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Music podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 13th, 2015, the Happy Valentine's Day.

Judge Moore edition, I'm David Plotz of Atlas of Secura.

I'm in Washington, D.C.

And my side is John Dickerson of CBS News and Slate. Hello. John. Hi, David. I'm well. Good. And joining us from New Haven

is Emily. Once and again. Hello. Hello, Emily. Of the New York Times Magazine. Yes. Are you going to explain?

Well, we'll get to it later.

This week, the Marriage Equality Circus in Alabama.

Then we'll talk about whether how you should or should not forgive Brian Williams.

David Brooks forgave him, so should you.

And an astonishing story by an unknown journalist named Emily Bazelon.

Bezaloon.

Bezloon.

Bazier.

It's about a campus rape charge at Stanford that is part 50 Shades of Gray, part social network, all misery.

Plus, we will have cocktail chatter and enslaved plus.

We'll talk about me.

We'll talk about me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me.

You guys, John, will, as usual, just, like, will chill out, not really pay attention. I'll just talk about myself. He just grabbed a really big book. He grabbed a binder. I don't know. He has a binder full of women there. Yeah. It's got all my special thoughts in it. It's a lavender binder. That is, John Dickerson is a person who has so many tools of things. I know. Also, you coordinated the color of your binder with the color of the notepad inside. You know, that's true. You mean the color of the cover of the pad inside? I didn't realize that's the kind of unconscious ger animals I have in my life. Do they still make ger animals? I don know. Do you do you? I don't even know what that is.

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