Slate: The Spasmodic Drama Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2010

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring David Plotz, Daniel Gross, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The economy and the fall election, the Shirley Sherrod debacle, and the complications of the Phoebe Prince internet bullying death Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:08.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, July 23rd.
0:14.1	This is David Plotz.
0:15.1	I'm here in Slate's new palatial podcast studio.
0:20.6	We have a new studio with Emily Bazelon, who's down, especially
0:23.7	from New Haven to inaugurate the studio. John Dickerson is on vacation. So Daniel Gross, Slate
0:29.8	and Newsweek's chief business correspondent, columnist, and genius is filling in, and he's in New York. Welcome,
0:37.2	Dan. Good to be here. Andy Bouvet. The new studio, and he's in New York. Welcome, Dan.
0:38.5	Good to be here.
0:40.4	Andy Bouvet, the new studio.
0:44.1	Andy Bouvet is relaxing in the jacuzzi of the new studio over there, engineering the show.
0:52.0	Bill has just pulled his Bentley into the three-car garage and is producing the show from there.
0:55.6	Emily has built herself a full-scale model of the Supreme Court,
0:59.9	and she's sitting at the bench in regalia, in her judicial regalia,
1:01.9	doing the show from the... But the New York office is still held together by paper clips and some tinfoil.
1:06.5	And will be for months yet.
1:08.5	Let us know if the sound in the new studio is better or worse than it was.
1:11.8	It is truly vast.
1:13.6	We could play basketball in here.
1:15.7	All right, enough.
1:17.1	We're going to talk today about the economy and the election.
1:21.3	And we're going to talk about the firing and unfiring of Shirley Sherrod, the USDA official.
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