Political Gabfest - The "Can You Buy a President for $889,000,000?" Edition
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2015
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Koch Brothers' big bet on 2016, the Supreme Court's death penalty case, and the merits of Jonathan Chait's "Not a Very P.C. Thing to Say" piece.Help us make our podcasts even better! Take Slate's listener survey at to slate.com/surveyShow notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:29.5 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 30th, 2015, the Can You Buy a President for $889 million edition? |
| 0:37.9 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:40.0 | It's my birthday this weekend. |
| 0:41.7 | Just wanted to record that. |
| 0:43.4 | I was almost going to call it my birthday edition. |
| 0:45.3 | Are you doing anything special for your birthday? |
| 0:48.3 | Hana is taking me out somewhere and we're going to have a nice afternoon and evening together. |
| 0:52.6 | Nice. |
| 0:53.1 | Could do some adventurous thing, but I don't know what. That was John Dickerson, of course, of CBS News and Slate. Hello, John, here in Washington. Hi, David. And then in New Haven, having already recorded that she is in a bad mood, is Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily. Hello. I'm trying to muster every shred of good humor I have this morning, which I don't have very much of. |
| 1:16.0 | But I'm going to come through. |
| 1:17.6 | But doesn't the anniversary of David's birth lift you into a sort of higher plane of bubbling happiness and fellow feeling? |
| 1:25.5 | It does. |
| 1:26.0 | It almost makes me recover from my younger son yelling at me this morning because he had two |
| 1:30.8 | left boots. |
| 1:32.1 | Why does he have two left boots? |
| 1:33.6 | Because he took someone else's boot home from school yesterday. |
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