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Brickbat

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8. You've got the headline kind of backward.

Reply to Horseman (Original post)

Tue Jan 31, 2012, 12:06 PM

Jan 2012

I clicked on it thinking that authorities or a prosecutor had made the accusation. The headline is worded like that was the case.

The news in your OP is that a congressman's daddy is claiming the Democratic campaign of killing the cat themselves.

A subtle but important difference.

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