David Carr comes home, eats food on stick

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Well, considering the knots that Gustav has tied the Republican convention into, what is the St. Paul bound journalist to do? There’s an abbreviated convention schedule. And an abbreviated schedule means there’s even less to cover than there should have been, which maybe wasn’t all that much to begin with.

So why not go to the Minnesota State Fair with once-Minnesotan, now-New York Timesman David Carr. They have corn on a stick, bacon on a stick, crop art, and an admittedly tendentious link to the show in the Xcel Center.

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Clint Hendler is the managing editor of Mother Jones, and a former deputy editor of CJR.