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From: LindyBill11/9/2012 11:04:20 PM
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After Obama Victory, WashPost Sends Reporter Looking for 'Right-wing Nuts' Who Plan to Buy Guns
from NewsBusters.org by Tim Graham




As part of their Obama Wins coverage in Thursday's Style section, The Washington Post sent reporter Anne Hull out to locate disgruntled Tea Party Republicans -- and mock them as extreme. In the party establishment, "the push was already on to make the GOP more inclusive and reflective of the country. The party needed to gather up more of the middle. In other words, it needed to tame the tea partyers who had moved the party to the right," Hull wrote.

She found a retired couple of conservative activists (and as she labored to underline, conspiracy theorists): "It was precisely this mentality that energized Emma Runion and her husband, John, to dig in even harder."

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