Who Is the Real Kim Jong-un?

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

On The Gist, Joe Biden had no good answers at Thursday's Democratic debate. In the interview, the Washington Post's Anna Fifield is out with a new book on Kim Jong-un. She interviewed as many people who have had even a fleeting interaction with the man as possible, in an effort to get the clearest picture yet of what the head of the Kim dynasty is really like. Fifield's book is The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un. In the Spiel, Kamala Harris has charisma, but is she a flip-flopper too? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This show may contain my tips for making money on bitcoin.
0:02.9	It won't.
0:03.7	It also may contain explicit language.
0:05.6	And it really might.
0:10.3	It's Friday, June 28th, 2019.
0:12.6	From Slate, it's the gist I'm Mike Pascon.
0:15.1	Now I'm going to direct this advice, President Biden.
0:19.0	I do not believe you are a racist.
0:21.1	That was a smart way to begin the most effective critique
0:25.5	that I can remember being used to dismantle the scaffolding
0:28.5	of a front runner and a presidential debate.
0:31.1	I do not believe you're a racist.
0:33.0	A, it primes the listener.
0:34.2	Hmm.
0:35.2	B, it preamps a defense that you know was going to be used
0:38.7	indeed it was used.
0:39.8	And C, it allows the speaker to be heard
0:42.8	because of the defensiveness of the listener.
0:46.4	This is sometimes called white fragility given how serious
0:49.0	the charge of racism is in our society.
0:51.5	I don't think it's necessarily fragile
0:53.7	to not want to be called racist.
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