“Maddow on Sarah Palin accepting Fed money after all: "You can see cake from her house, and you can eat it from there too."”

—  Rachel Maddow

The Rachel Maddow Show, MSNBC, March 2009 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29859430/23

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