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	<title>Scrutiny Hooligans &#187; Satire</title>
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	<description>If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. â€” Samuel Adams</description>
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		<title>Let Them Eat &#8230; Soon</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/05/let-them-eat-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/02/05/let-them-eat-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Money Talks &#8211; The Haves &#038; the Soon-to-Haves
John Hodgman explains that the haves are creating an exclusive world of luxury and privilege for the soon-to-haves to have &#8212; soon.


The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook


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		<title>This Chinese Life</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/19/this-chinese-life/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/19/this-chinese-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manufacturing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, &#8220;This American Life&#8221; aired a story titled &#8220;Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory,&#8221; about life in the Chinese factory that makes the iPhone and other consumer electronics. Apparently, others took notice. &#8220;The Daily Show,&#8221; for example. 


The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack In B Minor For Strings</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/15/attack-in-b-minor-for-strings/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/15/attack-in-b-minor-for-strings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential Race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wasting no time, the &#8220;definitely not coordinating with Stephen Colbert Super PAC&#8221; strikes:



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		<title>Holiday Jeer</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/16/holiday-jeer/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/16/holiday-jeer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 20:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[h/t Bill Franklin]
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>World&#8217;s Dumbest</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/03/worlds-dumbest/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/03/worlds-dumbest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook


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		<title>Even The Language Is Corrupt</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/26/even-the-language-is-corrupt/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/26/even-the-language-is-corrupt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 15:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=26273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH

Immediately and Henceforth,

Naked aggression shall be called &#8220;preemptive war&#8221;
Propaganda shall be called &#8220;news&#8221;
State kidnapping shall be called &#8220;extraordinary rendition&#8221;
Water torture shall be called &#8220;enhanced interrogation&#8221;
Arbitrary imprisonment shall be called &#8220;extrajudicial detention&#8221;
Kleptocracy shall be called &#8220;privatization&#8221;
Securities fraud shall be called &#8220;derivatives trading&#8221;
Sitting on the ground shall be called &#8220;active resistance&#8221;
Chemical [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Catch the Spirirt</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/catch-the-spirirt/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/catch-the-spirirt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. John Pike pepper sprays his way through art history. 
(image above courtesy of a friend)
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>One Teacher Who&#8217;s Had Enough</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/one-teacher-whos-had-enough/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/one-teacher-whos-had-enough/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Taylor Mali &#8211; &#8220;What Teachers Make&#8221; 
[h/t Bill Franklin]
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		<title>Thursday Funny</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/10/thursday-funny/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/10/thursday-funny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shadmarsh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<title>Success Is Not An Option</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/21/success-is-not-an-option/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/21/success-is-not-an-option/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=25680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.
In case you missed it this week, Tea Party Nation included this pledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbit Punch</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/12/rabbit-punch-4/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/12/rabbit-punch-4/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! That’s terrific bunny &#8230; 
Austerity Nut
“Ask not what the billionaires in your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’s billionaires.”
Republicans 2012: Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job!
With the help of two DINOs:
Senate Republicans have voted to kill the White House jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dogs and Cats Living Together</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/15/dogs-and-cats-living-together/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/15/dogs-and-cats-living-together/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cecil Bothwell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Jamming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gordon Smith]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Men wearing articles of women's clothing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NC-11 Congressional Race]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the privately run group blog known as &#8220;Scrutiny Hooligans&#8221;, a controversy has erupted, spilling over into a Congressional campaign, Asheville City politics, a political community, the local twittersphere, and the lives of the bloggers.
The brouhaha began when the Administrator of the site, deemed &#8220;sovereign&#8221; by the other front-page writers, including City Councilman Gordon Smith, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>42</slash:comments>
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		<title>Colbert Super PAC: Exposing How It’s Done</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/22/colbert-super-pac-exposing-how-it%e2%80%99s-done/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/22/colbert-super-pac-exposing-how-it%e2%80%99s-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture Jamming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scrutinyhooligans.us/?p=22664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When comedian Stephen Colbert petitioned the Federal Election Commission for permission to form Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (a.k.a., the Colbert Super PAC), people laughed to see Colbert use the campaign finance system to lampoon that very system. “This is 100 percent legal and at least 10 percent ethical,” he said upon receiving FEC [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Making sure the Right people get elected</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/21/making-sure-the-right-people-get-elected/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/21/making-sure-the-right-people-get-elected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vote Suppression]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The Colbert ReportGet More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Political Humor &#038; Satire Blog,Video Archive


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		<title>&#8220;The literati sent out their minions&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/05/20/the-literati-sent-out-their-minions/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/05/20/the-literati-sent-out-their-minions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 22:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Behold Newt, The Splendiferous:

Also in graphic novel form&#8230;
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>If You Can Read This, Slap A Teacher</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/03/31/if-you-can-read-this-slap-a-schoolteacher/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/03/31/if-you-can-read-this-slap-a-schoolteacher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 10:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Alabama Republican State Representative Lynn Greer (Lauderdale County):
In case you missed it, Samantha Bee tastes the lavish lifestyles of these gold digging public employees. [timestamp 2:30]


The Daily Show &#8211; Crisis in Dairyland &#8211; Apocalypse Cow

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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>In The Beginning Was The Correspondents&#8217; Dinner</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/12/21/in-the-beginning-was-the-correspondents-dinner/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/12/21/in-the-beginning-was-the-correspondents-dinner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What do you do for an encore? Maybe the Last Supper?




The Colbert Report
Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c



March to Keep Fear Alive







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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>You! With The Computer!</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/10/26/you-with-the-computer/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/10/26/you-with-the-computer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[National]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Click to watch :

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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Up Your Nose, Faux News</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/10/16/up-your-nose/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/10/16/up-your-nose/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:03:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Satire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What else are those Unidentified Financing Operatives in today&#8217;s AC-T cartoon spending that money on?  An email this week from HCAN has an idea. &#8220;The little girl is hilarious. You have to watch to the end,&#8221; said  the email about Part 2.
They&#8217;re right:


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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Right Wing Radio Duck</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/10/04/right_wing_radio_duck/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/10/04/right_wing_radio_duck/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Management</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cartoons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Jamming]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is being posted for the benefit of the three or four people left on The Internet who didn&#8217;t catch this on Boing Boing over the weekend. Be sure to watch this brilliant piece of creative video editing (and testament to the power and necessity of Fair Use) soon, before a bunch of men dressed [...]]]></description>
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