The "Delete Facebook" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2018
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and New York Time's technology columnist Farhad Manjoo discuss Robert Mueller's job security, the Cambridge Analytica scandal and compare today's political climate to the 1960s.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 22, 2018, the Delete Facebook Edition. |
| 0:19.1 | We are live in Portland, Oregon. |
| 0:23.8 | At a sold-out revolution hall. |
| 0:29.6 | I am joined by Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine. |
| 0:33.2 | To my left. |
| 0:34.1 | No, no. |
| 0:38.9 | And to her left, these Portlanders see an empty seat, an empty couch seat. |
| 0:46.5 | And that is the couch seat. |
| 0:49.4 | Oh, yeah. |
| 0:51.1 | And well, you might boo. |
| 0:53.2 | That is the couch seat where John Dickerson should be sitting but is not. |
| 0:57.7 | New York was socked in by a blizzard today and John was unable to get out. |
| 1:02.4 | But not to worry because we have a super substitute. |
| 1:06.4 | We will be joined for the second two-thirds of the show, or the last two-thirds of the show, |
| 1:11.6 | by a guest purpose built for our topics. |
| 1:15.4 | Farhad Manju, the brilliant technology columnist of the New York Times. |
| 1:24.4 | So, Emily, I don't know about you, but I, for one, am really glad to escape the bubble of the East Coast to be outside the fetid measma of the Beltway. |
| 1:37.5 | To breathe real American air. |
| 1:42.6 | Happy to be here in Portland. |
| 1:44.1 | I've just spent a day here, but I can just see it's a regular American air. Happy to be here in Portland. I've just spent a day here, |
| 1:46.2 | but I can just see it's a regular American town. |
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