Political Gabfest - The “A Liberal is a Conservative Who’s Been to Jail” Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the bipartisan criminal justice reform bill, Michael Flynn’s legal troubles, and new revelations about Russian trolling and Facebook’s privacy violations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate, Philadelphia Gab Fest for December 20th, 2018. |
| 0:15.6 | The Liberal is a conservative who's been to jail edition. |
| 0:19.6 | I am David Plotz of Atlas of |
| 0:21.3 | D.C. I'm in Washington, D.C., where there is massive pre-Christmas jackhammering behind me. |
| 0:27.7 | I think they're perhaps taking down a whole street to bring in a new holiday Christmas tree |
| 0:32.7 | or something, and there's huge amounts of noise, so pardon that noise. |
| 0:36.8 | Fortunately, most of the noise |
| 0:38.6 | you will hear will be the dulcet tones of john dickerson of cbs this morning who's in new york hello |
| 0:43.5 | john how who was it who's stable the word dulcet at tones and can we unbind the two uh there's so many |
| 0:52.7 | little pairings like that. |
| 0:56.4 | Stark contrast has been bothering me a lot. |
| 0:58.7 | Every contrast is stark. |
| 1:00.1 | It's like annoying. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.3 | Totally. |
| 1:03.9 | What would be a kind of contrast that would not be stark? |
| 1:05.4 | A. |
| 1:07.0 | No. It wouldn't really be a soft contrast. |
| 1:08.8 | It wouldn't say that. |
| 1:11.8 | Not very much of a contrast. |
| 1:13.9 | That's not very, um, but the contrast is, is it contrast definitionally stark? |
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