Political Gabfest - Talking Filibuster
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2022
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and David Plotz discuss voting rights, Russia's recent moves, with guest Nina Jankowicz; and the increasing politicization of cable news.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute: Electoral Count Act of 1887
David Becker on Face the Nation: “Elections Expert David Becker Denounces ‘Efforts to Sow Confusion and Chaos’ ”
Emily Bazelon for the New York Times: “Democracy Worked This Year. but It Is Under Threat.”
Christina A. Cassidy for AP News: “Far Too Little Vote Fraud to Tip Election to Trump, AP Finds”
How to Lose the Information War: Russia, Fake News, and the Future of Conflict, by Nina Jankowicz
Anne Applebaum for the Atlantic: “The Science of Making Americans Hurt Their Own Country”
Here’s this week’s chatter:
Emily: Jan Ransom for the New York Times: “A Look Inside Rikers: ‘Fight Night’ and Gang Rule, Captured on Video”
David: Nathanael Johnson thread on Twitter and We Are Lady Parts TV show
John: The Mezzanine, by Nicholson Baker and “On Keeping a Notebook,” by Joan Didion
Listener chatter from Bea Scott: The History of Democracy Has Yet to Be Written by Thomas Geoghegan
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment John, Emily, and David discuss rule-breaking and Novak Djokovic’s moves in Australia.
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Research and show notes by Shayna Elliot.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for January 13th, 2022, the Talking |
| 0:12.9 | Fiblobuster edition. |
| 0:14.3 | I am David Plotz of Citicast. |
| 0:16.5 | I'm here in Washington, D.C., joined as ever by my beloved Compatriots, comgabriots. |
| 0:25.3 | John Dickerson of CBS Sunday morning in New York City. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, John. |
| 0:29.5 | Hello. |
| 0:31.1 | And from parts unknown, but the sun is shining, wherever she is, |
| 0:37.8 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine and Yale University Law School. |
| 0:42.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:43.2 | Hey, David. |
| 0:44.1 | Hey, John. |
| 0:44.9 | Hi. |
| 0:45.5 | How are you guys? |
| 0:46.6 | Everyone good? |
| 0:47.3 | I feel like I've been reading too many pieces about impending doom and civil war. |
| 0:51.4 | So when you said compatriots, I was like a little bit thrown off. |
| 0:55.0 | That's a sign of overdosing. We're going to have our own cell when the Civil War comes. |
| 1:01.4 | Okay. |
| 1:02.2 | It'll be the will be the Wolverines. |
| 1:04.5 | Wolverines. |
| 1:05.0 | I just want to address Emily's feeling, which I totally share. What I'd like is an app that balances out, based on the amount of reading |
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