eschatonblog.com - 10/14/2008
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That I still retain the capacity to be surprised regularly surprises me. ... Treason in Defense of Slavery Yankee thinks that a rumor that Obama as a young child may have been (as in, in his fapping imagination) molested disqualifies him from being president. I can still be surprised. I'm sure ...
balloon-juice.com - 10/14/2008
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balloon-juice.com —
As I look around the blogosphere, and view
memeorandum, it occurred to me that we may have...
hit and passed Peak Wingnut. Don’t get me wrong, this election is still not over and by no means in the bag, but as I read things, the hey day of modern ...
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Peak Wingnut
highclearing.com - 10/14/2008
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highclearing.com —
In the course of considering Peak Wingnut Theory,
John Cole discovers Erick Erickson of Red State staying...
classy by booming a National Enquirer story about the possibility that, as Erickson puts it, "Barack Obama had an underage, gay affair with a ...
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They Have a Word for It
balloon-juice.com - 10/14/2008
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balloon-juice.com —
In a post below John argues, wrongly I
think, that a profound loss in November will bring...
at least a little sanity to the online right. Glenn Greenwald had a similar thought earlier today: I receive e-mails fairly commonly these days pointing ...
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Peak Wingnut? You. Have. No. Idea.
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