This is too sad for long comment. You wonder why Tom Friedman today suggested moving up the swearing in to Thanksgiving? He didn’t have this video in mind but if he’d seen it he would have puked. Sphere: Related Content

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Well, tonight’s news showed the new “Thank you Sarah” ad from a new astroturf group called “Our Country Deserves Better PAC.” Deborah Johns during the Move America Forward Tour in 2005 And you know, something made my little reporter’s “HUNCH” arrow swing all the way into the red. The reason, when I checked the website “http://www.ourcountrypac.org/” became manifestly apparent. I’ve COVERED these weasels before — over 10,000 words worth — in “Swift Boat Moms in Winnebagos.” (August 30, 2005,...

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Yes, the Colmes-Hannity team on Fox News is splitting up. And it’s so, so sad… or perhaps it would be if I cared. I don’t watch the show, and rarely the network, and, to me, Colmes was little more than an overwhelmed punching bag with no punch of his own, the perfect “liberal” for Hannity and Fox. In a certain other culture, Colmes’s dishonourable behaviour would have required him to commit hara-kiri a long time ago. Sphere: Related Content

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