The Clinton Impeachment | 6. God Mode

Slow Burn

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Politics, Society & Culture, History, News, Documentary

4.6 • 25.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Some of the most withering criticism of Clinton came from a coalition of conservative activists whose political views were bound up with their faith. The influence of the Christian right within the Republican Party had been growing steadily since the Reagan years. When the Lewinsky story broke, the movement’s leaders pounced on it with righteous vigor. In the sixth episode of our series on Clinton’s impeachment, Leon Neyfakh charts the religious right’s campaign against the president and how it failed. This episode is member-exclusive. Listen to it now by joining Slate Plus. As a member, you'll unlock full, ad-free access to Slow Burn and your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the Slow Burn show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/slowburnplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	NPR's Mar Eliason was scheduled to interview Bill Clinton about his
0:36.1	upcoming State of the Union address.
0:38.3	The biggest news for us was what he was going to say.
0:40.8	I even had a little scoop on that. He was going to say I even had a little scoop on that he was going to say something about
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0:54.0	And then, the day of, we wake up and read the post and we see the story about Monica Lewinsky.
1:01.0	And we looked at each other and we went, oh yuck, I guess we have to ask him about this.
1:07.0	The notion that Clinton had been romantically involved with the former White House intern
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