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11cents

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16. He didn't. He's always been this way.

Reply to Madam45for2923 (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 31, 2017, 11:33 AM

Oct 2017

He's never been on the left, FWIW. If he has a coherent ideology it's libertarian with a soupçon of antisemitism. During the Bush years he was canonized because he was right or useful for the moment, while the totality of his record, and and the bad judgment and bad faith that were obvious from his behavior, were ignored.

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Lock him up Johonny Oct 2017 #1

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Based on what I know about Glenn, the latter. YoungDemCA Oct 2017 #14

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I'm irritated that I bought his book... Baconator Oct 2017 #17

Yeeaaaaaaah, Russian troll ... no doubt uponit7771 Oct 2017 #4

Useful Idiot, is it more like it. YoungDemCA Oct 2017 #13

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Glen, you surprisingly ignorant wanker.Let me explain it to you simply. Fred Sanders Oct 2017 #7

Explains why he had to stop practicing law frazzled Oct 2017 #9

WTH & WTF happened to GG? Why did this person choose to devolve? Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #8

He didn't. He's always been this way. 11cents Oct 2017 #16

GG is simply keeping GG in the news. Nt NCTraveler Oct 2017 #10

Geez Glenn, if you don't even know that lying is wrong C_U_L8R Oct 2017 #11

Why do I suspect that Glenn is a contrarian asshole who thinks highly of himself and his "courage?" YoungDemCA Oct 2017 #12

Morons gotta moron. Blue_Adept Oct 2017 #15