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Republicans Move Convention to Seventeenth Century : The New Yorker

TAMPA (The Borowitz Report)—With the threat of Hurricane Isaac hitting Florida next week, the Republican National Committee took the extraordinary step today of moving their 2012 National Convention to the seventeenth century.…

“After exploring a number of options, we decided that moving to the seventeenth century would cause the least disruption,” [an RNC spokesperson] said. “We’re not going to have to change a thing.”

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