The Survivalist Gabfest
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Updated Thursday, March 15, 2007, at 6:27 PM ET
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March 15, 2007 Dear Gabfest listeners: The Friday, March 16 program is going to be posted a little later than usual (because of John's travels with Sen. John McCain, which he'll be telling us about). Look for the program on Friday afternoon. Posted by Andy Bowers, 6:28 p.m. March 9, 2007
On this week's Gabfest: The fired U.S. attorneys speak out, Scooter Libby hopes for a pardon, and Hillary and Barack try some identity politics. Plus, in our cocktail chatter segment, David Plotz wonders why he's suddenly gone into survival mode.
And here are links to some of the articles mentioned in the show:
Emily Bazelon on the crazy drama at the U.S. attorney hearings.
Dahlia Lithwick on the mysterious provision that allowed the purge and which senator Arlen Specter seems to know nothing about.
John Dickerson on the Libby verdict.
The survivalist checklist that is guiding David Plotz on his latest obsession. Posted by Andy Bowers, 7:18 a.m.
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Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. She's working on a book about bullying.
Andy Bowers is the editor ofSlate V.
John Dickerson is Slate's chief political correspondent and author of On Her Trail. He can be reached at slatepolitics@gmail.com. Read his series on Risk. Follow him on Twitter.
David Plotz is the Editor of Slate. He's the author of The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank and Good Book. He appears on Slate's Political Gabfest.