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Political Gabfest

Slate: The Killer Dolphin Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.58.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2012

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Republican presidential race, President Obama and his administration's contraception battle, and a gay marriage ruling in California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:03.6

On the next Lexicon Valley, a look at the F word.

0:07.4

Not the F word, F word, the other F word.

0:10.7

Fagot.

0:11.5

Whoa, are you using that as an epithet, Bob?

0:14.4

No, Mike, I'm not.

0:16.0

But if I were, it's a lot more complicated than it sounds.

0:20.3

The evolution of an epithet Monday on the next

0:23.4

Lexicon Valley.

0:30.4

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest, the Killer Dolphin Edition for the week of February 10th. I'm David Plotz, the editor of

0:40.9

Slate. I'm here in Slate DC's studios with Slate's chief political correspondent and CBS News political

0:48.0

director John the John Dickerson. And joining us from New Haven, as ever is Emily Bazelon, Slate, senior editor,

0:57.6

who's on her last week of book leave. Emily, can't wait to have you back for real next week.

1:02.9

I can't wait to be back. Kind of. Kind of. I'm sure you really just need to finish your book

1:07.4

or something, but we won't even talk about that. We're going to talk instead about three important topics in the news.

1:14.0

The first topic will be the state of the race.

1:17.4

And just when you think this Republican race is in decline, there it comes back again.

1:22.6

It roars back.

1:24.4

We'll talk about the great controversy over contraception and the Obama administration and Catholic or religious organizations that are going to be forced to pay for contraception.

1:35.2

And finally we will talk about what does our, oh, the gay marriage case, the gay marriage decision from California by the appeals court out in California.

1:44.6

So those are going to be our three topics.

1:46.2

We will have cocktail chatter.

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