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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:19 PM

    Oh!, Jebbie

    Although the post was apparently deleted, I disagree.

    That single post demonstrated perfectly the complete and total lack of legitimate argument that many, if not all, of our beloved trolls and other rightwing shills have in their support of the Bush/Cheney reign of terror on the world.

    Except that it also accused someone of illegal behavior, might have brought the wrath of the FCC down on UT, and was just the kind of post that might attract a reprehensible and vile segment of the population to UT, not that UT doesn't already have some vile people, but you know what I mean.

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