What Next - Florida’s Most Powerful Flack
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🗓️ 26 April 2022
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Summary
How one spokesperson with an itchy Twitter-finger is sparking a moral panic.
Guest: Ben Mathis-Lilley, a senior writer at Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | A couple months back, this show called PBD podcast dedicated a whole two hours to bantering |
| 0:13.0 | back and forth with a person who, at the time, I had never heard of. |
| 0:18.0 | Gentlemen, we're live. |
| 0:20.1 | Gentlemen and a lady, we have here David. |
| 0:22.6 | Their guest was a woman named Christina Pusha. |
| 0:25.2 | We got Governor Ron DeSantis's press secretary, Christina Pusha, here with us. |
| 0:30.7 | Thank you for making a time for being here. |
| 0:32.3 | And thank you so much for having me here. |
| 0:34.4 | Christina Pusha had been working for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for less than a year |
| 0:39.6 | at the time of this recording. |
| 0:41.4 | And let me just say it's a little weird for a Governor's press flag to end up as the subject |
| 0:45.6 | of an extended interview in the first place. |
| 0:48.4 | Usually, being a press secretary means working behind the scenes, being someone who gently nudges |
| 0:54.2 | a politician in front of a microphone or cleans up their verbal snafu's. |
| 0:59.7 | But it's clear, listening to Pusha, she sees her job a little differently. |
| 1:03.8 | How much leeway do you have? |
| 1:05.8 | Meaning, you have to represent them. |
| 1:07.4 | How much you say, listen, I trust you just do your thing. |
| 1:09.8 | We've talked about this or it's like, stick to the script. |
| 1:12.5 | This is what it is. |
| 1:13.5 | If you screw up, how does it work your job? |
| 1:16.8 | Well, I think it's different for every politician. |
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