The Cultural Gab Fest, Misplaced Outrage Edition.

This is the daily podcast from slate.com for Wednesday, April 9th, 2008.

I'm Amanda Aroncic.

On today's program, our critics discuss Vogue magazine's King Kong Redux, Hillary's Millions, and the latest

in Nerd Verite, the online sitcom The Guild. And now here's your host, Stephen Metcalf.

Hello, and welcome to the fifth, if you can believe it, Cultural Gab Fest. I'm Stephen

Metcalf, Slate's Critic at Large. Today, I'm joined by Julia Turner, Slate's culture editor. Hello, Julia.

Hi, Steve. And of course, Dana Stevens, Slate's film critic. Hello, Dana.

Hello. Today we're going to talk about three topics, LeBron James, in what's been described as a semi-Simian hug of Giselle Bunchen, the supermodel and girlfriend of Tom Brady.

We're going to talk about Hillary Clinton's massive windfall via mostly her husband, not entirely, through her husband,

and a web TV show called The Guild.

Let's kick it off with LeBron and Giselle.

Juliet, why don't you just give everyone sort of a little bit of background as to the photograph, the cover of Vogue, Annie Leibovitz, and the perhaps complex, perhaps not semiotics of the pose?

Sure.

So I believe it's the April cover of Vogue, or Vogue's shape issue, features LeBron James, dribbling a basketball with one hand and holding

Giselle Buncheon in a filmy, sea foam green, bias cut slip dress in the other.

And he's sort of giving this, how would you describe his face?

It looks like he's roaring, basically.

If you watch a lot of basketball, it's after a dunk or something. There's this

sort of exuberant facial expression that's just absolutely cliche at this point. We'll call it a

gleeful basketball roar. There you go, exactly. And Giselle looks very happy as well. Her hair, which is, I think,

the most amazing hair in the universe, is bouncing and doing its wonderful Giselle hair thing,

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