Political Gabfest - The "Fox is in the White House" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the House of Representatives’ investigation of Trump, Amanda Ripley’s article about political prejudice in America, and the Fox News White House.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. I want you to eululate on a ukuley. Be hard. I think I can eululate. Hello, lo, no, lo, no. Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for March 7th, 2019. The Fox is in the White House edition. I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine is in New Haven. Howdy, Emily? |
| 0:24.2 | Hello. of Atlas Obscura. I'm in Washington, D.C. Emily Bazelon of the New York Times magazine is in New Haven. Howdy, Emily? |
| 0:24.2 | Hello. |
| 0:25.1 | And John Dickerson of CBS this morning is in CBS headquarters in Manhattan, I assume. Right, John? |
| 0:34.0 | Yes, I am. Here I am. Ensconced. |
| 0:38.4 | On this week's show, the House and the President go to war about just about everything. |
| 0:45.0 | Then we will talk to Amanda Ripley of the Atlantic about her fascinating story about the least politically prejudiced place in America and what that tells us about political bias and about |
| 0:55.0 | how important politics is in everyday life. |
| 0:58.6 | Then is Fox News no longer a legitimate news organization? |
| 1:03.1 | We will discuss an explosive story about Fox's inordinate influence on the White House. |
| 1:08.5 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:10.8 | And remember, dear Gaff, as listeners, we'll have cocktail chatter. And remember, dear |
| 1:11.9 | Gaff as listeners, we have a live show here in Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Theater on Wednesday, |
| 1:16.4 | March 27th. You can go to slate.com slash live to get tickets. It's going to be a great show, |
| 1:22.6 | and it will be doubly great because we're going to give special early access to Emily's new book, |
| 1:28.3 | a new book which just received two starred reviews, charged. |
| 1:33.2 | David, you're like the best publicist ever. |
| 1:35.4 | I'm like, need to hire you. |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:37.8 | Also, just not to be confused, it wasn't, it didn't get two stars. |
| 1:42.1 | It got reviews, it got starred reviews. It sounded for a second like you were saying got a two star. |
| 1:47.8 | Right, right. Even better. I have two helpful publicists. This is great. I'm just going to sit back. |
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