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To: YoungKentuckyConservative
O'Reilly was very convident last night on Crier ...... that he will lose. He's right. He even had Crier agreeing with him.

You see, by this twisted logic, losing means you were right and winning means you were right. How can he lose!
283 posted on 09/20/2002 10:17:53 AM PDT by John Jamieson
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To: John Jamieson
He can lose ratings. He will. But the ol' Father Coughlin style of talk show hosting finds it's brightest light in the far more dapper and secular catholicocite O'Reilly. O'Reilly -- the package -- works by finding an object of hatred, scorn and derision and stoking up the furnaces of hatred and anger against it.

I liked his taking on the Red Cross and Hollywacko, and some other issues -- but his method has only one way of operating, and that is hardly any to intellect, but to nearly all emotion. And the most firebrand, mob rousing emotion. That he sells into the "righteous wrath" market -- it's a dangerous one, and especially dangerous in that that's the only way he relies on to reach his audience. It's like training junkyard dogs, worse -- anger and wrath are so potent in any use that any repeated, time-after-time use takes one to that level -- vicious doghood. Alpha-dog, but dog still.

290 posted on 09/20/2002 10:37:21 AM PDT by bvw
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