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Chad the Elder at Fraters Libertas heardJackie Mason filling in for Laura Ingraham yesterday. Poor Jackie's sinuses had him sniffling, coughing, and wheezing throughout, but like Chad said, it was neither boring nor predictable.

In fact, Jackie really took the gloves off near the end, going after Senator Barack Obama. He set this up by first drawing a parallel with Senator Hillary Clinton. Here is an edited transcript of that opening act:

Barack Obama is an invention of the press, just like Hillary Clinton is an invention of the press.

When you ask anybody, “what did Hillary Clinton ever accomplish?” they can’t think of anything. But they say they love her. I’m talking about the people who intend to vote for her. Ask them: what did she accomplish? Do you know that not one of them can think of anything? All they know is that they like her because of what she does. Where? This they don’t know. What did she ever do? This they don’t know.

She came up with a health care program about fifteen years ago that almost buried President Clinton. That’s why he lost the whole Congress in the 1994 election. It was considered the most devastating failure of any idea for a program … in the history of committees in this country. It was a worthless, hopeless, ridiculous health care program that has never been mentioned since because it would destroy America if we passed that program.

So if a person came up nothing but one failing idea that was so preposterous that it was forgotten about the day after it was mentioned, … would [this] make you a Presidential candidate?

And then this after a break:

This only proves how the press can invent a personality. We have a Democratic Party press here. There’s not even the slightest attempt from the press of America to be non-partisan or offer equality of opportunity for the opposite side. They print nothing and say nothing that’s ever complimentary to the other side, so they’re basically a one party press. It’s as if we lived in a dictatorship. If it happened in China, they would say there’s censorship and that’s what you get in a dictatorship. Here, without any official announcements, we have a basic dictatorship of a one party press, just as if we were ruled by an army who threatens the press if they say one good word about a Republican.

A little strong, but certainly more right than wrong. I post his Obama remarks tomorrow.