Political Gabfest - The “Your Word is Your Bond” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2016
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John
Dickerson discuss the royalty and the squires of the Republican
Convention and they consider the work place norms of Fox News in
light of allegations of sexual misconduct, recently brought against
longtime Fox CEO Roger Ailes.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for July 21st, 2016. |
| 0:14.6 | The Your Word is Your Bond edition. |
| 0:16.8 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:18.9 | I'm here in Washington alone because Emily Bazelon at the New York Times Magazine is at home in New Haven. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. And John Dickerson of Face the Nation is, I don't know, I can't imagine where he is. Where could he be? He's on vacation this week. On vacation, right. It's a slow week. Where are you, John? |
| 0:39.1 | Exactly at this moment. |
| 0:41.0 | On a hunch, I went to Poughkeepsie. |
| 0:46.7 | At this moment, I am in the Radisson Hotel across from the Quick and Lones Arena, where last night Ted Cruz had an exciting moment of serendipity. |
| 0:52.8 | We will talk about that on this show. |
| 0:55.1 | On this week's Gab Fest, a convention gala. |
| 0:57.4 | We'll spend our first segment reveling in the biggest, the big people in Cleveland, |
| 1:03.9 | what to make of Ted Cruz's non-endorsement, of Mike Pence, of Melania. |
| 1:09.6 | Our second segment will talk more about the Squires of Cleveland, to use Emily's nice phrase, |
| 1:15.3 | the lackeys and the screamers, the Giuliani's and the Christie's and the Scott Bayos. |
| 1:20.2 | Then our third segment, we'll talk about the extraordinary spectacle unfolding at Fox News, |
| 1:25.1 | where Roger Ailes appears to be on the brink of an exit. |
| 1:27.8 | We will have cocktail chatter and in Slate Plus. |
| 1:30.4 | We'll talk about the gross Twitter behavior aimed at the actress and comedian Leslie Jones |
| 1:36.1 | and how much does Twitter need to police itself against racists and sexists and other jerks. |
| 1:48.7 | If you are not yet a Slate Plus member, you can get it by going to slate.com slash gabfest plus. |
| 1:50.1 | The Republican convention is unfolding in Ohio in a kind of fever dream. |
| 1:55.0 | As we are taping on Thursday morning, Donald Trump has been nominated, but he has not yet |
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