Political Gabfest - The “Is He Hitler or Mussolini?” Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz discuss Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric, the Supreme Court's deliberations around considerations of race in college admissions and the one-person, one-vote case before the Supreme Court.The Slate Political Gabfest is brought to you by Stamps.com. Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer, and save up to 80% compared to a postage meter. Sign up for Stamps.com and get a 4-week trial and a $110 bonus offer when you use the promo code GABFEST.And by Credit Karma. Don’t pay for your credit score! With Credit Karma, you can see your credit score, right now, absolutely free. Just text GABFEST to 89800 to download the free Credit Karma app and get started.And by Blue Apron. Blue Apron sends gourmet recipes, and all the fresh ingredients you need to make them, right to your door. Farm-fresh ingredients are perfectly portioned and come with an easy to follow recipe card—so you can create a delicious meal in 35 minutes or less. Visit BlueApron.com/gabfest to get your first two meals free.Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today atwww.slate.com/gabfestplus.Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook. We post to the Facebook page throughout the week, so keep the conversation going by joining us there. Or follow us@SlateGabfest (#heygabfest). The email address for the Political Gabfest isgabfest@slate.com.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by Stamps.com, buy and print official U.S. postage |
| 0:04.7 | using your own computer and printer, and save up to 80% compared to a postage meter. |
| 0:10.3 | Sign up for Stamps.com and get a four-week trial and a $110 bonus offer when you use the promo code GabFest. |
| 0:17.9 | And by Credit Karma. Don't pay for your credit score. With Credit Karma, you can see your credit |
| 0:23.6 | score right now, absolutely free. Just text GabFest to 898000 to download the free Credit |
| 0:31.5 | Karma app and get started. Again, text the word GabFest to 89-80000. |
| 0:38.3 | And by Blue Apron, Blue Apron sends gourmet recipes and all the fresh ingredients you need to make |
| 0:43.3 | them right to your door. |
| 0:45.3 | Farm fresh ingredients are perfectly portioned and come with an easy-to-follow recipe card, |
| 0:50.3 | so you can create a delicious meal in 35 minutes or less. |
| 0:53.3 | Visit blueapron.com slash gabfest to get your first two meals free. |
| 0:57.4 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 1:08.3 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 11th, 2015. |
| 1:12.0 | The Is He Hitler or Mussolini edition? |
| 1:15.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 1:17.3 | John Dickerson, A Face the Nation, is here with me in Slate's Washington studio. |
| 1:21.3 | John, do you know this is the last time we will use the studio? |
| 1:23.5 | I know. I'm sort of sad for our sweaty box here, but maybe there will be a better box in the new place. |
| 1:30.7 | Do you think we'll be just as sweaty? Yeah, so Slate's D.C. office is moving, and we're going to have a temporary studio for a while, and then we'll have a new studio. I like that studio. |
| 1:39.0 | Well, also, by the way, this studio is a vast improvement over our previous studio, and both were exponentially |
| 1:45.1 | greater than the chair museum where we first started our... |
| 1:48.3 | What was our first studio? |
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