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To: JohnM who wrote (6288)8/29/2003 7:26:27 PM
From: LindyBill   of 793868
 
Jeff Jarvis makes a couple of good comments on Podhoretz's column in the New York Post.

The anti-Fox craze also reveals (pardon my standard screed here) an essential snobbiness to the left these days. The left used to be the people's cause, the Democratic party the people's party. But with the age of disapproving, PC snips, the left became a culture of snobs. Labor ties aside, they look down upon the mall masses. And that's why they don't understand the popularity of Fox and its balls-out opinions. That's why theirs has become a smaller movement.
Podhoretz is right, though, to sense a spark of growth in energy if not numbers in the left thanks to George Bush:

The left has become the negative side. That used to be the right's job: to resist change, to complain. (Now don't give me hell in my comments and email, you conservative gabsters out there. I know I'm oversimplifying. Let me make my point. And note that I'm agreeing with a conservative columnist here, ferchrissake. Step away from that keyboard!). Now the left is complaining about everything that's wrong and about its enemies, Fox and Bush. That won't get them very far, in elections or in governance.
So Podhoretz suggests that they need to come up with a more positive agenda and he's right; it's the best advice the left can get from a sworn enemy.
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