Political Gabfest - The America's National Shame Edition
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🗓️ 12 December 2014
⏱️ 55 minutes
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David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the Senate Intelligence Committee's so-called "torture report," the unraveling Rolling Stone story about an alleged rape at UVA, and the satirical performance art that was the Colbert Report.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:46.7 | Hello and welcome to Slate Political Gab Fest for December 12th, 2014, the America's |
| 0:52.1 | National Shame Edition. |
| 1:08.3 | I had a different title, but Emily and John stopped me from using it. I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson are conspiring against me together in New York. I'm in D.C. Just the way we like it. Yeah. Although I... Lots of conspiracy. I feel at the end of the year, I'm always trying to gather traditions together. I think it kicks off at Thanksgiving and, you know, I go and see my stepfather. I feel like we should have had an end of the year tradition of like a long boozy lunch. Oh, that would be so great. I love a long boozy lunch. The year is petering away. |
| 1:28.1 | That would be great. |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:29.7 | So anyway, let's... |
| 1:30.6 | All right. |
| 1:31.3 | Plan that for next year. |
| 1:32.7 | On today's show, the Senate releases its infuriating, tragic report on the CIA's systematic torture of terrorism prisoners after 9-11. |
| 1:42.0 | Also, the Rolling Stone gang rape story continues to frustrate and |
| 1:45.2 | confuse everyone, although perhaps not Emily Bazelon. If anyone is not confused by it, it'll be |
| 1:50.5 | Emily Bazelon. And then Stephen Colbert, the greatest political satirists in modern America, |
| 1:56.1 | perhaps the greatest political satirist of all time, ends the Colbert report. We will talk about how if he changed |
| 2:02.9 | American politics. Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And on Slate Plus, the bizarre collapse of the |
| 2:07.9 | new republic. Before we get started, quick announcement. Beloved intern Max is going off to a job. That |
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