From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "Martha Bridegam"  wrote in message   
   news:EznMf.37768$F_3.32741@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net...   
   > ROBBIE wrote:   
   > > "Henry"  wrote in message   
   > > news:1hbbfb3.1i9dn038chtxfN%henry999@eircom.net...   
   > >> Martha Bridegam  wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >>> ...what yr basic American thinks   
   > >>> is radical leftism...   
   > >> That's a dissertation right there. Even better might be simply   
   > >>   
   > >>> ...what yr basic American thinks   
   > >> (...or _doesn't_, as the case more often seems to be.)   
   > >>   
   > >> It's easy to forget that people who read   
   > >> socio-economic-politico-cultural usenet groups, blogs and websites --   
   > >> i.e., people like us -- are still a comparatively small percentage of   
   > >> the general population.   
   > >>   
   > >> How many scores of millions of people has Rush Limbaugh convinced that   
   > >> Bill & Hillary Clinton are in the same league as Lenin and Trotsky?   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > In answer to Henry and Martha: imagine a nice little rumba band. I'm   
   > > standing at the front dressed in a tuxedo with my hair greased down. I   
   sing   
   > > sonorously with a group of singers behind me:   
   > >   
   > > 'de haut en bas, de haut en bas, de haut en bas...'   
   > >   
   > > Middle -class wankers will be the death of both our countries.   
   > >   
   > > ROBBIE   
   > >   
   > >   
   >   
   > You may be right, but in that case please acknowledge that   
   > Rush Limbaugh is himself a middle-class (in fact a rich)   
   > sophisticate cynically exploiting listeners who tend to be   
   > poorer and more trusting than himself.   
      
   I've never heard the man but I can believe what you're saying. Unfortunately   
   that's the media all over. The BBC does the same damn thing but liberals   
   don't moan because they believe in the direction the propaganda is going in.   
   You know?   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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