Slate: The "Is Hillary Too Old?" Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2013

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Atlantic senior editor Garance Franke-Ruta. This week: Will the House move on immigration? Is HRC too old to be president? Is Gettysburg the most important battle in U.S. history? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GabFest is sponsored by Audible.com, a leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment.
0:06.4	Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want.
0:09.4	Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at Audiblepodcast.com slash gabfest.
0:15.7	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:27.1	Music podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 5th, 2013, the Is Hillary
0:32.0	Too Old Edition, Too Old What, Too Old to be president, I guess.
0:36.7	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.
0:38.0	I'm joined in the jungle-like confines of the Slate DC studio.
0:41.8	It's actually quite cool now, but as the show gets going, it's going to get hotter and hotter and hotter in here, and we will sweat.
0:47.7	And I'm going to end up taking off my shirt, which will please Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson.
0:52.8	Hello, John.
0:53.4	Hi, David. Why are you abumbing people out the minute they tune in with images of you sweating shirtless? Although I guess for some people that could be. For some people, that could be their dream come true on the 4th of July weekend. The Bazz is on vacation this week, sadly. No, actually happily for her. And then happily for us. We have a special guest first time, Gab Fester, Garance, Frankie Rootig, who is the senior editor at the Atlantic. Welcome, Garantz. Thank you. It's really going to get hot. You should prepare. That jacket will be coming off.
1:23.4	All right. And I don't say that in like a bedroom kind of way. It's just like the jacket's going to be coming on.
1:27.8	It's just going to be hot.
1:30.2	Washington giveth and Washington taketh away.
1:31.9	Last week we had a surfeit of amazing GabFest topics.
1:36.0	This week we had to improvise.
1:37.4	The events in Egypt are moving a little bit too fast, too out of control for us to deal with.
1:42.4	So we are going to skip that. By the time this airs the Egyptian military may, in fact, being controlled this show.
1:48.7	That would be kind of cool.
1:50.0	What do you think we would do with an Egyptian military show?
1:53.5	It would be less talk about Mike D's apartment.
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