Political Gabfest - The "Textbook Definition of Racism" Edition
Political Gabfest
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4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2016
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss Donald Trump's racist
and divisive remarks, Hillary Clinton's historic position in the
Democratic party, and the debate surrounding the Stanford rape case.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for June 9th, 2016, the textbook definition of racism edition. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.4 | John Dickerson is back with me in Washington, D.C., of Face the Nation. Hello, John. You were gone last week. I was gone. It was my colleague said, you know, you should tell Emily and David where you are, because they said on the campus they didn't know where you are as we were walking to go interview Donald Trump. So I was like, well, I'll let them know. But now I'm, so I'm letting you know I was in Los Angeles last week. Interviewing Donald Trump? Yeah. While, I was flying there while you guys were recording. And we're going to talk about that interview, I hope. We sure. Well, we have to just, I have, I'm not sure this is going to come up in the interview, but John had the one line in there. It just like it was so quick response when Trump said Clinton was guilty of being stupid. |
| 1:00.5 | John, like Steph Curry taking a three said if that being stupid of our crime, we'd all be in jail. |
| 1:07.1 | Is that like a thing that someone has said to you or you just came up with that? |
| 1:10.7 | No, no, it's the first, it's the first song on my folk album uh no no it's just something i deeply |
| 1:18.2 | believe being a person who does stupid things regularly it's true in fact then i saw oran hatch |
| 1:23.4 | said something about how you know i've all i've done and you know unbelievably stupid things in my life talking about some stupid you know, I've all, I've done, you know, unbelievably stupid things in my life, talking about some stupid thing Trump itself. |
| 1:30.8 | We all say stupid things and do stupid things. |
| 1:33.6 | That other voice, of course, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine, joining us from New Haven. |
| 1:39.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:41.1 | Hey, guys. |
| 1:43.2 | On this week's Gab Fest, will Donald Trump's racist assault on a federal judge cause him lasting damage? |
| 1:50.7 | It sure should, but will it? |
| 1:53.0 | Then Hillary Clinton clinches the Democratic nomination. |
| 1:56.2 | When and how will Bernie Sanders reconcile himself to that fact? |
| 2:01.2 | Then the case of Brock Turner, the Stanford rapist whose lenient sentence has outraged just about everyone. |
| 2:07.7 | Will it outrage us? |
| 2:08.9 | Probably? |
| 2:09.5 | We will. |
| 2:10.2 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. |
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