Slate: The Yearning to be Free Gabfest
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2011
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for Friday, April Fool's Day. |
| 0:11.4 | April 1st, that is, 2011. |
| 0:14.0 | There will be no April Fool's pranks on this show. |
| 0:16.5 | But verily, we are April Fool's. |
| 0:19.0 | Is that Shakespearean? |
| 0:20.0 | We're the prank. |
| 0:56.0 | No, we are, right. We are fools, and we are now in April. Huh. But is that a line? No, I just mean. If you slap a little verily on anything, it's like chocolate sauce. It just adds a whole kind of special elevation to it. Verily. Yay. Verily. We doth go next week, incidentally. April 7th, we're going to be live in West Lafayette, Indiana, at University Church. At show is at 6 o'clock. We're going to meet for drinks in advance. Anyone who is listening, please join us for drinks at 4.30 at speaking of chocolate. Harry's chocolate shop, which apparently does not serve chocolate. Or maybe it's chocolate. |
| 0:57.0 | I wanted to drink chocolate. |
| 0:58.0 | But I think it serves alcohol, which we will be consuming in vast quantities. |
| 1:03.0 | So please join us for our live show, brought to you by TIA CREF. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you, TIACREF. |
| 1:09.0 | Go to slate.com slash Indiana and get your free tickets there. We really look forward to seeing you there and it drinks before the show. Today, we're going to talk about three topics. We're going to talk again about Libya because our Libyan adventure continues. We're going to talk about the fascinating Walmart class action sex |
| 1:29.5 | discrimination case that the Supreme Court heard this week. And we're going to talk about |
| 1:33.3 | the interesting Freedom of Information Act controversy that's erupting in the Midwest over |
| 1:38.6 | university professor emails. So we will also have cocktail chatter, which will be filled with chocolate as well. |
| 1:48.0 | So, John, why don't you update us a little bit about what has happened in Libya and about what the president's speech said, what the new Obama doctrine or lack of Obama doctrine is, |
| 2:03.7 | and the impact of that speech has been politically. |
| 2:07.3 | All right. |
| 2:07.5 | Here we go. |
| 2:08.5 | Let's see if I can do it. |
| 2:09.8 | So let's go back to Monday. |
| 2:11.9 | The president gave a speech in which he said he was going to do three things. |
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