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  • This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:

    Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation Brian Ross 2010

  • This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:

    Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation Brian Ross 2010

  • This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:

    Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation Brian Ross 2010

  • This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:

    Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation Brian Ross 2010

  • This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:

    Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation Brian Ross 2010

  • Tell the white man there's pearl shell in some lagoon infested by ten-thousand howling cannibals, and he'll head there all by his lonely, with half a dozen kanaka divers and a tin alarm clock for chronometer, all packed like sardines on a commodious, five-ton ketch.

    THE INEVITABLE WHITE MAN 2010

  • When that career fizzled out, he rolled into the world of political talk radio like a five-ton boulder, crushing everything in sight, and re-making the landscape — using a potent potpourri of hate, lies, ridicule, and a brash hyper-certainty that played to the angry rubes looking for a loudmouth leader to worship and rally their “Falling Down” anger around.

    Sacked! 2009

  • She was only a five-ton yacht, but we slammed her fifty miles to windward into the north-east trade.

    The Sheriff of Kona 2010

  • When that career fizzled out, he rolled into the world of political talk radio like a five-ton boulder, crushing everything in sight, and re-making the landscape — using a potent potpourri of hate, lies, ridicule, and a brash hyper-certainty that played to the angry rubes looking for a loudmouth leader to worship and rally their “Falling Down” anger around.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • This is why Nancy Pelosi, who has been under the five-ton weight of the attack ads herself, told Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann this week:

    Brian Ross: Tea Party Hypocrisy: The New Taxation Without Representation Brian Ross 2010

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