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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-14-08 10:21 AM
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"It takes a scary idea, and makes it nonscary -- literally cartoonish."
Another take -- and a good one -- from Nate Silver at fivethirtyeigth.com ---

"It's certainly provocative. But it's not scary. On the contrary, it takes a scary idea, and makes it nonscary -- literally cartoonish. If the drawing of the Obamas had been a little more photorealistic, then you might have the sort of thing that would lie dormant in people's subconsciousnesses and potentially do some damage. But it isn't."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/when-memes-collide.html
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