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Pantsuit Politics

The Briefcase: Worn Out

Pantsuit Politics

Lemonada Media

News, News Commentary, Politics, Society & Culture

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of the Briefcase, we try to bring a little nuance and a whole lot of grace to the Clintons and the Cincinnati Zoo incident. We also talk about the idea that "a vote for a third party is a vote for Hillary Clinton." Spoiler alert: Beth strongly disagrees.  Show Notes:  Shaming is Easy; Mourning Is Hard Did it Have to Be So Hard?  Sarah's Been Cheated On Don't Fall For the Lesser of Two Evils Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This week has illustrated how social media and the cable news cycle can wear us down.

0:05.0

Today we try to inject a little nuance into the continuing sagas surrounding the Clintons, Trump, and the Cincinnati Zoo.

0:14.0

This is Sarah from the left and Beth from the right.

0:17.0

You're listening to Pantsuit Politics.

0:19.0

No shouting, no insults, plenty of new lives.

0:30.0

Welcome and thank you to our new subscriber Megan and as always to Nicolette Page and Sydney.

0:36.0

Before we start, I want to apologize to the Pantsuit Politics world for what I'm calling the cursed episode on Tuesday.

0:44.0

So in addition to not having Sarah for the episode, I recorded it with Strupp Throat, had a number of technical problems and wrote down the wrong name of our listener who inspired the episode.

0:55.0

So Lindsay and Colorado, I am so sorry for that mistake. Thank you very much for the message and to everyone who downloaded it and only got part of the episode.

1:05.0

Like I'm just sorry it was cursed. I hope that it didn't bring any like bad juju into your life because that's how damaging I feel the whole situation around my week has been.

1:14.0

And I got simultaneous strepthroat which I think is super weird.

1:19.0

That's not helpful when you do a podcast. I just want to say to the universe, like if you could not attack both of us with strepthroat at one time, that would be awesome.

1:27.0

I mean, I feel like this is not the first time we both got sick at the same like in the same week. What's going on?

1:32.0

I pass it through our microphones.

1:34.0

I mean, you would think that we're around each other all the time with that kind of thing happening, but no, like hundreds of miles between us. I don't know.

1:41.0

That's weird.

1:42.0

All right, so today we're going to tackle more on the Clintons voting third party since in any zoo, all this stuff, this great feedback we've we get from everybody.

1:51.0

So we're going to we're going to kick off Friday feedback with some two really wonderful emails we got about Hillary and Bill and some of the comments we made.

2:00.0

And I think what the last briefcase you want to start Beth.

2:03.0

We got a great message from someone who wanted to remain anonymous. I really want to read like the whole message, but I'm going to try to edit a little bit just for time's sake.

2:13.0

So she writes this morning I listened to the Friday feedback show where you talked about the David Brooks article on Hillary and you mentioned the way that the media treated Hillary during and after the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

2:23.0

It really had an emotional nerve with me because I was one of the women who judge Hillary so hard for staying with Bill.

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