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The improbable name of Medved

Hans Riemer over at Rock the Vote blog spent time today on the program of conservative radio talk’s answer to a good nap, Michael “no girls and homos in the army” Medved, and caused Medved to go into conniptions by calling Social Security privatization…Social Security privatization:

I’m talking on the show and explaining why I don’t think privatization would help young people—He starts hollering about how it is an outright lie that anyone supports “privatization.”

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So anyway, Medved is like, and this is a paraphrase, “you are a liar, you are a liar, President Bush’s plan would not privatize Social Security.”

So, I read this quote from George W. Bush as reported by ABC News on October 30, 2002: “What privatization does is allows the individual worker - his or her choice - to set aside money in a managed account with parameters in the marketplace.”

Ok Hans, but you’re still a liar. I mean you have to be, or else the Republican walls will start tumbling down.

For all those who actually want to take the likes of Medved seriously, please recall his only real claim to fame. I mean, come on.