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John Oliver offers an epic (and NSFW) rant on behalf of net neutrality so ordinary people can see how crony capitalism and our ruling class mean to screw us this time:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Oh, by the way, the answer to my question is: \u201cBecause the task of MSM is to sell beer and shampoo\u2013and to get invited to the right parties\u2013not to tell you what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And all brought to you by Obama.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver offers an epic (and NSFW) rant on behalf of net neutrality so ordinary people can see how crony capitalism and our ruling class mean to screw us this time: Oh, by the way, the answer to my question is: \u201cBecause the task of MSM is to sell beer and shampoo\u2013and to get invited 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