The “Little Diddy About Mitch and Elaine” Edition

Political Gabfest

Slate Podcasts

News, Politics, Government

4.4 • 8.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao’s conflicts of interest, partisanship in state legislatures, and YouTube’s radicalizing recommendation algorithm. Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. Tweet us your cocktail chatter using #cocktailchatter or post it to our Facebook page. (Messages may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Become a fan of the Political Gabfest on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @SlateGabfest. The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Podcast production by Jocelyn Frank. Research and show notes by Bridgette Dunlap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of The Gabfest contains explicit language.
0:03.6	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gabfest for June 13, 2019.
0:14.8	The little ditty about Mitch and Elaine edition I am David Plott,
0:18.5	about to see her I've been Washington DC.
0:21.7	Hello and at a green felt table but I am looking through the miracle of science,
0:28.9	all the way to New York where I see John Dickerson of CBS is 60 minutes.
0:32.5	Hello John.
0:34.0	Hello David.
0:35.3	And I almost saw Emily but she was off Mike there for a second.
0:38.1	There's Emily Bazlon of The New York Times Times.
0:40.0	Never I would never be off Mike.
0:41.9	I can't imagine what you mean.
0:44.9	It's summer.
0:45.9	Let's forget about Yale Law School for a little while.
0:48.3	John, I, I, I, John is so well dressed and he, we had the conversation before the show about why
0:53.3	he's well dressed even though he's not appearing on TV. He's not, he is on writing his book right now
0:58.0	and so and he insufficiently answered it. So I'm going to ask you one more time John.
1:01.6	In two sentences or less why on a random Thursday when as far as I know you do not need to be on
1:06.8	television are you so beautifully dressed? Well because I like, I like dressing well but more to
1:12.3	the point I when you get up in the morning it you don't have to think about what you're going to
1:19.0	wear. You grab a shirt, a tie that goes with it, get in your suit, you're out the door like
1:24.4	all my other clothing options are require thought and at any minute I could like have to go do
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