Slate: Live from DC, The Washington is Just Awful, but You Dear Listener Are Wonderful Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2012

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The fight over Bain Capital, why Washington DC is so dreadful, and the sentencing in the Tyler Clementi case Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.7	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.
0:46.6	The Washington is just awful, but you, dear listener, are wonderful edition.
0:50.1	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.
0:57.8	Joining me today are Sharp as a Samurai sword, Emily Bazelon, Slate's senior editor to my right,
1:04.0	and John Dickerson, as dangerous as an angry rattlesnake, Slate's chief political correspondent and political director of CBS News, to my left. We are live in front of a gorgeous crowd at Sixth and I Historic Synagogue for a live
1:17.1	version of the Gab Fest. John, please tell me, are these beautiful people I see real, or are they
1:22.1	figments of my imagination? They are real to me, but our listeners don't know that you're real. So,
1:29.2	and I don't know that you're real. And I don't know if our listeners could tell, but that's two balconies of people.
1:48.3	It's not clear, but there are a lot of people.
1:50.7	This is the biggest crowd.
1:52.2	This is our biggest crowd here.
1:53.3	This is great.
1:54.0	We're so glad you guys are here.
2:02.9	It's our, it's a pretty's a pretty rock star moment, right?
2:04.5	Yeah, well, that's why we've got the headsets.
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