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Big Talkers
From Clinton on down, the bigger the talk, the smaller the man (and woman).
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p> LOOPY LEAHY br> So, apparently Sen. Patrick Leahy is a closet conspiratorial conservative. On Friday, Leahy called for an investigation into whether the spread of the West Nile virus could be the result of a terrorist attack. "We were wondering where he could have gotten such a hare-brained scheme," says a Democratic staffer in the Senate. "That's very unlike Leahy." /p>Unlike him? How, then, do they explain those hair-brained schemes Leahy dreams up for Bush judicial nominees? But we digress. What happened is that Leahy was probably surfing the net and came across several right-wing conspiracy-happy sites that are actually putting out the West Nile as terrorism story. Seems back in the late 1990s, a man developed West Nile in New York on the Upper East Side. And what else is on the Upper East Side? The United Nations. And who works at the U.N.? Why, Iraqis. See? It all makes sense.
p>What will Leahy buy into next? br> /p>
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