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November 26, 2008

Celebrity Candidates Run Wild

If both Chris Matthews and Hank Williams, Jr (famed for, among other things, singing perhaps the most hilariously dirty country song ever) decide to run for the U.S. Senate, I'm blaming it all on Al Franken.

--Eve Fairbanks

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