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In a rhetorical smack-down of

by John Cole|  January 8, 20022:37 pm| Leave a Comment

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In a rhetorical smack-down of unparalleled dimensions, Anne D. Coughman at Protein Wisdom gives Ted Rall the thrashing of his life. I have read this four times, and I laugh out loud each time. This really should be a how-to example for bludgeoning morons, and it ranks up there with P.J. O’Rourke’s Kennedy-hating manual (Mordred Had a Point- Camelot Revisited in Give War A Chance). Perhaps reciting this should be required to join Charles Johnson’s Anti-Idiotarian party.

Also, do not miss PhotoDude’s take on the H. Rap Brown trial, currently underway in Atlanta.

Back to work. Let it be known I officially hate writing abstracts.

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