Political Gabfest - The “Safe and Special Place” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2016
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson examine what President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet appointments could portend, if Mike Pence was mistreated at a recent Hamilton performance and if Trump could cause real harm to the free press.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Best for November 24th, 2016, the Safe and Special Place Edition. |
| 0:17.2 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.1 | John Dickerson of Face the Nation is here with me in |
| 0:24.3 | the Slate DC studio. Hello, John. Hello, David. John is resplendent in an orange tie. It is |
| 0:31.2 | very beautiful. There's not a yellow America or red America. There's just an orange America. |
| 0:39.2 | And from the New York Times magazine is Emily Bazelon, who is in New Haven, probably. |
| 0:45.3 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:47.3 | Hello. |
| 0:47.9 | I'm wearing purple. |
| 0:48.9 | That's across the color wheel from orange, isn't it? |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.7 | Really? |
| 0:53.2 | I don't know. I don't know how the color wheel works. |
| 0:55.7 | No, that's wrong. It's orange and blue and yellow and purple. I take it back. |
| 1:01.0 | But you also represent there's no red America or blue America, just purple America in your case. So you're even more accurate to the times. |
| 1:11.4 | On this week's Gab Fest, on this week's Gab Fest, a lot of white guys named Mike. |
| 1:16.9 | We will examine Trump's appointments and consider what they portend for his administration. |
| 1:22.1 | Then was one of those mics. |
| 1:24.1 | Mike Pence mistreated when he went to see Hamilton. |
| 1:30.4 | What is the obligation of the citizen towards our elected leaders? If you disagree, towards our rulers. Then could |
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