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On Sunday, Massachusetts incumbent Scott Brown delivered the commencement address at Lasell College. Commencement speeches by politicians are rarely newsworthy, but this speech was, because it exposed Brown’s penchant for political double-speak.

Instead of using the platform to inspire young people to achieve great things, as most commencement speakers do, Brown used it to launch an ad hominem attack on Democrats in the Massachusetts state House and to highlight the corruption trial of a former elected official. Surely, partisan attacks are strange subject matter for a commencement, but even stranger when you consider Brown’s distaste for what he defines as “partisan attacks.”

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