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...knee-jerk response to this golden piece of programming was: “Wow, Fox has stooped to a new low.” But for once, Fox didn’t mastermind this bizarre new program. (In my defense, however, this happened after reading that the network’s notoriously lowbrow line-up is to include a new show called “My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiancé.”) This time, the perpetrator is a premium-cable network with an obvious conflict of interests...
...moves to more amenable turf for a moderate: South Carolina, Oklahoma, Arizona, North Dakota and others. John Edwards and Joe Lieberman have similar dreams and much more polished campaign styles--but the notion of a four-star antiwar general from the South is catnip to the Democrats. The knee-jerk redoubts of West Los Angeles and the Upper West Side of Manhattan are in mid-swoon...
Lane made clear that he did not leave Harvard as a knee-jerk response to Mazzoleni benching him after he took two slashing penalties at Vermont in the third game of that season, or because of his relationship with Mazzoleni in general...
...Through this kind of dialogue, we can discover that all Democrats are not knee-jerk, vicarious thrill-seeking, bleeding heart, left-wing beatniks. And that all Republicans are not all the way to the right that they’ve come around back to the left,” Evans said...
...kind of a jerk,” he reflected...