The “Get Me Another General” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2017
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz and Kirsten Powers of CNN discuss Afghanistan strategy, Mitch McConnell’s presidential silent treatment and bail reform.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.9 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 24th, 2017, the Get Me Another General Edition. |
| 0:16.4 | I am David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. I'm finally back after my endless and delightful vacation in Oregon. |
| 0:23.8 | John Dickerson, however, is now off. |
| 0:26.1 | But so it goes. |
| 0:27.0 | It happens. |
| 0:28.0 | It doesn't really matter. |
| 0:29.1 | Life goes on. |
| 0:30.5 | The show continues better without him. |
| 0:33.5 | They always say such, like, mean things about each other. |
| 0:36.8 | Whoever's away is entirely disposable. |
| 0:58.3 | Did you say mean things about me last week? I hope you did. No, but we had a similar instinct of like, oh, it's fine. Who really cares? Exactly. That, of course, is Emily Vazlon of the New York Times Magazine. She's in New York today. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And making a return visit to the Gab Fest is Kirsten Powers, the CNN political analyst, and USA Today columnist. |
| 1:00.5 | She is with Emily in New York. Hello, Kirsten. |
| 1:02.4 | Good morning. I'm so happy to be here. |
| 1:12.6 | On this week's Gab Fest, the president reconsideres his Afghan policy and reaches exactly the same warlike belligerent conclusions as his predecessors reached, |
| 1:18.8 | given the same situation. Then the feud between President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will it have long-lasting impact? Is it more than just summer pleasure for all of us? |
| 1:25.7 | And then a truly just cause is getting it to do finally the fight |
| 1:31.0 | to get rid of cash bail in New Jersey and other states. Plus we will have cocktail chatter. |
| 1:36.4 | And we have an announcement of two live shows coming up, two, two of them on October 25th, 2017 at the Merle Reskin Theater in Chicago, |
| 1:47.6 | we will be doing a live Chicago Gab Fest. |
| 1:51.9 | And on December 6th, 2017, at the Wilbur Theater, we will be doing our political |
| 1:57.0 | gab fest conundrum show live in Boston back at the Wilbur again. |
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