Slate: The Mormons Are So Good Looking Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2012

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The Republican presidential primary in Florida, Sheldon Adelson’s support of Newt Gingrich, and CIA officer John Kiriakou Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, January 27th, 2012.
0:12.5	The Mormons are so good-looking Gab Fest.
0:15.7	Also, it's almost David Plotz's birthday, Gab Fest.
0:19.6	That's so self-absorbed.
0:21.0	You picked your birthday and your chatter for the title.
0:24.8	Why is that so self-absorbed?
0:26.8	You didn't offer anything.
0:28.9	I was asked.
0:29.6	Did you offer anything?
0:30.7	I do all the work of putting it all together.
0:33.3	It would be the first time that we've had a self-absorbed moment in the Gab Fest when, in fact, we're engaging in a self-absorbed moment right now.
0:42.8	You can hear, thank you, you can hear Emily Bazelon in sincerely wishing me happy birthday from New Haven.
0:51.0	John Dickerson is not revealing his sincerity or lack thereof. He's in Florida. I assume you're in Florida. You just missed it.
0:59.2	No, I'm in, yeah, I wasn't making fun of him. I was making fun of all of us. I'm in Jacksonville, Florida, yes.
1:04.0	This week we're going to talk about politics, kind of a catch-all politics, will be our first topic. Our second topic will be the mysterious and interesting funder who has given Newt Gingrich the resources to fight against Mitt Romney.
1:17.3	And our third topic will be the indictment of a former CIA employee for various things.
1:24.4	And we'll have a lot of cocktail chatter.
1:25.9	I actually have four cocktail chatters. Can you believe that? Four of them. I'll loan. I'll sell one of you, some of mine. It's not even Super Bowl weekend and you're going to be full of cocktails. Exactly. So, but before we do any of that, Emily, you have something to say about our live show scheduled for February 15th in New York.
1:47.3	Exactly. It is scheduled for February 15th. It is also definitely taking place at the Tribeca location of the 92nd Street Y. Sorry for any confusion about that. And we are a little uncertain about whether there are tickets left to this show.
2:01.8	We apologize for that.
2:02.9	We'll figure it out soon and post the answer on our blog page and our Facebook page.
2:08.0	Yeah, some of you have reported that it's already sold out, and we are attempting to figure out whether that is the case.
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