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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

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Dick Morris
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 28
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Entrepreneur
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New York City
New York
Richard S. Morris
Richard Samuel Morris
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