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	<title>Comments on: Hot Air Theater presents&#8230;Amanda Marcotte (Part II)</title>
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		<title>By: The Greenroom &#187; Forum Archive &#187; Amanda Marcotte: Feminism as Paranoia</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Greenroom &#187; Forum Archive &#187; Amanda Marcotte: Feminism as Paranoia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 01:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] for quite different reasons, to former John Edwards presidential blogger Amanda Marcotte, whom Hot Air readers will certainly remember for such thoughtful insights as: Q: What if Mary had taken Plan B after the Lord filled her with [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Propecia.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Propecia.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; WaPo&#8217;s Kurtz Profiles Outspoken Conservative Who Brings It All On Herself</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; WaPo&#8217;s Kurtz Profiles Outspoken Conservative Who Brings It All On Herself</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] ONE MORE THING: We&#8217;re just coming off a major story about the two blushing songbirds John Edwards hired and fired as campaign bloggers. Kurtz&#8217;s &#8220;Michelle Malkin as Lone Wolf McQuade&#8221; piece looks utterly risible when you compare Michelle to those genuinely venomous and bitter characters who just exited the national spotlight, stage left. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] ONE MORE THING: We&#8217;re just coming off a major story about the two blushing songbirds John Edwards hired and fired as campaign bloggers. Kurtz&#8217;s &#8220;Michelle Malkin as Lone Wolf McQuade&#8221; piece looks utterly risible when you compare Michelle to those genuinely venomous and bitter characters who just exited the national spotlight, stage left. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: The Obligatory Edwards/Bloggers Post Updated and Bumped at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source.</title>
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		<dc:creator>The Obligatory Edwards/Bloggers Post Updated and Bumped at Conservative Times--Republican GOP news source.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Then hop on over to Hot Air and check out her other video&#8230;both are hysterically funny, especially since she is acting out Marcotte&#8217;s actual words from her personal blog. [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Two--Four</title>
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		<dc:creator>Two--Four</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Malkin spears the web-dink that the Edwards campaign just fired. That&#039;s pretty funny.   Feb 08, 07 &#124; 11:25 am  AxeBitesVarious guitars I see floating by, mostly Gibson and mostly Ebay.  Custom Shop repro 1959ES-355 in Black: like Keef&#039;s, without the pickguard. His is a big original deal because of that finish in &#039;59: quite distinctly unusual. This CS take is just as cool, with no Varitone and mono output. Rocka-rolla, kids.   Oh, dear Here&#039;s a seller who manages to bounce a flash off the guitar more or less just right, and it&#039;s just a tease. &quot;...an awasome Custom Shop guitar&quot;: it&#039;s a CS Les Paul Custom. (If you look at the darked-out shot including the machine head, the Custom split-diamond inlay -- looks like abalone in this case -- appears when the brightness is turned way up.) When can only imagine what the Trans Blue finish looks like based on the back of the guitar, which looks like AAA quilted maple. Wow. Look at the back of the neck (the only other halfway acceptable photograph). What looks like abalone fret markers starting at the first fret, like any Custom series instrument. Chrome hardware, I think, including Grover Rotomatics. Just try to imagine that guitar in better photographs or in person. That&#039;s like; a Dream LPC.   It&#039;s too bad that the photographs aren&#039;t terribly, uhm, illuminating, because even with good ones you might not imagine how pretty this could really be: Custom Shop Reissue &#039;68 Les Paul Custom in Trans Green over the tight maple grain flames. It&#039;s the gold hardware that really sets it off. Doesn&#039;t say how old it is, but the CS &#039;68 reissue LPC has only been going a few years now, and this one&#039;s another fine beauty.   &quot;RARE COLOR!&quot; -- Yup. If you ever see a Les Paul Standard in White, you&#039;ll go a bloody long time before you see the next one. 1989, this one. The gold hardware and speed knobs really cook the look. I think that&#039;s very nice.   Man, the Custom Shop reissue of the 1968 Les Paul Custom has, in the past couple of years, been consistently among the prettiest guitars bearing the Gibson name. Here is a 2002, with a tighter flame pattern in the maple top than I usually like, but done as it is in blonde, it&#039;s really nice. Here, however, is a 2005 done in the Tri-Burst finish with the chevroned tiger stripes, and that just knocks me out every single time. Superb photographs. I almost never see a Les Paul that makes me re-think my distaste for a pickguard on one, but there&#039;s one of &#039;em, right there. I think I&#039;d still take it off, but the whole guitar is so beautiful just as it is that I have to very consciously look at the pickguard to notice it. That&#039;s just wonderful.   1985 Les Paul Custom, in black. It&#039;s got the 80&#039;s-period tension-fit Kahler vibrato tailpiece, with corresponding locking nut. A bit unusual, but certainly nothing unheard of. What I&#039;ve never seen before is any sort of a Les Paul, of any vintage, with stereo output and Varitone. That thing could be unique.   ...but the 355&#039;s are prettier. 2006, in Cherry Red. Also introduced in 1959 with the ES-345 (below), the 355 was the King of the Thinlines. Custom Shop offering, this one, and look at how minty the gold is. Bigsby B-7 vibrato system, Rotomatic tuners. Big block markers in bound ebony from fret-one. No Varitone, here, and no mention of stereo output. That&#039;s very cool, but what a beauty in any case.  (Here&#039;s another one: 2006, stoptail, in Black, also mono no-Varitone.)   2006 ES-345 in Antique Red. That&#039;s a classic look, right there; the mid-dress of the 3x5 Thinlines. Split-parallelogram fret markers in bound rosewood, gold hardware (stoptail and ABR-1 bridge), stereo output and Varitone. I&#039;ve always thought the 345&#039;s were pretty.   Buy-It-Now: SG Special in a Limited Edition Sapphire Blue finish. No. 164 of 200. That&#039;s a runaway price. Take this one home, replace the pickups with single-coil Phat Cats by Seymour Duncan, dress it with small metal-button tuners, and watch all the cats stare while you rock out. That&#039;s a deal, right there.   2006 Elliot Easton Signature SG. These are new this year, laid out by Easton (The Cars). Essentially what you have here is an SG Custom but with only two Humbucker pickups. I don&#039;t know why Gibson didn&#039;t get around to this a long time ago. (After all: they made two and three-Hum Les Paul Customs.) All Custom appointments throughout: gold hardware on a Vintage White finish. Note the serial number: &quot;EE 001&quot;. That&#039;s collectible, right there, but it&#039;s probably a slammin&#039; worker, right out of the box. That Buy-It-Now number is not unreasonable.   1969 Les Paul Goldtop: second year of the original reissue. The machine head had gotten wider for most of that year and this guitar is probably a good example of what many saw as the degeneration of the type. Regular Standard appointments: crown markers starting at the third fret of the rosewood board, top-bound only, and nickel hardware (ABR-1 bridge), etc. However, it&#039;s the P90 pickups that really make it. These were shortly replaced with the mini-Humbuckers when the Deluxe was introduced in the same year. That&#039;s a nice example of a bastard stepchild Les Paul.   Buy-It-Now: 1972 SG Special. Okay; Vintage Anal Nazis would not approve. This guitar comes from the early Dark Days of the Norlin era. But it&#039;s oddly appointed, with small block fret markers starting at the first fret, and it&#039;s got mini-Humbucker pickups. Nashville bridge, and not the big ugly (and unnecessary, in my view) &quot;harmonica&quot; type. Nickel hardware, and modified to Grover Rotomatic tuners. Even with the headstock repair (which looks well done, and it&#039;s very likely the strongest part of the guitar now), this is a damned cool SG, it&#039;d probably be a terrific worker, and at that number I think it&#039;s a deal.   2006 Custom Shop EDS-1275. Essentially: an SG with two necks, one twelve-string and one six-string. Alpine White, this one. A real looker. Good luck with your tunings.   &quot;Not many three pickup SG Melody Makers out there and certainly not as clean and in a desirable color as this one is.&quot; There are three elements to that statement (SG-bodied Melody Makers, the color, and this one&#039;s condition), and two of them are incontrovertibly true. The third one -- this example&#039;s condition -- looks quite true in the photographs. It&#039;s a &#039;67, in Burgundy Mist (which is different from &quot;Candy Apple Red&quot;). The Melody Maker is at the bottom end of the Gibson electric guitar catalog. I&#039;ve never owned one, but a friend left one in my custody for quite a while in the late-70&#039;s, and I can tell you that they&#039;re big fun. The color of this one is always a treat, but you just about never see a triple-pickup example. That&#039;s very cool.   Johnny A. Doesn&#039;t say how old, but the whole concept is only about four years old now. One of the &quot;tonally carved&quot; guitars (along with the CS-3x6 series), the back and sides are one single mahogany slab, but the interior back of these is flat, according to Johnny&#039;s feedback-handling specs. The whole thing is very different; it&#039;s a 25.5&quot; scale length (like a Stratocaster), but with 22 frets (instead of the Strat&#039;s 21). Bound ebony fretboard, with special inlays from the first fret. Narrow, double-bound machine head. &quot;Sunset Glow&quot; finish -- essentially a tri-tone burst -- on a lovely tiger-stripey maple top. The one-piece mahogany neck is finished like the back and sides, and look at it. Nice photographs of a smashing axe.   Very unusual 2002 Les Paul Special, the double-cutaway flat-slab body in Trans White. P90 pickups, nickel hardware with what looks like the ABR-1 bridge. These are just about always great rock guitars from every era, and you might never see that finish again.   2005 SG Supreme with a lovely tiger-striped maple top in Midnight Burst. Right? -- this is different from the traditional all-mahogany body. Custom series appointments, with split-diamond fret markers in the bound ebony board. Most of the photographs are a bit dark, I think, but some of them actually play-up the richness of color in these. Chrome hardware; stoptail and Grovers. I think that&#039;s smashing.   No. 88 of 275: one of the original Manhattan Midnight Les Pauls done for Guitar Center. This is sort of a weird deal: that original run was marketed as a &quot;Limited Edition&quot;, but Gibson promptly dropped this design on the market at-large the next year. People who owned the GC originals were not exactly thrilled. The main thing is the Burstbucker Pro pickups, but the cosmetics were sensational when it first appeared. It&#039;s mainly laid out like a Standard: note the crown fret markers starting at the third fret. However, it&#039;s an ebony fretboard. Chrome hardware, and one of the most striking things in the look, to me, is the old-school narrow machine head, single-bound, with the crown inlay and the small metal-button tuners. Put it all together with the blue finish, and I think that&#039;s just gorgeous.   2005 CS-356. It looks like an ES-355, but it&#039;s way-not. To begin with, that body is about one-third smaller than the ES Thinlines. More essentially, however, is the fact that the back and sides are carved from a single slab of mahogany. This is CNC manufacturing brought to Orville Gibson&#039;s dream of a century ago. Custom appointments throughout, with Bigsby B-7 vibrato system. I think that&#039;s marvelous.   Here&#039;s a Perv Guitar: 1968 ES-335TDC-12. You know: a perversion of a concept that appeals to normal people. The double-neck EDS-1275 is my favorite example but this thing is pretty bent, at least to my mind. You see, I never got twelve-string guitars. But, there it is: a 335 in Cherry Red with twelve strings. The tuners (a shitload of &#039;em) have been changed. Small block fret markers. Go get it, if you&#039;re ready to spend half your life tuning a guitar.   1979 RD Artist. This is a period-piece, of course: it just screams &quot;70&#039;s!&quot;. One of the Norlin experiments, it didn&#039;t really work out at the time (I think it was only in production for five years), but it&#039;s definitely having a renaissance today. The Artist was the top of the RD line, with Custom appointments, generally: big block fret markers from the first fret in an ebony board, but only the machine head is bound, not the fretboard or the body. In this aspect, it&#039;s rather like the Firebirds or other flat-slab guitars (Explorer or -- lately -- Flying V Custom). Tobacco Sunburst finish. Gold hardware: Schaller tuners (typical for the period), Nashville bridge and TP-6 tailpiece. The thing about this guitar is its electronics: these are the active pickups, running out through the Moog circuit board for compression, expansion and direct communication with space-aliens through your teeth.  Good lookin&#039; RD. These are getting expensive. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Malkin spears the web-dink that the Edwards campaign just fired. That&#8217;s pretty funny.   Feb 08, 07 | 11:25 am  AxeBitesVarious guitars I see floating by, mostly Gibson and mostly Ebay.  Custom Shop repro 1959ES-355 in Black: like Keef&#8217;s, without the pickguard. His is a big original deal because of that finish in &#8216;59: quite distinctly unusual. This CS take is just as cool, with no Varitone and mono output. Rocka-rolla, kids.   Oh, dear Here&#8217;s a seller who manages to bounce a flash off the guitar more or less just right, and it&#8217;s just a tease. &#8220;&#8230;an awasome Custom Shop guitar&#8221;: it&#8217;s a CS Les Paul Custom. (If you look at the darked-out shot including the machine head, the Custom split-diamond inlay &#8212; looks like abalone in this case &#8212; appears when the brightness is turned way up.) When can only imagine what the Trans Blue finish looks like based on the back of the guitar, which looks like AAA quilted maple. Wow. Look at the back of the neck (the only other halfway acceptable photograph). What looks like abalone fret markers starting at the first fret, like any Custom series instrument. Chrome hardware, I think, including Grover Rotomatics. Just try to imagine that guitar in better photographs or in person. That&#8217;s like; a Dream LPC.   It&#8217;s too bad that the photographs aren&#8217;t terribly, uhm, illuminating, because even with good ones you might not imagine how pretty this could really be: Custom Shop Reissue &#8216;68 Les Paul Custom in Trans Green over the tight maple grain flames. It&#8217;s the gold hardware that really sets it off. Doesn&#8217;t say how old it is, but the CS &#8216;68 reissue LPC has only been going a few years now, and this one&#8217;s another fine beauty.   &#8220;RARE COLOR!&#8221; &#8212; Yup. If you ever see a Les Paul Standard in White, you&#8217;ll go a bloody long time before you see the next one. 1989, this one. The gold hardware and speed knobs really cook the look. I think that&#8217;s very nice.   Man, the Custom Shop reissue of the 1968 Les Paul Custom has, in the past couple of years, been consistently among the prettiest guitars bearing the Gibson name. Here is a 2002, with a tighter flame pattern in the maple top than I usually like, but done as it is in blonde, it&#8217;s really nice. Here, however, is a 2005 done in the Tri-Burst finish with the chevroned tiger stripes, and that just knocks me out every single time. Superb photographs. I almost never see a Les Paul that makes me re-think my distaste for a pickguard on one, but there&#8217;s one of &#8216;em, right there. I think I&#8217;d still take it off, but the whole guitar is so beautiful just as it is that I have to very consciously look at the pickguard to notice it. That&#8217;s just wonderful.   1985 Les Paul Custom, in black. It&#8217;s got the 80&#8217;s-period tension-fit Kahler vibrato tailpiece, with corresponding locking nut. A bit unusual, but certainly nothing unheard of. What I&#8217;ve never seen before is any sort of a Les Paul, of any vintage, with stereo output and Varitone. That thing could be unique.   &#8230;but the 355&#8217;s are prettier. 2006, in Cherry Red. Also introduced in 1959 with the ES-345 (below), the 355 was the King of the Thinlines. Custom Shop offering, this one, and look at how minty the gold is. Bigsby B-7 vibrato system, Rotomatic tuners. Big block markers in bound ebony from fret-one. No Varitone, here, and no mention of stereo output. That&#8217;s very cool, but what a beauty in any case.  (Here&#8217;s another one: 2006, stoptail, in Black, also mono no-Varitone.)   2006 ES-345 in Antique Red. That&#8217;s a classic look, right there; the mid-dress of the 3&#215;5 Thinlines. Split-parallelogram fret markers in bound rosewood, gold hardware (stoptail and ABR-1 bridge), stereo output and Varitone. I&#8217;ve always thought the 345&#8217;s were pretty.   Buy-It-Now: SG Special in a Limited Edition Sapphire Blue finish. No. 164 of 200. That&#8217;s a runaway price. Take this one home, replace the pickups with single-coil Phat Cats by Seymour Duncan, dress it with small metal-button tuners, and watch all the cats stare while you rock out. That&#8217;s a deal, right there.   2006 Elliot Easton Signature SG. These are new this year, laid out by Easton (The Cars). Essentially what you have here is an SG Custom but with only two Humbucker pickups. I don&#8217;t know why Gibson didn&#8217;t get around to this a long time ago. (After all: they made two and three-Hum Les Paul Customs.) All Custom appointments throughout: gold hardware on a Vintage White finish. Note the serial number: &#8220;EE 001&#8243;. That&#8217;s collectible, right there, but it&#8217;s probably a slammin&#8217; worker, right out of the box. That Buy-It-Now number is not unreasonable.   1969 Les Paul Goldtop: second year of the original reissue. The machine head had gotten wider for most of that year and this guitar is probably a good example of what many saw as the degeneration of the type. Regular Standard appointments: crown markers starting at the third fret of the rosewood board, top-bound only, and nickel hardware (ABR-1 bridge), etc. However, it&#8217;s the P90 pickups that really make it. These were shortly replaced with the mini-Humbuckers when the Deluxe was introduced in the same year. That&#8217;s a nice example of a bastard stepchild Les Paul.   Buy-It-Now: 1972 SG Special. Okay; Vintage Anal Nazis would not approve. This guitar comes from the early Dark Days of the Norlin era. But it&#8217;s oddly appointed, with small block fret markers starting at the first fret, and it&#8217;s got mini-Humbucker pickups. Nashville bridge, and not the big ugly (and unnecessary, in my view) &#8220;harmonica&#8221; type. Nickel hardware, and modified to Grover Rotomatic tuners. Even with the headstock repair (which looks well done, and it&#8217;s very likely the strongest part of the guitar now), this is a damned cool SG, it&#8217;d probably be a terrific worker, and at that number I think it&#8217;s a deal.   2006 Custom Shop EDS-1275. Essentially: an SG with two necks, one twelve-string and one six-string. Alpine White, this one. A real looker. Good luck with your tunings.   &#8220;Not many three pickup SG Melody Makers out there and certainly not as clean and in a desirable color as this one is.&#8221; There are three elements to that statement (SG-bodied Melody Makers, the color, and this one&#8217;s condition), and two of them are incontrovertibly true. The third one &#8212; this example&#8217;s condition &#8212; looks quite true in the photographs. It&#8217;s a &#8216;67, in Burgundy Mist (which is different from &#8220;Candy Apple Red&#8221;). The Melody Maker is at the bottom end of the Gibson electric guitar catalog. I&#8217;ve never owned one, but a friend left one in my custody for quite a while in the late-70&#8217;s, and I can tell you that they&#8217;re big fun. The color of this one is always a treat, but you just about never see a triple-pickup example. That&#8217;s very cool.   Johnny A. Doesn&#8217;t say how old, but the whole concept is only about four years old now. One of the &#8220;tonally carved&#8221; guitars (along with the CS-3&#215;6 series), the back and sides are one single mahogany slab, but the interior back of these is flat, according to Johnny&#8217;s feedback-handling specs. The whole thing is very different; it&#8217;s a 25.5&#8243; scale length (like a Stratocaster), but with 22 frets (instead of the Strat&#8217;s 21). Bound ebony fretboard, with special inlays from the first fret. Narrow, double-bound machine head. &#8220;Sunset Glow&#8221; finish &#8212; essentially a tri-tone burst &#8212; on a lovely tiger-stripey maple top. The one-piece mahogany neck is finished like the back and sides, and look at it. Nice photographs of a smashing axe.   Very unusual 2002 Les Paul Special, the double-cutaway flat-slab body in Trans White. P90 pickups, nickel hardware with what looks like the ABR-1 bridge. These are just about always great rock guitars from every era, and you might never see that finish again.   2005 SG Supreme with a lovely tiger-striped maple top in Midnight Burst. Right? &#8212; this is different from the traditional all-mahogany body. Custom series appointments, with split-diamond fret markers in the bound ebony board. Most of the photographs are a bit dark, I think, but some of them actually play-up the richness of color in these. Chrome hardware; stoptail and Grovers. I think that&#8217;s smashing.   No. 88 of 275: one of the original Manhattan Midnight Les Pauls done for Guitar Center. This is sort of a weird deal: that original run was marketed as a &#8220;Limited Edition&#8221;, but Gibson promptly dropped this design on the market at-large the next year. People who owned the GC originals were not exactly thrilled. The main thing is the Burstbucker Pro pickups, but the cosmetics were sensational when it first appeared. It&#8217;s mainly laid out like a Standard: note the crown fret markers starting at the third fret. However, it&#8217;s an ebony fretboard. Chrome hardware, and one of the most striking things in the look, to me, is the old-school narrow machine head, single-bound, with the crown inlay and the small metal-button tuners. Put it all together with the blue finish, and I think that&#8217;s just gorgeous.   2005 CS-356. It looks like an ES-355, but it&#8217;s way-not. To begin with, that body is about one-third smaller than the ES Thinlines. More essentially, however, is the fact that the back and sides are carved from a single slab of mahogany. This is CNC manufacturing brought to Orville Gibson&#8217;s dream of a century ago. Custom appointments throughout, with Bigsby B-7 vibrato system. I think that&#8217;s marvelous.   Here&#8217;s a Perv Guitar: 1968 ES-335TDC-12. You know: a perversion of a concept that appeals to normal people. The double-neck EDS-1275 is my favorite example but this thing is pretty bent, at least to my mind. You see, I never got twelve-string guitars. But, there it is: a 335 in Cherry Red with twelve strings. The tuners (a shitload of &#8216;em) have been changed. Small block fret markers. Go get it, if you&#8217;re ready to spend half your life tuning a guitar.   1979 RD Artist. This is a period-piece, of course: it just screams &#8220;70&#8217;s!&#8221;. One of the Norlin experiments, it didn&#8217;t really work out at the time (I think it was only in production for five years), but it&#8217;s definitely having a renaissance today. The Artist was the top of the RD line, with Custom appointments, generally: big block fret markers from the first fret in an ebony board, but only the machine head is bound, not the fretboard or the body. In this aspect, it&#8217;s rather like the Firebirds or other flat-slab guitars (Explorer or &#8212; lately &#8212; Flying V Custom). Tobacco Sunburst finish. Gold hardware: Schaller tuners (typical for the period), Nashville bridge and TP-6 tailpiece. The thing about this guitar is its electronics: these are the active pickups, running out through the Moog circuit board for compression, expansion and direct communication with space-aliens through your teeth.  Good lookin&#8217; RD. These are getting expensive. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Professor Blather</title>
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		<dc:creator>Professor Blather</dc:creator>
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		<description>If you people don&#039;t hurry up and post this morning&#039;s Vent for my coffee time amusement, I may let loose with a vicious rant.

I&#039;m also considering issuing an Important Action Alert.

Consider yourselves warned.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you people don&#8217;t hurry up and post this morning&#8217;s Vent for my coffee time amusement, I may let loose with a vicious rant.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m also considering issuing an Important Action Alert.</p>
<p>Consider yourselves warned.</p>
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		<title>By: EnochCain</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223521</link>
		<dc:creator>EnochCain</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 07:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Very funny stuff. lol</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very funny stuff. lol</p>
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		<title>By: EricPWJohnson</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223427</link>
		<dc:creator>EricPWJohnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think we found patient zero in the carpel tunnel syndrome</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think we found patient zero in the carpel tunnel syndrome</p>
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		<title>By: Rick</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223407</link>
		<dc:creator>Rick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Classic, truly classic.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Classic, truly classic.</p>
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		<title>By: Allahpundit</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223394</link>
		<dc:creator>Allahpundit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Chelly, darling, you see - you are so much more laughable when you are NOT trying to be funny.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I just did a quick tour of your archived comments, em.  Got anything constructive to add to your criticism?  Because the naked insults are starting to wear a tad thin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Chelly, darling, you see &#8211; you are so much more laughable when you are NOT trying to be funny.</p></blockquote>
<p>I just did a quick tour of your archived comments, em.  Got anything constructive to add to your criticism?  Because the naked insults are starting to wear a tad thin.</p>
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		<title>By: eminuu</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223382</link>
		<dc:creator>eminuu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chelly, darling, you see - you are so much more laughable when you are NOT trying to be funny.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chelly, darling, you see &#8211; you are so much more laughable when you are NOT trying to be funny.</p>
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		<title>By: R D</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223142</link>
		<dc:creator>R D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;BRRRAAAAAAVVVVVOOOOOOO!!!! STANDING OVATION!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>BRRRAAAAAAVVVVVOOOOOOO!!!! STANDING OVATION!!!!</strong></p>
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		<title>By: Jason Clarke&#8217;s notebook &#187; As blogging comes of age, growing pains persist</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223139</link>
		<dc:creator>Jason Clarke&#8217;s notebook &#187; As blogging comes of age, growing pains persist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] As to be expected, liberal bloggers are rising to her defense, while conservatives are, without calling for her removal (and I count threeone who think she should stay), commenting on the issue and re-publishing her thoughts on issues from Hurricane Katrina to the Catholic church. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] As to be expected, liberal bloggers are rising to her defense, while conservatives are, without calling for her removal (and I count threeone who think she should stay), commenting on the issue and re-publishing her thoughts on issues from Hurricane Katrina to the Catholic church. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: forged rite</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223114</link>
		<dc:creator>forged rite</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LMAO! That was excellent.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LMAO! That was excellent.</p>
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		<title>By: Zorro</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223107</link>
		<dc:creator>Zorro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Following a link on a different post, I came across this at &quot;Sadly No&quot;, a blog spot for losers.  Seems Mx Amanda objects to our Michelle&#039;s interpretation of her work...

&lt;blockquote&gt;Amanda Marcotte said,

February 6, 2007 at 3:06 

Huh, she needs to retake those acting classes. She could be reading Shakespeare and it would make people poke their eardrums out with a pencil rather than hear another word. &lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Following a link on a different post, I came across this at &#8220;Sadly No&#8221;, a blog spot for losers.  Seems Mx Amanda objects to our Michelle&#8217;s interpretation of her work&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Amanda Marcotte said,</p>
<p>February 6, 2007 at 3:06 </p>
<p>Huh, she needs to retake those acting classes. She could be reading Shakespeare and it would make people poke their eardrums out with a pencil rather than hear another word. </p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Yakko77</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223079</link>
		<dc:creator>Yakko77</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I about sprayed my beverage on the computer screen that was so funny!

Well done!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I about sprayed my beverage on the computer screen that was so funny!</p>
<p>Well done!</p>
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		<title>By: kahall</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-223073</link>
		<dc:creator>kahall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yep, that is exactly the mental picture I have of Marcotte while she blogs . With her &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bajingo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;bajingo&lt;/a&gt; on fire.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yep, that is exactly the mental picture I have of Marcotte while she blogs . With her <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bajingo" rel="nofollow">bajingo</a> on fire.</p>
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		<title>By: Kevin McCullough</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222996</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin McCullough</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 01:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/#comment-222996</guid>
		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Early Decision 2008: Score One for the Right Bloggers......&lt;/strong&gt;

It took only what, three, four days for the center-right blogosphere to get John Edwards newly hired &quot;outreach bloggers&quot; fired...Nice!
Congrats to Dean, Mary Katharine, Michelle, Hot Air, and everyone else that piled on....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Early Decision 2008: Score One for the Right Bloggers&#8230;&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>It took only what, three, four days for the center-right blogosphere to get John Edwards newly hired &#8220;outreach bloggers&#8221; fired&#8230;Nice!<br />
Congrats to Dean, Mary Katharine, Michelle, Hot Air, and everyone else that piled on&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: flip</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222919</link>
		<dc:creator>flip</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now that&#039;s a vent.  Gold.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now that&#8217;s a vent.  Gold.</p>
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		<title>By: Drtuddle</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222905</link>
		<dc:creator>Drtuddle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For someone who still has dial up I can relate</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For someone who still has dial up I can relate</p>
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		<title>By: Hack Ptui</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222891</link>
		<dc:creator>Hack Ptui</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2007 00:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re so cute when you&#039;re angry.

Nice work, Michelle and Bryan!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re so cute when you&#8217;re angry.</p>
<p>Nice work, Michelle and Bryan!</p>
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		<title>By: trader67</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222868</link>
		<dc:creator>trader67</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>OMG. My stomach hurts! That was classic. &lt;strong&gt;Way to go Michelle&lt;/strong&gt;!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OMG. My stomach hurts! That was classic. <strong>Way to go Michelle</strong>!</p>
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		<title>By: kevcad</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222856</link>
		<dc:creator>kevcad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michelle needs a big hug after that brilliant but taxing performance.

I&#039;m here for you.....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michelle needs a big hug after that brilliant but taxing performance.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m here for you&#8230;..</p>
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		<title>By: Zorro</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222844</link>
		<dc:creator>Zorro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:32:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Vent!  That was hysterical!  Great delivery of the script, and with feeling..

Was the German boy playing a young Bill Klinton throwing a “purple rage”?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Vent!  That was hysterical!  Great delivery of the script, and with feeling..</p>
<p>Was the German boy playing a young Bill Klinton throwing a “purple rage”?</p>
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		<title>By: SouthernGent</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/07/hot-air-theater-presentsamanda-marcotte-part-ii/comment-page-2/#comment-222805</link>
		<dc:creator>SouthernGent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, great job Michelle!  

It always amuses me how liberals make everything about THEM!  The SCOTUS appointments were all about HER!  I hope she looks under her bed tonight!  Those right-wing monsters are under there...LMAO.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, great job Michelle!  </p>
<p>It always amuses me how liberals make everything about THEM!  The SCOTUS appointments were all about HER!  I hope she looks under her bed tonight!  Those right-wing monsters are under there&#8230;LMAO.</p>
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