Slow Burn Live: The Kingdom and the Power
Slow Burn
Slate Audio
4.6 • 25.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2018
⏱️ 51 minutes
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A special edition of Slow Burn features Leon Neyfakh live on stage. In the second of two episodes, Leon was joined in by Emily Bazelon, Wesley Morris, Dan Savage, and Andi Zeisler to explore lingering questions about the Clinton legacy. Plus, Clara Jeffery discusses Hillary Clinton.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:04.5 | I just feel much more aware of abuses of power. |
| 0:08.4 | And while I think it's good to complicate it and kind of play around with it, |
| 0:12.6 | I think she had so much less power than him. |
| 0:15.2 | Oh, absolutely, yes. |
| 0:16.4 | You do think she had less power with him? |
| 0:17.8 | Oh, so much less. |
| 0:18.8 | You know, if the president of the United States wants a blowjob, who's supposed to suck his dick? |
| 0:23.9 | Another president of the United States? |
| 0:25.9 | He was, Jimmy Carter was supposed to drop by and give Clinton a blowjob. |
| 0:31.7 | Hey, Slow Burn listeners. |
| 0:33.4 | This is the second of two podcast episodes featuring conversations from a series of live events that we put on at the end of season two. |
| 0:40.8 | The previous episode of the podcast was concerned with this question of how inevitable the political turmoil of the 1990s was and how much of it was a function of chance. |
| 0:50.1 | Today, we're going to look at the power dynamics between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. |
| 0:54.2 | You'll hear from a bunch of interesting people on that issue, including sex columnist and podcast host Dan Savage and the New York Times magazine's Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:03.0 | But first, a conversation about someone we didn't get to spend much time on in Slow Burn Season 2, Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:09.8 | During our event in San Francisco, I talked to Clara Jeffrey, |
| 1:13.4 | editor-in-chief of Mother Jones, but how the scandal affected Hillary Clinton and her role in |
| 1:18.3 | the saga. Here is our conversation. So a couple days ago, or maybe a couple weeks ago at this point, Hillary Clinton was on TV and she was asked this question about whether her husband had committed a abuse of power in his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. |
| 1:40.3 | People got really upset with her. So I want to start by asking you whether you think it's fair or legitimate to hold against Hillary Clinton the things that Bill Clinton did. |
| 1:51.3 | Let's start with the actual incident because she was asked in hindsight, what would you say about this relationship that your husband had with Monica and was essentially applying |
| 2:03.2 | the power differential between President of the United States and 22-year-old unpaid intern, |
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