Political Gabfest - The "What Happened” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon discuss President Trump's potential to destroy the two-party system, criticism of Hillary Clinton's new book and Franklin Foer joins in to talk about the power and influence of large technology companies.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:09.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 14th, 2017, The What Happened Edition? |
| 0:16.0 | I am David Plotz of Alice. |
| 0:17.6 | Mr. here with me in Washington, D.C., John Dickerson, face the nation. Hello, John. |
| 0:23.0 | Hi. And Emily Beaselbub of the New York Times magazine is in New York. Hello, Emily Bazelon. |
| 0:31.9 | Hello, hello. So you added punctuation to Hillary Clinton's book title, I noticed. Making it your own with that question mark. |
| 0:38.7 | Yes. I'm not sure how I said it. I just sort of said it loud. Mostly I said it loudly. |
| 0:44.4 | You said it as a question. That's true. I guess that's right. Is it not a question? I don't think I noticed that. |
| 0:52.0 | There's no punctuation. You can take it any way you want, man. |
| 0:56.2 | That's right. |
| 0:57.0 | Your narrative is your narrative and my narrative is my narrative. |
| 0:59.6 | Oh, wow. |
| 1:01.8 | That's groovy on this groovy show. |
| 1:04.4 | It could also explain what happened to the beginning of this show. |
| 1:10.5 | On this week's Gab Fest, is Donald Trump an independent president for January beginning of this show. |
| 1:15.6 | On this week's Gab Fest, is Donald Trump an independent president forging a new path that will destroy the two-party system? |
| 1:19.2 | Then Hillary Clinton's election memoir arrives. |
| 1:23.4 | Does she deserve the beating she's taking for it in some quarters and the praise and others? |
| 1:28.5 | More beating than praise from what I've seen. |
| 1:31.2 | Then a new book from Frank Four warns that big tech companies are changing how culture is made, how we think, who we are. |
| 1:40.5 | Is it all as bad as he said? |
| 1:43.5 | It is hashtag alarmism. |
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