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Hating the Conventions

It's that time again. Time to wear funny hats, paint the stage red white and blue, drop the confetti and the balloons, get footage of ordinary-looking Americans being inspired to the point of tears. Yes, it's political convention time. In what has evolved into the most self-congratulatory waste of air time since the advent of the music video, the two parties will take to the airwaves over the next two weeks for all the free advertising that the networks will grant them. With an assist from the 24-hour cable "news" networks, and blogs like this one, we'll be slicing and dicing every speech and ...

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