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Get it out there. Force the confrontation on these frankly absurd issues. Let’s talk and rave angrily and laugh about this garbage. If that’s in bad taste, so be it. I’m with The New Yorker on this one. Desensitize the unspeakable by exposing it and making it speakable. Ridicule it. But Libby Spencer’s idea...
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How can you ‘leak’ an AP photo?  Left, the National Examiner Feb. 4, 2008 Now it can be told. This truly absurd non-story is actually quite useful as an example of Clinton Rules, which Paul Krugman neatly summed up in February: Hate Springs Eternal What’s particularly saddening is the way many Obama supporters seem...
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  For the record, a truly beautiful moment in American politics. It’s being called a concession speech, and maybe it is. If so, I fervently hope that Barack Obama delivers the goods. I worry that he has some still-undisclosed truly horrible bad stuff that will only come out after he gets the nomination. Maybe...
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Go to original by Time.com Washington Editor Ana Marie Cox on Swampland Ana Marie Cox has been one of my favorite political commentators since the days when she was running Wonkette. She’s crisp, intelligent and witty. I don’t agree with all of her positions, but I’ve never seen her indulging in the kind of...
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