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Our Caucus-night media diet consisted primarily of Keefless MSNBC — as opposed to Keefless Current, which isn’t on our cable system anyway — with an occasional foray into Fox, where we learned that HD ages Sarah Palin about twenty years, or she just retuned home from auditioning for the next season of American Horror Story.

We didn’t even consider CNN, mainly because David Gergen ages us about twenty years. But making the rounds Wednesday was this example of how Hilarious! things got on the set during the wee hours, especially when—

Wait. You mean the Twitter tracker wasn’t a gag? We’re supposed to take trends on The World’s Neverending Thread seriously?

Well, sure, okay, fine, that’s just CNN painfully trying to be hip with the kids. At least it’s not holograms.

Except they’re not alone:

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Twitter Hipsters complain that the joke’s getting old. On the contrary: It’s just getting started.

[Spreading Santorum]

Before you leave Iowa, never to return to that God-soaked land until the 2016 Preznidential Cycle beckons, might we interest you in dropping by the Pizza Ranch for a final meal? They serve a delicious! chicken dish the locals call “Santorum Salad”.

[via TPM]

The other day, Andrew Sullivan asked an interesting question: Why Aren’t The Gays Attacking Paul? And while we won’t presume to let them speak for all Sodomite-Americans, it does seem to be the case that Sully, Dan Savage, and Glenn Greenwald aren’t troubled by the newsletters sold under Ron Paul’s name. At least not compared to the transgressions of the other Republican candidates.

Greenwald, while not endorsing Ron Paul, nails the reason why he’s even in the conversation:

Whatever else one wants to say, it is indisputably true that Ron Paul is the only political figure with any sort of a national platform — certainly the only major presidential candidate in either party — who advocates policy views on issues that liberals and progressives have long flamboyantly claimed are both compelling and crucial.

And Sully asks why we’re even bothering with Ancient History:

I think the attacks on his writing over two decades ago — when attitudes toward gays and HIV were extremely different than today — is less important than his commitment to limiting government, at home and abroad, now.

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A kitty. An iPad. Fruit Ninja.

We have no shame.

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• “A Santorum Surge?” [NRO]
• “The Rick Santorum surge is here” [Salon]
• “Republican Romney tops Iowa, Santorum surges” [Reuters]

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