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Orwellingly Yurz
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Posted - 08/18/2006 :  14:11:43  Show Profile Send Orwellingly Yurz a Private Message
YO: Just THIS In...

G. War...playing to his base....

Bush pardons moonshining 'Deliverance' actor
By Robert Yoon
CNN Washington Bureau


Friday, August 18, 2006; Posted: 4:53 p.m. EDT (20:53 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- By granting absolution to a convicted moonshiner, George W. Bush also earned the unique distinction of becoming the first president to pardon a cast member of the 1972 Academy Award-nominated movie "Deliverance."
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OY sez: If my memory serves me correctly, there was a bunch of,
what such good ol' boys would call, butt-fuckin' goin' on in that film. My boat just won't float up that crick.

UGH & OY!


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Dave W.
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Posted - 08/18/2006 :  22:51:24   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
And yet, he was the second moonshiner pardoned by Bush, so this is news only for the fact that this guy has a single line in Deliverance (which he lied about to his own mother).

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