Conservative Rag Turns Left: "We want to look like the future"


	Conservative Rag Turns Left: "We want to look like the future"

BobbyRutan

7-11-2007 3:12 PM

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conservative, liberal, media, elections, democrat, republican, bush, war, terror, iraq

BobbyRutan says:

Hopefully we can continue to rescue the MSM from the clutches of the rightwing nutjobs. Once Murdoch owns the Wall Street Journal I don't think I will purchase another copy.

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