Today on the Dish, Palin threatened to sue McGinniss but realized she'd have to go under oath and take a DNA test about Trig. The left continued to cower rather than challenge McGinniss' claims, and a Canadian rock band considered selling TeaParty.com for $1 million. Andrew's jaw dropped at the poisonous hate in the book Mearsheimer blurbed, and sadly prepared for the euro's collapse. On the election front, Andrew analyzed why Romney still struggled to win trust within his own party, opened fire on Perry's immigration stance, and tried to undermine Obama with his Believe In America slogan. Perry underwent lip-reading service to hilarious effect, we assessed his leadership weaknesses, and Dan Amira deflated the Chris Christie hype.
Readers poked Andrew about the new Ask him Anything feature, and he shared why P town is a sacred place for him. Readers challenged Hitchens and others on America's penchant for the death penalty, and readers defended Kevin Smith's independent tactics and connected Harvard's kindness pledge to Aristotle and Emerson. Our mission in Afghanistan was all but doomed to fail, and seven months after Egypt's revolution, the country was still waiting for its "free, democratic system." Global warming won't hit most of the countries guilty of giving off greenhouse gases, we debated why dictators last longer than democratic leaders, and dark-skinned Libyans weren't past the war.
Half of all American Jews doubt God's existence, we analyzed whether it's right to be prejudiced against someone for their accent, and Christianism persisted in politics. Obama ably handled a Christianist heckler, and Keith Hennessey complained about Mr. Suskind ability to quote him. Banks needed to be taken down a notch, and we tried to parse whether an insouciant trader was part of a hoax or just horribly real. Medicare fraud robs taxpayers of an estimated $48 billion, cul de sac living endears itself to children playing in the street, and most service jobs aren't located downtown. For some gay servicemembers, the telling wasn't as important as the elimination of fear, and harassment can add up. Water balloons were no match for some faces, technology reconstructed the images that play in our minds, porn boosted Tumblr's numbers, and David Foster Wallace predicted the facial substitution feature.
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–Z.P.
(Photo: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin peeks from behind a curtain before speaking during the Tea Party of America's 'Restoring America' event at the Indianola Balloon Festival Grounds on September 3, 2011 in Indianola, Iowa. Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin headlined the Tea Party of America's 'Restoring America' event. By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.)
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