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Hello and welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, January 14th.

I'm here in New York with the Double X managing editor, Jess Gross, and my co-editor of Double X, Hannah Rosen.

Hello. And we have three topics. We are going to start by talking about the portrayal of

Elizabeth Edwards and Hillary Clinton in the new politics filled with dirt book, Game Change,

and kind of a look back at sexism in the campaign season from

2008. Then we're going to talk about the trial of the suspected killer in the murder of Dr. George

Tiller, the abortion provider from Kansas. And then last, we're going to talk about a recent essay in

the Atlantic by

Caitlin Flanagan, which is a frontal attack on the school garden movement in California.

Okay, so let's start by talking a little bit about game change and how Elizabeth Edwards,

in particular, comes off in this book. Hannah, you wrote a post for us this week or last week, perhaps, about what a monster, Elizabeth Edwards, emerges as.

Tell us about that a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, I've reported on Elizabeth Edwards.

I wrote a profile of her for the New Republic at the time, and she's an incredibly complicated character.

There's clearly two sides of her. One is

incredibly charming, charismatic, tragic. She's a fabulous writer. And there's another side,

which I got from her staff. You know, she's very difficult, kind of difficult to work with,

incredibly demanding, very erratic, you know, sort of has a diva in her as unpredictable.

You only get the latter in this book

from the New York Magazine excerpt. I thought she comes across as pretty awful. I mean,

she, you know, here's a quote that the, here's a quote from the New York Magazine. She was

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