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Don’t Mess with ‘Raging Grannies’

CBS has been taking a lot of heat for accepting an anti-abortion Superbowl ad starring Heisman Winner Tim Tebow and paid for by Focus on the Family, while rejecting in recent years ads with left-leaning messages. We rundown the latest developments here, but this protest video by the so-called “Raging Grannies of South Florida,” part of a campaign against CBS by the Women’s Media Center, is pretty darn funny:

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David Kurtz is Managing Editor and Washington Bureau Chief of Talking Points Memo where he oversees the news operations of TPM and its sister sites.

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