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Back in 1999, when my book “The Year 2000 Hoax” came out, I was debating all the naysayers on radio, TV, in the news, all the dopes – and they were dopes – who said the world would come to an end because of the Y2K bug. When on January 1, 2000, the world didn’t explode, the naysayers were king. The networks and newspeople only wanted to interview those who got it wrong.<\/p>\n

I mention this because you can’t tell from who’s there and who’s not there, who will get the press and the notoriety from the media. There is no way to predict the result of the republican farce they call a debate. How can a bunch of indistinguishable candidates distinguish themselves? They can’t. The media will have to do it for them and pick one or more of the republican jokes to pump up. They will for sure but only The Shadow knows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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