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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (746543)	7/29/2006 12:34:32 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

O'Reilly represents the populist sentiment that is always bubbling below the surface of American politics. It's been out of favor for several years now, because Ross Perot made it such a JOKE-while accomplishing nothing but putting the corrupt Bill Clinton in the White House with two straight minority popular votes. (Aside: I note that the fraudulent "pollsters" who pump the idea that Bush is "unpopular" always had Clinton at "60%", even though he could never get most of America to support him. It's far too NICE to explain them by saying they have a CALL list.) But populist leaders who make fools of themselves are almost ubiquitous in that movement. It is a movement of ignorant revolt against a political system that is too subtle and complex for the followers of populism to comprehend. O'Reilly is not the first one to make a career of preying on that mass ignorance, and he certainly won't be the last...