Semi-Fascist

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the inexplicable success of Trump’s special master gambit in the Espionage Act investigation, Biden calling out anti-democratic elements of the electorate; and the roots of the Jackson, MS water crisis. Here are this week’s chatters: John: Professor Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius for The Great Courses: Turning Points in Modern History Emily: Jerusalem Demsas for The Atlantic: “What’s Causing Black Flight?” David: Pepperidge Farm Farmhouse Hearty White Bread Listener chatter from Cynthia Lerner: Ruth Marcus for The Washington Post: “I Usually Ignore The Sexism And Ageism Directed at Me. Now I’m Calling It Out.” For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment Emily and David interview John about his new streaming nightly news show, CBS News Primetime. Tweet us your questions and chatters @SlateGabfest or email us at [email protected]. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Research by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.2	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest.
0:46.7	For September 8th, 2022, it's the semi-fascist edition.
0:51.8	I am David Plott of CityCast here in Washington, DC, and I'm joined by John Dickerson of CBS
0:59.9	News in New York, who has a new job we're going to hear about in Slate Plus.
1:03.8	Hello, John.
1:04.8	Hello, David.
1:08.8	Whoa, what is that theme music, John?
1:12.9	John has his own theme song.
1:16.0	Excellent.
1:17.0	I try to get them to do the pu-pu-pu-pu, but nobody would follow me up on it.
1:21.6	I thought it's crashing and inexplicable.
1:25.1	And of course, that's Emily Bazelon with the New York Times Magazine and Yale University
1:28.1	Law School in New Haven.
1:29.7	Hello, Emily.
1:30.7	Hey, David.
1:32.2	This week on the Gap Fest, we'll a special master in the Trump classified documents
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