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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Republican Audiences Are Still the Story of the Debates

Although it has not yet attracted quite the attention of earlier bloodcurdling moments in the previous debates, as when GOP audiences cheered, first, mass executions (among them, inevitably, of innocents), and then roared their brutal approval of letting uninsured Americans die of their treatable illnesses, and then the would-be patriots howled and booed at a soldier in Iraq because he was gay, last night's debate provided yet another spectacle of the debased state of the Republican base when the audience cheered the cruel and plainly nonsensical accusation that the their fellow citizens who are struggling in this catastrophic economy are to blame for their own misery. When Cain doubled down on his Scrooge blame-the-victim schtick the dot-eyed hyenas in the crowd smacked their lips and cheered with even greater abandon.

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