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The Gab Fest rides the high seas.

Ahoy me, hearties.

This is this late daily podcast for Friday, July 20th, I be June Thomas.

If we're to believe John and David, Emily Bazelon was wearing a pirate costume when they gathered to tape this week's Gab Fest. Between the

giggles, they discussed Iraq and the National Intelligence Estimate, Campaign News, and Harry Potter

Mania. To introduce this week's discussion, Ear be John Dickerson. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest, the special Emily Bazelon edition. I'm John Dickerson in the conference room. Is it the special Emily Baselan edition because Emily is dressed like a pirate today? She does. I like the puffy shirt. No, but she is dressed like a pirate. No, that's, it's true. She's wearing a green bandana on her head. Yeah, I am wearing a green bandana. It's true. No, and she's hung her cutlass on the door. Hardy, matees. Here we are at the Slate Pirate Fest with Emily Bazelon and David Plotz. Today, we're going to start with Iraq, the Iraq war vote in the Senate, which hasn't happened yet,

and the release of the latest national intelligence estimate, Emily, take it away.

Well, it seems like if these senators...

No, you have to talk like a pirate.

I can't muster that up. You talk like a pirate. I've done my part.

It just seems like if these

senators needed any more reason to vote in some way to limit the war or curtail it or control it,

this NIE report was exactly the evidence they were waiting for. I mean, we're in worse shape than

we were. All I can do is just think of pirate jokes.

I have to move along because I'm not taking my bandana off.

Sorry, Emily, back to what you were saying.

I'm not thinking of pirate jokes.

Right.

This NIE report was just...

I mean, it was incredibly candid.

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