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Watching Fox News for hours at a stretch must dull the brain. What other reason would you have for being impressed with that Juan Williams clip? It was pretty much a flavorless recitation of the most obvious points.
The most interesting thing to me was that he felt it necessary to carry on the ridiculous Republican meme that this is a "center-right" nation. Steve Benen shot down this notion better than I could:
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_11/015519.php
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Short version: what would a "center-left" USA look like? Do you think it might have a center-left president-elect, a center-left House, a center-left Senate, majority of center-left governors, and a population that agrees with almost all center-left positions? Well, that's what we've got.
