----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Seay" <entheogens at yahoo.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Dean's Self-Demolition
> --- Michael Dawson -PSU <mdawson at pdx.edu> wrote:
> > Yes, even the title of this thread -- Dean's
> > _Self_-Demolition -- is a
> > downer, as, to my eye, it shows the power of media
> > spin even in our little
> > ghetto.
>
> Right. I am a "virgin" at this election stuff, but
> the other night when Dean came on to address his
> supporters after the defeat, my reaction was, "Oh,
> he's really trying to build their morale after this
> defeat." I found it positive. Only after the
> "talking heads" came on with their commentary did I
> learn that that Dean had
> committed a grave poltical mistake. I wonder if most
> TV viewers were "groomed" (conditioned) enough to
> realize it was an error on Dean's part, or were most
> people's initial reaction like mine.
I didn't see it. My dad, who participated in the caucuses, and who had switched to Dean from Kerry many months ago (owing to Kerry's wimpiness) thought Dean seemed crazy.
>
> -Thomas
>
> =====
> <<You and me baby ain't nothin' but mammals
> So let's do it like they do it on the Discovery Channel>>
>
> Bloodhound Gang, "The Bad Touch"
>
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