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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsJon Stewart on Oppressed House Republicans
By Ed Brayton
It has been quite amusing watching Republicans in the House of Representative compare themselves to the brave protesters in Iran. It started innocently enough as Rep. Pete Hoekstra left this comment on his Twitter page:
Iranian twitter activity similar to what we did in House last year when Republicans were shut down in the House.
He was roundly mocked for that comparison. Someone even put up a webpage called Pete Hoekstra Is a Meme, which contains lots of analogous comparisons like, "My toilet just overflowed a little. Now I know how the Indonesian tsunami victims felt."
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