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Michael Tennant emailed me on Saturday to get my response to the news that Donald Rumsfeld would be receiving the “Defender of the Constitution” award at CPAC. He has a very good article at The New American website<\/strong><\/a> with quotes from a number of libertarians and conservatives bashing the award. <\/p>\n

Tennant notes that my “two-word response when asked what he thought of Rumsfeld\u2019s award cannot be reproduced here.” <\/p>\n

“Holy Shit!”<\/p>\n

Doesn’t anyone appreciate brevity any more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Tennant emailed me on Saturday to get my response to the news that Donald Rumsfeld would be receiving the “Defender of the Constitution” award at CPAC. He has a very good article at The New American website with quotes from a number of libertarians and conservatives bashing the award. Tennant notes that my “two-word […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22,659],"class_list":["post-2510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-attention-deficit-democracy"],"yoast_head":"\nMy "Holy Shit!" 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