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Politics

Because If You Can Still Laugh, You're Still Free

Nick Gillespie | 10.18.2008 2:08 PM

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Via Wonkette and YouTube, this 12-second clip makes me prouder to be an American than if I'd just found out that Lee Greenwood had died playing a Camp Gitmo benefit.

Warning to George Brett: Don't watch this if you've just eaten crab legs.

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