It's the Elliot Spitzer Gab Fest.

This is the Slate Political Gab Fest.

For Friday, March 14, 2008, I'm Dale Wilman.

On this week's agenda, Geraldine Ferraro puts her foot in her mouth, or does she? Dreaming about a dream

ticket, and maybe Elliot Spitzer should have been jogging more often. And now, to introduce the

discussion, here's John. Hello and welcome to this late political gap fest. I'm John Dickerson

here with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon. This week, Wither FEMA, our 12-part series.

Because there's nothing to talk about.

Emily, Elliot Spitzer, take us into this week's news about the governor.

I mean, don't give us a synopsis.

Everybody knows about this.

What's the entry point on this issue for you?

I've been told he resigned.

I sort of heard somewhere.

Yeah, it was just this brutal but completely riveting week.

I don't recall the last time I was so surprised and just like wanted to see it unfold in real time.

It was real news rather than fake news. We've had these primaries, okay, endless analysis that always has the kind of, it's not, you're not really analyzing real news. I mean, on the other hand. You don't think those are real news? I thought those are real news. Well, yeah, but no, but you know what I mean. I mean, we knew that either Obama or Clinton was going to win the Mississippi

primary. I mean, it's always, but this was a bolt from the blue, I guess is what I mean. That's what I mean. I mean, this was certainly a bolt from the blue. I think your, your, comparison is totally wildly off base. Think of how surprised you were after all these reversals of momentum in the primary

It was going to happen.

In the context of the primary season, this was in the primary... But we knew it was going to happen.

In the context of the primary season, this was in the context of zero. And there was nothing about... The day after the New Hampshire primary, you knew there was going to be a story about politics on the front pace the next day. When you woke up before the Spitzer thing, you didn't think you'd be talking about $4,500 hookers. I mean, other than, you know, the extent we do around the office all the time.

But you didn't think you'd be talking about $4,500 hookers, I mean, other than, you know, the extent we do around the office all the time, but you didn't think you'd be talking about $4,500 hookers at the Mayflower, brought down from a, you know, on a train from New York. I mean, I didn't even know this stuff. You could do this stuff. Well, that was really interesting, was how many people at Slate and perhaps out in the world knew so little about this

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