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Michael Green's avatar

I had a good laugh at your Alabama town. I did an interview with our right-wing local paper long before Sheldon Adelson owned it. Our governor, Jim Gibbons, claimed Democrats bought off The Wall Street Journal to write nasty things about him--really. The reporter asked me if any previous governor had come up with anything like that, and I answered in my historian garb. Then she asked my opinion and I replied:

“What Gibbons is doing is sounding like a guy broadcasting from his bedroom on public access on the far end of the AM (radio) dial in Buttflap, Alabama."

The reporter got hysterical. She had to call back later at an editor's request with a question: WAS there such a town. I said that actually, I stole this from a friend who liked to refer to Buttfuck, North Dakota, so we were ok.

The editor, who still blogs about the importance of the First Amendment after finally being pushed out, banned me from being quoted.

The reporter was Molly Ball. I claim that quote made her career. :)

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Linda MacDonald's avatar

I am laughing so hard I can barely write this sentence! Way to go TC!! What a crowd of nitwits and worse! And it has only been 2 months. Lordy! What a f****** load of stupidity!

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