Obama's Tan Suit (2014) w/ Sam Sanders

This Day in Esoteric Political History

Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia

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🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s August 27th. On this day in 2014, President Barack Obama gave a press conference about Ukraine and ISIS and foreign policy — but much of the political chatter was about his choice of tan suit.

Jody and Niki are joined by Sam Sanders of NPR’s “It’s Been A Minute” to discuss the “scandal” and what it how it represented a shifting moment in political coverage.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:09.0	This day, August 27th, 2014, well technically it's August 28th, 2014, but we're going to do it anyway,
0:17.0	because this is the day of our show, on this day at a press conference about ISIS and Russia's intervention into Ukraine, President Obama
0:25.2	wore a tan suit.
0:27.6	And that's basically my intro.
0:28.8	President Obama wore a tan suit.
0:30.7	So here to talk about why and how and if that was a controversy and what to make of it is as always
0:37.3	Nicole Hemmer of Columbia. Hello Nicky. Hey Jody and our special guest for this
0:41.6	episode host of It's been a
0:43.5	a minute on NPR and a charter member along with me of former hosts of
0:47.9	political podcasts who are not doing that anymore so they're actually getting
0:51.2	some sleep in 2020 it is Sam Sanders hello
0:54.3	Sam.
0:55.3	Ah, hello sir you'll be happy to know that after my turn at NPR politics I don't
1:01.7	use an alarm clock anymore.
1:03.2	That is how I wake up when the spirit moves me.
1:05.2	It's a great life.
1:06.0	It's glorious.
1:07.0	Oh my goodness.
1:08.0	Oh yeah.
1:09.0	So Nicki, this is a controversy, fake controversy, all sorts of sort of interesting things
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