Slate: The Ravaged and Burned Gabfest
Political Gabfest
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 8.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 June 2009
⏱️ 40 minutes
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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 Friday, June 5th, 2009. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm David Plotz here in Washington. |
| 0:29.8 | Emily Bazelon is here with me in Washington. |
| 0:32.7 | I am. |
| 0:33.2 | I am. |
| 0:33.3 | I am. |
| 0:34.3 | I am. |
| 0:35.3 | I am not here with us. |
| 0:35.5 | John is now remote from... |
| 0:37.7 | I think it's avoiding me, don't you think that? |
| 0:39.6 | He says he's sorry, but I think actually he deliberately chose this Thursday, this week, not to be... |
| 0:45.4 | I said I'm sorry about what? |
| 0:48.1 | Oh, that I'm not there. |
| 0:49.3 | But actually, you deliberately decided that you are going to be here this week. |
| 0:53.4 | I'm deeply downcast and upset. |
| 0:56.8 | Well, in any case, John will report to us from Tennessee, |
| 1:01.3 | and we're going to have three topics today. |
| 1:03.5 | Topic number one is going to be President Obama's trip to the Middle East, |
| 1:07.7 | notably his speech to the Muslim world given Thursday morning |
| 1:11.3 | in Cairo. Topic two is going to be the murder of abortion Dr. George Tiller in Kansas. |
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