The Boys Club on the Bus

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

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🗓️ 6 December 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On The Gist, why Alabama's decrepitude is not incidental to Roy Moore's competitive bid for Senate. In the interview, Russell Shorto tells the stories of six people living through the Revolutionary War—one is George Washington; the other five, you've probably never heard of. Shorto's book is Revolution Song. In the Spiel, a counterpoint to Jill Filipovic's New York Times column arguing that the sexual harassers who covered the election threw the whole thing to Donald Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me be perfectly explicit in this podcast.
0:03.6	Okay, here it goes.
0:05.0	["Balance of the World"]
0:09.2	It's Tuesday, December 5th, 2017, from Slate.
0:12.0	It's the gist I, Mike Pesca.
0:14.0	Yesterday, Donald Trump, President of the United States,
0:16.7	endorsed serial child molester Roy Moore for Senate, Alabama.
0:21.5	A couple of extenuating circumstances.
0:23.7	One, more denies it.
0:25.2	He totally denies it.
0:27.2	Also, bolstering this claim was the follow-up argument
0:29.9	offered by the President.
0:31.4	So, you know...
0:33.4	He said 40 years ago this did not happen.
0:36.4	So, you know...
0:38.0	The so-you-know hung out there.
0:39.8	Presidential scholars studied it.
0:41.7	Legal scholars parsed it.
0:43.5	White House lawyer John Dowd claimed authorship.
0:46.5	Then denied it.
0:47.5	What did it mean?
0:48.7	Well, yesterday Roy Moore told us what it meant.
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