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Political stuff that drives me crazy: When the people on "my" side lie. I'm not even sure whether to link to this -- it's a widely linked blog post on the "Palin doesn't speak for us" rally in Anchorage (which is totally awesome, by the way, and I wish I could have gone) that contains a piece of ridiculous, brain-breaking hyperbole that's just ... not just factually inaccurate, but a total lie. (It claims that the anti-Palin rally was the biggest rally ever in the history of the state. Uh, even using their own numbers -- 1500 people -- as cited in the same post, it's not even the biggest rally in the last WEEK -- the pro-Palin rally on the same day drew 1500 people, and the numbers I've seen bandied around for the Fairbanks one on Wednesday is 2-3000. It was a fantastically big rally for being grassroots-organized on short notice, but the only thing that's accomplished by exaggerating about it is to give ammo to the "liberals are lying liars that lie!" crowd.)

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I just unscreened it. (I tend to get quite a bit of anon spam, so I screen anon comments on general principles so that I can just ignore it.) And, yeah, exactly -- I agree! I think this is why I avoid politics if I can, except for the odd cause here and there that really moves me ... I just end up being frustrated and angry at both sides ...