Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The "So Sue Me" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson. This week: House Republicans plan to sue President Obama, Elizabeth Warren rallies the Democratic base, and a woman is arrested for leaving her nine-year-old at the park.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by Harries, the new shaving company that offers German-engineered blades, well-designed handles, and shipping right to your door, all at a fraction of the price of other razors. |
| 0:11.6 | Visit Harries.com and use the promo code, Political. |
| 0:19.6 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 18th, 2014, the So-Sumi edition. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm David Plotz, the editor at-large of Slate here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:32.8 | You know, it should be called the So Fire Me. So Make Me Leave. |
| 0:36.4 | So let me quit. |
| 0:37.4 | I didn't fire. I wasn't fired. You fired yourself. I fired myself. That's true. Or you didn't really fire yourself. You kicked yourself sideways. Yes. Or downstairs. I think downstairs would be the term. I'm no longer the editor of Slate. Julia Turner, host of the Culture Fest, co-host of the Cult Fest, is now the editor-in-chief of Slate. |
| 0:56.4 | That is wonderful news. |
| 0:57.9 | And I'm not anymore as of Monday. |
| 1:02.0 | But I'm still on the Gab Fest. |
| 1:03.2 | I still will be helping Slate out. |
| 1:06.2 | Editor at large is this title they make up when they have no idea what you're going to do. |
| 1:10.0 | And then you can do whatever you choose to do. But they still send me a paycheck, at least for now. But I'm still here. And one of my conditions of departure was that we had to keep doing the IFS. So Emily Bazelon in New Haven, hello, Emily Bazelan, Slate Senior Editor, agreed to continue. And John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent here in Washington, hello, John. |
| 1:30.6 | Oh, David. |
| 1:31.1 | Also agreed to continue. Can you please confirm that you agreed to continue? We all agreed. |
| 1:35.9 | It was not. It was the easiest decision we've ever made. |
| 1:38.9 | Yeah, we were surprised you. Even asked. It was so easy. |
| 1:41.6 | How does it feel not to have to be obedient to me anymore? |
| 1:45.0 | Did I ever feel obedient to you in the first place? I'm trying to remember that feeling. |
| 1:49.0 | It was so funny as people would write in letters in our defense over the years at times and |
| 1:54.0 | saying, you know, plots, you're totally taking advantage of the power relationship because of your job. |
| 1:59.1 | And I thought that was very, very kind of them. |
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