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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

Ignore the will of the people CHECK

Rip on the disabled CHECK

Malign a victim CHECK

The Republican outreach program is sure making headway! I wonder just how low they are hoping to take public opinion?

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TundraGrifter's avatar

"Boortz" - if it is in a bathtub full of water.

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JustPixelz: IV%'er's avatar

<i>"Taranto is one of those Wall Street Journal columnists..."</i>

Word arranging. How does it work?

It takes him five hours to write a column too. (Down from nine hours before he got spell-check.) He's wondering if he's overpaid. (Yes.)

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The Quirk's avatar

Now, if only someone would refudiate the shot children and their parents.

WON'T SOMEBODY NOT THINK OF THE CHILDREN?

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Gherkins d'Resistance's avatar

Judging by the picture, he has received quite the inheritance.

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PubOption's avatar

And got fake boobs.

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𝔅𝔢𝔢𝔩𝔷𝔢𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔞's avatar

Taranto is basing his opinion on the fact that he's never been able to produce 900 publishable words.

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AngryBlakGuy's avatar

...please excuse James Taranto, since most right-winger have hard time piecing together a sentence containing more than 4 words. This makes it nearly impossible for them to understand how anyone could write 900 words

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AngryBlakGuy's avatar

...do words spelled incorrectly count?

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malsperanza's avatar

Sadly, the WSJ style manual used to give writing tips but now it mostly just says not to wear white after Labor Day and which plaids it's ok to combine.

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PsycWench's avatar

<i>So we are supposed to believe that somehow in less than five hours a woman who has severe impairments of her motor and speech functions was able to produce 900 publishable words and put in an appearance in the White House in the course of it.</i>

And yet George W. gets a free pass for doing the same thing.

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