On September 29, popular neoconservative blogger Ed Lasky wrote a column blaming the financial crisis on wealthy liberal donors and ostensible Obama supporters Herb and Marion Sandler and George Soros. Days later, Saturday Night Live aired a sketch identifying the Sandlers and Soros as having made money off of the market tribulations and labeling the Sandlers as "people who should be shot."
The similarities between the column and the skit are so striking because Lasky is the only...
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