Slate: The Conventional Wisdom Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2012

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney/Ryan makes its case, fact-checkers are rebuffed and Charlotte looms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for August 31st, 2012, the conventional Wisdom Edition.
0:44.0	I'm David Plotsey, Eddur of Slate, my life, a dull, adventurous journey from one entitlement to the next.
0:50.3	A government-planned life in a country where everything is free but me.
0:55.2	I'm joined by John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent and political director of CBS News,
1:00.5	who is still in Tampa, Florida for the moment, attempting to recover from eye damage
1:06.2	caused by staring directly into the blazing white teeth of a Romney son.
1:11.1	Hello, John. Hello, John.
1:11.9	Hello, David.
1:12.9	And back from vacation on four different continents, one of which hasn't even been discovered yet is Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazelon. Emily, it's so nice to have you back. Hello.
1:21.9	Hey, I'm so glad to be back. Except that that trip sounded great that you just described.
1:26.4	Oh, it wasn't doing your trip.
1:28.0	Why would anyone come back?
1:29.1	That's a good point.
1:30.1	Well, you had school to get back to and all that.
1:32.7	All of us are back together.
1:34.9	Honey and Buttercream.
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