Political Gabfest - The Political Gabfest: The You're a Facebook Lab Rat Edition
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🗓️ 4 July 2014
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Slate's Political Gabfest, featuring Emily Bazelon, David Plotz, and John Dickerson. This week: The High Court's Hobby Lobby decision, the impasse over immigration reform, and Facebook's ethically ambiguous research.Show notes at www.slate.com/gabfest.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for July 4th, 2014. |
| 0:10.6 | Happy birthday, America. |
| 0:13.0 | It's the You're a Facebook Labrat edition. |
| 0:17.1 | I'm David Plotz, the editor of Slate. |
| 0:18.4 | I'm here in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:19.5 | Today, we'll talk about the Supreme Court's hobby-lobby decision which delivers a smashing victory for conservatives. Is this a disaster for reproductive rights for Obamacare? Or is this a reasonable decision that accommodates religion in a useful way? Then the preposterous, maddening, poisonous politics of immigration. |
| 0:41.9 | In my view, we will discuss this. |
| 0:43.7 | Immigration is a symbol for all that is wrong and wicked in Washington these days. |
| 0:47.5 | And then Facebook is conducting lots of devious little scientific experiments on you. |
| 0:53.0 | They didn't tell you, but they're doing it. |
| 0:55.7 | Should you care? |
| 0:57.3 | Slate's chief political correspondent, John Dickerson, joins me in the very fetid and sweaty, |
| 1:01.8 | or soon to be very fetid and sweaty. |
| 1:04.3 | Slate DC studio, hello, John. |
| 1:06.1 | Hello, David. |
| 1:06.7 | Yeah, it's been pretty fetid and sweaty outside, too. |
| 1:12.8 | The entire city is. We mirror the outside. |
| 1:14.0 | We are outside inside, so it will be disgusting in here shortly. |
| 1:17.8 | And then, Emily Bazelon. |
| 1:20.2 | It's not fettered and sweaty here. |
| 1:21.8 | It's really nice. |
| 1:22.6 | Why are you in Amsterdam? |
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