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#1 2009-02-16 22:50:19

klakritz
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From: Winchester Massachusetts
Registered: 2005-10-25
Posts: 674

'purger' for 'perjure'

Is there a preconscious analogy between lying and vomiting, or is this just bad spelling? ‘Purger himself,’ gets 400 ghits:

the findings of that investagation were that he indeed DID PURGER HIMSELF. This wasnt about adultry it was about lying under oath …
www.apostolicfriendsforum.com/showthrea … 015&page=4

Additionally, because of the assumed lack of evidence beyond McNamee’s testimony, he can purger himself before congress and not worry …
ask.metafilter.com/80448/Limits-on-Roger-Clemens-pleading-the-fifth-before-congress
... a question that specifically asked whether blagovich had tried to extort a contribution from burris, i would have to say that he did not purger himself.
foxforum.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/02/16/youdecide_burris-3/all-comments

So exactly which court did Newt Purger himself in??? The always important court of public opinion, for one.
informedvoters.wordpress.com/.../newt-gingrich-acknowledged-he-was-having-an-extramarital-affair-even-as-he-led-the-c…

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