Political Gabfest - Not THAT President Kennedy
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Keziah Weir for Vanity Fair: “How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Became the Anti-vaxxer Icon of America’s Nightmares”
Matt Viser for The Washington Post: “The complicated relationship between a presidential father and a struggling son”
Pam Belluck and Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “New York Passes Bill to Shield Abortion Providers Sending Pills Into States With Bans”
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times: “A Medical Frontier”
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Samuel A. Alito Jr. for The Wall Street Journal: “Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads Its Readers”; Justin Elliott, Joshua Kaplan, and Alex Mierjeski for ProPublica: “Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court”
John: Todd Estes for Teaching American History: “New Hampshire’s Ratification of the Constitution”
David: U.S. Department of Agriculture: “Nuts”; Taryn Varricchio and Clancy Morgan for Business Insider: “Cashews don’t come cheap – one pound at retail can cost you $15. Here’s why they’re so expensive.”; Doritos Nacho Cheese Flavored Tortilla Chips
Listener chatter from Ruthy Kohorn Rosenberg: Reshma Saujani at Smith College’s 2023 Commencement: Imposter Syndrome is Modern-Day Bicycle Face
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, Emily, and John discuss with James Surowiecki of The Atlantic @JamesSurowiecki his article, “The Bitter Truth About the Bud Light Boycott.”
In the June edition of Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Peter Singer @PeterSinger about his book, Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com or Tweet us @SlateGabfest. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:07.0 | June 22, 2023, the not that President Kennedy edition. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm David Plots of CityCast in Washington, D.C. joined, of course, by Emily Vaseline |
| 0:28.0 | of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School for New Haven. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey David. |
| 0:32.0 | John Dickerson of CBS Prime Time as New York City, hello, John. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, David, hello, Emily. |
| 0:37.0 | This week on the Gap Fest, how dangerous is Robert Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign |
| 0:42.0 | to the Biden campaign? How dangerous is it to the health of the nation? Then did |
| 0:47.0 | Hunter Biden get off easy or was he which hunted? And then state law |
| 0:53.0 | gyrations about culture war issues, well, and real issues. New York shields |
| 0:59.0 | abortion providers who prescribe to women and states where abortion is banned |
| 1:03.0 | and a judge in Arkansas, federal judge rejects the Arkansas law banning |
| 1:08.0 | healthcare for trans children. We will conflate those two issues and discuss. |
| 1:13.0 | Plus, of course, we'll have cocktail chatter. And a reminder, next week, |
| 1:17.0 | it's going to be an insane amount of news. We already know that the affirmative action |
| 1:20.0 | ruling is going to come down between now and next week. And it's great that we |
| 1:24.0 | have a live Gap Fest coming up. We're going to be live in Washington, D.C. at |
| 1:29.0 | 6th and I on Wednesday, June 28th, 730pm, slate.com slash Gap Fest live. |
| 1:34.0 | We're going to have a great conversation. We'll have your questions. |
| 1:37.0 | Can I just say that unless you have a special line to the Supreme Court, we don't |
| 1:41.0 | know the affirmative action case will come down by next Wednesday night? It could. |
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