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Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers, and we're broadcasting this week from the Center for Use Car Dealer-like tactics.

That's a mouthful, isn't it?

You know, everyone's the while...

I'm sorry.

Every once in a while you notice that someone in a different industry or field

has attempted to encroach on the used car dealer's claim to being the poster boys for sleaziness.

And mostly unsuccessfully, I'd say.

I mean, warranted or not car dealers, probably used car dealers are the country's poster boys for untrustworthiness

and all those sorts of things.

Well, I'm sorry that today's candidate to replace use car dealers

is secretaries of agriculture of the United States of America.

And I tell you, I am flabbergasted.

You must have some clipping to read.

I don't have a clipping. I'm going to read you

something, though. I don't know who the author is, and I disclaim all knowledge. Go ahead. It says,

U.S. Department of Agriculture, shame on you. Boy, does this ever smell to high heaven.

If you haven't been reading or watching the news, here's the story.

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