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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 2004
Our Celebrities Are Bigger Than Your
Celebrities
by Michael in New York on 7/14/2004 12:49:00 PM
Yesterday at 3 p.m., right-wing radical Rick Santorum was pleased
to present the heavyweight celebrities the religious fringe was ableto scare up in support of their un-American, gay-bashingamendment: [drum roll, please] former Washington Redskins DarrellGreen (okay, not so bad), Dean Jones of "Herbie the Love Bug" and,yes, Pat Boone. Embarrassing, no?



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