Slate: The Cool on the Outside, Burning for America on the Inside Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2012

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Democratic Convention, the speeches, and what it all means for the campaign Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.4	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political GabFest for September 7, 2012, The Cool on the Outside, Burning for America on the Inside Edition.
0:39.9	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, and I am wearing Michelle Obama's dress.
0:44.9	I am joined by Emily Bazelon.
0:46.4	That would be so exciting.
0:47.8	Wouldn't it be great?
0:48.7	Which one would you pick?
0:49.8	The pink one, definitely.
0:50.8	No, the one she wore for her speech.
0:52.1	Yeah, yeah.
0:52.4	Oh, yeah.
0:53.0	That one, definitely. No, the one she wore for her speech. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, that one, definitely. Do you have the arms for it?
0:55.9	Yes, I would have to shave them.
0:58.1	What do you mean, questionable?
1:00.7	So Emily stayed at our house last night, John, and she and Hannah had a discussion of how many push-ups each of them could do when learning that Michelle Obama could do 25 pushups. So Hannah and Emily had a push-up contest on the floor of our kitchen.
1:13.8	Which Hannah won, but I did do more than three, which was the number I thought I could do.
1:18.6	So that's Emily Bazelon, Slate, Senior Editor, who made a special trip down to D.C. to do some push-ups.
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