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<title>McCain Does The Impossible (Trees And Things)</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688</link>
<description>John McCain thought he had the perfect way to discredit his opponent Barack Hussein Obama. He would making a video equating Obama's "rock star" status to the vapidity that Americans associate with Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. For a day it worked. But in so doing, McCain accomplished what was previously thought impossible: making Paris Hilton &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1592229/20080805/hilton_paris.jhtml">politically relevant&lt;/a>.</description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:20:27 EST</pubDate>
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<title>JimmyHavok: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#9</link>
<description>Apparently, Hilton isn't "freakishly wealthy," &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20168283,00.html">she has quite a bit of money&lt;/a> by the standards of Common People, but not so much that she could keep up the life style she i</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:41:13 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeeter1: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#8</link>
<description>&lt;i>"I thought the Hilton clip was a witty riposte, but really, when you're famous for nothing more than being famous (and leaking a home-shot porno tape), you don't &#160;need much of an excuse to present yourself to the public."&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;It helps being frea</description>
<pubDate>Sat, 9 Aug 2008 13:56:56 EST</pubDate>
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<title>JimmyHavok: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#7</link>
<description>I love watching you try to fool yourself.</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:47:04 EST</pubDate>
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<title>profwhat: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#6</link>
<description>Ghostwriter, &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jz5-rV8c2xj6rJTVpB3tPPmWScJQD92D3SD80">confirmed:&lt;/a>&lt;blockquote>"Adam thought it would be really funny to get Paris to respond to the John McCain ad that featured her," Funny or Die c</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 14:53:31 EST</pubDate>
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<title>keta: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#5</link>
<description>Apparently the script was written by someone else, but the article I read &lt;i>gushed&lt;/i> about how Paris and her teeny little brain managed to, like, memorize it &lt;i>all.&lt;/i>&lt;p>&#10;I thought the Hilton clip was a witty riposte, but really, when you're famous fo</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 13:07:51 EST</pubDate>
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<title>Territan: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#4</link>
<description>&lt;blockquote>&lt;b>profwhat&lt;/b>: Her only slams on him were pretty mild--they were based on his age, and that's not exactly something he has been hiding.&lt;/blockquote>&lt;p>&#10;&lt;p>Au contraire. If that really was Paris Hilton, and she was delivering her own message (</description>
<pubDate>Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:21:23 EST</pubDate>
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<title>thefadd: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#3</link>
<description>Yeah, is Obama an intellectual or a lightweight? McCain should get his story straight ;-)</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:16:40 EST</pubDate>
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<title>skeptic: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#2</link>
<description>American voters (who, after all, elected George W. Bush among other intellectual light-weights) generally seem to have a high tolerance for thin discourse, so I doubt that this particular criticism of Obama will sway voters very much (if anything, accusati</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:25:33 EST</pubDate>
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<title>profwhat: Re: McCain Does The Impossible</title>
<link>http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2008/8/6/135940/8688#1</link>
<description>Looking at it coldly, Hilton helped McCain. &#160;Her video kept McCain's "celebrity" attack in the news for another media cycle. &#160;Her only slams on him were pretty mild--they were based on his age, and that's not exactly something he has been hiding.</description>
<pubDate>Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:06:08 EST</pubDate>
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