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To be fair, we should credit this technique to the first masters: the tobacco companies.

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'all things considered' had brief coverage of cummings vs. issa on wednesday (?). and all i could think was: you KNOW - you just KNOW - that the complete release of the transcripts would validate the left and reveal what we all know: there is NOTHING there.

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You mean the ones who are bringing back Sarah Palin? She even quit quitting.

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i was surprised by all the capitals in his missive ee cummings generally disdains them

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Do I hear banjo music?

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Isn't Cummings what the GOP was investigating during the Clinton administration?

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<i>Issa has already been pilloried by news organizations for failing to substantiate his more lurid charges of White House involvement in the IRS targeting</i>

Errors and false information do not detract from wingnut arguments, they are proof of their correctness.

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From Wikipedia… So it must be true! “A fellow soldier, Jay Bergey, said that Issa stole his Dodge Charger in 1971, and that "I confronted Issa...I got in his face and threatened to kill him, and magically my car reappeared the next day, abandoned on the turnpike." No charges were ever filed. Issa has denied any theft.[9]”

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<i>“This was the targeting of the president’s political enemies effectively and lies about it [sic] during the election year, so that it wasn’t discovered until afterwards.”</i>

i like that cummings also calls issa out for grammar.

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