WATCH: Mitch McConnell's Right-Wing Circus [Cartoon]

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| Tue Jun. 7, 2011 11:51 AM PDT

Mother Jones illustrator Zina Saunders creates editorial animations riffing on the political news and current events of the week. In this week's animation, Mitch McConnell plays ringmaster to a circus roster of freaks, frauds and ferocious phonies. As always, that's Saunders performing the voiceover. Sound effects are from freesound.org. —The Editors

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