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Toobin: McCain's speech "shockingly bad" (video)
youtube.com - 9/5/2008
Toobin: McCain's speech "shockingly bad" (video)
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Jeffrey Toobin thought McCain's speech was bad -- shockingly bad.

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AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  CNN's Jeffrey Toobin says McCain was "shockingly bad"

Balloon Juice:  The Only Honest Man on Television

WTF Is It Now?!?:  McCain's "worst speech" evar panned by pundits

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CNN's Jeffrey Toobin says McCain was "shockingly bad"
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Jeffrey Toobin on CNN “I thought it was the worst speech by a nominee that I’ve heard since Jimmy Carter in 1980. I thought it was disorganized, I thought it was it was theme-less, I thought it was very, very boring…I personally cannot remember a single policy proposal that he made because they had nothing connecting them. I found it shockingly bad.” ...

The Only Honest Man on Television
Balloon Juice — I really am not sure when this happened to our media, but it is clear that Jeffrey Toobin is the last honest man on television:

McCain's "worst speech" evar panned by pundits
WTF Is It Now?!? — My friends, CNN legal scholar Jeffrey Toobin hates America: “I thought it was the worst speech by a nominee that I’ve heard since Jimmy Carter in 1980. I thought it was disorganized, I thought it was it was theme-less, I thought it was very, very boring… I personally cannot remember a single policy proposal that he made because they had nothing ...

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