Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December the 12th Friday 2008.

I'm John Dickerson here with David Plotz and Emily Bazelon.

Before we get to our topics, Mr. Plotz has an important announcement about an upcoming Slate Gabfest event.

Mr. Plotz. Mr. Plotz.

Mr. Plotz.

Well, I was trying to give it a sense of moment.

You should have seen me.

I was up here on my chair, gesticulating.

Also, Emily, you haven't gotten the memo. That's how I want to be referred to from now on. Great. So we've been teasing and teasing and teasing this idea that we're going to do a live Gab Fest during the inauguration week and we're going to do it. So we have the details for you. So get ready to take notes,

although we'll be posting all this to the Gab Fest page and badgering people about it in the coming

weeks. But the plan is for us to do a show, a live show, also with audience questions, on Monday, January 19th at 4 p.m., that's the day before the inauguration.

It's going to be at the Jack Morton Auditorium at George Washington University.

The address is 805 21st Street, northwest D.C.

It's right.

And at GW's downtown campus. And you should RSVP to us for, to reserve tickets. Tell us how many tickets you want, no more than four, please.

And you can send us an email to GabFest Tickets, GabFest Tickets at gmail.com. Those of you who have already sent us preemptive

RSVPs, you can send us them again, or we will send you a note and just asking you to confirm.

And we are not going to charge for this event, but please do not request tickets you don't plan to use.

We will mock you mercilessly if you ask for tickets and don't show up and deprive some other worthy of a ticket that you don't use. Because we're going to take a roll. We'll take a roll. We'll take a roll there. And the roll will take like two hours. But then the show will be really good. But we can't wait to do this, and we're looking forward to meeting everybody.

Yeah, we're going to talk to everybody afterward.

Don't forget that part.

Yes, we'll talk to everyone afterwards, and we think it'll be a great way to have something slaty during the inauguration weekend that people can really enjoy.

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