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It's surely a massive opportunity for the "Let's stir up a great big faux-outrage at the BBC about fuck-all" brigade, but they have been strangely silent.
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Until I see you even once denounce the shrieky eliminationism that is the stock-in-trade of your political coreligionists -- some examples are compiled here, and there are several more recent ones -- I, for one, can do without your Pecksniffian faux-outrage about a throwaway and self-contradictory Twitter comment.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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The faux-outrage from liberals who routinely refer to the tea party as "terrorists" shouldn't be taken seriously.
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(At least Kathy Shaidle avoids the faux-outrage thing, which is probably just as well.)
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Quite the squawking of faux-outrage on the starboard side of the 'sphere over the decision by a New Brunswick school principal to abandon the custom of singing "O Canada" (or "Oh Canada" if you're a shrieky illiterate) at the beginning of the school day.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Save your faux-outrage Van Hollen ... where was yours and your clans 'voice when Progressive Anarchist physically attacked delegates, shattered windows and destroyed personal property in St. Paul during the Republican National Convention. rightsaid
Tea Party organizer vows to burn Pelosi and Perriello in effigy 2009
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It's surely a massive opportunity for the "Let's stir up a great big faux-outrage at the BBC about fuck-all" brigade, but they have been strangely silent.
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The faux-outrage of this dining room table is something to behold.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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But this is little more than the right-wing manufactured faux-outrage du jour.
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It's not a sloppy politician (we're one town over from Barney, so we see it too often to be impressed by his faux-outrage) calling a Nazi-obsessed fanatic crazy so that Chris Hitchens can write something in the morning while he gets over a hangover.
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