Political Gabfest - The In the Cloud, No One Knows You're a Dog Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2014
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss Putin's dastardly designs on Ukraine with Slate foreign editor Will Dobson. They also talk about the upcoming midterm elections and the fallout over stolen photos of actress Jennifer Lawrence.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:44.3 | Music when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 5th, 2014, the In the Cloud. |
| 0:49.7 | No One Knows You're a Dog Edition. I'm David Plotz, the editor at Lange of Slate. |
| 0:53.2 | On this week's show, |
| 0:54.8 | the world is a mess, even more of a mess than it was last week. We will try to resolve the crisis |
| 0:59.2 | in Ukraine. And if we have five minutes to spare, we will develop the ISIS strategy that |
| 1:05.0 | Obama is looking for, the droids he's been looking for. Then fall is here, which means that the |
| 1:10.5 | 2014 campaign is now |
| 1:12.0 | officially in full swing. John Dickerson has shed his winter coat, or he's grown his winter |
| 1:18.0 | coat in excitement out of this. We are going to handicap the 2014 election. We'll talk about |
| 1:23.6 | where things stand. Then naked pictures of celebrity, although not, not apparently of any of us, |
| 1:29.4 | stolen from the cloud, uploaded to the internet, do we need new laws to stop this? Or should we just |
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