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HOH’s One-Minute Recess: Coburn’s Baby Talk

By Neda Semnani
Posted May 19, 2011 at 11:21am

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) got a little fussy this week, asking the Social Security Administration to investigate alleged fraud perpetrated by “adult baby” Stanley Thornton.

The Senator, incensed after watching an interview with Thornton on National Geographic’s television show “Taboo,” dashed off the angry missive to the inspector general of the SSA.

This is one of the most entertaining letters HOH has read recently.

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