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Purge the press

Posted by linkmeister on 13 August 2012, 8:56 am

Here’s Paul Krugman on the media and its collective conclusion that Paul Ryan has serious ideas: “. . . a large part of the commentariat decided early on that they were going to cast Ryan in the role of Serious Honest Conservative, and have been very unwilling to reconsider that casting call in the light …

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