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SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG is walking through a car parts store, looking for a new filter wrench. \u00a0As he checks through the options, Avery LIBRELLE spots him and closes in to initiate a discussion<\/em>.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Merg!<\/p>\n

BERG: Um…hello, Avery?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Your so-called “IRS Scandal” is a huge fraud!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Well, no – the IRS itself admitted it targeted conservative groups for stonewalling and extra scrutiny. \u00a0And an amazing number of conservative pundits and organizations have come under extraordinary levels of punitive investigation in the past few years.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 But you don’t know that Obama ordered it!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Gosh, d’ya think? \u00a0 They’ve completely stonewalled any investigation<\/a> of anyone higher than their currently-designated scapegoat, Lois Lerner.<\/p>\n

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LIBRELLE: \u00a0 If there’s no conviction, then there’s no scandal.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0That’s sort of like a few weeks back, when you said that because no guns have been confiscated and no daycare providers forced to unionize and the Senate Palace hasn’t been built\u00a0yet<\/em>,\u00a0that the DFL doesn’t favor gun control, forced unionization of daycare providers and jamming down a 90 million dollar bit of pork for their building trades buddies.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0No guns grabbed, no daycare providers unionized, no building built – no problem. You have no right to talk about any of them. \u00a0 (Grabs a windshield wiper blade off the shelf).<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Of course I do. \u00a0It’s a free country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Maybe\u00a0too\u00a0<\/em>free. \u00a0(unwraps the wiper blade).<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0I’m just amazed at the number of DFLers who feel the need to wriggle away from their party’s policies using “implausible denial”, perhaps the dumbest form of argumentation ever.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yet another installment in the war on women. \u00a0(Starts brushing teeth with the wiper blades).<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Clearly.<\/p>\n

And SCENE.<\/p>\n

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