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The Gist

Take Down the Poll

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, after all of that, not a single senator changed his or her vote to back (or stop) Kavanaugh. In the interview, Jill Lepore's new book focuses in part on the marginalized groups forgotten by other American histories. It also denounces the polling industry born in the '30s, which turned politics into business even as it ignored black Americans, slowing their march for civil rights. Lepore's book is These Truths: A History of the United States. In the Spiel, don't forget that the political pendulum always swings back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

I cannot swear to you that there is swearing on this show, but there might be.

0:03.9

It's the kind of behavior I engage in.

0:10.0

It's Friday, October 5, 2018, from Slate.

0:12.4

It's the gist, I'm Mike Pasca.

0:14.7

So in the end, through the revelations, the teary testimony, the anger of bottle,

0:20.3

through the presidential praise, fine woman, credible, compelling,

0:24.0

through the presidential put down.

0:25.8

Where was the house? I don't know.

0:27.7

Who was there? I don't know.

0:30.0

From the image of a judge going from family man to calendar keeper,

0:33.9

to beach week organizer, to prodigious vomiter, to UB 40 critic,

0:38.6

to political operative, from callers to sea span,

0:41.4

to women in your workplace, to half of your Twitter feed,

0:44.4

going from tentative to gushing out recounts of past traumas,

0:49.8

to a truncated investigation, to the conjuring of Anita Hill,

0:54.0

to dealing with Avenatti, to contrasting 1991 Chuck Grassley

0:59.0

with 2018 Chuck Grassley.

1:01.4

From the hour between Ford's testimony, Chris Wallace saying Republicans were doomed

1:07.5

to the hours after Kavanaugh's testimony,

1:10.3

wherever conservative said that man was wronged.

1:14.1

From the drama of two senators crammed into a phone booth with the FBI on speaker phone,

1:19.4

to a surprise conditional investigation, to a rush job,

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