Political Gabfest - Can We Stop Talking About Georgia Now?
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🗓️ 9 December 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss Raphael Warnock beating Herschel Walker, and oral arguments at the Supreme Court in the anti-gay marriage website designer case and the “independent state legislature” election case.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Fr. James Martin, S.J. for Outreach: “When Is Religious Liberty A Fig Leaf For Homophobia?”
Ian MacDougall for ProPublica: “What’s Really at Stake in a Politically Charged Supreme Court Case on Elections”
Jed Sugarmen’s thread on oral arguments in Moore v. Harper.
Kevin Roose for The New York Times: “The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: Associated Press: “HBO To Air Nancy Pelosi Doc Shot By Daughter Alexandra”; Pelosi in the House
November 28, 2022
Emily: The Janes
David: Tour Fort DeRussy with David; City Cast Portland has launched; Caitlin Doughty for The New York Times: “If You Want to Give Something Back to Nature, Give Your Body”
Listener chatter from Adam Barhamand: Karen Bakker for Noema: “How To Speak Honeybee”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, David, and John discuss ChatGPT.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.0 | December 8th, 2022, the Can We Stop Talking About Georgia Now edition on David Plott's |
| 0:23.5 | CityCast. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:25.5 | I'm joined by my beloved John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time from New York City. |
| 0:31.4 | Hello, John. |
| 0:32.4 | Hello, David. |
| 0:34.1 | And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine at Yale University Law School from New Haven. |
| 0:37.8 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, David and John. |
| 0:40.2 | Hi, you. |
| 0:41.2 | Not today, not from the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:43.4 | Emily Bazelon of the Silence at Yale University Law School because Emily's on strike |
| 0:47.8 | today. |
| 0:48.8 | Yes, today is true. |
| 0:49.8 | The New York Times Union, which I'm part of, is on a one-day strike because we do not |
| 0:55.3 | have a contract. |
| 0:56.3 | We have not had a contract for 20 months and we need and deserve a fair contract. |
| 1:00.9 | So we walked out for one day. |
| 1:03.5 | This week on the Gap Fest, the narrow victory of Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate race |
| 1:08.4 | and its implications for the Senate, then the Supreme Court, here's the case of a woman |
| 1:13.4 | who does not want to make websites for gay couples for their weddings, then a second |
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