The Parent Police

The Gist

Mike Pesca

News, Politics, Arts, Daily News

4.4 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, the Nancy Pelosi nonstory (spoiler alert: she’s going to win the speakership) is distracting us from the Trump administration’s latest misdeeds. In the interview, Kim Brooks received 100 hours of community service in 2011 for leaving her son alone in a car during a quick errand. Then she connected with other parents who’d been policed by their community in harmful ways. Do Americans worry so much about the safety of children that they’re blind to common sense? Brooks explores this, and the dangers of involving the police too quickly, in her new book, Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear. In the Spiel, no, the missionary to North Sentinel Island did not deserve to die, and it’s appalling to suggest he did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This podcast may have explicit content and also has this implicit request.
0:04.8	If you follow me on Twitter, why not follow the gist at SlateGist.
0:09.8	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:13.9	It's Wednesday, November 28, 2018 from Slated to the Gist on Mike Pesca.
0:18.1	Hey, you know what? I don't need much more reporting on Nancy Pelosi's speakership.
0:23.5	She has no opponent. She has the support of 203 out of 239 Democrats.
0:30.0	She shall once more be speaker. The intrigue is not intriguing.
0:35.2	Seth Molten might not like it, but Seth Molten will just have to live with it.
0:39.8	Can we all sit with that? The disappointment and discomfort of Seth Molten?
0:44.4	Is it okay if we leave Representative Molten a bit peeved?
0:48.2	Because you know there is another branch of government.
0:50.4	And in that branch we've got kept in crazy pants being a lunatic.
0:53.8	Oh yeah, I know they're co-equal branches of government.
0:56.3	But when the Hill newspaper, as I think of it, the Hill consistently incendiary
1:00.8	misleading Twitter account, headlines their story, quote,
1:04.8	Democrats overwhelmingly nominate Pelosi as speaker amid rebellion.
1:11.2	I just have to ask, rebellion? What rebellion?
1:15.1	Not an uprising? Barely a dissent.
1:17.8	But there is an actual coup and an actual coup, down the street.
1:22.4	As Donald Trump, let's go through a few of the latest things.
1:26.0	He threatened a private industry if it laid off employees,
1:28.3	which it's going to do because of his tariffs.
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