Political Gabfest - The "Last Week Was Awful and This Week I Have to Go to Cleveland" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Live from Washington D.C., David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson
discuss the terrible recent U.S. shootings and they debate if we're
all to blame for politics' failures and what to expect at the
Republican National Convention.
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| 0:00.0 | Our live political gab fest is brought you by Audible. Get unlimited access to Audible's channels by going to audible.com slash originals. And while you're there, check out their new channel series. Presidents are people too. |
| 0:11.2 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 14th, 2016. |
| 0:29.7 | The last week was awful, and next week I have to go to Cleveland edition. |
| 0:40.3 | We're live in front of the largest crowd in Gab Fest history at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm David Flotz of Atlas Obscura. To my left in most things, and on stage is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello, David. Hello, everybody. |
| 1:01.4 | And to Emily's left, but only to establish our feng shui, is John Dickerson, host of Face the Nation. |
| 1:04.1 | Thanks. |
| 1:13.7 | On this week's Gab Fest, the murder of five white police officers in Dallas, the murder of two African-American men by police officers in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, |
| 1:16.9 | how much worse can everything get? |
| 1:20.6 | Then a brilliant article in the Atlantic diagnosis, |
| 1:23.2 | the illness at the heart of American politics, |
| 1:26.6 | why Donald Trump is not to blame for our political collapse. |
| 1:27.7 | You are. We, we are our political collapse. You are. |
| 1:29.2 | We. We are. |
| 1:30.5 | No, them. They are. |
| 1:35.5 | Then the Republican Convention is next week in Cleveland. |
| 1:36.3 | What will happen? |
| 1:38.2 | How many times will Donald Trump speak? |
| 1:40.7 | Will any Republican politicians actually be there? |
| 1:46.8 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter, including a Bazelon meditation on Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| 1:48.8 | Oh, I got like a special promo. |
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