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		<title>By: deandra</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-786137</link>
		<dc:creator>deandra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Chris Matthews and MSNBC &lt;b&gt;set up&lt;/b&gt; this whole controversy for ratings.  Matthews is as much a narcissist as Coulter.  He wants to be reckoned with as the &lt;em&gt;determiner&lt;/em&gt; of who gets to run in politics.  He’s pathetic.  And Hardball’s ratings as of Monday, June 25th, were 397,000.  So, as I was saying, manufacturing and staging an event!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris Matthews and MSNBC <b>set up</b> this whole controversy for ratings.  Matthews is as much a narcissist as Coulter.  He wants to be reckoned with as the <em>determiner</em> of who gets to run in politics.  He’s pathetic.  And Hardball’s ratings as of Monday, June 25th, were 397,000.  So, as I was saying, manufacturing and staging an event!</p>
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		<title>By: Moon</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785873</link>
		<dc:creator>Moon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I quit watching ‘Wittle Chwissy’ after he spent a whole week trying to figure out whether Bill and Hillary were still “doing it”. He doesn’t need to do tabloid stories about young Hollywood or dead models….He is the tabloid story and should join Joe Scro and become co-host for Entertainment Tonight.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I quit watching ‘Wittle Chwissy’ after he spent a whole week trying to figure out whether Bill and Hillary were still “doing it”. He doesn’t need to do tabloid stories about young Hollywood or dead models….He is the tabloid story and should join Joe Scro and become co-host for Entertainment Tonight.</p>
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		<title>By: dusty59</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785621</link>
		<dc:creator>dusty59</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-785032&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alois @ 139&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-784746&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;TRex @ 8&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Or coprophagy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its coprophagia.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;oh, I get it… the “black” cocktail dress is really just a smeared on tarry black stool a-la a bad GI bleed. no wonder she resonates so much with the right.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-785032"><em>Alois @ 139</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-784746"><em>TRex @ 8</em></a></p>
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<p>Or coprophagy.</p>
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<p>Its coprophagia.</p>
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<p>oh, I get it… the “black” cocktail dress is really just a smeared on tarry black stool a-la a bad GI bleed. no wonder she resonates so much with the right.</p>
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		<title>By: cando</title>
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		<dc:creator>cando</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Good column, Jane.  You failed to name her personality disorder.  She is a narcissistic personality disordered soul, who thrives on attention.  Boy, she’s figured out how to get attention, and Matthews fed her well yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good column, Jane.  You failed to name her personality disorder.  She is a narcissistic personality disordered soul, who thrives on attention.  Boy, she’s figured out how to get attention, and Matthews fed her well yesterday.</p>
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		<title>By: Honest George</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785441</link>
		<dc:creator>Honest George</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;At some point it becomes cruel to keep bringing up Monica in any text.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: Big Mitch</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785330</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Or August 25, 2006&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Or August 25, 2006</p>
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		<title>By: Big Mitch</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785327</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;On August 25. 2007, I blogged about Ann Coulter in &lt;a href=&quot;http://schapira.blogspot.com/2006/08/very-definition-of-crazy.html&quot;&gt;The very definition of crazy&lt;/a&gt;. Here’s the excerpt:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Think back, if you are old enough, to the time when they showed a cartoon before the movies. Sure, Betty Boop had some creative horsepower behind it, but it was not what brought people into the theaters week after week. What the cartoons did was this: they shifted the boundaries of reality. Theater, including cinema, requires that the folks in the audience willingly suspend disbelief. For something like a cartoon, it is an easy sell, because they are comedic. Then, when the main feature comes on, the shift is toward a more real representation, and so, the feature movie is more emotionally engaging.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ms. Coulter is the Daffy Duck of political discourse. When she speaks, you shake your head and wonder if you really heard what you thought you heard. Then when someone on Faux News comes on and says, “we must fight the terrorists in Iraq, so we don’t fight them here,” it sounds like the voice of sweet reason. Compared to daffy Ann Coulter, it is so much easier to accept the talking head, who in this analogy might be compared to, say, Orson Wells’ &lt;em&gt;War of the Worlds. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Why the &lt;em&gt;War of the Worlds? &lt;/em&gt; Because some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Today, on Chris Matthews’ &lt;em&gt;Hardball&lt;/em&gt; we see the proof of what I was saying.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Armstrong Williams was talking about Ann Coulter’s appearance yesterday on his show. For those who missed it, she was confronted by Elizabeth Edwards, who gently rebuked her for hateful speech. Ms. Coulter had alleged that John Edwards has a bumper sticker which says, “Ask me about my dead son.”  As the mother of that deceased boy, Mrs. Edwards found it offensive.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Armstrong Williams, for those who missed it, used to be on the White House’s payroll as a propagandist, which is criminal. Chris Matthews asked Williams if thought it was “over the line” to attack the Edwards for having a bumper sticker that says, “Ask me about my dead boy.” Armstrong said, “no.” Why? Because he believed the Edwards actually had such a bumper sticker. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was my point when I said, “some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.” For those who missed it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please visit the Schapira blog, “What we know so far …” at &lt;a href=&quot;http://schapira.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;http://schapira.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!”&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On August 25. 2007, I blogged about Ann Coulter in <a href="http://schapira.blogspot.com/2006/08/very-definition-of-crazy.html">The very definition of crazy</a>. Here’s the excerpt:
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<blockquote><p>Think back, if you are old enough, to the time when they showed a cartoon before the movies. Sure, Betty Boop had some creative horsepower behind it, but it was not what brought people into the theaters week after week. What the cartoons did was this: they shifted the boundaries of reality. Theater, including cinema, requires that the folks in the audience willingly suspend disbelief. For something like a cartoon, it is an easy sell, because they are comedic. Then, when the main feature comes on, the shift is toward a more real representation, and so, the feature movie is more emotionally engaging.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ms. Coulter is the Daffy Duck of political discourse. When she speaks, you shake your head and wonder if you really heard what you thought you heard. Then when someone on Faux News comes on and says, “we must fight the terrorists in Iraq, so we don’t fight them here,” it sounds like the voice of sweet reason. Compared to daffy Ann Coulter, it is so much easier to accept the talking head, who in this analogy might be compared to, say, Orson Wells’ <em>War of the Worlds. </em></p>
<p>Why the <em>War of the Worlds? </em> Because some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.</p>
<p>Today, on Chris Matthews’ <em>Hardball</em> we see the proof of what I was saying.</p>
<p>Armstrong Williams was talking about Ann Coulter’s appearance yesterday on his show. For those who missed it, she was confronted by Elizabeth Edwards, who gently rebuked her for hateful speech. Ms. Coulter had alleged that John Edwards has a bumper sticker which says, “Ask me about my dead son.”  As the mother of that deceased boy, Mrs. Edwards found it offensive.</p>
<p>Armstrong Williams, for those who missed it, used to be on the White House’s payroll as a propagandist, which is criminal. Chris Matthews asked Williams if thought it was “over the line” to attack the Edwards for having a bumper sticker that says, “Ask me about my dead boy.” Armstrong said, “no.” Why? Because he believed the Edwards actually had such a bumper sticker. </p>
<p>That was my point when I said, “some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.” For those who missed it.</p>
<p>Please visit the Schapira blog, “What we know so far …” at <a href="http://schapira.blogspot.com">http://schapira.blogspot.com</a></p>
<p>“… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!”</p>
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		<title>By: Big Mitch</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785310</link>
		<dc:creator>Big Mitch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-784876&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;randiego @ 121&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-784864&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;punaise @ 109&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;speaking of Chesterfields…&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buffalobeast.com/52/reagan-chesterfield-2.jpg&quot;&gt;http://www.buffalobeast.com/52.....ield-2.jpg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Great picture: I’m glad I followed the link. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But Fred Thompson is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/25/fred-thompson-the-philip_n_53736.html&quot;&gt;Phillip Morris candidate&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-784876"><em>randiego @ 121</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-784864"><em>punaise @ 109</em></a></p>
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<p>speaking of Chesterfields…<br />
<a href="http://www.buffalobeast.com/52/reagan-chesterfield-2.jpg">http://www.buffalobeast.com/52&#8230;..ield-2.jpg</a></p>
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<p>Great picture: I’m glad I followed the link. </p>
<p>But Fred Thompson is the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/06/25/fred-thompson-the-philip_n_53736.html">Phillip Morris candidate</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: nicnac</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785111</link>
		<dc:creator>nicnac</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;If you watched that Coulter clip, you can detox with this clip of Kathy Griffin shreading Coulter on the Today Show.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzVekszL8L4&quot;&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzVekszL8L4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And here’s a new one too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://youtube.com/watch?v=6P17w0RWTew&quot;&gt;http://youtube.com/watch?v=6P17w0RWTew&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch and share.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you watched that Coulter clip, you can detox with this clip of Kathy Griffin shreading Coulter on the Today Show.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzVekszL8L4">http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZzVekszL8L4</a></p>
<p>And here’s a new one too.</p>
<p><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=6P17w0RWTew">http://youtube.com/watch?v=6P17w0RWTew</a></p>
<p>Watch and share.</p>
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		<title>By: msmolly</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/06/27/i-was-a-ghoul-for-the-gop/#comment-785104</link>
		<dc:creator>msmolly</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I am coming very late to this discussion, but Ann Coulter makes me want to vomit. What planet does she live on?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am coming very late to this discussion, but Ann Coulter makes me want to vomit. What planet does she live on?</p>
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