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Killing Jokes Revisited

By ThinkProgress on Jul 9, 2008 at 4:22 pm

When you look at something like the AP’s covering for John McCain as he embarrassingly jokes about his desire to kill Iranian civilians, it’s worth considering how the AP would have reported this if the shoe were on the other foot. Ahmadenijad makes a “joke,” at a political rally, about killing Americans. Soft-focus human interest story? I doubt it. Heck, what would John McCain’s reaction be if that happened?

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