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    Hitchens has no problem, however, accusing him (Colbert and Franken too) of soft partisan hackery: "What you will not find, in any of this output, is anything remotely 'satirical' about the pulpit of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or any straight-faced, eyebrow-raising (and studio-audience-thigh-slap-triggering) mention of, say, The New York Times’s routine practice of captioning Al Sharpton as 'the civil rights activist.'" This could of course only come from someone who's never seen an episode of either The Daily Show or The Colbert Report. Full Article at Splice Today
    What you will not find, in any of this output, is anything remotely 'satirical' about the pulpit of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, or any straight-faced, eyebrow-raising (and studio-audience-thigh-slap-triggering) mention of, say, The New York Times’s routine practice of captioning Al Sharpton as 'the civil rights activist.'
    SOURCE: Splice Today 2 weeks ago
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  1. Men will laugh at almost anything, often precisely because it is—or they are—extremely stupid … Jokes about calamitous visits to the doctor or the shrink or the bathroom, or the venting of sexual frustration on furry domestic animals, are a male province.
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  2. Before reading this, I had never considered the direct line between liberal agnosticism and hard-core, radical Islam. But Hannity has a strong case. So many of my liberal, agnostic women friends from college gradually relinquished their freedoms and decided to spend the rest of their lives in chadors, a...
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  3. converted from anything-goes liberal agnosticism to hard-core Middle Eastern radical Islam.
    SOURCE: Splice Today 2 weeks ago

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