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SCENE: \u00a0Mitch BERG steps out of the rest room at City Hall as Avery LIBRELLE steps around the corner.<\/em><\/p>\n

Distracted, visibly in distress, LIBRELLE walks into BERG.<\/em><\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0(Stepping back<\/em>) \u00a0Oh … (a little nonplussed, as LIBRELLE doesn’t react, lost in \u00a0anxiety<\/em>)…er, sorry…?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Oh, Merg. \u00a0Right. \u00a0I’m just worried about this country.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0After eight years of Obama, join the club.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 Har di har. \u00a0No, serious. \u00a0The GOP has nominated a candidate who is the worst human being in the world. \u00a0A genuine Nazi. \u00a0A man who is the biggest racist in American politics, and who is so clogged with hate that he can barely sit down.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Is that so?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Yes. \u00a0And yet, his poll numbers remain a challenge to Herself.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a0Why do you suppose that is?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0The American people have lost their ability to reason.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Huh.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0We’re pointing out what a horrible human he is, and the American people are ignoring it.<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a0What – again?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Nonplussed<\/em>) \u00a0What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 What did you all say about Ronald Reagan?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0That his presidency would lead to a nuclear war, that he was a racist, that he was going to draft all teenagers to go to war for Exxon, that he was a stooge of big business, that he wanted to create a nuclear armageddon to enhance his power…<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Huh. \u00a0And Bush Senior?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0That he was a stooge of Big Oil, that he’d inherited his father’s Nazi sympathies, that he was a warmonger…<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0Right. \u00a0And Dubya?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0That he was a bigger Nazi than Hitler, than he was a stooge of big oil, that he was a racist, than he hated children, that he’d never relinquish power, that he was stupid, that he wanted a nuclear war to hasten his fundamentalist faith’s version of Armageddon…<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 None of which turned out to be true.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0Er…it’s all true!<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 No, I mean, none of the claims turned out to be factual. \u00a0And yet every time a Republican runs for office, you get the same chatter.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 What do you mean?<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 How would you describe Republican Senate candidate Al Franken?<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0 He’s a racist and a Nazi and a Klansman who’d send our children to war for Big Oil because he’s in the pocket of the Koch brothers and ALEC and the NRA, he hates children and would drive elderly widows into the street to satisfy Big Power, that he wants to launch a war to satisfy his toxic fundamentalist Christianity..,<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0 Right. Al Franken is a Democrat, a secular Jew. \u00a0But once I said “Republican”, you switched to autopilot . Just the way the media does.<\/p>\n

This is the eventual result of decades of liberal media bias; it’s like the Little Boy who Cried Wolf; people have tuned out the propaganda, just in time for you to face a candidate who actually\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>troublesome – not to mention a Democrat.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Stands, stunned<\/em>)<\/p>\n

BERG: \u00a0See ya, Avery.<\/p>\n

LIBRELLE: \u00a0(Slowly turns<\/em>) But…But…<\/p>\n

And SCENE<\/em><\/p>\n

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