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Fred Barnes and the “Monkey Boy”
Fred Barnes and the “Monkey Boy”
Here’s a good one. A right-wing caller to C-SPAN identifies himself as a big Fred Barnes fan and asks a question during the course of which he refers to Barack Obama as “monkey boy.” Barnes doesn’t bat an eye and just moves to answer the question: It’s ...
Fred Barnes doesn’t bat an eye when C-Span caller and Barnes fan calls Obama ‘Mr. Monkey Boy’.
Fred Barnes doesn’t bat an eye when C-Span caller and Barnes fan calls Obama ‘Mr. Monkey Boy’.
thinkprogress.org — Today on C-Span’s “Washington Journal,” conservative columnist Fred Barnes continued to defend the Bush presidency and insisted that Barack Obama would not represent much change from Bush. When a caller — who identified ... (more) Fred Barnes doesn’t bat an eye when C-Span caller and ...
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com — For Fred Barnes, a born-again Christian, the second on the list is authorizing torture . In order to say this without blanching, Fred has to use the euphemism actually pioneered by the Gestapo for torture without physical scars - "enhanced ... (more) Ten Things Bush Got Right
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Political Animal — ... in the Washington Post newsroom yesterday. * Note to Fred Barnes: when someone refers to the next president as " Monkey Boy ," muster the courage to express some kind of disapproval. * I can't believe we're ...

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