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The Story of the Pants

These’ll do nicely.

Karie Luidens
3 min readOct 3, 2019

Lovett or Leave It
“Gay For Impeachment”
September 28, 2019 • 11:58
https://crooked.com/podcast/gay-for-impeachment/

A loose sketch of Jon Lovett in some snazzy rainbow pants. A speech bubble: “TELL US THE STORY OF THE STORY OF THE PANTS!”
Lovett’s reply is handwritten in rainbow ink from start to finish; the full transcription follows below

Jon Lovett is a straight shooter widely respected on all sides. He earned this reputation (which is seriously fantastic, ask people) as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton and as a presidential speechwriter in the Obama White House.

Karie Luidens is an Albuquerque-based writer of criticism, commentary, current events, and semi-connected musings. She’s yet to earn much of a reputation. When she heard Jon’s off-the-cuff explanation of his rainbow pants on the latest episode of Lovett or Leave It, she found it so compelling, she spent the rest of the episode doodling the above.

Here’s a typed transcript of the handwritten transcript for anyone who’s color-blind, using a screen reader, or generally not a fan of that penmanship.

Audience member:

What’s the story of your pants?

Jon Lovett:

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Karie Luidens
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