Political Gabfest - Legitimate Political Discourse
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🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Emily, John and David dig into SCOTUS's failure to enforce the Voting Rights Act, the GOP's embrace of January 6th rioters, and protests in Canada.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
John Dickerson for The Atlantic: “The GOP Has No Standards Now”
Adela Suliman for The Washington Post: “Marjorie Taylor Greene says Nancy Pelosi leads ‘gazpacho police,’ causing collective spit take”
Brett Samuels for The Hill: “Pence breaks with Trump: 'I had no right to overturn the election'”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Sam Levine for The Guardian: “The Black Woman Sentenced To Six Years In Prison Over A Voting Error”
John: “John Grisham Reads Soggy Sweat's Whiskey Speech”
David: Oliver Holmes for The Guardian: “Putin’s Massive Table: Powerplay or Paranoia?”
Listener chatter from Cason Reily: BBC: “Who Is Sue Gray?”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily, John, and David ponder what makes something qualify as a sport or a game.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gapest for February 10th, 2022, the legitimate |
| 0:11.7 | political discourse edition. Just noting that this title follows some discussion about whether |
| 0:17.4 | this should be called the Gaspacho edition. And Emily and John think it should be called the Gospacho edition, and I didn't. But recording it. |
| 0:23.4 | Would that discussion that took place be considered by the committee legitimate political |
| 0:27.9 | discourse? We'll get to that. You're going to have to keep listening. That, of course, |
| 0:32.8 | was John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning from New York. I'm David Plotz of Citycast in Washington, D.C., |
| 0:38.8 | and making up the trio, |
| 0:41.6 | the jazz saxophone of this trio, |
| 0:45.2 | the oboe, the viola, the cello, |
| 0:49.4 | not sure what, is, of course, Emily Bazelaw. |
| 0:52.0 | I liked all of those choices. |
| 0:53.6 | Which one would you want to be? |
| 1:12.4 | Everything except the drums. I don't want to be the drums. Why not the drums? The drums keep it all in time. Too much pressure. Do we have to explain the gazpacho jokes that Representative Marjorie? No, come on. Okay, okay. I get it. People can look it up. that's what they do at the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School |
| 1:13.8 | they explain everything. Forget it. People can look it up. That's what they do at the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 1:13.9 | They explain everything. |
| 1:14.6 | Yes, we earnestly try to include everyone in our discourse, which is admit or not. |
| 1:18.9 | May I impose a poll quickly to the group? |
| 1:21.5 | Who here legitimately likes Casacho? |
| 1:24.3 | Me. |
| 1:25.2 | No, I do too. |
| 1:26.6 | I do too. |
| 1:27.3 | There was some... |
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