Slate: The Not My Spittle Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2010

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The BP oil spill continues, the Gaza flotilla, and the White House meddles again Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GabFest is sponsored by Audible, the Internet's leading provider of spoken audio entertainment.
0:12.9	GabFest listeners can download a free audiobook by signing up for an Audible membership at Audiblepodcast.com slash gabfest.
0:22.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for the 4th of June Friday.
0:26.4	I'm John Dickerson in Washington.
0:27.9	David Flotz is here with me in this, it's even warmer in this little room than we normally is.
0:33.5	And Emily Bazelon, luckily, is not in this room, but is in New Haven.
0:37.3	It's nice and cool here in this northern climb.
0:40.2	Thank you, once again, making us feel insufficient here.
0:43.8	I had fully taken off my shirt until Gail, our intern, shamed me into putting my shirt back on.
0:48.9	Good for her.
0:49.7	We need some standards around here.
0:51.6	Right.
0:52.2	And I finally can open my eyes after the last 10 minutes of keeping them closed.
0:56.7	The topics this week are going to be the BP oil spill and the fallout from that.
1:02.5	The flotilla disaster in – that was this week, right, this week.
1:07.9	Yes, that was.
1:08.8	And then our third topic is going to be the more is interesting behind the scenes
1:14.5	White House political maneuvering as we have a second example of in the California
1:20.4	Senate race of the White House working to get.
1:22.8	Colorado Senate race.
1:23.4	Sorry, what I say?
1:24.4	California.
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