[edit] William "Bill" Bennett
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- Born: 1943
- Employer: Empower America
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: Bill's occupation used to be "public scold," but since his gambling habit was exposed, he's a little less noisy on that front. Bill's a triple-crown winner as a former bureaucrat, a propagandist, and a barking head. (All barking heads are propagandists, but not all propagandists are barking heads.)
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[edit] Ann Coulter
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- Born: December 8, 1961
- Employer: Rupert Murdoch
- Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm
- Notes: Critics will howl that a woman can’t be a chickenhawk. In Ann Coulter’s case, that doesn’t matter; anyone with her level of bellicosity deserves to be held to a higher standard.
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[edit] Frank Gaffney
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- Born: 1953
- Employer: Indeterminate
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: Frank here is a very clever boy. Built a thing called the Center for Security Policy, which apparently keeps him in nice suits so he will look good in front of the TV cameras, which can't seem to get enough of him. As far as we can tell, Frank is a freelance salesman for the defense industry who is paid by an elaborately circuitous process. For all his obsession with the military, it's funny he never served.
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[edit] Rep. Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich (R-GA)
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- Born: June 17, 1943
- Employer: Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: A virtuoso in the art of hypocrisy, the former Speaker of the House now claims the Vietnam War was a splendid idea, but at the time he opposed going himself. Newtie also speaks highly of morality, but as a serial adulterer he doesn’t want to get too close to it himself.
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[edit] Sean Hannity
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- Born: December, 1961
- Employer: Rupert Murdoch
- Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm
- Notes: Plenty of guys his age were in Desert Storm - what's his excuse?
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[edit] David Limbaugh
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- Born: December 11, 1952
- Employer: newspapers with low standards
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: David's no fool - he stayed in school! Straight from high school to college in '71, where he stayed 'till '75, when the war was safely over. Poly sci major, wouldn't you know? The least annoying of the Limbaugh brothers, but only because he's more obscure.
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[edit] Rush Limbaugh
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- Born: 1951
- Employer: Yack Radio
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: Where to begin ... a joke about the Hindenburg? No, let's go right to the reason he had to stay home from the war - the world's most famous anal cyst. He's denied it, but www.snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference Pages, has got the goods on him.
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[edit] William "Bill" O'Reilly
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- Born: 1949
- Employer: Rupert Murdoch
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: Bill O’Reilly loves to come off as a straight-talking, blue-collar kind of guy. Funny, a lot of guys who fit that description and graduated high school the same year he did - 1967 - went straight to Vietnam. Not our Bill - he went to college. And he didn’t just go to college, he spent his junior year, 1969-1970, in London. He graduated in 1971, briefly exposing him to the draft again, but Bill was miraculously spared.
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[edit] Michael Reagan
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- Born: March 18, 1946
- Employer: Yack Radio
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: What are the odds anyone would know who he is if everybody didn't know who his daddy was? What are the odds he would have escaped the draft if his name had been Manual Rodriguez?
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[edit] Michael Savage
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- Born: Unk.
- Employer: UNK.
- Conflict Avoided: Vietnam
- Notes: We're not sure if this frothing lunatic is still on the air. Didn't he get canned for saying all gays should contract AIDS and die? If only he could have channeled all that animosity against Ho Chi Minh - we'd be selling Big Macs in Vietnam today!
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[edit] Rep. Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (R-FL)
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- Born: April 9, 1963
- Employer: MSNBC
- Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm
- Notes: A former Republican congressman (1995-2002) turned MSNBC motormouth, Joe qualifies as a politician and a barking head. Where were you during Desert Storm, pal?
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