Gimme Some Truth
Author: donagh of Dublin Opinion
Topics: Links
Published: September 5th, 2008
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Flying Rodent cuts through the crap of the US election with a blunt buzz-saw and broken bottle, and slashes through the myths:
"One minute it's a shoe-in for silver-tongued bullshitter Barack Obama, and the next thing you know the McCain campaign has dug up some fruity wingnut Supernanny with a talent for sucking off hordes of resentful cretins and suddenly it's GAME ON, baby!"
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