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Fishy stink

On September 25 2008 · 1 Comment · In Diary

When John McCain appeared on this news this morning talking about how he had suspended his presidential campaign to tackle the financial crisis, and that he had asked Barack Obama to do the same, something smelt fishy and therefore ruined my breakfast cereal. When it turned out that Obama had in fact already called McCain [...]

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More broken news

On September 5 2008 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

A BBC News journalist this morning commented on how, during John McCain’s speech at the Republican Convention, the crowd started shouting “USA! USA! USA!” in a seemingly spontaneous fit of patriotic fervour. It made me laugh to then read Michael Tomasky’s article in the Guardian where he explained that the reason the chanting started was [...]

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