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		<title>By: telestai2</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422470</link>
		<dc:creator>telestai2</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What fascinates me more than a pallid press corps is the chant of the Repugnants about &quot;liberal bias in the press.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What fascinates me more than a pallid press corps is the chant of the Repugnants about &#8220;liberal bias in the press.&#8221;<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422470', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ctcadguy</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422298</link>
		<dc:creator>ctcadguy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>David Gregory and this Press Corps represent everything that is wrong with America today.

&lt;strong&gt;SPINELESS FASCIST PROPAGANDA MINISTERS!&lt;/strong&gt;

Send them off to the Hague as well!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>David Gregory and this Press Corps represent everything that is wrong with America today.</p>
<p><strong>SPINELESS FASCIST PROPAGANDA MINISTERS!</strong></p>
<p>Send them off to the Hague as well!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422298', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: motorfingaz</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422108</link>
		<dc:creator>motorfingaz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 07:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Get lost jerk!!!!!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Get lost jerk!!!!!</strong><a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422108', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422050</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>brush &quot;and&quot; spray</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>brush &#8220;and&#8221; spray<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422050', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: dbadass</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422046</link>
		<dc:creator>dbadass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>So isn&#039;t it customary for some one to make up some shit about the white house being like vandalized or something? I heard they are planning to clear all the brush spray paint &quot;Mission Accomplished&quot; all over stuff.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So isn&#8217;t it customary for some one to make up some shit about the white house being like vandalized or something? I heard they are planning to clear all the brush spray paint &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; all over stuff.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422046', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: jb</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422036</link>
		<dc:creator>jb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Slink off to the depths of Hell you pitiful excuse for a human.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Slink off to the depths of Hell you pitiful excuse for a human.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422036', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Game of Life</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5422010</link>
		<dc:creator>Game of Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;em&gt;5th Estate Says:
Rest assured the WH Press corp will NOT make that mistake again!

Starting with Obama on January 20 2009 they will do everything they can to question the president on every issue in any way possible, no matter how stupid or shallow the question might be, just to show everyone that they are not to be trifled with!&lt;/em&gt;

You have that right.


Did dana say good-bye yet?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>5th Estate Says:<br />
Rest assured the WH Press corp will NOT make that mistake again!</p>
<p>Starting with Obama on January 20 2009 they will do everything they can to question the president on every issue in any way possible, no matter how stupid or shallow the question might be, just to show everyone that they are not to be trifled with!</em></p>
<p>You have that right.</p>
<p>Did dana say good-bye yet?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5422010', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Game of Life</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5421996</link>
		<dc:creator>Game of Life</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 03:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAHAHAHAHAHA

I bet chimpy thought he would leave with a roaring standing ovation.

He&#039;s lucky that the reporters kept their shoes on or maybe that&#039;s why he didn&#039;t stick around and tap dance for them.

That is what should happen in congress too.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

BTW -- Every year during the beginning of the year I mistakenly write the previous year. For some reason I haven&#039;t made that mistake;I don&#039;t think I can.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAHAHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>I bet chimpy thought he would leave with a roaring standing ovation.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s lucky that the reporters kept their shoes on or maybe that&#8217;s why he didn&#8217;t stick around and tap dance for them.</p>
<p>That is what should happen in congress too.</p>
<p>HAHAHAHAHAHA</p>
<p>BTW &#8212; Every year during the beginning of the year I mistakenly write the previous year. For some reason I haven&#8217;t made that mistake;I don&#8217;t think I can.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421996', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: delafield</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5421818</link>
		<dc:creator>delafield</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There has been only one journalist in that room for the past eight years - Helen Thomas.

You can flush the rest of those so called journalists down the toilet for allowing Bush to destroy America.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There has been only one journalist in that room for the past eight years &#8211; Helen Thomas.</p>
<p>You can flush the rest of those so called journalists down the toilet for allowing Bush to destroy America.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421818', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: sacopenapa</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5421684</link>
		<dc:creator>sacopenapa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>HAGUE!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HAGUE!!!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421684', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: sacopenapa</title>
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		<dc:creator>sacopenapa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>No SHOES?????!!!!!!!!! Where is the gut of American Jornalism?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No SHOES?????!!!!!!!!! Where is the gut of American Jornalism?!<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421680', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: KayInMaine</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5421614</link>
		<dc:creator>KayInMaine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did a reporter yell, &quot;sit down!&quot;, to the press at the end of the video? Sounded like it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did a reporter yell, &#8220;sit down!&#8221;, to the press at the end of the video? Sounded like it.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421614', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ljm</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5421456</link>
		<dc:creator>ljm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sincerity?  The man isn&#039;t sincere about anything!  He makes lite (Bush lite) about the lives of billions of people for an hour, and then wanders off as quickly and insincerely as he has led the free world for 8 years.  His sins are so great, over so long a time that I&#039;m too burned out to adequately express the joy I&#039;ll feel when exits the great door to the west in one week.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sincerity?  The man isn&#8217;t sincere about anything!  He makes lite (Bush lite) about the lives of billions of people for an hour, and then wanders off as quickly and insincerely as he has led the free world for 8 years.  His sins are so great, over so long a time that I&#8217;m too burned out to adequately express the joy I&#8217;ll feel when exits the great door to the west in one week.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421456', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ape-Man</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ape-Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Looks like Bush is still afraid Helen Thomas though.  Helen Thomas should follow Bush and Cheney around and ask them questions until they break.  Maybe then they will tell us what we need to know.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks like Bush is still afraid Helen Thomas though.  Helen Thomas should follow Bush and Cheney around and ask them questions until they break.  Maybe then they will tell us what we need to know.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421442', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Zooey</title>
		<link>http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/press-corps-goodbye/comment-page-1/#comment-5421416</link>
		<dc:creator>Zooey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My take on &lt;a href=&quot;http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Chimpy&#039;s last newsconference&lt;/a&gt; at TheZoo.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My take on <a href="http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/good-riddance-to-bad-rubbish/" rel="nofollow">Chimpy&#8217;s last newsconference</a> at TheZoo.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421416', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: EugeneDebs</title>
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		<dc:creator>EugeneDebs</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dynamo Says: 

What a startling piece of footage! The press doesn’t like President Bush?? What a shocker!
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;

True then again why should the press be any different than the REST of the sane portion of the world?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dynamo Says: </p>
<p>What a startling piece of footage! The press doesn’t like President Bush?? What a shocker!<br />
&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;</p>
<p>True then again why should the press be any different than the REST of the sane portion of the world?<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421404', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: ctalk</title>
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		<dc:creator>ctalk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:46:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Imagine when this monster took office there were 1.2 million more Iraqis living out their lives.  Truth be told Clinton did as much damage with his various war crimes.  This is beyond simple left/right politics.  I pray Obama doesn&#039;t go down that dark road.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Imagine when this monster took office there were 1.2 million more Iraqis living out their lives.  Truth be told Clinton did as much damage with his various war crimes.  This is beyond simple left/right politics.  I pray Obama doesn&#8217;t go down that dark road.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421332', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: shoeless</title>
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		<dc:creator>shoeless</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Dynamo Says: 
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What a startling piece of footage! The press doesn’t like President Bush?? What a shocker!&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Why would they still like him? They made him into a god after 9/11. They faithfully regurgitated his lies about WMD to support his invasion of Iraq. They covered up his crimes of wiretapping anf torture until he admitted those crimes  himself. In all, not only did the press give Bush a free pass for 5 years, they were active accomplices in his criminal activities.

What did they get for abandoning their journalistic principles to become co-conspirators with the Bush administration? Nothing but continued derision from the right and appropriate indignation from the left.

The press corps hitched their wagon to the Bush administration, and the whole thing blew up in their faces. Now, even they realize their mistake.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Dynamo Says:<br />
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<p>What a startling piece of footage! The press doesn’t like President Bush?? What a shocker!</p></blockquote>
<p>Why would they still like him? They made him into a god after 9/11. They faithfully regurgitated his lies about WMD to support his invasion of Iraq. They covered up his crimes of wiretapping anf torture until he admitted those crimes  himself. In all, not only did the press give Bush a free pass for 5 years, they were active accomplices in his criminal activities.</p>
<p>What did they get for abandoning their journalistic principles to become co-conspirators with the Bush administration? Nothing but continued derision from the right and appropriate indignation from the left.</p>
<p>The press corps hitched their wagon to the Bush administration, and the whole thing blew up in their faces. Now, even they realize their mistake.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421330', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: MapleStreet</title>
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		<dc:creator>MapleStreet</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As 1. Hussein Toasterhead seems to imply, I would rather everyone stood to their feet and threw their shoes - they could tell Bush it is like in Anapolis where everyone throws their hats in the air at graduation.

I&#039;m not even sure the standing up wasn&#039;t just people standing up fast to get out of the room.  The applause wasn&#039;t even half hearted - sounded like 1 person.

The worst part is that if someone turns in even a bad performance, if one person stands up and applauds, everyone else is goaded into a standing ovation just so they don&#039;t appear impolite.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As 1. Hussein Toasterhead seems to imply, I would rather everyone stood to their feet and threw their shoes &#8211; they could tell Bush it is like in Anapolis where everyone throws their hats in the air at graduation.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not even sure the standing up wasn&#8217;t just people standing up fast to get out of the room.  The applause wasn&#8217;t even half hearted &#8211; sounded like 1 person.</p>
<p>The worst part is that if someone turns in even a bad performance, if one person stands up and applauds, everyone else is goaded into a standing ovation just so they don&#8217;t appear impolite.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421316', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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		<title>By: Ape-Man</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ape-Man</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, every word a lie, right up to the bitter end.

I also hear he refuses to feel sorry for himself just because bad things happened on his watch.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, every word a lie, right up to the bitter end.</p>
<p>I also hear he refuses to feel sorry for himself just because bad things happened on his watch.<a href="javascript:void(0)" title=""  onmouseover="window.status=''; return true" onmouseout="window.status=''; return true" onclick="ddrc_popup('http://thinkprogress.org/wp-content/plugins/dd-report-comments/report.php?c=5421314', 400, 400)"></a></p>
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