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"Now where I come from, we call a 2-inch fish, we call that bait."
--Sarah Palin, referring to Senator Barbara Boxer's efforts to protect a small, endangered fish in California, in a speech on Saturday.
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Benjamin Carlson is a Beijing correspondent for Agence France-Presse. He has written for Rolling Stone, the New Republic, and Esquire.