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Wednesday, November 5, 2008 12:00 AM

I watched Fox News for five hours last night

As Obama's victory became undeniable, Brit Hume moved beyond grief and anger with Karl Rove. And Juan Williams justified his existence.

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  • Wednesday, November 5, 2008 06:32 AM

    those meds commercials are actually important--they

    reflect the fact that Fox's viewership is overwhelmingly about the age of Rupert Murdoch himself--that is, 137 or something.

    As this angry, elderly demographic of rural white racists literally starts to die off, abominations like Fox will disappear and America will slowly, hopefully, become a better place.

    The kind of conservatives who are pro-big business elitists, however, are of all ages and will always be with us, I'm afraid. Let's marginalize them into becoming the small special interest party they were meant to be, like the FDP in Germany for example, which never garners more than 15% of the vote.

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