Slate: The Crazy Eyes Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2011

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and Yale Associate Professor Beverly Gage. This week: The presidential debate in Iowa, whether the Obama presidency is a failure, and the country’s financial uncertainty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:17.1	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, August 12th.'m Emily Bazelan. I'm here in New Haven with my good friend Yale history professor Beverly Gage. And on the phone from Iowa, we have John Dickerson, which means that I have finally succeeded in hijacking the Gab Fest and bringing it to New Haven. There is no DC producer on the line where we're like flying without, without any safety
0:44.0	net here.
0:45.3	Do you fly without a safety net?
0:47.0	It's not right, I guess.
0:48.0	Frankly, if I'm in a plane and I see a safety net coming, I'm going to think it's going to be a
0:51.5	really big problem.
0:51.8	What's the expression that I was searching for?
0:54.1	Does anyone know?
0:55.4	Flying blind.
0:56.0	Jumping without a safety net?
0:58.6	Flying blind.
1:00.2	Well, I'm just happy to serve your purposes here from New Haven, Emily.
1:05.0	Beverly was joking that this is August where like the sea list guests appear.
1:09.6	But I was saying to her that she is absolutely, like, a rock star guest.
1:13.4	I'm so excited to have her.
1:15.1	All right.
1:15.3	He actually knows about history, which is going to be really a problem for me.
1:19.0	Because my thing is making broad, sweeping, historical statements without fear of
1:25.3	contradiction.
1:26.7	You're going to have to watch out this morning.
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