Political Gabfest - The “You Can Get the Baby Out of Here” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2016
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson, joined by Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post, discuss the weekly delights of Donald Trump, the role of gender in this election and how recent voting rights cases could impact this year's election outcomes.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 4th, 2016, the You Can Get the Baby Out of Here edition. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm Emily Bazelon. I am a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine. Does |
| 0:23.0 | David usually say where he works? I can't remember. Anyway. Yeah, he says he's, yeah. Okay. So that was |
| 0:28.1 | correct. And that they are helping me out already is John Dickerson, who of course is the host of Face |
| 0:33.5 | the Nation and the author of Whistle Stop, an amazing book about politics, past and present. |
| 0:40.2 | If you haven't ordered it, I'm not sure you count as a true GabFest fan, and you really need to go out and do that. |
| 0:45.3 | Hey, John. |
| 0:46.3 | Hey, that was good. Thank you. |
| 0:48.5 | Very powerful and coercive. |
| 0:50.9 | I like that. |
| 0:51.3 | Coercive, heartfelt, too. |
| 0:53.2 | And we are also joined today in David's absence by |
| 0:56.2 | Ruth Marcus, who is a Washington Post columnist and deputy editorial page editor. Hey, Ruth, we're so glad to have you. |
| 1:03.2 | Hey, Emily, I'm so glad to be back and with you this time. Yeah, and the last time, as you were just reminding me, |
| 1:08.4 | David tried to incite a feud, division, by pitting us against each other. So really, as you were just reminding me, David tried to incite a feud, division, by pitting |
| 1:12.8 | us against each other. So really, as you were just saying, what I should do is try to get you |
| 1:18.1 | to, you know, now compete in some way with David. But I'm not going to do that because I'm |
| 1:22.2 | Because as you pointed out, Emily, that's not you and David can just be his own judge of his own |
| 1:27.3 | conduct. |
| 1:28.0 | Precisely. |
| 1:28.8 | You and I are above that. |
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