Why was Olbermann talking about the Enormous Egg?

DODI

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Thu Nov-11-04 08:21 PM
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Why was Olbermann talking about the Enormous Egg?

I can't watch it tonight and just saw the tail end. What was the story on that?

Thanks.

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fearnobush

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Thu Nov-11-04 08:22 PM
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1. Because a character in it was used to name a new Bush dog,

MR. Bigsley I think, anyway, that book was written by a Dem as a mockery to the McCarthy Red Scare in the 1950's

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grannylib

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Thu Nov-11-04 08:23 PM
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2. The BushCo Twinkies have named their new puppy "Miss Beasley"

apparently after a character in that story named "Uncle Beasley." The author's son says his dad was a Democrat and that the story was written in response to the McCarthy hearings and that his dad would like the dog's name because "he liked irony."

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Tom Kitten

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Thu Nov-11-04 08:32 PM
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3. I loved that book...

In 4th grade every day after lunch our teacher would read aloud to us a book, and that was one I fondly remember because I was surprised the chicken hatched a triceratops! I still have a dog-eared copy of it somewhere, along with the Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek...

Despite this news I will still love that story...And I didn't know that about the McCarthyism connection, either! That is really cool!

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