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UPDATED: Tea Party Group Claims Email Featuring Karl Rove Dressed As Nazi Was An Accident

Feb. 19, 2013 3:59pm Becket Adams

Tea Party Patriots Send Mass Email Featuring Image of Karl Rove Dressed as SS Officer

Karl Rove looking an awful lot like SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler.

The Tea Party Patriots, a limited-government advocacy group, sent a mass email Tuesday that included an image of Republican strategist Karl Rove dressed as a Nazi SS officer.

And now the group says it was all a terrible mistake.

“We did not know about or approve a manufactured image added to a recent email from the Tea Party Patriots. It was added by an outside vendor. The image was inappropriate and we have ordered the vendor to immediately cease further use of the image,” co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said in a statement.

The group said it had requested a specific image of Rove thumbing his nose, but that the third party vendor mistakenly used the Nazi image from an online slideshow:

Washington Examiner

“Wipe the Smirk Off Karl Rove’s Face,” reads the subject line of the original email.

“Karl Rove believes he can raise hundreds of millions of dollars, crush the Tea Party movement and protect the big-government status quo in Washington from millions of freedom loving Americans,” the email adds. “Well, he’s wrong.”

The email vendor, Active Engagement, said it takes full responsibility for the mistake.

“It was a mistake that we made. It was not a mistake that went through Tea Party Patriots,” J.D. Norman, a partner at Active Engagement, told POLITCO, adding that his firm handles “tens of millions of emails over the course of a month or so for each independent client.”

“Obviously, it was the worst picture that could have been mistakenly put in that email. Beyond that it’s just a human error,” he adds. “We’re trying to look into how it happened to prevent it in the future.”

Here is the official statement from the Tea Party Patriots:

Earlier today, an e-mail under the Tea Party Patriots banner included a photo-shopped image of Karl Rove in a Nazi uniform. This image was not approved by Tea Party Patriots, and the e-mail approved by Tea Party Patriots did not include the image.

Tea Party Patriots has expressed an apology to Mr. Rove for this unacceptable imagery, and is implementing stricter controls to ensure such an error does not happen again.

[...]

We apologize to Mr. Rove. While we may have strong disagreements with Mr. Rove on the future of conservatism, we want to be clear this imagery is absolutely unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesn’t happen again.

And here’s the statement from Active Engagement:

An email that was sent earlier today under the banner of Tea Party Patriots included an offensive image of Karl Rove.

The image was obviously a photo shopped image of Mr. Rove, a well-known political figure. The image was selected in error from an extensive group of images available publicly online and was adjacent to the image that Tea Party Patriots approved for use.

The email that included the image was not approved by Tea Party Patriots. Active Engagement, L.L.C. takes full responsibility for this error and is attempting to contact everyone who received the image to explain the error. More importantly, Active Engagement, L.L.C. apologizes to Mr. Rove for this mistake. Active Engagement, L.L.C. does not believe there is any place in political discourse for images such as these.

UPDATE — In a brief statement to The Daily Caller, Karl Rove responded to the TPP’s apology: “Apology accepted. Now let’s all get back to work building conservative Republican majorities and stop President Obama’s agenda.”

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SocialistSlayer
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:38pm
I don’t for a second believe that it was a mistake but so be it – Karl Rove and his crony Republicans like Cantor, Boehner , McCain and McConnell are all a bunch of Nazi Losers in my book. They better realize the Republican party as is is dead as a door nail and soon. The Republicans need to clean house and rid themselves of these phony Conservative Scourges !

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:07pm
  They got that picture out of my yearbook.
  
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- polarized
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:34pm
  Blah blah blah.
  
  Not to worry as you dems are driving us to the poorhouse.
  
  By the time Hillary is done with her 8 years, we’ll be 28 trillion in debt and in a complete depression. Can’t wait.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:34pm
  Duh.
  
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- saranda
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:48pm
  They used the phrase “wipe the smirk off Karl Rove’s face” , and yet the photo they claimed should have been used had no smirk. The Nazi photo has a smirk. Methinks someone at the TP is lying.
  
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- Brasil2520
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:44pm
  Both look extremely dashing, in their Hugo Boss, 5 star’s Hugo !
  
  http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Hugo+Boss+Nazi+Designer&FORM=RESTAB
  
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- Dkoonz
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:00pm
  Should of been dressed in a clown suit instead of the ss uniform.
  
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- YOURSENSEI
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:33pm
  This is what you must know:
  
  Gee, Nazis. Now there’s a surprise.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTkCQupCR4
  
  Tea Party, you just can’t help yourselves. Didn’t November teach you anything?
  
  It is so.
  
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- Wolfgang the Gray
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:36pm
  Wow, who ever photoshopped this image did a crappy job. I could have done much better. I need to get that person’s job as they stink. They didn’t even put a hat brim shadow on Rove’s forehead.
  
  As for the reference, even if unrequested, I understand the symbol. To me, the message shows Rove & his willingness to goose-step over any conservative that doesn’t walk the GOP party line. There are a lot of us conservatives that greatly disagree with the crony Republicans in Washington. McCain is a progressive, just like Obama, he just isn’t as flaming. Either way, I think we have almost as much to fear from the old-guard GOP as we do the socialist Dems. We have to stand with the Constitution and our allies or the idiots in Washington will destroy our way of life forever and shackle our descendants to pay for the rampant spending and crushing national debt.
  
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- piper60
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 8:39pm
  That’s himmler’s uniform a Reichsfuhrer SS. I’d expect this sort of this sort of thing from the euro-weenie B DS crowd who’ve never forgiven Karl for winning free elections for a candidate they didn’t approve-but what did Karl ever do to annoy thevTea Party?
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:19pm
  @;MyGakusei,
  
  Aho Ka!
  
  Baka ja nai ka?
  
  Omae wa, piman des ne?
  
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- G-WHIZ
  Posted on February 20, 2013 at 10:59am
  lOOKS-LIKE A commie-mole IN-DA TEA-PARTY!! They ALWAYS use FOTOSHOPPE!!
  
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scrapadapolis
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:37pm
I don’t care what anyone thinks,I think the truth hurts.One day he’s a republican and give him a week and he’s a socialist.Whom ever did this I give him a thumbs up for seeing into the future.

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- soybomb315_II
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:10pm
  if it was an ‘accident’ then it was a mistake. Rove is not far from nazi
  
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- Al Gator
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:15pm
  Karl baby actually looks pretty good in this picture!
  
  Freudian slip?
  
  I think not.
  
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wilbstal
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:35pm
This is great it fits the repubs jsut right, im a Tea party guy and liberatarian not a repub loser

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:34pm
“Eva,……habe du seen mein uniform”?

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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:59pm
  Hitler and Himmler were not the same person. Also, please tell me that you never got any high school or college credit for German language.
  
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The Third Archon
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:33pm
“TEA PARTY GROUP ACCIDENTALLY SENDS OUT EMAIL FEATURING KARL ROVE DRESSED AS NAZI SS OFFICER”
LOL–you so sure it’s an accident?
““We did not know about or approve a manufactured image added to a recent email from the Tea Party Patriots. It was added by an outside vendor. The image was inappropriate and we have ordered the vendor to immediately cease further use of the image,” co-founder Jenny Beth Martin said in a statement.”
Oh, but you’re PERFECTLY okay with showing up to rallies with pictures of Obama with a Hitler-mustache. Yeah, that’s reasonable…
“…we want to be clear this imagery is absolutely unacceptable and are working to ensure this type of mistake doesn’t happen again.”
That’s obviously not what your membership thinks (see above)!

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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:58pm
  Ummm ARCHIE? in the depths of your ignorance champ…you bought the image and not the whole picture. But then again, you’re the quintessential reactionary. The whole picture is that Rove’s superpac recently put up an ad in Kentucky to pre-emptively attack potential democrat candidate Ashley Judd. And sure enough…the steady drum beat lately has been that Rove is against the tea parties.
  The democrat superpac, Moveon and Progressive Kentucky offered Louisville tea party president, Sarah Durand a seven-figure down payment on getting rid of Mitch McConnell in that state. McConnell is backed by Rove. McConnell is a savvy campaigner with a healthy war chest. Voila…a tea party ad surfaces that “accidently” portrays Rove as a Nazi. Karl Rove..the same guy who’s superpac has already started attack ads against prospective democrat candidates in Kentucky.
  
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- The Third Archon
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:59pm
  I fail to see your point. I think the whole of the Right is laughable, whether you classify them as “tea party” or otherwise. And frankly, I don’t really care whether this is an accident or not–it’s hilarious either way, and the condemnation of the tactic by some of the very same people who have equated Obama with Hitler is the height of ironic hypocrisy.
  
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Maximus_Delta
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:32pm
I didn’t get the email…

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hauschild
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:32pm
Hilarious!!!

I told you people a long time ago that Rove has been behind the curve for quite some time now. I find it amusing how he’s spending every second of his spots defending himself. Poor chap doesn’t realize he’s been left behind. It’s actually kinda sad; like that former beauty queen that hasn’t come to grips with age.

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wilbstal
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:31pm
Funny and Rove had it coming good work boys keep it up Tea party knows how to fight back. if they sling mud we throw stones they use aknife we use a machie gun. again good work fellas

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AvengerK
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:30pm
I don’t believe this is a coincidence.
The Democrats and their surrogates have been spending a lot of time and money attempting to get the work the tea parties to unconsciously do their dirty work and undermine the GOP. We saw this in a very stark way in Todd Akin’s election bid during 2012. The DNC was paying for ads promoting Akin as the only real conservative in the race. They spent upwards of $1.5million on it. Sure enough, Akin won the primary and then set about putting his foot in this mouth and losing to the most vulnerable Democrat in the senate, McCaskill.

Similarly in Kentucky right now, the Democrats and their surrogates want to undermine Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul. So how would they go about doing that? Sarah Durand (president of Louisville Tea Party), was approached by democrat operatives who promised a seven-figure deposit in the bid to oust McConnell. These Democratic operatives included MoveOn and Progress Kentucky along with the Democrat SuperPAC. McConnell has been steadily painted as an “establishment” RINO and the very much liked Rand Paul has made overtures to McConnell as part of his tenure in the senate. Increasingly, Rove is being portrayed as the enemy of conservatives, libertarians and the tea parties. Voila! An “accidently leaked” image of Rove photoshopped in a Nazi uniform all of a sudden appears after his superpac aired ads pre-emptively targeting Ashley Judd in..you guessed it Kentucky.

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- theaton
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:54pm
  The GOP is undermining themselves very well. They don’t need the DNC or the Tea Party to help them. The GOP are the people who picked big-government progressive John McCain as their candidate in 2008 and even bigger-governemnt progressive Mit Romney as their candidate in 2012. It’s like they try to lose on purpose.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:07pm
  Oh well then perhaps THEATON we should accept things like the $1.5 million worth of ads the democrats aired stating that Akin was the only true conservative in that race in 2012? We should never question who we’re told is the real conservative by democrat paid for ads? Movenon and Democrat superpac offered Kentucky Tea Party a seven-figure investment to undermine McConnell. Rove backs McConnell. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) backs McConnell. Rove’s superpac just aired an ad attacking potential democrat candidate Ashley Judd. All of a sudden, a tea party ad surfaces that “accidently” portrays Rove as a Nazi. Inferrence? If you’re a “true” conservative/libertarian you’ll side with the tea party (what better endorsement?) and expell Rove and ingore his backing for 2014. Do you really want the left leading you and me by the nose like that THEATON? Think about about what the single issue voter did with Todd Akin THEATON.
  
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- Raging_Waters
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 9:21pm
  @AVENGERK
  
  What do you think of the Consent Decree signed by the RNC 31 years ago?
  
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Cavallo
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:28pm
What do you expect. Rove declared war on the conservative wing of “his” party. Maybe the Tea Party should look elsewhere than the GOP. The Tea Party did have Dems in it at one point. Maybe the Libertarian party would be happy to accept them? Or Constitution Party?

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- polarized
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:36pm
  In a sense, you’re corretc. A third party is on it’s way, I hear called the National Party. Anything but a tax and spend other people’s money democrat.
  
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Rayblue
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:28pm
If the Sieg fits….

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gyro
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:20pm
“We’re trying to look into how it happened to prevent it in the future.”— isnt that what obama always says ?

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LonestarFree
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:20pm
Do I really care? No, but if the shoe fits…. just saying there is an awful lot of propaganda tactics being used by the RNC and DNC I am personally tired of it and don’t trust anything I read anymore. I source everything and guess I should be thankful I have learned the truth, and a lot of it, in the last 5 years. I have come to appreciate the the education I forced on myself.

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FiscalBill
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:20pm
“The image was inappropriate and we have ordered the vendor to immediately cease further use of the image”

Tea party….love ya….but you obviously dont know how the internet works…..Just ask Beyonce…

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Jenny Lind
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:14pm
I have to say he is not my favorite person right now, and yes darnit, I laughed! It kind of suits his attitude lately, really, who does the punk think he is? Hitler, maybe? Best ooopsie of the year.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:13pm
Got to admit, that is funny. I have lost any and all respect for Rove, just like Gingrich.

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:22pm
  Ditto. Rove should be on to other pastures by now.
  
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- Cavallo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:31pm
  He made millions of dollars this last election cycle being wrong. Very few people can be as wrong as he and make so much damn money.
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:01pm
  FUNNY I have LOST my respect for the TEA PARTY
  The DemoRATS are playing their saully alinskee games.
  The country is dying.
  
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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:01pm
  @RJJ
  I totally agree about Rove
  I like this old avitar better.
  
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- Jake Dog2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:14pm
  *Should read “your old avitar better”
  
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yougottabekidding
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:11pm
Lets just say there are things that are not disputable.
Rove needs to go away and let conservatives do their job and not
be a rino.

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Fubared
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:11pm
Can’t jihad jerk get them for trade mark infringement?

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- spfoam1
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:42pm
  No. Jihad_jerk uses the crescent moon and star. The crescent moon is what you see on the side of his place of worship, which is an outhouse, and the star is his view from the basement when someone is sitting on the throne.
  
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Skinner
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:11pm
TP like Rand Paul and Rubio are just a bunch of liberals. Rand doesnt want any more wars, and Rubio is pro Amnesty. These guys have to go!!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:17pm
  Yeah, the last thing you want, in a President, is that he doesn’t want to go out and start wars. The temerity of such a thing is breathtaking.
  
  Back to HuffPo with you.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:42pm
  JEFFERSON….the drum beat about Paul is part of the left’s campaign in Kentucky to undermine him and McConnell. They did the same thing with Todd Akin. The democrats spent over $1.5million airing ads portraying Akin as the most conservative candidate. This appealed to the single issue libertarian or conservative. Akin was perceived by those in the know however as very weak and not the best candidate. Claire McCaskill in that state was the most vulnerable democrat in the senate at that point. She’s still very unpopular in her home state. Sure enough, The conservatives were duped into believing Akin was their guy, he promptly put his foot in his mouth and McCaskill kept her seat.
  
  Fast forward to Kentucky today and McConnell is up for re-election in 2014. Rove’s superpac aired a pre-emptive ad against potential Democrat candidate Ashley Judd.
  
  Sure enough, Democrat superpacs, Moveon and Progressive Kentucky have offered Louisville President Sarah Durand a seven-figure investment in their attempt to oust McConnell. All of a sudden and totally “coincidently” a tea party ad with Rove photoshopped in a Nazi uniform is “accidently” released. We know the left loves to use images especially subliminally.
  The left is using single issue conservatives and libertarians against the GOP and the sooner we wise up to their tactics the sooner we can take that weapon away from them.
  
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- AvengerK
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:50pm
  typo: “Louisville Tea Party President”.
  
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- cgnick
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 10:03pm
  SKINNER
  Yeah let’s get some some real TParty winners like Joe Miller, Sharon Angle, Christine O’Donnell and Richard Murdoch. Maybe some more that make baseless and absurd claims like Allen West, Todd Akin, and Ted Cruz. Or even better how about more sellouts like Palin.
  
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Skinner
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:09pm
I dont give a rats ass about Rove, what is BECK and the TP on AMNESTY and RUBIO and PAUL??

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- barber2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:23pm
  My. but you sure have a hornet under your saddle on this issue…
  
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- capnjack
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:13pm
  That was totally uncalled for and I don’t believe that it was a mistake. We don’t need crap like this. Don’t we have enough problems that we have to create them?
  
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Skinner
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:08pm
Is BECK and the TP pro Amnesty??? They are scared to address this issue?? Let them have it people!!

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barber2
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:07pm
The Obama crowd must be thrilled. Nothing like conservative in-fighting to brighten a radical Democrat’s day !

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:48pm
  You got that right. I love to see you people chewing each others limbs off, 2014 is going to be a field day for the Dem’s.
  
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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:34pm
  Choom on wanker.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 6:29pm
  SIMPLE: And I only wish the same to you : may the rational, old style, patriotic Democrats WAKE UP and throw the Chicago radicals under the bus where they all belong !
  
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Skinner
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:07pm
Where the hell is BEKC and the TP and BLAZE on AMNESTY ????? Beck and the TP are avoiding the subject cause they are PROAMNESTY !!!

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- Fubared
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:47pm
  Settle down Beavis.
  
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UNALIEN
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:06pm
don’t these guys know that only the left is allowed to use Nazi references…

but Rove isn’t a Nazi, he is an influence peddler

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- saranda
  Posted on February 19, 2013 at 5:56pm
  Dont forget Glenn and his Nazi tourettes.
  
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aproudinfidel
Posted on February 19, 2013 at 4:06pm
Now that’s funny, I don’t care who you are, that’s funny.

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