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Posts by Harry Shearer

Palin Strikes Back

By | 11.11.08 | 12:35 pm

The stunning run of leaks against Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin from the anonymous ranks of McCain campaign aides has finally elicited a response in kind. Members of the Palin entourage, who, while stunningly garbed in Dolce, would not allow their names to be used, have fired back against charges More…

A Plan for World (Comedy) Domination

By | 09.19.08 | 2:54 pm

He doesn’t know this yet, but I’m putting in a bid to purchase Bruce McCall.

I like and admire Bruce, but that has nothing to do with my plan. I happen to know that he’s up to his ears with a mortgage on his condo. Since that mortgage has More…

McCain Running a Rovian Campaign

By | 08.29.08 | 6:12 pm

The Obama campaign’s mantra is that Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican nominee, represents the third term of President George W. Bush. But, judging by the convention they’ve organized, they don’t really seem to believe it.

Starting early this summer, however, when three high-ranking acolytes of Karl Rove were injected More…

Convention as Psychodrama

By | 08.28.08 | 10:40 am

So the Democratic convention has been about catharsis.

We’ve been told that this was what Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, her husband, former President Bill Clinton and the Clinton delegates were seeking — what they came to the Mile High City to get. As

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