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GabFest.

Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for February 22nd, 2013, the sequestering Obama's golf game edition.

I am David Plotz, the editor of Slate here in Washington, D.C., with as ever Slate's chief political correspondent, man who needs no introduction, so I won't give him one. John Dickerson. Hello, David. And joining us from

some place. She's going to tell us where in Canada, some mysterious place in Canada. In Toronto for

our first Inter-American Gab Fest, I think, isn't it?

I think we've had some from overseas.

I feel like Emily and I once recorded from Israel.

Oh, yeah, we did.

I think you're right.

We have fans up here.

People have been encouraging us to come up for a live show.

Then this is historic and unprecedented.

It is unprecedented like Pope Benedict's resignation.

In any case, from Toronto, fresh off the smash start to her book tour.

Her new book is Sticks and Stones.

Emily was awesome on fresh air and on Colbert this week.

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