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Lindsey Graham's Lying "Eye-Ranians"
http://religiondispatches.org/eye-ranians/BY HAROON MOGHUL MAY 26, 2015
Another week, another Lindsey.
Over at The Atlantic, Peter Beinart reports that ‘presidential hopeful’ Lindsey Graham, addressing the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, declared: ‘Everything I learned about Iranians I learned working in the pool room. I met a lot of liars, and I know Iranians are liars.’ Now, I know you had the same reaction to this unbelievable statement that I did: Lindsey Graham is running for office! And not just running, but as the foreign policy expert.
And everything he learned, he learned working in the pool room?
Graham is one of what now appear to be several dozen Republican candidates running for high office who make me think Steven Strauss is on to something with his eight shocking parallels between the United States and Rome, except that he stopped too soon. (#IX: New York City subway stations are early Roman urinariums; #X: Edward Gibbon prophesied the Christian Right would be the straw poll that broke the empire’s back. Etc.)
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