Slate: The Breakfast at Tiffany's Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2011

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama’s Middle East speech, the Republican presidential race heating up, and the sexual escapades of prominent men Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by Fresh Books, the easy online invoicing service that gets you paid quickly and makes you look professional.
0:08.2	Get started with a free package at freshbooks.com.
0:16.8	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, the 20th of May.
0:21.3	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, here in Slate, D.C. Central with not just John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent, but also Emily Bazelon. Emily, welcome to Washington.
0:31.2	Well, thank you.
0:32.2	How do you find Washington?
0:34.1	Unchanged.
0:35.7	What was the last time we were together? Purdue?
0:37.4	Yeah. Purdue, Purdue? Yeah.
0:37.7	Purdue, yes.
0:38.5	Yeah.
0:39.1	Well, that's so exciting.
0:40.7	It is wonderful.
0:40.7	It is nice.
0:42.0	And in honor of that, we're going to have three topics because there are three of us in the room.
0:45.5	We're going to have three topics of discussion this week.
0:47.4	It's supposed to normally.
0:48.8	Normally, we have three because that's just the way we do it. We're going to talk about President Obama's Middle East speech.
0:56.2	We're going to talk about the latest news in the Republican presidential race,
1:01.6	which I'm not going to say finally got started this week, which I have said every week for months.
1:06.1	And we're going to talk about the sexual escapades of powerful men, notably Arnold Schwarzenegger and
1:12.7	Dominique Strauss-K-K-K-D-S-K.
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