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calimary

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15. OR - their assertive voices start fading as they mumble "well, I don't know..."

Reply to Bigmack (Reply #8)

Sun May 12, 2013, 02:35 PM

May 2013

Or the ever-popular "well, whatever..."

Yet I have seldom seen this shake anybody up enough that they stop swallowing the propaganda whole and begin to question things a little more. I've seldom seen epiphanies. Doesn't mean they don't happen. Andrew Sullivan comes to mind, for example. The Media Matters guy, David Brock, is another. There are some. And, I HOPE AND PRAY, more awakening all the time.

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I've had those moments too nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #7

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OR - their assertive voices start fading as they mumble "well, I don't know..." calimary May 2013 #15

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that sounds like one great moment there! BlancheSplanchnik May 2013 #10

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YEEEHAAAAA!!!! OldRedneck May 2013 #20

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