Slate: The Big Green Tractor Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2011

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Supreme Court and health care, the changing Republican presidential landscape, and protests on Wall Street Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, September 30th,
0:10.8	2011. I am David Plotz, the under Slate. I'm here in Washington, D.C., with Slate.
0:17.0	Senior political director and correspondent and editor've always wanted to be the director.
0:22.9	John Dickerson.
0:24.4	Does that mean John is like the director of a big cruise ship of American politics?
0:28.6	John is leading the cruise ship of American politics.
0:31.2	Yes.
0:31.3	And that's about the shoals.
0:32.8	Through the treacherous shoals of the 2012 election.
0:36.0	That's about the speed at which I operate, too, is that cruise ship speed.
0:40.2	Oh, my God.
0:40.7	We're in a PT boat world.
0:42.6	You can't turn.
0:44.1	Go ahead, Emily Bazelon.
0:45.5	I am also so slow this week.
0:47.6	I can't.
0:48.1	I can't do anything quickly.
0:49.5	It's terrible.
0:51.2	But slow for Emily Bazelon is like 45 RPM for everybody else.
0:56.8	Really painful.
0:58.0	She's only written like seven, you know, seven stories or 85,000 words of her book this week.
1:05.3	Right.
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