Political Gabfest - The “Red Dawn” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the appointment of Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State and the possibility that Russian hackers could be responsible for the results of the Presidential election. Ta-Nehisi Coates joins in to discuss his recent essay “My President Was Black.”
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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 December 15th, 2016, the Red Dawn edition. |
| 0:16.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura, Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:18.9 | We're in the same room. |
| 0:19.9 | Yay. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:20.7 | In Slate's New York studio of the New York Times Magazine still, yes? |
| 0:24.6 | Indeed. Good. |
| 0:26.6 | Not fired yet. Not fired yet. That's everyone's motto. |
| 0:31.3 | Exactly. |
| 0:34.3 | John Dickerson, you still hosting Face the Nation, John? |
| 0:37.4 | I am. I am. |
| 0:39.7 | Are you in D.C.? Where are you? I'm in D.C. I'm in this lovely studio without just all by myself. |
| 0:46.8 | We miss you. |
| 0:48.2 | Well, I miss you. |
| 0:49.4 | On this week's scabfest, the Russian hacking scandal and President-elect Trump's appalling response to it. |
| 0:56.7 | Then the selection of Rex Tillerson as the presumptive secretary of state. |
| 1:01.3 | What kind of secretary of state would he be? |
| 1:03.5 | What did the selection process tell us about Trump? |
| 1:06.6 | Then Tanahazi Coates of the Atlantic will join us to talk about his new cover story on Obama as a black president, Tonahasse, always a great colleague to have on the show. That'll be fun. Plus, we will have cocktail chatter. And for Slate Plus, should you go to journalism school, that'll be a narrow cast topic. But it will take larger issues. So even if you're not planning to go to journalism school, you're not going to journalism school. That'll be a narrow cast topic. But it will take larger issues. |
| 1:29.6 | So even if you're not planning to go to journalism school, you might want to listen to that. |
| 1:32.8 | And if you are not yet a Slate Plus member, go to slate.com slash gabfest plus. |
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