Slate: The Last Shot Gabfest
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.5 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 December 2012
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:43.1 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for December 21st, 2012. |
| 0:45.1 | The Last Shot Edition. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:54.9 | To my right, at 4 p.m. at our roundtable is Slate's chief political correspondent John Dickerson. Hello, John. |
| 0:59.7 | Hello, David. I think I'm really 415. But the question is if you're at 4, where am I? |
| 1:10.8 | You're always at high noon. Midnight. No, I'm at 6. I always positioned myself at 6 on any clock. Isn't that right? Yeah, I think that's right. And from New Haven, of course, there is Slate Senior Editor Emily Bazelon. Hello, Emily. |
| 1:11.6 | Hello, David. |
| 1:12.7 | So the Newtown massacre, tragic, terrible, huge, complicated will be our first and biggest topic this week. |
| 1:19.9 | Will it change America's relationship with guns? |
| 1:22.7 | What is the problem with America's relationship with guns? |
| 1:25.7 | Second, we're going to talk about the fiscal cliff negotiations, which at the moment we are |
| 1:30.6 | taping are stalled, unless John has new news on that. |
| 1:34.6 | And we will finally do a brief segment on the death of Robert Bork. |
| 1:38.1 | And, of course, we will have some cocktail chatter, some eggnog chatter for Christmas week. |
| 1:43.4 | Before we get started, remember our next live show is Wednesday, January 23rd in Washington, D.C. at Sixth and I. You can get your tickets now. Links on the show page, Slate.com slash GabFest at Facebook.com slash GabFest and at Sixth and I.org. We are also having a pre-show cocktail party, and tickets for that are |
| 2:02.9 | available in the same places. The party is small, and you will want to move fast for tickets. |
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