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Funnyordie video has 11 million views. <a href="http://Healthcare.gov" target="_blank">http://Healthcare.gov</a> traffic for yesterday was up almost 40% from Monday.

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I do think all the wignut outrage is due to the fact that it was on "Funny Or Die," because everyone -- even those self-awareness-challenged toolbags themselves -- know which side of the "Or" they'd end up on, if it were literal.

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MegPasadena:

And many of those stories were bawdy.

Old Abe liked to work blue...

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That was Ethan Allen.

(Before he went into the furniture business.)

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Bull O'Really? isn't clear on this because Jim Bishop didn't mention it in the book he wrote about the death of Abraham Lincoln.

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After President Harry Truman read a review of his daughter Margaret's singing performance ("Miss Truman cannot sing very well" and "has not improved" over the years) he wrote:

THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON

Mr Hume:

I've just read your lousy review of Margaret's concert. I've come to the conclusion that you are an "eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."

It seems to me that you are a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful. When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for it shows conclusively that you're off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.

Some day I hope to meet you. When that happens you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!

Pegler, a gutter snipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you'll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry.

H.S.T.

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Lincoln was shot while watching a comedy play.

"The guy sitting behind him couldn't see over his hat."

~ Al Franken

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I used to love Fernghazi Tonight. Martin Mull was hysterical...

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"Who? W? Never heard of him!" - Today's GOP.

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I'd say it's a case of joking while black, but really it's [faux outrage of the moment] while [member of non-Republican voting bloc]

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Hey BillO! A little words of wisdom from the Ol' Rail-Splitter.

"[H]e who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him."

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other than that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the show?

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it's classic cult deprogramming

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Fernst and Galifious

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No arms, no working wings. No wonder it's screwed.

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Loofah.

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