Political Gabfest - The "Vaxxers, Taxers, and Just the Facts-ers" Edition
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2015
⏱️ 54 minutes
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John Dickerson, David Plotz, and special guest Annie Lowrey of New York magazine discuss the burgeoning anti-vaccine movement, the go-nowhere Obama budget, and the fog-of-war embellishments of NBC's Brian Williams.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 1:01.6 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for February 6, 2015, The Vaxers, Taxers, and Just the Faxers Edition. |
| 1:08.1 | I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. |
| 1:10.5 | John Dixon. That was so,. John Dixon got a nice smile from |
| 1:13.5 | John Dickerson over there. This week, we'll talk about the vaccine panic and occasion for |
| 1:18.9 | a grieved moral smugness from everybody. Then President Obama drops his budget on Congress. |
| 1:24.3 | John Dickerson will tell us what it means. Also, Brian Williams, the news anchor with |
| 1:28.9 | the capital N, eats crow when it turns out he made up slash embellished slash something, a story about |
| 1:34.6 | being shot down in a helicopter in Iraq, plus we'll have cocktail chatter. And in Slate Plus, |
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