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Fri Jan 31, 2014, 12:49 PM Jan 2014

Daily Caller writer's calendar stuck on 1952...

Vague charges of "communism," innuendos and a gratuitous slam against Rachel Maddow...

Daily Caller: "Elitist" Liberals Want A World Where LGBT People Are Equal And We're All Rachel Maddow

A Daily Caller writer penned an historically illiterate column proclaiming that the mission of American liberalism has always been "controlling the masses," asserting that contemporary liberals wish to engineer a world in which "we can just eradicate that last opponent of gay marriage" and "Americans are all Rachel Maddows."

In his January 30 column, Mark Judge embarked on a lengthy-error-ridden history of American liberalism featuring claims that arch-libertarian and bitter New Deal opponent H. L. Mencken was actually a liberal and that FDR's administration was riddled with communists -- a conspiracy theory that has been derided even by right-wing commentators. Judge then trained his sights on contemporary liberals (emphasis added):

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/31/daily-caller-elitist-liberals-want-a-world-wher/197859

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Daily Caller writer's calendar stuck on 1952... (Original Post) Archae Jan 2014 OP
At what point do we declare journalists who lie like this to the American public enemies of the okaawhatever Jan 2014 #1
We have Rachael they have him. We win. upaloopa Jan 2014 #2
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