Political Gabfest - The “Everyone Listens to Women When They Speak Around Here” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, Ruth Marcus (Deputy Editorial Page Editor for the Washington Post) and Ross Douthat (New York Times Columnist) discuss Trump’s tax plan, shifting Republican power and pro athletes using their influence to inspire social change
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Thursday, September 28th, 2017, the Everyone listens to women when they speak around here edition. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, good. I'm glad you got my joke. I'm Emily Bazelon. I'm hosting this week because I have no idea where David is. And actually, I don't even know where John Dickerson is, but it's okay because we are staging a takeover of the Slate Political Gab Fest with Ross Douthit, New York Times columnist and new resident of New Haven. Welcome, Ross. So glad to help you. |
| 0:39.4 | Thank you for having me. It's good to be the token mail for once. That's right. That's right. |
| 0:44.5 | That's why I picked the title I did for the show. I'm glad you appreciated that. And we're also |
| 0:49.2 | joined by Ruth Marcus, who is the deputy editorial page editor for the Washington Post and also a columnist there. |
| 0:55.2 | Hey, Ruth, so glad to have you. |
| 0:56.9 | Hey, nice to be here. |
| 0:58.8 | And Ross, just don't talk over us. |
| 1:01.6 | You know what happens then. |
| 1:03.9 | I almost did. |
| 1:05.3 | But I stopped myself. |
| 1:06.9 | But actually, it's very hard to do the show without talking over people. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm the principal offender. We should say that the quote at the top do the show without talking over people. I'm the principal offender. |
| 1:11.0 | We should say that the quote at the top of the show is from Nancy Pelosi at a meeting this week. |
| 1:16.7 | And Ruth also talked about it in a column, which everyone should go read. |
| 1:20.7 | Okay. On this week's Gab Fest, first, the Republicans say goodbye to the latest health care bill and they say hello to tax reform, or per President Trump, we can just call it tax cuts. |
| 1:32.2 | Second, Roy Moore won the runoff for the Republican nomination for Senate in Alabama. |
| 1:38.2 | And there are other strange Republican doings going on like Bob Corker, Senator of Tennessee, retiring. So is the Republican |
| 1:45.7 | Party sailing in to a new and promising future or is at the brink of an abyss? And third, |
| 1:52.2 | President Trump uses some of the country's top athletes to jumpstart the culture wars and to distract |
| 1:58.3 | us from the terrible news coming out of Puerto Rico. Or maybe that's just a terrible way to frame this topic, and Ross and Ruth will come |
| 2:04.7 | up with a better one for me when we get to it. |
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