Going Rouge!
Going Rouge!
Not “Going Rogue,” but “Going Rouge”—the near namesake to Sarah Palin’s memoir, published the very same day—chronicles the apoplectic outrage and satire that roiled from pundits on the left in response to the then Alaskan Governor and 2008 Republican Vice Presidential nominee. Patt talks with contributors to the collection—Slate’s senior editors Emily Bazelon and Dahlia Lithwick wax poetic about the 2008 campaign trail and the phenomenon that is Sarah Palin.
Guests:
Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate and co-editor of DoubleX, Slate's spinoff site for women; she is also the Truman Capote Fellow at Yale Law School and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine
Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor at Slate and a columnist for Newsweek; her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post, and Commentary, among other places
- Patt Morrison for December 9, 2009
- Pouring cold water on California’s thinking about water policy
- TARP Cop: what comes next for the unpopular bailout program?
- The highest stained glass ceiling
- Going Rouge!
Also on this episode
Events
Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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