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It's Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014 from Slate, it's the GIST. I'm Mike Pasca. So in the New York

Times style section, style section sometimes can be the fabulous ghetto of the New York Times,

but maybe a little less rigor, maybe a little bit more verve. I'll give you more verve. They have

new-zish items, so the topic was Hillary Clinton and the gay vote. She's not actually great on gay

issues, Terry Gross pressed her, hey, when did you start becoming in favor of gay marriage? There

was a great non-answer going on there. She said, you know, I think it's a good decision for the

States and in Slate, Mark Joseph Stern actually pointed out that saying the States should have

to be in charge of gay marriage, it's like Dick Cheney circa 2004. But what the New York Times

style section did was talk about why gay people, gay men, I didn't see too many lesbians,

quote, a gay man like Hillary, and here were some of the answers given. We get her like we get our

moms said Fred Sains, a spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, an advocacy group. We've seen

the travails she's been through and the fact that she's not just a survivor but a conqueror

than they quoted the democratic strategist Richard Sakarides who said, people see her as a survivor

and someone who despite her many, many gifts and blessings survived some personal and political

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