----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A15644-2004Dec21?language=printe r>
Washington Post - December 21, 2004
GOP Corporate Donors Cash In on Smut By Terry M. Neal
[snip] In this world of irony, corporate leaders at companies as diverse as News Corp., Marriott International and Time Warner can profit by selling red state consumers the very material that red state culture is supposed to despise. Those elites then funnel the proceeds to the GOP, which in turn has used the money to successfully convince red state voters that the other political party is solely responsible for the decline of the civilization.
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What irony? The fear of thinking in terms of tragedy -not fatalism- is palpable in the USA.