Political Gabfest - Slate: The Spasmodic Drama Gabfest

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🗓️ 22 July 2010

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Daniel Gross, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The economy and the fall election, the Shirley Sherrod debacle, and the complications of the Phoebe Prince internet bullying death

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.7	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, July 23rd.
0:14.1	This is David Plotz.
0:15.1	I'm here in Slate's new palatial podcast studio.
0:20.7	We have a new studio with Emily Bazelon, who's down, especially from New Haven to inaugurate
0:25.2	the studio.
0:26.5	John Dickerson is on vacation.
0:28.5	So Daniel Gross, Slate and Newsweek's chief business correspondent, columnist, and genius
0:34.5	is filling in, and he's in New York.
0:36.9	Welcome, Dan.
0:37.9	Good to be here. Andy Bouvet. The new studio, and he's in New York. Welcome, Dan. Good to be here.
0:39.1	Andy Bouvet, the new studio.
0:40.6	Andy Bouvet is relaxing in the jacuzzi of the new studio over there, engineering the show.
0:45.1	Bill has just pulled his Bentley into the three-car garage and is producing the show from there.
0:52.8	Emily has built herself a full-scale model of the Supreme Court,
0:55.8	and she's sitting at the bench in regalia, in her judicial regalia,
1:00.3	doing the show from the...
1:01.9	But the New York office is still held together by paper clips and some tinfoil.
1:06.5	And will be for months yet.
1:08.5	Let us know if the sound in the new studio is better or worse than it was.
1:11.9	It is truly vast.
1:13.7	We could play basketball in here.
	...

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