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Oh...NOW we're "Evil-Mongers".

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Oh...NOW we're "Evil-Mongers".
« on: August 13, 2009, 10:39:08 PM »
Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-NV) clears things up saying that the "protesters" at the Town Hall meetings are "evil-mongers".  I seem to recall a LOT of "protesting" going on when the evil W spoke before the public during his presidency...but I think they were readily referred to as patriotic.  This is an excerpt from The Hill, all emphasis is my own:

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August 13, 2009
Reid: Protesters are 'evil-mongers'
@ 1:19 pm by Eric Zimmermann

Town hall protesters are "evil-mongers," says Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)


Reid coined the term in a speech to an energy conference in Las Vegas this week and repeated it in an interview with Politics Daily.

Such "evil-mongers" are using "lies, innuendo and rumor," to drown out rational debate, Reid said.

"It was an original with me," Reid said of the term. "I maybe could have been less descriptive," he said, adding that "I doubt you'll hear it from me again."

Nevertheless, Reid worked in the word one more time during the interview.
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Full story:
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/08/13/reid-protesters-are-evil-mongers/

Just for the helluvit thought I'd remind everyone of Hillary's remarks on this subject during Bush's reign:

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