There are a lot of people who like to pretend that “both sides are just as bad.” Michael Moore, for example, is the left-wing Ann Coulter. Right? Well, consider these excerpts. One is from “Ann Coulter’s Rejected USA Today”:http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2004/072604.htm Democratic convention coverage, the other is from “Michael Moore’s published USA Today”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2004-08-30-moore-gopamerica_x.htm Republican convention coverage.
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I see our good friend Ed Shrock of Virginia’s second district (that’d be Virginia Beach, Hampton Roads, and Pat Robertson’s Regent University) has resigned suddenly because tapes of him trolling the phone lines for gay sex have been released. Shrock was a very conservative republican with a 92% rating from the Christian Coalition and a [...]

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…”they endorsed Bush in the last election”:http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorialsopinion/2002016659_kerryed27.html. Although I don’t agree with their viewpoint on, say, class warfare (they call his tax plan “class warfare” although taxing the people who have money sounds like sound economic practice to me) they do give a pretty solid argument for why moderates should vote for Kerry over Bush.
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It’s always interesting to compare “how people view the condition of illegal aliens”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/dairy_farms/index.html to “what those conditions actually are”:http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/dairy_farms/index.html:
bq. By and by,
I got plenty money,
Thanks to you,
American dummy.
Write to friends
in motherland,
Tell them ‘come
fast as you can.’ [from _Illegal Immigrant's Poem_]
bq. For six years, Ramirez’s duties included maintaining a pump that sprayed liquid dung [...]

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I’ve always found Garrison Keillor’s humor a bit too gentle for me. Of course, I’ve never read his
political writing.

The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM [...]

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