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Americans are wise to the game and don't buy this sort of clap-trap anymore: most Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is a "situation like Vietnam (. pdf)."
Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010
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Americans are wise to the game and don't buy this sort of clap-trap anymore: most Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is a "situation like Vietnam (. pdf)."
Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010
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BeckyBoy combined the shock-jockery of a.m. “zoo radio” (ala Howard Stern) with meaningless political clap-trap (ala Sean Vannity).
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Law schools and med schools have also become havens of left-wing clap-trap.
Hope and Change Watch: AG Holder upholding PATRIOT Act. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Americans are wise to the game and don't buy this sort of clap-trap anymore: most Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is a "situation like Vietnam (. pdf)."
Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010
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One day … one day … you are gonna open that anti-American clap-trap of yours out in the REAL world … and someone will kick your worthless POS ass.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Bank Lobbyists Huddle For Another Secret Meeting With GOP Senators 2010
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I have heard it often since, and each time the clap-trap of it nauseates me.
Chapter 37 2010
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Americans are wise to the game and don't buy this sort of clap-trap anymore: most Americans believe the war in Afghanistan is a "situation like Vietnam (. pdf)."
Derrick Crowe: General Petraeus, Proconsul of Fantasyland Derrick Crowe 2010
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In Maine, the Portland Advertiser proclaimed, “Mr. Polk will not fight for Oregon” and thus his inaugural pronouncement was “mere clap-trap.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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In Maine, the Portland Advertiser proclaimed, “Mr. Polk will not fight for Oregon” and thus his inaugural pronouncement was “mere clap-trap.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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