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For one thing, the League of Fans wants to dismantle college sports as we know it, eliminating athletic scholarships because they turn students into "professional athletes," a proposal the NCAA has called "off-base on so many fronts it is hard to know where to start."

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"That was a tough speech to have to sit through and kind of try to stomach because the president is so off-base in his ideas," said Palin.

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Since there's no sign of the Nazi rhetoric going away, Stephen Colbert is making sure people use the correct outrageously off-base Hitler references with the "Nazi-ometer."

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But the human element he adds most here is tingeing these characters with a dark side that just seems off-base for me.

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* Explaining the enthusiasm gap: Gerald Seib says all the chatter about Dems being disengaged is off-base: What's really creating the enthusiasm disparity is that Republicans are jacked up in an extraordinary way.

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This is where Judge Hudson's asparagus quip is problematic -- and where Cuccinelli's argument is way off-base.

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And even, I heard - he never said it to me, but I heard from other people that Canby was later kind of encouraged to re-see the film by friends because they felt he was so off-base on the film, and he did, and he kinda said 'I think I was too tough on the film' But you know, be that as it may, fortunately the Coen Brothers have gone on to great careers.

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For one thing, he did not shy away from telling them they were off-base.

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EDIT: After re-reading your description, I may be completely off-base here.

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Politico's Ben Smith finds that Mike Huckabee may be a little off-base with his criticism of Mitt Romney's health care bill.

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