The Presidency as a Consumer Experience (Part 2) | The 21st Century
Whistlestop: Presidential History and Trivia
Slate Podcasts
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
This episode of Whistlestop travels to October 19, 2016 as Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the defeated GOP aspirant for the presidency, is asking his party not to play by the modern rules of politics.
Whistlestop is Slate’s podcast about presidential history. Hosted by Political Gabfest host John Dickerson, each installment will revisit memorable moments from America's presidential carnival.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to whistlestop, a podcast of the presidency. I'm John Dickerson of 60 Minutes. |
| 0:09.7 | Magazine readers turning the rewarding pages of a worthy periodical in 1924 would have found themselves face-to-face with an advertisement for the RCA Radiola Super Heterodyne Radio. |
| 0:23.1 | In the ad for the brown wooden box with knobs the size of gem donuts, they would have read |
| 0:27.5 | the following copy. |
| 0:29.5 | No influence needed this year for a gallery seat at the big political conventions. |
| 0:34.0 | Get it all with a Radiola Super heterodyne when the delegates march in their |
| 0:39.6 | banners streaming when the bands play and the galleries cheer be there with the superhecht |
| 0:44.9 | hear the pros and cons as they fight their way to a platform for you hear the speeches for the |
| 0:51.0 | favorite sons the sudden stillness when the voice of a great speaker |
| 0:55.8 | rings out, the stamp and whistle and shrill of competitive cheering, hear the actual |
| 1:02.1 | nomination of a president. It used to be all of the delegates' wives and the big folks of politics. |
| 1:09.4 | Now it's for everybody. Listen in. Get it all with the newest |
| 1:15.1 | radiola. This is part two of our examination of campaigns as a consumer experience and what |
| 1:22.3 | effect they might have on governing. Our whistle stop today is October 19th, 2016. |
| 1:28.4 | Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio, the defeated GOP aspirant for the presidency, |
| 1:32.8 | is asking his party not to play by the modern rules of politics. |
| 1:37.9 | WikiLeaks has disseminated damaging information about Hillary Clinton, and Senator Rubio |
| 1:42.3 | will not discuss it. |
| 1:45.8 | He doesn't want his party to either. Our intelligence officials who are not partisan people have told us this is the work |
| 1:50.2 | of a foreign intelligence agency. And we cannot be a country where foreign intelligence agencies |
| 1:56.7 | can interfere or influence our political process. What I would say to my Republican colleagues, |
| 2:02.0 | some of whom may be disappointed by the position I've taken is today, it's them, |
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