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Friday, April 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Say it loud: I'm elite and proud!

Why is the country run by people who celebrate mediocrity and recruit from Pat Robertson's law school? Because the right-wing crusade to demonize elites has succeeded.
By Bill Maher

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  • Friday, April 13, 2007 03:05 PM

    go easy

    I think you're doing Mike Pace a disservice. When he said that he'd be "getting my hands dirty like a man" he clearly meant he'd be eating Cheetos on the couch. Because he wants to help "piss of the Islamists" with his excess consumption as much as we do, right? I mean, he wouldn't want to... let's says... appease the Islamists? Would he?

    —dirge Read dirge's other letters

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