Political Gabfest - The Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever Edition
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🗓️ 14 August 2015
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, Jamelle Bouie, and Amanda Hess discuss the dustup between Donald Trump and newswoman Megyn Kelly and the single-issue presidential aspirations of Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig. They also talk to Slate's Will Oremus about the restructuring of Google. Slate's Political Gabfest is sponsored by Volvo Experience the Wonder of Summer. Have a month’s payment on Volvo and spend your summer doing the things that matter to you. Plus get up to five years full coverage, including wear and tear. Go to volvocars.com/us. And by ZipRecruiter. With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to over 100 job sites with a single click and an interface that's easy to use. Right now, you can try ZipRecruiter for free! Go to ZipRecruiter.com/gabfest. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus. Twitter: @SlateGabfest Facebook: facebook.com/Gabfest Email: gabfest@slate.com Show notes at slate.com/gabfest
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| 0:00.0 | Slate's Political Gab Fest is sponsored by Volvo. |
| 0:03.6 | Experience the wonder of summer. |
| 0:05.6 | Have a month's payment on Volvo and spend your summer doing the things that matter to you. |
| 0:10.0 | Plus, get up to five years full coverage, including wear and tear. |
| 0:13.1 | Go to VolvoCars.com slash U.S. |
| 0:16.2 | And by ZipRecruiter. |
| 0:18.0 | With ZipRecruiter, you can post your job to over 100 job sites with a single |
| 0:22.1 | click and an interface that's easy to use. Right now, you can try ZipRecruiter for free by going to |
| 0:28.0 | ZipRecruiter.com slash GabFest. That's ZipRecruiter.com slash GabFest. The following podcast contains |
| 0:35.7 | explicit language. |
| 0:36.9 | Music The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 14, 2015, the Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever Edition. I'm Emily Bazelon, a staff writer for the New York Times Magazine. |
| 0:57.2 | David Plotz and John Dickerson are somewhere else. |
| 1:00.6 | David is on vacation. |
| 1:02.0 | I don't actually know where John is. |
| 1:04.1 | Let us wish them a happy, blessed break. |
| 1:07.8 | And, in fact, we will not miss them because we have two of my favorite slate writers. In fact, two of my |
| 1:13.6 | favorite writers joining us today. Jamel Bowie is with us in Washington, D.C. Hey, Jamel. Hello. |
| 1:21.0 | And Amanda Hess is here with me in the New York studio. Hello, Amanda. Hi, guys. On this week's |
| 1:27.4 | Gab Fest, we will talk about Megan Kelly's |
| 1:30.4 | moment as, I would argue, a feminist hero. And we're going to ask whether Fox has thrown Kelly under |
| 1:36.7 | the bus to placate Donald Trump. Google, it has transformed itself into something called Alphabet, |
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