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Bob Cesca: Strap Yourselves In, The News Media’s 2020 Silly Season Has Arrived

Bob Cesca: Strap Yourselves In, The News Media’s 2020 Silly Season Has Arrived

Silly Season is upon us and it’s just now lacing up its clown shoes.

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Mar 21, 2019
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Bob Cesca: Strap Yourselves In, The News Media’s 2020 Silly Season Has Arrived
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by Bob Cesca

Comedian Steven Wright once described that feeling of leaning too far back in your chair until you almost fall over backward but at the last minute you catch yourself, adding, “I feel like that all the time.”

As I observe the Trump Crisis, now on day 792, I have to confess I feel like that a lot, too -- that queasy off-balance feeling, as if …

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