The Waves: Why Sarah Palin Won’t Go Away

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🗓️ 5 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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On this week’s episode of The Waves, we dig into why Sarah Palin is still around - and if you should be paying attention. Slate senior producer Cheyna Roth is joined by Slate senior writer Christina Cauterucci to talk about Christina’s time spent in Alaska where Palin is trying to make a political comeback in a tight race for Alaska’s lone Congressional seat. Later in the show, Christina explains why it’s necessary to keep talking about Palin after all these years. In Slate Plus, Cheyna and Christina talk about whether Sheryl Sandberg’s abortion rights donation to the ACLU is feminist. Recommendations: Christina: Cleanness by Garth Greenwell Cheyna: When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus, Daisy Rosario and Alicia Montgomery. Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Waves, Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and that Tina Fey character
0:18.9	that just won't go away.
0:21.6	Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get off our
0:25.0	minds.
0:26.0	Got me, Shayna Roth, senior producer at Slate and producer of the Waves.
0:30.8	And me, I'm Christina Kateruchi, a senior writer at Slate and host of the Slate podcast
0:36.0	outward.
0:38.4	Sarah Palin burst into many of our lives when then Republican candidate for president
0:43.3	John McCain announced that this governor from Alaska was going to be his running mate
0:48.2	for the 2008 presidential election.
0:51.1	That's the year he lost to the senator from Illinois Barack Obama.
0:55.0	She's not from these parts and she's not from Washington.
1:00.0	But when you get to know her, you're going to be as impressed as I am.
1:05.5	She's got the grit, integrity, good sense, and fierce devotion to the common good that
1:11.9	is exactly what we need in Washington today.
1:16.8	For me, because I was in college and not really yet paying attention to politics at this
1:22.2	point, the first time I even heard of Sarah Palin was as a character on Saturday Night
1:26.0	Live.
1:27.0	And because I was of a certain age, I'm pretty sure I saw him on YouTube.
1:30.5	Governor Palin, would you like to respond to Senator Biden's comments about John McCain?
1:35.4	No, thank you.
1:36.4	But I would like to talk about being an outsider.
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