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The Gist

Sarah Manguso's Words to Live By

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Only a fire can prove what survives a fire. Well, no, says Sarah Manguso. It only proves what would survive that fire. Manguso, an essayist and poet, offers modern wisdom and witticisms in her new book 300 Arguments.  Plus, Donald Trump gets the Ken Burns treatment.    Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at slate.com/gistplus. Join the discussion of this episode on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.4

It's Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017, from slated to the gist on Mike Pesca, and James Comey,

0:12.8

speaking before the Senate Intel Committee, made an interesting admission.

0:16.8

It wasn't his forceful explanation of why it decided to break with the tradition, what

0:21.2

others have called the policy, of not disclosing FBI investigations so close to an election.

0:27.3

That I'm sure he's proud of.

0:29.6

He did it to preserve the reputation of the FBI.

0:33.0

They had two poor choices to disclose or to conceal.

0:38.5

What others may call wait and see or use discretion, but he called conceal.

0:42.2

Given the two choices, disclose or conceal, he chose to put it all out there, and there

0:48.0

in lies his interesting admission.

0:50.4

Listen to this phrase.

0:51.8

Look, this was terrible.

0:53.8

It makes me mildly nauseous to think that we might have had some impact on the election.

0:58.5

mildly nauseous, James Comey thereby admitting to human frailty, fallibility, that it was

1:04.7

not going by intellect or divine guidance, but to some extent by his gut.

1:10.2

And his gut was telling him something back, something like, oh, gah.

1:14.6

But really, I wouldn't have done what James Comey did, but I think reasonable people can

1:18.3

disagree about what he did.

1:20.1

Hillary Clinton is not such a reasonable person.

1:23.6

Or let's put it this way, to her the reason she lost was James Comey.

1:28.7

She told Christiana M. Por yesterday that if the election were October 27th, she would

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