Slate: The Amateur Hour Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2012

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and special guest Jack Hitt. This week: Scott Walker’s thumping victory, what’s wrong with Bill Clinton, and the book, a Bunch of Amateurs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, June 8th.
0:31.7	It's the amateur hour edition.
0:33.6	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate here in Washington, D.C. with John Dickerson,
0:37.9	Slate's chief political correspondent, political director of CBS News.
0:41.2	And John, we haven't talked about the fact that you changed the entire feng shui of the D.C. office by reorienting your desk.
0:47.4	Now that you've reoriented your desk, John reoriented his desk in his office, and everyone walks by it and is like, wow, that's really cool.
0:54.0	And everyone feels that the feng shui is much better now.
0:57.3	Well, but it's interesting.
0:58.1	Why are some of the people across the hall from you to clean up their offices?
1:01.4	And I am not talking about David.
1:04.4	Huh.
1:04.9	Huh.
1:05.1	Who are you talking about? other people in our office whose offices I had to borrow the other day and I thought maybe I was going to be asphyxiated.
1:12.4	Is it Weigel?
1:13.6	Was it Weigel?
1:14.1	Yes.
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