November 9, 2012

Who Can We Blame for This?

Mollie Hemingway, Get Religion

Well, everyone, we made it through another presidential campaign year! Congratulations to the winners and condolences to the losers and all that.

With the election over, we’re now in the stage of the airing of grievances and assigning of blame.

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TAGGED: media, election 2012

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