Mike Pesca Goes Back to the Spin Room

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🗓️ 20 October 2016

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Mike Pesca is the host of Slate's "The Gist." He braved the post-debate spin room again to bring us this report.

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0:00.0	Last night, while you were savoring the final debate of the presidential campaign,
0:05.5	Mike Pesca, host of Slate's The Gist, was deep in the spin cycle in Las Vegas.
0:11.7	He prepared a very late night rapid response report for his daily show, and here it is for you.
0:22.6	It's the earlier morning of Thursday, October 20th, 2016 from Slate.
0:27.2	It's the Gist.
0:28.0	I'm Mike Peska.
0:28.9	This is a debate number three, rapid response.
0:32.4	Donald Trump is a large-headed orange-hued man with immovable hair who has thrown in
0:36.8	with a conspiracy-oriented
0:38.2	website Bright Bart. He is called past beauty pageant winners Miss Piggy. And we know he has the
0:44.2	tendency to engage in, I know you are, but what am I, ism? Based on this, information, a truly
0:50.1	advanced algorithm, should have predicted that this charge would have inevitably been
0:55.3	leveled by him in this debate.
0:57.5	No puppet.
0:58.5	No puppet.
0:59.5	It's pretty clear.
1:00.5	You're the puppet.
1:01.5	It's pretty clear you won't admit that the Russians have engaged.
1:04.5	This Punch and Judy show offered more moments that further defined democracy down.
1:09.5	This was one.
1:10.5	He has consistently denied what is a very clear fact that before the invasion, he supported
1:17.2	it, dozens of sources which verified that he was for the invasion of Iraq.
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