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Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, April 22nd.

I am Hannah Rosen, the co-editor of Double X, and I'm here in Washington with my lovely colleague, Jack Schaefer, media critic for Slate.

Hello, Jack.

Greetings.

What a voice. And in New York, we have Jessica Gross, the managing editor of Double X. Hi, Jess.

Hi. Today we're going to talk about actually three particular women rather than three particular issues, sort of. We're going to talk about the first ladies in the British election, particularly the one known as Sam Cam, who is Samantha Cameron. And then we're going to talk about Sarah Palin's regional tour, which has been going strong. And finally, we're going to talk about comedian Sarah Silverman, another Sarah, who is turning 40 and wrote about it for New York Magazine. It was an interview with her. She didn't write it. It was an interview. She didn't write it.

Excuse me.

That's right.

It was a profile.

But she's written a book.

But she's written a book.

She has written a book. That's true. And that's being half wrong worse than being completely wrong. I think so. I think only if you own the completely wrong. Because it introduces, you know, this just this flawed rather than broken message.

Right.

Which could stand a semi-true, but not being. Because it introduces, you know, this just this flawed rather than broken message. Right.

Which could stand as semi-true, but not being completely wrong. Is that a segue into Sarah Palin? It's a segue into Sarah Palin, but we're not going to talk about her first because she is semi-wrong would be a good way to describe what she is all the time. So anyway, let's talk about Samantha Cameron and Sarah Brown. So the interesting thing going on in the British election is that at least by the American media, it's becoming

Americanify. They just had their first television debate. The candidates did, not the first

ladies. And then as a byproduct of the Americanification and presidentialification of the

British election, we are now turning our attention to the First Ladies.

More than Cherie Blair, who was an actual First Lady, this is like First Ladies campaigning.

And if you actually read the things that they say they feel extremely American, and the particular strategy they've adopted is the Michelle Obama strategy of sort of like nagging at your husband, like the

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