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		<title>By: CBS Loses Hotel Advertiser Because of David Letterman&#8217;s Rape Joke: Boycott Working, Protest Planned Outside CBS Studio &#171; Frugal Café Blog Zone</title>
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		<dc:creator>CBS Loses Hotel Advertiser Because of David Letterman&#8217;s Rape Joke: Boycott Working, Protest Planned Outside CBS Studio &#171; Frugal Café Blog Zone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 1934 Cartoon Critical of New Deal: &#8216;Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?&#8217; Hot Air: Bill Maher to Obama: Get off the TV and socialize this country, darn it and Video: Letterman non-apologizes to Palin; Update: McCain scolds Letterman and Video: Palin on [...]</description>
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		<title>By: More Hate Against Palin&#8217;s Children: Bill Maher Wants Spotlight, Tops Letterman&#8217;s Willow Palin Rape Joke &#171; Frugal Café Blog Zone</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2312280</link>
		<dc:creator>More Hate Against Palin&#8217;s Children: Bill Maher Wants Spotlight, Tops Letterman&#8217;s Willow Palin Rape Joke &#171; Frugal Café Blog Zone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 1934 Cartoon Critical of New Deal: &#8216;Planned Economy or Planned Destruction?&#8217; Hot Air: Bill Maher to Obama: Get off the TV and socialize this country, darn it and Video: Letterman non-apologizes to Palin; Update: McCain scolds Letterman and Video: Palin on [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Who Are You, and Where Is the Real Bill Maher? Maher Speaks AGAINST Obama (well, a little) &#171; Frugal Café Blog Zone</title>
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		<dc:creator>Who Are You, and Where Is the Real Bill Maher? Maher Speaks AGAINST Obama (well, a little) &#171; Frugal Café Blog Zone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] reading: Hot Air: Bill Maher to Obama: Get off the TV and socialize this country, darn it Frugal Caf&#233; Blog Zone: Bill Maher: Angry with Liberals, Angry with Conservatives - Just [...]</description>
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		<title>By: bicraftuallass</title>
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		<dc:creator>bicraftuallass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Even here in Kansas, conservatives are being silenced.

check it out.
http://kansasliberty.com/liberty-update-archive/2009/01jun/conservative-teacher-fired</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Even here in Kansas, conservatives are being silenced.</p>
<p>check it out.<br />
<a href="http://kansasliberty.com/liberty-update-archive/2009/01jun/conservative-teacher-fired" rel="nofollow">http://kansasliberty.com/liberty-update-archive/2009/01jun/conservative-teacher-fired</a></p>
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		<title>By: jp</title>
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		<dc:creator>jp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Maher is a libertine, not a libertarian.

atheling on June 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

yep, so is Allah though on some issues though.

Calling something &quot;Freedom&quot; and actual Freedom are often two very different things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Maher is a libertine, not a libertarian.</p>
<p>atheling on June 14, 2009 at 3:30 PM</p>
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<p>yep, so is Allah though on some issues though.</p>
<p>Calling something &#8220;Freedom&#8221; and actual Freedom are often two very different things.</p>
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		<title>By: Maggie's Farm</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2309985</link>
		<dc:creator>Maggie's Farm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Monday morning links...&lt;/strong&gt;

How&#160;the Uighurs got to Bermuda
Kucinich tells Ken Lewis how to run a bank
The O as the Great Leveler. So why would anybody work hard?
Anarchy in Rotterdam
Imagine if these were Repubs. Also, the Walpin story at Powerline&#160;and more at Wash ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Monday morning links&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>How&nbsp;the Uighurs got to Bermuda<br />
Kucinich tells Ken Lewis how to run a bank<br />
The O as the Great Leveler. So why would anybody work hard?<br />
Anarchy in Rotterdam<br />
Imagine if these were Repubs. Also, the Walpin story at Powerline&nbsp;and more at Wash &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: diogenes</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2309047</link>
		<dc:creator>diogenes</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:51:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bill Maher-Advanced thinking.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36521987313@N01/283851329</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bill Maher-Advanced thinking.<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36521987313@N01/283851329" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/36521987313@N01/283851329</a></p>
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		<title>By: paraff</title>
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		<dc:creator>paraff</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Man this guy is just itching to live in socialist chains!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man this guy is just itching to live in socialist chains!</p>
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		<title>By: JP1986UM</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2308780</link>
		<dc:creator>JP1986UM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am sorry, I cannot do it.  I got to the &quot;insurance companies running the show&quot; line and had to stop.

His clarion call for socialized medicine means this prick doesn&#039;t have to pay for his staffs health care bill from his production budget and he gets to keep the change.  (Did I just type the word change and it meant something?)

So no, sorry man, can&#039;t watch it much further than that.  I just ate lunch and it was making me nauseous.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am sorry, I cannot do it.  I got to the &#8220;insurance companies running the show&#8221; line and had to stop.</p>
<p>His clarion call for socialized medicine means this prick doesn&#8217;t have to pay for his staffs health care bill from his production budget and he gets to keep the change.  (Did I just type the word change and it meant something?)</p>
<p>So no, sorry man, can&#8217;t watch it much further than that.  I just ate lunch and it was making me nauseous.</p>
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		<title>By: least1</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2308771</link>
		<dc:creator>least1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 20:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is &lt;strong&gt;no&lt;/strong&gt; way I&#039;m gonna watch &lt;em&gt;anything&lt;/em&gt; featuring BM (very appropriate initials, no?), Bathtuboy or the Thriller.   
BTW, has anyone noticed how the AP is saying that Letterman the crapweasel&#039;s behavior might lead to a ratings bonanza?

* spit *</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is <strong>no</strong> way I&#8217;m gonna watch <em>anything</em> featuring BM (very appropriate initials, no?), Bathtuboy or the Thriller.<br />
BTW, has anyone noticed how the AP is saying that Letterman the crapweasel&#8217;s behavior might lead to a ratings bonanza?</p>
<p>* spit *</p>
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		<title>By: atheling</title>
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		<dc:creator>atheling</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maher is a libertine, not a libertarian.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maher is a libertine, not a libertarian.</p>
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		<title>By: Is the Honeymoon Over? &#124; shyspeak.net</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2308469</link>
		<dc:creator>Is the Honeymoon Over? &#124; shyspeak.net</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] MORE: Hot Air [...]</description>
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		<title>By: ChrisB</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2308375</link>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>For once in my life I agree with Bill Maher.

Is it too soon to have Obama Fatigue?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For once in my life I agree with Bill Maher.</p>
<p>Is it too soon to have Obama Fatigue?</p>
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		<title>By: try again later</title>
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		<dc:creator>try again later</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Screw this egotist worthless ass/hole! 
The day I try to express how much I despise this man and the rest of that Hollywood scum will be my last day on HA.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Screw this egotist worthless ass/hole!<br />
The day I try to express how much I despise this man and the rest of that Hollywood scum will be my last day on HA.</p>
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		<title>By: bluegrass</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2308071</link>
		<dc:creator>bluegrass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>who cares what this washed up whore says anyway. Go rent the movie this creep made and pour youself some more kool-aid</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>who cares what this washed up whore says anyway. Go rent the movie this creep made and pour youself some more kool-aid</p>
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		<title>By: kingsjester</title>
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		<dc:creator>kingsjester</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can&#039;t believe somebody as bright as Steve Allen picked a yutz like this to be his protege.  I hope he gets a job as a radio talk show host on Air Venezuela.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t believe somebody as bright as Steve Allen picked a yutz like this to be his protege.  I hope he gets a job as a radio talk show host on Air Venezuela.</p>
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		<title>By: MSGTAS</title>
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		<dc:creator>MSGTAS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And what jobs are Maher and Matthews vying for under Obama&#039;s new group the &quot;Anti-American Socialist Service&quot; (An ASS), Chief Propagandist or Chief ASS Kisser.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And what jobs are Maher and Matthews vying for under Obama&#8217;s new group the &#8220;Anti-American Socialist Service&#8221; (An ASS), Chief Propagandist or Chief ASS Kisser.</p>
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		<title>By: jon1979</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/13/bill-maher-to-obama-get-off-the-tv-and-socialize-this-country-darn-it/comment-page-2/#comment-2308016</link>
		<dc:creator>jon1979</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The thing with the big media is that when aggressive people on the right (Rush, etc.) criticize Obama, they&#039;re just brushed off by the reporters and editors and being right-wing haters. But when criticism comes from the left by people like Maher that the press isn&#039;t holding Barack&#039;s feet to the fire enough on his promises to go even further left than he has now, that actually will spark a round of introspection from the same media types that they are being too conservative, hard as that is to believe.

 (My guess is if enough people pick up the tone Maher, Rosanne and Maddow have already tried to set on TV, radio and in Bill&#039;s L.A. Times op-ed piece, you&#039;ll be seeing a roundtable on one of the Sunday shows by next week on &quot;Is the media not holding Obama to his promises?&quot;, as if, with the polls showing falling support for what he&#039;s done already, the public is clammoring for him to move even further left on foreign and domestic policies).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The thing with the big media is that when aggressive people on the right (Rush, etc.) criticize Obama, they&#8217;re just brushed off by the reporters and editors and being right-wing haters. But when criticism comes from the left by people like Maher that the press isn&#8217;t holding Barack&#8217;s feet to the fire enough on his promises to go even further left than he has now, that actually will spark a round of introspection from the same media types that they are being too conservative, hard as that is to believe.</p>
<p> (My guess is if enough people pick up the tone Maher, Rosanne and Maddow have already tried to set on TV, radio and in Bill&#8217;s L.A. Times op-ed piece, you&#8217;ll be seeing a roundtable on one of the Sunday shows by next week on &#8220;Is the media not holding Obama to his promises?&#8221;, as if, with the polls showing falling support for what he&#8217;s done already, the public is clammoring for him to move even further left on foreign and domestic policies).</p>
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		<title>By: bigjmantx</title>
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		<dc:creator>bigjmantx</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;A day later, it seems clear that the election was fraudulent. U.S. officials have said as much off-the-record. They find it “not credible” that Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote.

So Obama has praised an election that appears to have been a travesty.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Why wouldn&#039;t he praise it?  He knows all about it, having already benefited from one of those here in America.  All that was missing in Iran was ACORN and a few black panthers threatening &quot;whitey&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>A day later, it seems clear that the election was fraudulent. U.S. officials have said as much off-the-record. They find it “not credible” that Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote.</p>
<p>So Obama has praised an election that appears to have been a travesty.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why wouldn&#8217;t he praise it?  He knows all about it, having already benefited from one of those here in America.  All that was missing in Iran was ACORN and a few black panthers threatening &#8220;whitey&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>By: pilamaye</title>
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		<dc:creator>pilamaye</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Maher, you&#039;re so anxious to live in a Socialistic society?

Why don&#039;t you take your assclown class act to Venezuela then, where you can bask in the glory of socialism at it&#039;s absolute zenith.  

And that is not being stated in a kind way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Maher, you&#8217;re so anxious to live in a Socialistic society?</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t you take your assclown class act to Venezuela then, where you can bask in the glory of socialism at it&#8217;s absolute zenith.  </p>
<p>And that is not being stated in a kind way.</p>
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		<title>By: Keemo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Keemo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>From powerlineblog.com

&lt;blockquote&gt;On Friday, President Obama had  this to say about the election in Iran:

    We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran. Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways. 

This was an extremely foolish comment for at least two reasons. First, the debate in Iran was circumscribed. The candidates were screened by the mullahs. Four were permitted to run; hundreds were deemed insufficiently in tune with the &quot;Revolution.&quot; And there appars to have little or no debate on the issue of primary concern to the U.S. -- Iran&#039;s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad&#039;s main rival, Mir-Hossein Moussavi, was in full agreement with the regime on this matter.

Second, there was always a strong possibility of election fraud. Robust debate, even had it existed, would be meaningless in the face of a fraudulent election. Thus, Obama should not have lauded the election, much less characterized it as advancing our ability to engage Iran in new ways, until he was satisfied that the election was honest. A fraudulent election in which the existing, intransigent regime claims a landslide victory will not advance our ability to engage in Iran in new ways.

A day later, it seems clear that the election was fraudulent. U.S. officials have said as much off-the-record. They find it &quot;not credible&quot; that Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote.

So Obama has praised an election that appears to have been a travesty. It&#039;s difficult to see how either Iran&#039;s rulers or its dissidents can view him as other than a fool -- usefully so in the case of the rulers; criminally so in the case of the dissidents.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

A dangerously naive empty suit indeed...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From powerlineblog.com</p>
<blockquote><p>On Friday, President Obama had  this to say about the election in Iran:</p>
<p>    We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran. Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways. </p>
<p>This was an extremely foolish comment for at least two reasons. First, the debate in Iran was circumscribed. The candidates were screened by the mullahs. Four were permitted to run; hundreds were deemed insufficiently in tune with the &#8220;Revolution.&#8221; And there appars to have little or no debate on the issue of primary concern to the U.S. &#8212; Iran&#8217;s nuclear program. Ahmadinejad&#8217;s main rival, Mir-Hossein Moussavi, was in full agreement with the regime on this matter.</p>
<p>Second, there was always a strong possibility of election fraud. Robust debate, even had it existed, would be meaningless in the face of a fraudulent election. Thus, Obama should not have lauded the election, much less characterized it as advancing our ability to engage Iran in new ways, until he was satisfied that the election was honest. A fraudulent election in which the existing, intransigent regime claims a landslide victory will not advance our ability to engage in Iran in new ways.</p>
<p>A day later, it seems clear that the election was fraudulent. U.S. officials have said as much off-the-record. They find it &#8220;not credible&#8221; that Mousavi would have lost the balloting in his hometown or that a third candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, would have received less than 1 percent of the total vote.</p>
<p>So Obama has praised an election that appears to have been a travesty. It&#8217;s difficult to see how either Iran&#8217;s rulers or its dissidents can view him as other than a fool &#8212; usefully so in the case of the rulers; criminally so in the case of the dissidents.</p></blockquote>
<p>A dangerously naive empty suit indeed&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: locomotivebreath1901</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Exit answer:&lt;/strong&gt; You mean this self-indulgent, whiny bigot is &lt;a href=&quot;http://locomotivebreath1901.blogspot.com/2009/02/celebutard-of-week-bill-maher.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;still&lt;/a&gt; on the air?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Exit answer:</strong> You mean this self-indulgent, whiny bigot is <a href="http://locomotivebreath1901.blogspot.com/2009/02/celebutard-of-week-bill-maher.html" rel="nofollow">still</a> on the air?</p>
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		<title>By: omg, did bill run out of dope? - Texas Gun Talk</title>
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		<dc:creator>omg, did bill run out of dope? - Texas Gun Talk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the video  <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/1...untry-darn-it/" rel="nofollow">http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/1&#8230;untry-darn-it/</a>     __________________               pvid.parsePost(&#8216;post_message_69404&#8242;,69404,7,0); [...]</p>
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		<title>By: bradley11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I want him so overexposed that he has trouble filling up a high school lunchroom when he jumps back on the campaign trail for 2012.&quot;

What makes you think he will ever get OFF the &quot;campaign trail&quot;? It&#039;s all this empty suit knows.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I want him so overexposed that he has trouble filling up a high school lunchroom when he jumps back on the campaign trail for 2012.&#8221;</p>
<p>What makes you think he will ever get OFF the &#8220;campaign trail&#8221;? It&#8217;s all this empty suit knows.</p>
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		<title>By: Keemo</title>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Thanks Baxter! According to Rove, the left can also have Maureen Dowd as part of the divorce agreement...&lt;/strong&gt;

Former White House adviser Karl Rove went on the attack against New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, calling her a &quot;nasty, snarky person.&quot;

&quot;I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for the conservative side of the aisle,&quot; Rove said on Fox News Channel on Wednesday.

&quot;This is a dour, downbeat liberal.&quot;

Rove&#039;s remarks came in response to a column Dowd wrote about President Barack Obama&#039;s leisure activities since entering the White House, including his recent trip to New York with his wife Michelle.

&quot;Some respite from the pressure is clearly a healthy thing,&quot; Dowd wrote.

&quot;Not as much respite as [President George W. Bush] took, bicycling and vacationing through all the disasters that President Obama is now stuck fixing — spending a total of 490 days in the tumbleweed isolation of Crawford and rarely deigning to sightsee as he traveled the world.&quot;

Rove called the shot at Bush &quot;typical of Maureen Dowd&#039;s twisted, bitter little heart. I admire her writing, but she is a very nasty, snarky person.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Thanks Baxter! According to Rove, the left can also have Maureen Dowd as part of the divorce agreement&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Former White House adviser Karl Rove went on the attack against New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, calling her a &#8220;nasty, snarky person.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for the New York Times who misses no opportunity to show her disdain for the conservative side of the aisle,&#8221; Rove said on Fox News Channel on Wednesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is a dour, downbeat liberal.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rove&#8217;s remarks came in response to a column Dowd wrote about President Barack Obama&#8217;s leisure activities since entering the White House, including his recent trip to New York with his wife Michelle.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some respite from the pressure is clearly a healthy thing,&#8221; Dowd wrote.</p>
<p>&#8220;Not as much respite as [President George W. Bush] took, bicycling and vacationing through all the disasters that President Obama is now stuck fixing — spending a total of 490 days in the tumbleweed isolation of Crawford and rarely deigning to sightsee as he traveled the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rove called the shot at Bush &#8220;typical of Maureen Dowd&#8217;s twisted, bitter little heart. I admire her writing, but she is a very nasty, snarky person.&#8221;</p>
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