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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Note to politicians

It is invigorating to realize you've been dead wrong about something. That's why we read history.
By Garrison Keillor

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  • Tuesday, April 17, 2007 07:02 PM

    Pssst.

    I appreciate the theme of the piece but maybe you didn't get the memo, Hiss was just exonerated.

    Or at least possibly exonerated. So he probably wasn't a witch. Because witches aren't real. And neither was anything McCarthy said about communism and his lists. And thinking that the democratic party's "reputation" for appeasement is the fault of those who tried to stand up to McCarthy and Nixon's attempted pogrom is ridiculous.

    Or is this "satire" again?

    —dirge Read dirge's other letters

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