Slate: The "Is Anyone Too Fat to Be President?" Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2013

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, live from Cambridge, MA, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Obama's "red line," the modern surveillance state, and Christie's weight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Slate Political Gab Fest is brought to you by the Roadshow for Growth, a special partnership between Slate and GE Capital.
0:07.1	The Roadshow is a six-month national tour addressing issues and opportunities for the middle market.
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0:26.6	Sign up for a no-risk trial and get up to $55 in free postage
0:30.4	when you visit Stamps.com and use the promo code GabFest.
0:34.2	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:43.5	Music GabFest. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for the week of May 10th, 2013.
0:48.2	The Is Anyone Too Fat to be President Edition?
0:52.2	We are live at a sold-out first parish church in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
0:56.4	along with our partners...
0:57.6	We're doing our partners...
1:05.0	...along with our partners,
1:06.9	WBUR, the Boston Radio Station,
1:08.8	and the Harvard Bookstore.
1:10.3	We are... We are delighted to start
1:16.2	our first Boston area live Gab Fest. And as a Harvard graduate, I'm particularly delighted to see
1:21.8	that there are 600 people here in this crowd. When we were in New Haven, Emily, you mustered
1:27.4	300. And what that
1:29.4	says... But we left people
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