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"The men who kidnapped us did not even make a pretense of being Muslim," he said.
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They all stood for substantially the same policies, but Romney at least tried to make a pretense of making empiricism and humanism important, a stance which failed to excite the base.
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The Muslims plot to detain the Portuguese until the annual trading fleet from Mecca can arrive to attack them, but Monçaide tells da Gama of the conspiracy, and the ships escape from Calicut. To reward the explorers for their efforts, Venus prepares an island for them to rest on and asks her son Cupid to inspire Nereids with desire for them. When the sailors arrive on the Isle of Love, the ocean nymphs make a pretense of running but surrender quickly.
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" Diaz wrote that Insane Clown President, "evokes a distinct aura of the gunslinging, spare-no-niceties outsider approach that Hunter S. Thompson brought to the 1972 Nixon-McGovern campaign in his seminal work, 'Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail.'" Diaz concluded, "Insane Clown President is a breezy read and will bring knowing chuckles among liberals who will savor its wickedly clever shots at all the jesters in the clown car who constituted the Republican primary field." The Daily Beast journalist John Batchelor called the book "raucous, trenchant, knee-slapping". The New York Times reviewed the work, with John Williams observing, "Matt Taibbi didn’t see much moderation while covering the most recent campaign season for Rolling Stone." Williams pointed out the work did not make a pretense of having an objective viewpoint, writing, "If his title (or familiarity with his previous work) didn’t tip you off, Taibbi doesn’t aim for a neutral tone.
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