The Rush Limbaugh media lynch mob


	The Rush Limbaugh media lynch mob

jay8h

10-15-2009 8:52 AM

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10-15-2009 10:29 AM

zwyrbla

OO OO Im going to go Glen Beck on this and say "if he didn't say those things why doesn't he prove that he didn't?"

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