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Political Gabfest

Slate: The Flirt, Friend and Chat Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2012

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: the Obama campaign in chaos, cyberpredators, and summer reading for Obama and Romney Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, June 15th, the flirt, friend, and chat edition.

0:36.1

I'm David Plotz, apparently still the editor of Slate, here in Washington, D.C., with

0:39.7

John Dickerson, Slate's chief political correspondent and political director of CBS News, and

0:44.4

like a minor league baseball star, he is blessed with a huge bag of sunflower seeds.

0:51.4

Would John rattle that bag for the microphone, would you?

0:54.8

Which he'll be

0:55.7

chawing on

0:56.7

throughout the show,

0:57.4

giving him energy

0:58.1

and protein

0:59.7

that will make his

1:00.5

already fast brain

1:01.7

move even faster.

1:03.2

Joining us from

1:04.0

New Haven,

1:05.0

as per usual,

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