Why Sarah Palin Won’t Go Away
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
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.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and that Tina Fay character |
| 0:18.9 | that just won't go away. Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing we can't get |
| 0:24.7 | off our minds and today you've got me, Shaina Roth, senior producer at Slate and producer of The Waves. |
| 0:30.1 | And me, I'm Christina Kauterucci, a senior writer at Slate and host of the Slate Podcast Outward. |
| 0:37.0 | Sarah Palin burst into many of our lives when then Republican candidate for President John McCain announced that |
| 0:45.2 | this governor from Alaska was going to be his running mate for the 2008 presidential election. |
| 0:50.8 | That's the year he lost to the senator from Illinois, Barack Obama. |
| 0:54.0 | She's not, she's not from these parts and she's not from Washington. |
| 0:59.0 | But when you get to know her, you're going to be as impressed as I am. |
| 1:05.3 | She's got the grit, integrity, good sense, and fierce devotion to the common good |
| 1:11.8 | that is exactly what we need in Washington today. |
| 1:15.0 | For me, because I was in college and not really yet paying attention to politics at this point, |
| 1:22.0 | the first time I even heard of Sarah Palin was as a character yet paying attention to politics at this point. |
| 1:22.5 | The first time I even heard of Sarah Palin |
| 1:24.4 | was as a character on Saturday Night Live. |
| 1:27.0 | And because I was of a certain age, I'm pretty sure I saw it on YouTube. |
| 1:30.8 | Governor Palin, would you like to respond to Senator Biden's comments about John McCain? |
| 1:35.0 | No, thank you, but I would like to talk about being an outsider. |
| 1:39.0 | You see, while Senator Biden has been in Washington all these years I've been with |
| 1:46.1 | regular people hockey moms and Joe six packs and I'd also like to give a |
| 1:51.6 | shout out to the third graders of Gladys Woods Elementary who were so helpful to me in my debate prep. |
| 1:58.5 | But she was always a joke to me this this sort of mild threat because at the time I |
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