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Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2007
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Gab Fest gets a snow job. This is the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, December 21st, 2007. I'm Dale Wilman. |
| 0:16.0 | John is snowed in in New Hampshire, but he's on the phone with David and Chad Matlin for today's Gab Fest. On the agenda |
| 0:23.1 | this week, what else? The presidential primaries, U.S. energy policy, and Times Man of the Year. |
| 0:29.4 | To introduce the discussion, here's David. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest. |
| 0:34.6 | I'm David Plotz, substitute hosting for John Dickerson. I'm here in the Slate Conference. No, not the Slate Conference room. In the Slate Political Gab Fest. I'm David Plotz, substitute hosting for John Dickerson. I'm here in the Slate conference, no, not the Slate conference room, in the Slate media room with Chad Matlin, Slate blogger extraordinaire. Chad is making his debut here on the GabFest. |
| 0:49.3 | Second debut in a row. |
| 0:50.3 | Was Chris last week? |
| 0:51.3 | No, Chris was two weeks ago, I think. |
| 0:53.3 | Two weeks ago. But joining us via the miracle of satellites or something is John Dickerson. |
| 0:59.3 | John, where are you? |
| 1:00.6 | I'm in snowy Manchester, where it has now been snowing straight for the last 24 hours. |
| 1:08.7 | It has? |
| 1:09.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:10.2 | How much snow is on the ground? |
| 1:11.7 | It looks like it's about six or seven inches. |
| 1:15.5 | I haven't been out since my ill-fated attempt to get to Exeter, New Hampshire, this morning in which I went about 15 miles and had to turn around because it was too bad. |
| 1:27.1 | Wait, so basically you're just sitting in a hotel. |
| 1:28.7 | We're paying you right now to sit in a hotel room and do whatever to watch movies on your hotel TV. |
| 1:37.3 | That's what you're being paid. |
| 1:38.4 | That's exactly right. |
| 1:39.3 | Well, I would fly back, but they can't get me a flight. |
| 1:43.4 | So that's true. plowing better out there than |
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