Slate: The He's Got Your Back Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2011

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: President Obama’s jobs speech, the Republican presidential debate, and the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, September 9th, 2011.
0:10.6	I'm extremely damp David Plotz.
0:14.4	It's been raining in Washington.
0:15.8	It's been raining in Washington basically nonstop for two weeks.
0:20.0	And it's raining again. and I had to bike here
0:22.4	to get here on time, as usual, and I'm soaked as usual. So I'm incredibly damp and irritated
0:28.0	by being damp. It's a lovely sunny day here, I'll just announce. Come on. That is just unnecessary.
0:35.1	It's true. Joining us from Sunny New Haven is Emily Bazelon's late senior editor.
0:38.7	And then not in Washington, but probably it's sunny where you are, John.
0:43.0	It is sunny, although it's not sunny yet.
0:45.5	The sun's not up.
0:46.4	John is an L.A.X.
0:48.2	John is...
0:48.5	Oh, did you note that the sun's not up?
0:50.5	John is suffering on our behalf.
0:52.6	It's not that early.
0:53.7	True. not up. John is suffering on our behalf. It's not that early. It's not true. It's just in the context of a conversation about the sun. I thought I should
0:57.5	remark on the current state of the sun.
1:02.0	Anyway, this will be a show in three acts. A gab fest. A gab fest. A gab fest.
1:08.1	A gab fest. A gab fest. I think I'm really having some problems with my tongue today.
1:14.4	Act one will be the president's jobs program, his big job speech of Thursday night.
1:20.2	Act two will be the debate of the Republican candidates, which John Dickerson was out covering,
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