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To: DMaA who wrote (154159)	1/8/2006 6:26:30 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

He's part of a particularly rich tradition in American culture. Mark Twain, Will Rogers etc. all heaped ridicule on politicans. It's healthy. I agree with you that it's healthy when sharp, sophisticated constructive people do it. But when things that sharp people are copied and adopted by the great unwashed, they lose a lot. They become dull and loud and trashy. I haven't faulted Limbaugh for doing it. What I'm complaining about is how popularization produced these ugly copies that have crowded out the discourse that went on before. Look at the women walking around with their bellies hanging out over their pants and tell me it's a good thing that was once the province of the buff and beautiful was adopted by those not buff and beautiful.