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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1109)	12/31/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2390

First, Michelle, Ralph Reed is not with the Christian Coalition. Hasn't been for quite some time. He's some kind of consultant, like a cleaned-up Mandy Grunwald or a rational Jim Carville. Second, you are wrong about unions and dems. The dem party machine controlled the illegal Teamster's election of Carey just last year. Clinton himself signed over $30 million to them to run the election. Look, each party has its constituencies. I don't happen to belong to any of those groups, myself. What I was really hoping for was an invitation to Renaissance Weekend.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (1109)	12/31/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 2390

A case where you have to look behind the facts. Who books these talking heads? The vast majority of journalists and TV "heads" vote Democratic. (Many studies show this.) If you were a Democrat at heart, even if you pretended to be objective, wouldn't you book look-bad people for the Republicans and look-good people for the Democrats? Suppose I had a TV show and booked Jimmy Hoffa and Charlie Tring (sp) and the ilk as reps for the Democrat point of view. Would that change your mind? (nah, nothing can do that!) BTW, when you say the union bosses don't have hold of the Democratic party, you may be right to some extent about the "traditional" unions -- Teamsters, Steelworkers, UMW -- but only because the role has been taken over by the public workers and the teachers unions. I forget what percentage of reps to the last Democratic convention were members of the NEA, but it was huge -- far and away the largest voting block in the convention. How do you think we got a Federal Department of Education when education was supposed to be a local issue? (Because locals tend to vote more Republican for local candidates than for national candidates, that's why! And why, you ask, is that? Could it be because the national media are populated mainly by Democratic voters?) Back to my first point -- you need to study the origin of "facts" which are based on human behavior (i.e. the choice of "spokesmen" for various points of view when they are chosen by the interviewer and not by the person or party represented.) It does require some thinking, some analysis, not knee-jerk responding, but I know you're capable of that when you want to.