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“ It’s hard to understand Fox News tags like “Fair and Balanced,” “No-Spin Zone,” and “We Report, You Decide” as anything but dark jokes, ones that delight the channel’s conservative audience precisely because their claims to objectivity so totally enrage liberals, whose own literal interpretation of the tag lines makes the left seem dim, humorless, and stodgy. ” - The Atlantic Online | April 2005 | Host | David Foster Wallace

“ Time out of mind at this turn of the seasons when the hardy oak leaves rustle in the wind and the frost gives a tang to the air and the dusk falls early and the friendly evenings lengthen under the heel of Orion, it has seemed good to our people to join together in praising the Creator and Preserver, who has brought us by a way that we did not know to the end of another year. In observance of this custom, I appoint Thursday, the 26th of November, as a day of Public Thanksgiving for the blessings that have been our common lot and have placed our beloved state with the favored regions of earth—-for all the creature comforts: the yield of the soil that has fed us and the richer yield from labor of every kind that has sustained our lives—-and for all those things, as dear as breath to the body, that quicken our faith in our humanity, that nourish and strengthen our words and acts; for honor held above price; for steadfast courage and zeal in the long, long search after truth; for liberty and for justice freely granted by each to each other and so as freely enjoyed; and for the crowning glory and mercy of peace upon our land—-that we may humbly take heart of these blessings as we gather once again with solemn and festive rites to our Harvest Home.

—-Wilbur Cross, Governor of Connecticut, 1936 ”

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