Political Gabfest - The "Bibi, Vidi, Vici" Edition
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Supreme Court's ObamaCare case, Benjamin Netanyahu's upcoming speech to Congress, and whether Chris Christie's presidential campaign has already fizzled.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:38.8 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest. For February 27th, the BBBVDVG edition, I'm David Plots of Outlet's Obscura. |
| 0:45.3 | John Dickerson of CBS News and Slate is a dweut and a gauche in New Haven is Emily Bazzlon of the New York Times magazine. |
| 0:53.8 | Hello guys. Always gauche. |
| 0:55.8 | Always gauche. But never it's true that John is very adwatt and you are a gauche in many senses. |
| 1:03.8 | I'm left-handed among others. Yes. We have a majority left-handed GabFest. |
| 1:08.8 | Yeah, I know. Why is it that Jews are so predominantly left-handed? It's like definitely a thing. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, it's also smart people. You know, Elsa Tracks gets a freinius so don't get too excited. |
| 1:18.8 | I'm not schizophrenic so I'm not that excited about it. |
| 1:21.8 | Smart Jewish gets a freinius. But and there's also an over representation of left-handed people I think in the presidency. |
| 1:28.8 | Yeah. Oh, yeah. |
| 1:29.8 | Clean, clean, clean, pure Obama. George HW. |
| 1:32.8 | Is that merely a 20th century novel? |
| 1:35.8 | There was a point where every Ross Perot was left-handed. There was, I remember, there was just a series where every candidate was left-handed. |
| 1:40.8 | Can you remember what just our author is? |
| 1:42.8 | I bet you it's left-handed. He had him, he did it with his butt and chopped it. |
| 1:45.8 | He's not, he had him, he did it with his butt and chopped it. |
| 1:47.8 | That's true. That is true. On this week's show, we'll discuss, we'll discuss handedness and put it in the presidency. |
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