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calimary

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27. Thanks!

Sat Dec 29, 2012, 06:43 PM

Dec 2012

We didn't have any Pox Noise back then. And CONservative cranks were viewed as just that. Cranks. They weren't lauded and praised and showered with big money and regular face-time. They weren't worshipped. They weren't held up as role models and admired and damn-near worshipped. They were laughed at and scorned as the cranks they were. Now they're limbaugh and glenn beck and the vainglorious guy-whose-name-rhymes-with-Vanity, and those male and female bimbos on Pox Noise in the morning. We still measured our work by the Walter Cronkite yardstick. That's when an anchorman was widely regarded as "the most trusted man in America." And he was well worthy of that title.

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