The GabFest is sponsored by Stamps.com.

Buy and print official U.S. postage using your own computer and printer,

and have your postal carrier pick up your packages.

Sign up for a no-risk trial and get $55 in free postage when you visit Stamps.com

and use the promo code, GabFest.

The following podcast contains explicit language.

Thank you. Gab Fest. The following podcast contains explicit language. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for November 21st, 2014, the Is Thanksgiving

Red or Blue edition. I'm David Plotz at Atlas of Secura in Washington, D.C., back after our Chicago

trip, our Superfest. Now I'm just back home, back to the grind. On today's show, we'll do

Obama versus the GOP on immigration. Is his executive power grab necessary, or is it dangerous

or both?

Then the Keystone Pipeline and the fate of Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat from Louisiana.

And we will also discuss the week's most urgent question, which is, is Thanksgiving a Democratic or Republican holiday?

Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter and Slate Plus another Thanksgiving

segment. It'll be another Thanksgiving segment, John. Oh, what is it? We're going to do

the best Thanksgiving food that you, our listeners, are not eating. We're going to just riff on that.

We're going to talk about great Thanksgiving food. Okay. This is all so you can talk about your mom's pies.

Possibly. Possibly. So you hear two voices there. They're the same other two voices we always hear. The handsome voice of John Dickerson. Hello, John Dickerson. We're in another knit tie. David Blotz. I know. I know. John is like knit tie, man. I know., in the wind, I was back in Chicago again, doing something at the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago. And so I'm still wearing basically what I was wearing last night. So that's why I'm wearing. That's why I'm dressed this way. I just got off the plane. And the other voice, of course, Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine. Hello, Emily Bazelon.

In New Haven. Yes? You're in New Haven today? I'm in New Haven today. Good. All right. Just a brief

pitch. You are probably listening to Serial. You're listening to it this podcast, which means you're very likely listening to Serial, the podcast that is being done by This American Life, Sarah Koenig, murder mystery, procedural that she's been telling over the past couple of months. It's a fabulous, fabulous podcast. It's all the rage. It's a sensation. You may or may not know that Slate has a great podcast about cereal.

Slate's Serial special podcast.

After you've listened to that week's episode of cereal, you can get your methadone, get your second dose of cereal by listening to this fantastic podcast that Katie Waldman and Dan Cois and Willa Paskin have been doing about cereal itself.

...