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Did We All Get Punk’d By Weiner’s Arab Slur Claim?

by Josh Marshall
09.06.13 | 5:04 am

Anthony Weiner said it was a dig at his wife’s ethnicity that got him into that shouting match with that dude in Brooklyn. But it’s actually not clear he ever heard the guy say it.

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