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" In case you&amp;#039;ve missed it, MSNBC has compensated for the loss of Dylan Ratigan in the afternoon by moving Martin Bashir to 4 p.m. Eastern, and filling Bashir&amp;#039;s old 3 p.m. slot with something called The Cycle, which is kind of Around The Horn for young pundits. The regular cast includes the younger generation among MSNBC&amp;#039;s apparently inexhaustible reservoir of Political Analysts. These include Krystal Ball, Steve Kornacki, Tour\u00E9, and S.E. Cupp and, this afternoon, as the program was winding down, Ms. Cupp spent a good four minutes being, weight for age, the dumbest person in the history of cable television: To review: Talking about the president&amp;#039;s tax proposal, Ms. Cupp rather loosely termed the president&amp;#039;s tax policy &amp;quot;collectivist.&amp;quot; (And, yes, both Mao and Stalin laughed uproariously as their spits turned over the flames of hell.) Kornacki gently reminded her that an increase in the marginal income tax tax rate is a lot of things \u2014 including, to my mind, a pretty good idea, but no matter \u2014 but it is in no way &amp;quot;collectivist,&amp;quot; if English words have any meaning in, you know, English. Kornacki asked, quite reasonably, whether Ms. Cup believed the country was in the grip of a collectvist regime when Dwight Eisenhower was president and the marginal rate was in the 70&amp;#039;s. He then asked her if she thought Bill Clinton, who got passed the rates to which the current president is trying to return, was a &amp;quot;collectivist.&amp;quot; She then said, &amp;quot;No.&amp;quot; This caused Kornacki to take on the general mien of a man who has spent five minutes arguing tax policy with a marmoset. Ms. Cupp then started flapping her gums about this president&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;political&amp;quot; philosophy of taking your salary and making it belong to everyone, or somebody or something. I lost a few minutes because I heard a high whistle and everything went black. I remain convinced that American conservative thought is now not a philosophy but, rather, a book of spells, a series of conjuring words that have meaning only to the initiates. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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