Slate: The Moochers, Beggars and Parasites Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2012

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, John Dickerson and Emily Bazelon. This week: Romney fingers freeloaders, author Sasha Issenberg explains The Victory Lab and SCOTUS officiates gay marriage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for September 21st, The Moutures, Beggars, and Parasites Edition.
0:46.2	Which are you?
0:49.3	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate, definitely a parasite.
0:56.7	Joining me in Slate's Washington studio is Slate's chief political correspondent and political director of CBS News, John Dickerson.
0:57.4	Hello, John.
0:58.2	Hello, David.
1:00.0	Are you a mooture or a beggar or a parasite?
1:02.3	No, but that is my favorite Tom Waits album.
1:07.7	Joining us in New Haven is Slate's senior editor, Emily, the B is for beggar, Bazelon.
1:08.2	Hello, Emily.
1:09.6	I was going to say moocher.
1:12.6	You're a moocher. You're a moacher? Yeah, generally in life,
1:19.3	especially rides for my children. Awesome. Wait, you let your children drive? I try to get other people to drive them places. So you're a mooture by proxy? Actually, what I really am is a traitor. Trader,
1:25.2	T-R-A-D-E-R. I like to carpool very much. You're a barter.
1:29.9	Bartering is good. I think that Mitt Romney would like it. Maybe. So it's a very bizarre week in politics, which we will honor with a glorious variety of topics. Wildly different. All enthralling. First, of course, the Mitt Romney, 47% controversy. What Happened? What's at stake?
1:45.0	Does it matter?
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