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Favorite surreal moment of this Bush presser so far: “People ask me, where’s Mandela? Well, Mandela’s DEAD! Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.”
It took me a second to realize the exact kind of cultural analogy he was making; at first I thought that, in the tradition of 2003, Bush had simply just tacked the assassination of the South Africa civil rights leader onto the list of fabricated reasons we had to invade.
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Have you seen the latest Crossroads GPS fact check of the Obama Campaign fact check of a Crossroads GPS ad that relies on a fact check by Politifact, but fails to point out that Politifact called the same ad “mostly false”?
No? Well, then. You have come to the right place. Though we must caution: If you continue reading this post, you do so at significant risk your own faith in the American Democratic process.
