On Tuesday, Keith Olbermann invited NBC News human delegate calculator Chuck Todd on to Countdown to discuss the latest tallies from the Democratic Primary. Todd said that “last week” Barack Obama magically earned four more delegates in California than previously reported. The way he phrased his statement made it sound like lollygagging election officials in [...]
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The way the wits at Sadly No! chase evil-wrong punditry all over the nets!
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End-of-the-dial, low-signal, creative, unscripted music-radio. Yeah!
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He stood up to water cannons and police dogs. How would he do against the millimeter wave beam presently being tested in Iraq?
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