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Among the Mountebanks
Good writing. Iran and U.S. withdrawal. Specter’s greatest single accomplishment ever. Those bad bishops. Bovine breath. Plus much more.
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It is for this quality of writing that your devotees in foreign lands read TAS.
p>It is also a great pity that Bob does not unleash himself on scoundrels and mountebanks like Al Franken more often. br> — Martin Kelly br> Glasgow, Scotland /p>Kudos to RET’s decision to confer the vaunted J. Gordon Coogler Award on Mr. Al Franken. Other than the brain-damaged psychotic Michael Moore (aside to RET — I thought possibly you stole my idea about Moore’s book Stupid White Men being his autobio, but I guess that is rather self-evident to everyone), I can think of no one else more deserving of this accolade! Bear in mind that Mr. Franken is the same moron that, along with his partner Tom Davis, used to drop LSD before their script-writing endeavors during their halcyon days at Saturday Night Live. Certainly was the pinnacle of their careers, which took a plunge faster than David Caruso’s.
p>And as far as Ann Coulter is concerned — HOO HAH!! And what I wouldn’t give to see RET and AC team up on CNN’s “Crossfire” in place of Carlson and Novak (both nice guys, but hey, we got a war to fight here). The liberal bloodletting would be monumental and I’d pay good money to see the “Ragin’ Cajun” crying “MOMMIE” after he got shredded. Ah, my fantasy for the week…month …year … br> —
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