut down the world.

0:38.0

But we knew that in the United States there would be some action taken likely by the purveyors of voter suppression.

0:44.0

That would push us into an unparalleled unprecedented posture and it happened.

0:49.4

Hello and welcome to Trumpcast.

0:53.9

I'm Virginia Heffernan.

0:55.2

So what are you all doing about movies with canceled actors?

0:59.2

I know this isn't strictly speaking about politics, but I watched usual suspects the other night.

1:04.8

And I found a way to do something I'm calling suspend cancellation of Kevin Spacey.

1:11.2

It's a difficult mental act.

1:13.8

And I watched and played verbal Kent and I was willing to I was able to enjoy it.

1:20.4

I'm telling you this is a tricky mental kind of kind of complexity you have to engage in to save a movie that has a canceled person in it.

1:30.8

But what I decided, all right, so if you need a rationalization for your own usual suspects fix,

1:36.2

I told myself that Spacey in the movie is basically typecast as a predatory con man and a quasi sociopath.

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