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Rate   PopPolitics | by Bernie(heidkamp@earthlink.net) | Thu, Apr 12

Thu, Apr 12 From the moment someone took note of Don Imus' comments, the news narrative that would inevitably emerge was disturbingly familiar: it was Mel Gibson, Michael Richards and Tim Hardaway all over again. Interestingly, though, often out of the sensationalistic morass,...

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