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Re: John Leo's opinion of "The West Wing"
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Fri, 4 Oct 2002 15:57:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:
> Yes, seems just like yesterday when Bubba was in the White House
> and there may have been, if I recall, some small whiff of a sexual scandal,
> and that folks, after the story went on and on and on, were saying how sick
> and tired about the whole issue, but when Monica appeared on any show, or
> even any stories about Monica, et al, were featured on any show, the ratings
> went up dramatically.
> So apparently it seems that what people say in a poll and what they actually
> do are completely contradictory.
The funk, as I recall, was that we were hearing about the scandal to the
exclusion of all else, as though it, more than anything else, actually
mattered to the state of the union. Granted, Clinton is no moral giant, but
neither is Gingrich, and in any case I don't take my moral cues from my
political leaders.
It kills me that, to this day, right-wing demagogues still fume about
Clinton as if he were currently in office and personally hosing every single
citizen in the US, and all the while W's and Cheney's possible connections
to a shady, multi-billion dollar business venture have been 100% swept aside
by the allegedly urgent Saddamania. That's the liberal media for
you--always crucifying the Right and deifying the Left!
Dave!
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| (...) There was once, well, a West Wing episode ;) , in which a pollster mentioned a little tale about polls-- " Polls tell us that people are sick and tired of hearing about sexual scandals of politicians, and yet the ratings of any show that (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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