Slate: The Pathetic Weiner Gabfest

Political Gabfest

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Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2011

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The political future of Anthony Weiner, Republican presidential politics, and banning circumcision in California Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The GabFest is brought to you by Bing.com, the search engine that helps you make everyday decisions with the help of your friends.
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0:27.1	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest for Friday, June the 10th, 2011. I am still David
0:35.0	Plotz, which is sort of a disappointment to me. I was hoping that it would have changed by now. I'm still David Plotz, which is sort of a disappointment to me.
0:38.3	I was hoping that it would have changed by now.
0:40.8	I'm still David Plotz.
0:41.8	I'm still the editor of Slate, which is good.
0:43.7	And I'm joined in Washington by Slate's chief political correspondent, John Dickerson,
0:48.1	fresh from Iowa with corn coming out of his shirt.
0:52.1	Where he was corresponding.
0:53.7	He was corresponding from Iowa.
0:55.7	And joining us from New Haven, of course, is Slate's senior editor Emily Bazelon.
1:01.3	Greetings, Emily.
1:02.3	Is it obscenely hot in New Haven as it is?
1:05.3	It's really hot.
1:06.1	But it must be hotter in Washington, right?
1:08.1	I'm sure it's hotter in Washington.
1:09.6	But we all suffer together.
1:12.6	Mitt Romney says global warming is maybe caused by humans, but we're not going to talk about that.
1:18.1	We're going to talk today about Weiner, number one.
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