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Category: Misc. • Politics
Posted on: August 22, 2006 2:10 PM, by Tara C. Smith
Over at Unqualified Offerings comes this quip regarding analyst Kenneth Pollack:
In Washington, he gets to write new articles, as if he were an epidemiologist and not Typhoid Mary.
Whether you agree with the criticism or not, you have to admit it's a nice turn of phrase.
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You're just biased because of your chosen career path. Anyway, I hear he does a mean Shatner impression too.
Oh wait, Kenneth Pollack. :D
Posted by: Evil Monkey | August 23, 2006 11:01 AM