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Our leading contestant today has a particularly ingenious explanation for the persecution of journalists that has run rampant in the last several years, during which time by every measure our international ranking for press freedom has plummeted. Wait for it... Liberals Hate America! Well, knock me over with a feather. Apparently there is smoke pouring out of the righty ticker tape machine, and babbling incoherence is all that's coming out, leaving helpless automatons everywhere writing in crayon on the rubber-room walls.
Never mind the ruthless, coordinated campaign against every deviation from the Republican "story" of the last eight years, every bit of which was utterly false and distorted, and deserved much more criticism than it ever received. Forget about the pogroms against CBS, The New York Times, Bill Maher, Phil Donohue, Dan Rather, and even the Dixie Chicks, for chrissakes; none of that smacks of totalitarianism for those who rather prefer totalitarianism, as long as it's their kind.
So despite the fact that America hating liberals are, as a result of the disastrous tenure of Bush and Company, a substantial majority of the country, apparently the shrinking but nonetheless blameless champions of the right declare themselves the "protectors" of America.
Nice protection they've provided....
Jebbie, it's time to declare a winner.
