Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The College, Why Bother? Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2014
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and special guest Jake Tapper of CNN. This week: Elliot Rodger sparks a national conversation about misogyny, American higher education is in crisis, and hard choices abound in Detroit.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gab Fest is sponsored by GoTo Meeting with HD Faces. |
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| 0:16.3 | And by the University of California. For almost 150 years, the University of California has educated the brightest minds and helped California become a beacon of innovation. |
| 0:26.3 | UC is the future made bold. |
| 0:28.3 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello and welcome to Slate Plit Fest for May 30th, 2014, the college Why Bother edition. |
| 0:45.5 | Today is Santa Barbara Killer Elliott Roger an aberration or is America increasingly dangerous for women? |
| 0:53.3 | Why has this massacre prompted such a vigorous debate |
| 0:56.0 | about sex and violence, but not about guns? Then, American higher education costs way too much. |
| 1:00.8 | Students are drowning in debt, and it's not even clear that going to college is a good investment. |
| 1:05.1 | President Obama has a plan to improve it all with a federal ratings program for colleges, |
| 1:09.8 | so why are university presidents so scared of it? |
| 1:12.8 | Then a bold new attempt to save Detroit by tearing down a third of its buildings. Could it possibly |
| 1:18.5 | work? It can't possibly work, but we'll pretend that it can. I'm David Plotz. I'm the editor of Slate. I'm here in Washington. Slate senior editor, Emily Bazelon, is course, in New Haven. Although you're in New Haven, you're North Haven, apparently, which I didn't realize until today. Yeah, that's just a level of specificity too far, don't you think? Yeah, but I've been saying New Haven for all this time, and it's actually not even true. And Dickerson is off reporting somewhere. So that means we have a special guest making his GabFest debut. |
| 1:47.4 | Is host of CNN. |
| 1:50.5 | He does his own drum roll. |
| 1:52.0 | The lead. |
| 1:52.5 | Do you have to do that for your TV show, Jake? |
| 1:54.6 | Host of CNN's the lead, the 4 p.m. show. |
| 1:57.6 | If you're watching one show on cable news, it should be the show. |
| 2:00.8 | If you're not watching one show on cable news, it should be this show. If you're not watching |
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