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It's the professional left with drift glass and blue gal.

Yeah, it sure is.

And we're going to talk about John Stewart in a little bit, but first we want to talk about the bullshit mountain debate, as I called it all day yesterday, in honor of John Stewart.

It was awfully impressive.

And I think you and I want to focus on what Fox News did rather than what this cadre of white men with one black doctor who was, I think, awful.

I think we want to focus on how Fox News arranged this debate and so forth.

But there was a great summary on Facebook of what the issues that were discussed and how the

debate went from this woman.

I'm just going to call her SS on Facebook.

And I'd like to read this.

It's very brief.

But I think it sums it up for people that

didn't sit through the whole thing. Yeah, go right ahead. Let's go to war with Iran. Yeah.

Let's get rid of food stamps. Let's repeal the Affordable Care Act. Let's get rid of all financial

restraints, especially Dodd-Frank. Let's cut taxes for billionaires. Let's blow up the IRS and

enact a flat tax that will unfairly impact the poor, because who cares about them? Let's build a fence

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