Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The Google Will Never, Ever, Ever Forget You Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon, and David Plotz. This week: discussing climate change with the Bad Astronomer, Phil Pait; Jill Abramson fired from The Gray Lady; and more.
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| 0:58.1 | Hello and welcome to the slate political gap.Fest for May 16th, 2014. |
| 1:01.9 | The Google will never, ever, ever, ever forget you edition. |
| 1:03.2 | I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. |
| 1:09.0 | This week, will disastrous news about the melting of the West Antarctic ice sheet finally convinced climate chain skeptics. Of course it |
| 1:11.9 | won't. But Marco Rubio isn't worried because Florida does not have any coastline to protect in case |
| 1:17.5 | of huge ocean rises. Then Jill Abramson is unceremoniously and mysteriously fired as the editor of |
| 1:24.7 | The New York Times is the sexism. And then a European court rules that Europeans can compel Google to purge certain embarrassing information from its search results. Is this a triumph for privacy or a blow to free speech or perhaps both? I am joined in Slate, D.C., very soon to be incredibly hot studio. This, our studio is perhaps evidence of climate change, John, by John Dickerson, Slate's chief |
| 1:48.4 | political correspondent. |
| 1:49.2 | Hello, John. |
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