Political Gabfest - What Tucker Carlson is Saying When You’re Not Listening
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3.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
* Due to an audio issue, the original episode has been replaced.
This week, David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon discuss the year of war on Ukraine with Anne Applebaum; the smoking gun Fox News text messages; and Google’s defense of Section 230 at the Supreme Court.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Anne Applebaum and Nataliya Gumenyuk for The Atlantic: “‘They Didn’t Understand Anything, But Just Spoiled People’s Lives’”
Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic: “Biden’s Hope vs. Putin’s Lies”
Anne Applebaum for The Atlantic: “Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back”
Emily Bazelon for The New York Times Magazine: “Billionaires vs. The Press in the Era of Trump”
Jenna Russell for The New York Times: “In Vermont, a School and Artist Fight Over Murals of Slavery”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: The Kid Should See This: “How It’s Made” videos
Emily: Jill Filipovic: “Fear of a Female Body”
David: Morgan Wade; City Cast DC live
Listener chatter from Dylan O’Leary: Miles Ellingham for The Financial Times: “After Hours With 10 Foot, London’s Most Notorious Graffiti Writer”
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily discuss the artist suing to keep his mural depicting slavery on display at a school that doesn’t want it.
Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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Research by Bridgette Dunlap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:16.7 | February 23rd, 2023, the What Tucker Carlson is Saying when you're not listening... |
| 0:22.2 | ...addition. |
| 0:23.2 | I am David Plotz of CityCast, I'm in Washington, D.C., I'm joined by Emily Baselon at the |
| 0:29.7 | New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School from New Haven, hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.1 | Hey, David. |
| 0:35.0 | And John Dickerson of CDS Prime Time from New York City, hello, John. |
| 0:40.1 | Hello, David. |
| 0:41.1 | Hello, everybody out there. |
| 0:42.5 | Hello, everyone out there in TV land. |
| 0:44.5 | This week on the Gap Fest, Biden goes to Ukraine to buttress that nation on the first |
| 0:49.4 | anniversary of the Russian invasion. |
| 0:51.2 | We will talk to Ann Applebaum of the Atlantic about where the war is and where it's going. |
| 0:56.7 | Then a lawsuit against Fox has revealed that its hosts and executives knew the Trump's |
| 1:02.9 | election claims were bogus yet promoted them anyway. |
| 1:06.1 | Is that significant? |
| 1:07.6 | Then the Supreme Court hears a challenge to Section 230, which protects huge tech platforms |
| 1:13.6 | from liability when their users post to Famitory or dangerous content could Section 230 be |
| 1:20.9 | getting 86 to use two numbers together. |
| 1:23.9 | That's the course we'll have, cocktail chatter. |
| 1:25.9 | Hey, guys. |
| 1:26.9 | It's Mimi Webb. |
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