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Politics

Roll Over D'Souza and Tell Capt. America the News: America Still Exceptional in All Sorts of Ways

Nick Gillespie | 7.7.2014 9:04 AM

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The folks over Fox's Animation Domination Hi-Def shop came up with a nifty 4th of July vid.

It turns out that America is still really awesome, though not always in ways you fully want to admit.

Click above to watch.

Hat tip: Twitter feed of DrewFromTV.

For readers of a certain age, here's the mid-'60s cartoon opening the above vid parodies.

And here's the Spider-man cartoon opening that launched a thousand punk bands and accidents involving hairspray, silly string, and Cheez Whiz (come on, it can't just have been my pals and me):

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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