Which half-naked Harvard Dem scared a small child?

Because the world needs to know...

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Halloween- Dems Trivia Edition

    While I was planning on saving this story for the weekly edition of Talking Points, the timing of this piece of news was unfortunate. As a result, I decided to turn this into my first ever DemApples post before too much time passed. I'm hoping that I will have plenty of opportunities to chime in on DemApples as time goes on.

    Without further ado, here's a bit of trivia. Let's see if you can figure out who these quotes are attributed to:

1. Halloween: what is it teaching our kids?...Everybody deserves Handouts!

2. The real reason we need to Hallow-wean ourselves off of this holiday...is that is a pagan celebration of panhandling.

3. Halloween is a liberal holiday, because we're teaching our children...to beg for something for free.

And the answers are:

1. The Onion, in an editorial cartoon.

2. Stephen Colbert, on his show.

3. Sean Hannity, who denounced Halloween on the October 31th edition of Fox News' Hannity and Colmes. Apparently even our satirists cannot manage to outdo the ridiculousness that the right wing media machine often demonstrates. While many conservative groups denounce the pagan origins of the holiday, most conservatives still view Halloween as a secular holiday that allows children to dress up in eat candy. Consequentially, we may not need to worry about the War on Halloween just yet, even if Hannity is coming to take away our Snickers.

    Then again, Greg Mankiw spotlighted this article concerning the deadweight loss of Halloween. Children, your 3-pound candy bags may very well be in jeopardy.