>http://www.nbcolympics.com/ is doing a poll on who
>deserved the pair skating award (under "more coverage" >section to the
>right), and after 180000-odd votes everyone (96%) they >say feels the
>canadians should've won (which is not a defensible >position, but the
>response has certainly been all that you list above)...
You'd have thought that Americans would have got the message about the relative importance of popular votes and judges with an agenda by now ....
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:44:04 -0500
>From: "Chip Berlet"
>Subject: RE: Fascism anyone?
>Hi,
>This subject heading is just ridiculous.
>To recite the Pledge of Allegiance is fascism???
>It's jingoistic and nationalist and all that, but fascism?
>The term has been abused to the point of uselessness here >on this list,
but
>this plows new manure.
I dunno. I thought that this was one of the few times that "Fascism" has been used semi-correctly on this list. If you read the original post, you've got an authoritarian measure, explicitly appealing to a spirit of national renewal, with a strong dash of ethnic chauvinism thrown in. That's an awful lot of boxes ticked on Griffin's definition.
dd
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