Political Gabfest - Slate: The Show Me Your National ID Card Gabfest
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🗓️ 11 November 2011
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:26.4 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for 111111. |
| 0:29.1 | My daughter has been so excited about 1111, 11. |
| 0:31.0 | Are your kids excited about 11, 11, 11? |
| 0:33.6 | Yes, and isn't your daughter 11 as my son is 11? No, she's only 10. |
| 0:34.5 | She wishes she was 11. |
| 0:36.1 | And she has a friend whose birthday is 11, 13, 11. And her friend was really sad that her birthday wasn't 11, 11, 11, turning 11. Have you apologized for failing to conceive in the year 2000? I think we did conceive in the year 2000. Her birthday's in December. Just went before November. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, there you go. |
| 0:55.3 | Okay. |
| 0:56.1 | Anyway, we are here today. |
| 0:59.5 | When I say we, I, David Plotz, the editor of Slate. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm here with Emily Bazelon in New Haven, Emily, Slate, senior editor. |
| 1:08.9 | Good to have you. |
| 1:10.3 | Welcome. |
| 1:10.7 | I know one of many senior editors. |
| 1:12.5 | You are. We have a second senior editor here today because John Dickerson, who we thought was going to be here, because he is so traveling, all political, traveling guy, couldn't make it because his plane, I think, was delayed. And so we have instead the sublime William Salat. Will is also a senior editor here at Slate. Will, thanks for stepping in. And we will try not to trick you with really difficult things you haven't prepared for. I'll be the brunette John Dickerson. Okay. There could be no brunette, John Dickerson. He's so he's a blonde. He's a beautiful blonde. |
| 1:45.7 | We're going to talk about three topics today. We're going to talk about the Republican presidential race, particularly Rick Perry. Oops. And we'll talk about Herman Kane. Oops. We'll talk about the election results from this off-year election and the various interesting things that happened around the country. |
| 2:04.3 | And we'll talk about the Joe Paterno child sex scandal at Penn State, which came to a head this week. |
| 2:11.6 | But before we do that, Emily, you have an announcement for us. |
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