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To: lentulusgracchus
[In article] "Again, when Bill Clinton won his victories without getting 50% of the popular vote, the media never called on Clinton to move to the right, in order to heal the country."

Au contraire, I distinctly remember a middlebrow opinion-magazine article in which a Clintonista argued with a straight face that, not only had Clinton achieved a mere mandate, but the Left as a whole had won history after the Republican Thermidor, and that it was now time for the Clinton Administration to move confidently and finally to make certain kinds of highly objectionable and divisive Rightist discourse punishable by law, and drive it out of the public forum permanently.

Of course, the author had Rush in mind.

I fail to see the connection between the quoted passage and your statement. Go back and re-read the sentence you quoted.

151 posted on 11/06/2004 9:33:42 AM PST by mrustow ("And when Moses saw the golden calf, he shouted out to the heavens, 'Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!'")
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To: mrustow
I fail to see the connection between the quoted passage and your statement.

The connection is that, far from calling on Clinton to move to the right, instead this particular magazine article called on Clinton to step on the right.

I was agreeing with the quoted statement, and providing an example of Left opinion expressing intolerance of views on the Right, and a desire to suppress them by repressive legislation.

153 posted on 11/06/2004 7:42:55 PM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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