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    Obama Headed to One of His Many Birthplaces

    ABC Presents Probably Fake Russian "Sex Tape" Of American Diplomat

    Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s

    Hillary Clinton Dances

    But Did He Look Him in the Eye and Get a Sense of His Soul?

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    Image of xyzpdq xyzpdq
    10/07/09

    In reply to Obama Headed to One of His Many Birthplaces
    I find your sense of humor delightful, Pareene, but I shudder to think that some nutjob will come upon this post and use it to bolster his/her assertations that Obama should not be president.

    So for all you birther nutjobs out there: THIS POST IS A FUNNY. JOKE. PARODY.

    Yes, I'm talking to you, Orly Taitz.
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    Image of Amrita Rajan Amrita Rajan
    10/07/09

    In reply to Obama Headed to One of His Many Birthplaces
    Nice try, Librul, but we all know his real father is Satan who is a Muslin.
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    09/24/09

    In reply to ABC Presents Probably Fake Russian "Sex Tape" Of American Diplomat
    Here's the original story and NSFW video, in Russian:

    [www.kp.ru]
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    Image of WackoJacko WackoJacko
    09/23/09

    In reply to ABC Presents Probably Fake Russian "Sex Tape" Of American Diplomat
    What the hell is this? Red Shoe Diaries: Moscow?
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    Image of Magister Magister
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    Like so many others, I'm not exactly sure how bashing Pres. Clinton figures into this, but if one or the other in this post is "lying", my money would be on the author re-remembering somebody else's memories.

    I mean, if the underwear-clad, drunken leader of a country with which we had been involved in a long, protracted fight for world domination had to be found after leaving an official government residence, somebody obviously wasn't doing their job.
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    Edited by Magister at 09/21/09 5:16 PM Magister was starred Magister was unstarred
    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    What, no one explained to Boris about Papa John's delivery?? Jeez, people use your brains.

    At least the SS could have gotten take-away and avoided all chances for international incidents and nuclear boo-boos.
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    Image of triplethreat triplethreat
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    I think this "citizen journalism" is going to work out about as well as the whole "citizen government" has.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    Since the bulk of this post is about Yeltsin getting drunk and wanting pizza, are we to assume that this is the big lie your headlines pulls us in with?

    I really don't care, he was a corporatist who continued the same "free-market" bullshit that Reagan started and Bush Sr. continued. The one thing he did was create a budget surplus without decimating social programs.

    At the end of the day, he ran as more of a populist than he turned out to be and his influence on the Obama admin is starting to shine through.

    Only, Obama has less of an excuse since Dems have both the House and the Senate.
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    Image of FattyCatty FattyCatty
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    Is it not possible to be a drunk and a statesman at the same time? If not, I am going to have seriously rethink my plans for world domination....
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/21/09

    @FattyCatty: Hm. Not sure. Review the evidence. BTW, I totally get why the Russians got behind evil Putin to such an extent. YOU try having Yeltsin represent your country, and then we'll talk.
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    Image of FattyCatty FattyCatty
    09/21/09

    @snugbug: You know, if you ignore the fact that he was actually running a country at the time and think of him as your incorrigible-but-harmless drunk uncle, he's kind of adorable.
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    09/21/09

    @FattyCatty: Totally! Sadly, Yeltsin's cuddly drunk-uncle behavior bequeathed us Putin, which is a real Darth Vader character. Oh sweet mother Russia.. As Tolstoy said, you are a country of moujiks and aristocrats, and there's never going to be anything in between.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    09/21/09

    @FattyCatty: Winston Churchill to the rescue. Keep planning.
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    Image of miss_msry miss_msry
    09/21/09

    @FattyCatty:

    It didn't seem to hurt Teddys' drunkstatemanship bonafides. Ahh, the new World Order runs on Vodka.
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    Image of FattyCatty FattyCatty
    09/21/09

    @miss_msry: @son of spam: Whew! Thank you both. I am getting really good at my Benevolent Dictator wave, and would hate it if all that hard work had gone to waste.

    Come the Revolution, I shall spare you. If, you know, I don't black out.
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    Image of johnnypotatoes johnnypotatoes
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    Gawker got better and better for a couple of years there. It turned from a site for 20-year-old Brooklyn girls who got tattoos to piss off their moms into a source of smart-if-snarky commentary. But lately, there are more and more posts like these, wrecking the whole thing.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/21/09

    @johnnypotatoes: It all comes down to the writers. Good writers have been employed by Gawker, but they merely cycle through and move on to other things: Choire, Balk, Jessica Coen, Richard Lawson, Ian Spiegelman, etc. were excellent writers; a joy to read. Now we get that Andrew Belonsky kid, who cannot spell nor write well if his life depended on it. Yes, this is kind of a nadir for Gawker. I still enjoy some of the writing, but overall.. LAME.
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    Image of BBooms BBooms
    09/21/09

    @johnnypotatoes: I agree. Denton, get your empire in order. Shitty article after shitty article drives readers away.
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    Image of homovegetarian homovegetarian
    09/21/09

    @johnnypotatoes: i don't know, i think it is really important that no one told me that a politician was drunk 14 years ago. bill has my number, why didn't he tell me this thing that is so important?

    hopefully, one day, we will all be publicly humiliated and/or fired from our jobs for things just like this, so that only the pure will be employed. or only attention-seeking freaks will seek any jobs at all.
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    Image of Unsolicited Advice Unsolicited Advice
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    Everything implausible Bill Clinton has said is simply a lie. Because...it seems unlikely to me!

    (Because Bill Clinton made a Jesse Jackson campaign comparison re: Barack Obama's victories in some states during the primaries.)
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    Image of Dominant Glee Club Dominant Glee Club
    09/21/09

    In reply to Bill Clinton Isn't Done Lying About the 1990s
    Does the "Investigations" part of this post involve we the readers trying to figure out where exactly the "lying" comes into play? Or is the Huffington Post writing the titles of posts on Gawker these days?
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    09/21/09

    @Dominant Glee Club: I'm puzzled over this, as well.
    Besides I thought he only lied about pussy-getting.
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    Edited by bytememehard at 09/21/09 1:42 PM bytememehard was starred bytememehard was unstarred
    Image of Glanton Glanton
    09/21/09

    @Dominant Glee Club: Well see his wife had the temerity to run against Obama in the primary, so we have to dog on the Clintons and their legacy at every given opportunity. It's the hopey-changey thing to do!
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/21/09

    @Dominant Glee Club: It's as if the post set off determined to exposde Clinton's lying lies, but then it ran into drunk Boris Yeltsin and was like, "Screw Clinton. This guy is way more fun to talk about."
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    Image of RedLineRage RedLineRage
    09/21/09

    @Glanton: Gimme a break. They've been screwing up the titles for weeks now, and not just as a way to "get" the Clintons.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/21/09

    @RedLineRage: Headlines. They're called headlines.
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    Image of The One The One
    09/21/09

    @bytememehard: And about finding his wife to be attractive!
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    Image of daveyjonesisdead daveyjonesisdead
    09/21/09

    @snugbug: Well put. A lot of the posts seem to be this way recently. Is this the new stream-of-consciousness reporting I've read about?
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    Image of Conchie Birdie Conchie Birdie
    09/21/09

    @snugbug: Its like that time America said "Screw important stuff. This president's sexy time with interns is way more fun to talk about."

    Oh right, the 90's.
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    Image of Dominant Glee Club Dominant Glee Club
    09/21/09

    @RedLineRage: Someone should... investigate.
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    Image of bytememehard bytememehard
    09/21/09

    @Glanton: Yes, time to forgive her. Obama's forgiven her -- heck, he's even made the little lady his secretary.
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    Image of Glanton Glanton
    09/21/09

    @RedLineRage: So what you're saying is this has less to do with lingering bitterness & vitriol from the primary and more to do with someone having a shitty sense of humor? Cuz I'd buy either one.
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    Image of homovegetarian homovegetarian
    09/21/09

    @Glanton: or maybe a good sense of humor but really bad writing? you know that whole "first thought, best thought" thing, might be defensible, but it doesn't mean "first draft, best draft". this post seems genuinely hostile about this not being reported.

    when a blog post's best hope is that it's poorly written. . .
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    Image of Cynner Cynner
    08/07/09

    In reply to Hillary Clinton Dances
    Why Bill refuses to tap that shit is beyond me.
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    Image of sarrible sarrible
    08/07/09

    In reply to Hillary Clinton Dances
    Somewhere, SinisterRouge is lying on the floor, giggling with glee.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/07/09

    In reply to Hillary Clinton Dances
    And if you continue to watch the video... They feature a guy who wants to buy a marriage with Chelsea and even wrote a letter to Bill asking.
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    Image of nonethewiser nonethewiser
    08/07/09

    @se7a7n7: Was the dowry two cattle and a sheep?
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    08/07/09

    @nonethewiser: No, it was 10,000 whatever dollars they use. Watch the rest.
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