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Santa Needs a Bailout

Radley Balko | 12.24.2008 10:05 AM

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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  1. ed   18 years ago

    Most excellent satire. Thanks.

  2. jtuf   18 years ago

    A brilliant video. Happy Holidays y'all.

  3. Dello   18 years ago

    Thank Gore for the internet! Without which we never would have seen this.

  4. Brian Courts   18 years ago

    Heh. Gotta love the kid asking Santa to make "Subway stop the $5 foot-long ads." Certainly near the top of my wish-list as well.

  5. leftiti   18 years ago

    No bailout for this fat capitalist pig.
    Santa's Helper? Hah, that's surely his "niece" and I'm not ready to pay for nooky in the back of the sled.

  6. thoreau   18 years ago

    Awesome.

  7. Jacob   18 years ago

    Holy crap, that was actually funny. "Futbol. Futbol. Futbol. For the Tijuana Drug Cartel to return my little brother."

    Awesome

  8. BoscoH   18 years ago

    Santa's helper is H-O-T!

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