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But no WMDs in Iraq or connections with 9/11? Just forget about it.

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Wow, I had not realized how dangerous consular jobs were under W. That's actually pretty shocking. I'm guessing that the majority of dead were local people, not Americans? Which might explain the failure to report ... e.g., Istanbul, Syria.

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Oh, great.

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No one has lost any

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The former. Fox News hasn't moved; its base has just begun to slide out from under it, due to the whole built-on-mud thing.

That said, as Godwin only knows, a marginal batshit-crazy right does not necessarily lose all its firepower. So you could cry, too.

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The strategy is to throw Fox under the bus before it throws the Tea Party under the bus. New sport invented! Competitive Under-Bus Throwing!

Someone, bring nachos.

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Our evil plot to ban Big Gulps and Twinkies so that they would consume excess Big Gulps and Twinkies in retaliation and then die of obesity-related causes? It's working.

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Some good old non-Euclidean spaces, populated by eldritch, Cyclopean horrors whispering secrets Man Was Not Meant To Know, whose very visages turn men to madness, would explain a few things about Fox.

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Remember the "good ol days" when we thought all these idiots needed to be cured was to turn off Fox news?

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<i>to break stories, to break information, and to do what news organizations have always done with such stories: break politicians</i>

Why are they complaining? Fox did a pretty good job of breaking the news; it's probably beyond repair by now.

But breaking politicians, now, there's a noble goal: Nothing more satisfying than a really good, thorough smear campaign. Somebody better bring nachos.

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That Al-Jazeera and the real (still alive) Osama bin Laden, killed the entire US mission in Benghazi, and stole the secret stash of nuclear weapons (transported from Iraq, natch), and took them to Iran. Ahmedinejad refused them, saying he had much better weapons hidden in a secret bunker. Al-Jazeera then sold the weapons to the New Black Panthers, who will nuke the Vital Records office in Hawaii, destroying any chances of finding Obama's birth certificate. Following the nuclear strike, Obama will outlaw private ownership of guns.

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