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Seen on Colbert and other places, he seems to actually believe he's doing something good. So perhaps the regrets expressed in the article are sincere.

Then again, Colbert is so meta that sincerity is indistinguishable from manipulative dishonesty, which is why the show is so wonderful, and why Luntz makes an entertaining guest.

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Frank Luntz (isn't that Cockney rhyming slang for something?) may already be dead. I read earlier that absence of brain activity is NOT an indicator, so...

I love the interwebs - "Frank Luntz" IS Cockney rhyming slang for something (now) - see The Dictionary, Urban.

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Maybe he should just go duck hunting with the Robertsons.

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Between the Japanese and German tourists flitting from place to place like a school of fish, the blacks working in the service industries, the Ukrainian hotel maids, the Mexican illegals passing out the escort cards on the strip and the lily white visitors from flyover country with their zinc oxide covered sunburned noses, bermuda shorts and colored socks with sandals and their oversized plastic margarita glasses, the place really is a melting pot...

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yeah, he's just pissed that those uppity libruls wouldn't do what he said. Hopefully, there's also a bit of realization as he hears the first foot steps of mortality that being a soulless cretin isn't everything that it's cracked up to be

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"Spaghetti bolognese" is the (erroneous) upscale name for spaghetti with meatballs, which Luntz probably heats in the µwave and pours out into a cardboard cereal bowl to consume.

And by the way, living alone in a 14,000-SF domicile is a tad wasteful, wouldn't ya say? Elsewhere in Ball's article he claims not to be gay and it's really only his utter lack of self-awareness that makes it believable.

Well, also, for a political/intellectual magazine writer Ball's passably <a href="http:\/\/www.stevefriess.com\/petcast\/mollypic.jpg " target="_blank">hot</a> and spared Luntz no other indignity, so he must not have hit on her.

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The same way pointing out teabagger racism is racist, pointing out the GOP's divisiveness is divisive.

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the cats on acid are a nice touch...

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Upon further self-reflection, I find my characterization of being outed as an \"indignity\" offensive, and wish I'd selected better words.

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<i>He thinks it must be a partisan thing.</i>

Just part of the Jew/Mason/Gay/Illuminati/New World Order/Federal Reserve Board/Trilateral Commission/Bohemian Grove/Roosevelt-Rothschild-Rockefeller/World Bank/United Nations/Papal/Xenu/Pinky and the Brain Conspiracy to destroy Western Civilization as we known it generally, and the United States (the last bastion of White Freemen) in particular.

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While I would never wish ill on him (rules for commenting radicals after all), I certainly wouldn't shed a single tear if this did indeed turn out to be a death bed mea culpa for that slime weasel.

Fuck off, Wormtongue. You're the jackhole who poisoned the well. Now you expect me to feel sympathy because you've just noticed that you're thirsty and there's nothing to drink?

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