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The Know-nothing white-wing corporate media inciting the local Know-nothing White-wingers, how stupid …
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The US and Israel have their hands full with Iraqi and Iranian “Indians”, but with Chertoff, a dual citizen of the US and Israel and a Neo-Con autocrat, building a wall against Mexico and Mexicans, it seems only a matter of time that the Neo-Cons, in an effort to win support for McCain, will ratchet up the Brown Scare, English Only, and other aspects of American Know-nothing Nativism against another group of convenient “savages”.
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She caught the Hllary Clinton disease, taking a win (over a Know-nothing troglodyte) for granted.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [107] -- What A Week 2010
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The Democrat, Know-nothing, and Do-nothing positive party reigns suppreme.
Reid Dares Republicans to Stay Over Break - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Either they are themselves indeed who their target audience is ... that is, noisy, Know-nothing, jingoist dittoheads ... or they have so psychoanalyzed the right-wing American heartland yahoo nation that they can play them for suckers.
Top McCain Surrogates Questioning Obama's American-Ness 2009
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Know-nothing naredowells telling everybody else how to live their lives.
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Know-nothing naredowells telling everybody else how to live their lives.
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It was stated that a Know-nothing assemblage of about 10,000 persons had been held in the Park, and that, in dispersing, they had been fired upon by some Irishmen called the Brigade.
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For a time a hope was afforded of the revival of a pure form of republican government, but unfortunately the Know-nothing party contained the elements of dissolution within itself.
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A set of men once armed with the vote cannot be deprived of it: and all the efforts of Know-nothing movements will probably be vain, whether directed against the freedman, the Chinaman, or the European emigrant.
The Nation in a Nutshell George Makepeace Towle
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