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When Teleprompter Jokes Go Wrong

by Thomas Lane
09.24.11 | 9:58 am

TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro is at the Florida GOP’s “P5” straw poll event. He notes that potboiler jokes there about Obama and teleprompters have reached a whole new level of meta-awesomeness.

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