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Thank you, Jack.

In Slate, Jack Shafer gives a nice run-down of Denny Hastert’s low-rent smears of George Soros. He also points out that famed whack-job Lyndon LaRouche is a probable source of Hastert’s information.

My only slight disagreement with Jack is on his global analysis of the matter. He calls Hastert a “nut job.” I think he’s just a smear artist, like some character out of a noir-ish movie from fifties, only he’s Speaker of the House of Representatives.

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