The President Whisperer Edition
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
David Plotz, Emily Bazelon, and John Dickerson discuss the Supreme Court's new Affordable Care Act case, Obama's net neutrality stance, and the whisper campaign against White House aide Valerie Jarrett.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:28.6 | Music GabFest. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to this late political gab fest for November 14th, 2014, the President Whisper edition. |
| 0:34.3 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura in a Chicago hotel room, the Ulysses S. Grant |
| 0:41.5 | Room at the Hotel Lincoln. It is. You must be so happy. I'm so excited to be in the |
| 0:47.4 | grant room. Are you to start quoting the biography, like by chapters? It's really exciting. Do you guys share |
| 0:53.2 | my enthusiasm? John, you surely share it. |
| 0:54.9 | I definitely share it. |
| 0:55.9 | I definitely share it, but mostly I share it through you because I know how much you like it and I'm so envious that you were able to read. |
| 1:01.2 | You should have a drink for Ulysses F.S. Grant. |
| 1:03.5 | Have a few drinks. |
| 1:04.7 | But he wasn't. |
| 1:05.6 | That is like the hoary old cliche. |
| 1:08.7 | He was, he had drinking problems which he resolved and became a great leader. That doesn't sound like a cliche. It sounds like a true fact that has other facts surrounding it. It's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over, it's over served. Yes. He was, he was, he was, he had many other talents. You could think of this |
| 1:29.0 | as a writing space. I should write something because he was such a great writer. Or perhaps I |
| 1:32.6 | should lead an army while I'm here. You hear of course Emily Bazelon of the New York Times |
| 1:37.9 | magazine. Hello, Emily. Hi, David. And John Dickerson of Slate and ZBS News. Hello, John. |
| 1:44.0 | Hi, David. We have a tiny audience here in our hotel room. They're all three feet tall. Audience of Slate Plus members, auction winners. Hello. Audience, hello. You guys can say hello. Hello. Hello. Yeah. We have three topics today. We will talk about the Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act, decision to take another case involving |
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