“When David Souter retired, the political class put on an amusing dress rehearsal of the first year of the Obama presidency: Obama did something expected and fairly moderate, and the Republican opposition responded with hysteria and scorched earth campaigning against it. Sonia Sotomayor was the judicial equivalent of a health care proposal of modest insurance reforms and a limited public option. Also she was a racist radical and any health care reform is Nazi Socialism.”
– Pareene, Gawker
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Borat: “I do a picture, only small, of the Tishnik Masacre. Where many Uzbeks…crushed!”
Kindly Gray Hippie: “How did you feel when you drew this?”
Borat: “Very proud!”.
KGH: “I’m just listening with sadness…a little sadness for your people…?”
Borat: “Yes…no, it is not sad. It is us who do the kill!”
When in doubt, consult the classics [5:30 mark].
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