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  • Typical Althouse: Picks an online enemy, invites her commenters to trash his picture, and will no doubt hit the fauxtrage button the instant anyone says anything about the inevitable stream of dipshittery that will flow from her minions.

    For the annals of anti-Althousiana. Ann Althouse 2009

  • Where was all this fauxtrage over caucuses before Hillary lost so many?

    Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries? 2009

  • Where was all the fauxtrage over Michigan and Florida before she needed every delegate she could beg, borrow or steal?

    Bill Clinton: Are Caucuses More Important Than Primaries? 2009

  • As for Hillary "McCain's passed Commander-in-Chief test" Clinton, the fauxtrage is amazing.

    Obama: McCain Would Be Better Than Bush 2009

  • Ain't No Molehill Small Enough by John Cole we were treated to endless pontificating about the appropriateness of the gift the Queen herself suggested and whether or not the President and the First Lady breached etiquette through inappropriate touch and an insufficient bow, today we are treated to the daily wingnut fauxtrage du jour, which centers around how inappropriate it is to

    Balloon Juice 2009

  • Said bedwetters have not yet turned their fauxtrage to the following colorful dialogue:

    Roger Ailes 2009

  • Ok, given your status as "ground zero for inside-the-beltway conventional wisdom," as Howard Weaver put it, I suppose a superficial, conflict-pimping relay of the new approach towards NOLA being proposed by the Obama team is to be expected (to say nothing of the subsequent frothing gumbo of fauxtrage bubbling in the lunatic wing of the blogosphere).

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • FIshbowlNY presents its fauxtrage in gender terms: "Now imagine someone deciding to run a similar cover of Michelle."

    Gawker 2009

  • Smiles: The Latest, Greatest Threat To Global Survival fauxtrage of the day concerns Barack Obama doing this country the terrible dishonor and shame of shaking a foreign leader's hand.

    Hullabaloo 2009

  • It's not just Americans perpetuating the fauxtrage.

    Blogging Change 2008

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