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Presidential historian Edmund Morris curses, calls Americans 'lazy and obese'

Presidential biographer Edmund Morris delivered one of the more, well, colorful lines on this week's Sunday morning shows.

On CBS's "Face the Nation," host Bob Schieffer, anchoring an authors roundtable discussion with the likes of Bob Woodward and Arianna Huffington, kept engaging the panelists in discussion about how America’s Founding Fathers would have felt about today’s political climate.

“What would Teddy Roosevelt think of today’s politics, Edmund?”

“You keep asking these presentist questions,” said the Kenyan-born, British-accented historian. “As the immortal Marisa Tomei said in 'My Cousin Vinny,' ‘That’s a b------t question!'” Morris said, relishing the word as network censors bleeped him out....
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