NPR

May 20, 2006

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Who's Carl This Time?

Quote 1

CARL: "Platitudes, non sequiturs, and recycled rhetoric..."

AND...

"Long on blather and emotion and amazingly short on actual solutions."

AND...

"This is pure idiocy!"

All of those loyal right-wingers were heaping scorn this week... on whom?

Hint: They don't like his positions on immigration.

Answer 1

Quote 2

CARL: "We do not use the content of communications to decide which communications we want to study the content of."

That comforting reassurance came from someone trying to get a new job this week... Who was it?

Answer 2

Quote 3

Carl: "Any thriller that can throw up the line, 'I have to get to a library fast,' is in dire need of medical attention."

That from the Times of London was just a taste of the scorn heaped by critics on a much anticipated movie opening this weekend. What movie?

Answer 3