Slate: The Elitist and Hypocrite Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2013

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: The likelihood of gun control, the suicide of Aaron Swartz and an inauguration preview. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for January 18th, 2013, the elitist and hypocrite edition.
0:52.0	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, in a Washington, D.C. studio, unprotected by armed guards.
0:56.6	At any moment, someone could invade this D.C this DC studio and we would be in big trouble.
1:01.8	And now I've just revealed that to the baddies out there who now know we don't have any armed guards.
1:03.0	It's really surprising.
1:04.3	I've made us a target.
1:11.1	That's right, because most people would think of Slate as an armed stronghold bristling with armaments.
1:14.7	Well, maybe there's somebody in our staff who has a concealed carry permit, and we don't even know.
1:15.6	That's also possible.
1:17.9	No, not in D.C. It's very hard to get them.
1:18.5	Is that right?
1:19.1	Unlikely. Yeah.
1:19.6	Unlikely.
1:20.1	Huh.
1:22.3	I have a concealed talent permit.
1:25.5	You've done a very good job keeping it concealed.
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