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Political Gabfest - The "Would You Attend a Gay Wedding?" Edition

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.56K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2015

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson discuss the burgeoning refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East, the uneasy courtship between the Koch Brothers and Gov. Scott Walker, and the upcoming Supreme Court arguments over same-sex marriage.  Twitter: @SlateGabfestFacebook: facebook.com/GabfestEmail: gabfest@slate.comShow notes at slate.com/gabfest  Slate's Political Gabfest is brought to you by Squarespace, the easiest way to create a beautiful website, blog, or online store for you and your ideas. Squarespace features an elegant interface, beautiful templates, and 24/7 customer support. Right now, go to Squarespace.com, and enter the offer code GABFEST at checkout to get 10% off. Squarespace. Build it Beautiful. Join Slate Plus! Members get bonus segments, exclusive member-only podcasts, and more. Sign up for a free trial today at www.slate.com/gabfestplus.


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0:00.0

The Slate Political GabFest is brought to you by Squarespace,

0:03.6

the easiest way to create a beautiful website, blog, or online store for you and your ideas.

0:09.3

Squarespace features an easy-to-use interface, beautiful templates, and 24-7 customer support.

0:15.3

Right now, go to Squarespace.com and enter the offer code GabFest at checkout to get 10% off.

0:21.5

Squarespace, build it beautiful.

0:23.8

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:32.0

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 24th, 2015, the Would You attend the Gay Wedding edition? I'm David Plotz of Atlas Obscura. John Dickerson of Slate, CBS News, incoming presumptive host to Face the Nation is here with me. John, I was just wondering if you, are you more presumptive than Hillary Clinton is the nominee?

0:55.5

Or would you say that she's still, there's still a chance she could not get it?

1:01.8

I think what's true for me is true for her as well, which is it's mine to lose.

1:06.0

But I guess, you could still blow it. I could still blow it. I could still, you know, I don't know.

1:27.7

You'll know by June. Yeah, exactly. I'll know when the cameras are rolling and they say my name that I've made it through. And that, of course, was Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in New York today. Hello, Emily. I noticed on Twitter that Emily is going to be on a pretty high-powered panel.

1:29.4

I will be the least. It's with Kamala Harris, Katie Couric, and Ashley Judd.

1:33.0

You forgot anita Sarkeesian, who's the most important person of them all.

1:37.6

Yeah, I will be the least well-dressed and surely the person who will speak for like 30 seconds to answer some legal question.

1:44.0

What was the context? It's so it's Tina Brown's Women in the World Summit. It's about trolling online. What does Ashley Judd know about trolling? Oh my gosh. She's had a lot of trouble with it. David, thank you very much. Right. What does Katie Kirk know about trolling? She's the moderator, I believe. I'm not sure. And I'm sure she knows plenty about it. Basically, any female celebrity.

2:05.2

Also, just not to ask a tough question here, Emily, but if you're on the panel and Kamala Harris is on the panel, who is, if I remember was the Attorney General of California, what possible legal advice could you offer that Kamala Harris couldn't offer that.

2:17.9

That is a very good question.

2:19.5

But I believe, if I may interject here, that Emily Badlon is an expert, a world-renowned expert, sought far and wide for her guidance and sagacious contributions on the topic of bullying.

2:32.8

And trolling is very much in that category. Am I not right?

2:36.5

Yes, you were right. And surely I'll come up with some cockamamie legal theory that Kamala Harris would have the sense not to say.

2:42.9

You should ask Kamala Harris what she's going to do when she's senator. Yes. I do plan to ask her that. Yes, indeed.

2:51.6

All right. We have a show today, actually.

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