Culture Gabfest - Slate: The Culture Gabfest, The Mooney Clooney Edition

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🗓️ 8 September 2010

⏱️ 46 minutes

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In this week's Culture Gabfest, our critics Stephen Metcalf, Dana Stevens and Julia Turner discuss George Clooney's latest flick The American, income inequality with Slate's own Timothy Noah and the phone hacking scandal in the Murdoch media empire.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:06.0	This week's episode of Slate's Culture Gab Fest is brought to you by Carbonite, the leader in online backup.
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0:23.2	That offer code is Slate.
0:26.9	I'm Stephen Metcalfin.
0:28.3	This is the Slate Culture Gab Fest, the Mooney-Cluny edition.
0:31.8	It's Wednesday, September 8th, 2010.
0:34.4	On today's program, The American, with George Clooney,
0:39.2	Income Inequality in America with Slate's own Tim Noah, and News Corp calls bullshit on the New York Times calling
0:44.8	bullshit on the news of the world.
0:47.4	Journalism joining me.
0:49.1	Today, of course, is Julia Turner, Slate's deputy editor.
0:52.3	Hello, Julia.
0:53.0	Hi, Steve.
0:53.6	It's so nice to be back in Culture Festland. Yeah, it's great. It's great. Hey, Dana. Dana Stevens, I'm sorry, we're joined also by Dana Stevens Slate's film critic. Hey, Dana. Hey, Steve, good to have you back. How to go, filling in. Let me put it this way. I'm very happy that you're at Mike number three or whatever your mic is called.
1:11.4	I'm picturing you as like a hearty pioneer woman who like laid in stores for the winter.
1:17.5	Maybe it's because you're wearing like a, you've got like a pioneer chic shirt on, I think.
1:21.8	It's probably the bonnet.
1:23.5	Yeah.
1:24.7	All right.
1:25.2	Well, let's dive right in.
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