Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The If You Were Keats You'd Be Dead By Now Edition

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🗓️ 23 September 2009

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics discuss the recent spate of politicians (real and fictional) on TV, led by President Obama on Letterman; Jane Campion’s new film about John Keats and Fannie Brawne; and Neil Patrick Harris as Emmy Awards host with guest June Thomas

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:05.0	The Culture Gab Fest is sponsored by Audible,
0:08.9	offering more than 50,000 downloadable audiobooks.
0:13.1	CultureFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership
0:18.3	at Audiblepodcast.com slash culture fest.
0:24.4	I'm Stephen Metcalf, and this is the Slate Culture Gap Fest. If you were Keats,
0:28.5	you'd be dead by now. Edition. This is also the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday,
0:33.4	September 23rd, 2009. On today's program, Politics on TV, Democracy and Action, or the
0:39.6	final debasement of public office, the poet John Keats and the filmmaker Jane Campion,
0:44.8	a marriage made in heaven or a hot house nightmare, and finally the Emmys with our very special
0:49.1	guest, June Thomas. Joining me today are Slate's deputy editor, Julia Turner.
0:56.3	Julia, hello.
0:57.3	Hi, Steve.
0:58.0	And our film critic, Dana Stevens.
0:59.5	Hey, Dana.
1:00.0	Hey, Steve.
1:00.7	Great to see you guys.
1:02.0	Julia, let's dive right in.
1:03.3	The first thing that occurred to me with this cluster of politicians appearing on television
1:07.4	and fictional television about politicians or indirectly about politicians
1:11.1	is Barack Obama, the president of the United States, goes to Congress in order to sell his
1:15.8	health care plan, and the decorum is famously, now famously shattered. He goes on Letterman
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