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Salesman on train: How far you going, friend? Harold Hill: Wherever the people are as green as the money, friend. -- The Music Man, 1962 Among the many gaps in my knowledge is a broad unfamiliarity with Broadway musicals. So when Chris Matthews said that Bill Clinton would make a perfect Harold Hill in The Music Man, I scampered Googleward and discovered that the Hardball host had just called the former President of the United States . . . a con man. Appearing on today's Morning Joe, what set Matthews off was footage of Clinton making the case to a...

From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk Published 2/20/2003 7:07 PM WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- This here's the 338th Report ta the Folks Back Home from the (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, cyberCongressman from Western Carolina. This week they's three subjecks, n a definition ov a local word. Plus, a touch ov song n dance, which yer Congresscritter only does on occasional karaoke nights (much ta his later embarrassment). So I'll turn this over ta ma able assistant, J. Armor, Esq. Buncombe Rides Again, and AgainThree things happened last week which seemingly have zero connection with each other: the...