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	Color Me Yellow

Moliticon

6-7-2009 4:58 PM

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blogs, rumors, news, gossip

Moliticon says:

“If we don’t have rumors, what do we have as journalists?” he asks. “You have press releases. So maybe there is some honor in printing rumors.”

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