Political Gabfest - Political: The Jump the Fence Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2014
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the bungling, bullying Secret Service, the possibility that Mitt Romney may still harbor presidential ambitions, and the peculiar Senate race in Kansas.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:27.6 | Music GabFest. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for October 3rd, 2014, the Jump the Fence |
| 0:32.6 | edition. I'm David Flotz, the editor at large of Slate. I'm in Washington, D.C. On this week's show, why is President |
| 0:41.0 | Obama being protected by mall cops? We'll try to figure that out. Then, is Mitt Romney |
| 0:46.9 | actually a credible candidate for president in 2016, or is this just some elaborate prank |
| 0:52.0 | pulled by a few people in the chattering classes? |
| 0:55.1 | And then the weird Kansas Senate race in which a guy who will not say what he believes could tip the Senate toward the Democrats, |
| 1:02.6 | since they're going to lose everything else, everywhere else. |
| 1:04.8 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter and a great Slate Plus segment today. |
| 1:08.0 | Wow, it's a good Slate Plus segment. |
| 1:09.4 | I just listened to it. |
| 1:28.4 | I'm about to launch this podcast where I interview people about their jobs. And today we're going to tease it with an interview with Stephen Colbert, bits of my interview with Stephen Colbert in which he talks about how he gets himself into character as Stephen Colbert. It's a fantastic segment. It's a really, really interesting. He's such a good talker. |
| 1:33.8 | And you can listen to that if you're a Slate Plus member, which you can become. If you go to slate.com slash gabfest plus or if you email me directly, David. Dot plots at slate.com. |
| 1:39.2 | I will hook you up with the best discount. Emily Bazelon is with us in New York, and you are now a New York Times |
| 1:46.1 | reporter. We can officially say that, right? New York Times Magazine reporter. Exactly. Staff writer. |
| 1:50.5 | What did they do to you to initialize you? I had a really charming meeting with the |
| 1:56.2 | newspaper guild people on my first day on Monday, which I didn't actually quite understand |
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