Slate: The Vampire Squid Gabfest

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

Politics, Government, News

4.5 • 8.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2012

⏱️ 50 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring John Dickerson, David Plotz, and Emily Bazelon. This week: The southern GOP primaries, President Obama's approval rating, and career suicide at Goldman Sachs Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The GabFest is brought to you by Audible.com, a leading provider of spoken audio information and entertainment.
0:06.8	Listen to audiobooks whenever and wherever you want. Get a free book when you sign up for a 30-day free trial at Audiblepodcast.com slash gabfest.
0:17.1	And by Netflix. Watch thousands of TV episodes and movies on your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or TV instantly. All stream directly to you, saving you time, money, and hassle. For your free 30-day trial, go to Netflix.com slash Slate.
0:39.3	Hello and welcome to the Slate political Gab Fest for the week of March 16th, 2012, the Vampire Squid Edition.
0:48.6	I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate.
0:51.2	I'm talking really low and slow because we were just talking about low and slow.
0:56.9	And so that's what I'm doing.
0:58.0	And joining me in Slate's Washington studio is our chief political correspondent, John Dickerson, who's also CBS News's political something, director.
1:11.2	What did I do there?
1:12.3	You went up at the end of your sentence there.
1:13.9	It was supposed to vocal Friday.
1:15.5	I upspeaked it.
1:17.5	And joining us from New Haven is Emily Bazelon.
1:23.2	Hi, Emily.
1:23.9	That is so irritating.
1:26.3	Really?
1:27.8	Okay.
1:33.9	Our first topic is going to be the southern primaries that took place this week.
1:36.6	Rick Santorum, two wins.
1:40.8	Mitt Romney, two third place finishes in two tight races.
1:43.5	And now we go into what's next John Illinois is next Illinois looms
1:45.1	Puerto Rico and then Illinois and then Louisiana oh I left out Puerto Rico I was so
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate Podcasts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Slate Podcasts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.