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NYTimes Weirdness

This is dated June 1st, but I swear I've seen some of the phrases repeated in blogspace before:

Dean, a doctor who barely registered in polls last fall, closed in on John Kerry in New Hampshire, and in Iowa, he was clearly the king of every beige ballroom he entered.

Dean, smiling uneasily throughout the debate, looked like a guy who had been bad-mouthing his ex-girlfriend and all of her friends, only to run smack into them at a party.

Once written off as a little man from a little state, Dean has expertly framed the 2004 nomination fight as a choice between white-hot liberal rage on one side and the room-temperature promise of ''electability'' on the other.

''The sad thing is that the Democratic Party has helped the president do this,'' Dean says, although he doesn't sound sad at all. He sounds as if he wants to throw the lectern through a wall.

I've seen them before in discussions I've been reading on liberal politics blogs. What gives?

Posted by Curt at June 2, 2003 01:30 AM