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To: wardaddy

“But this cult of personality thing here is same old same old as someone said.”

“Cult of Personality”?
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There you go again. Let me see if I can be crystal clear, since I imagine you heard her supporters referred to as a cult of personality by...Keith Olberman, Chris Mathews, David Frum, David Brooks or some other leftist or crypto-leftist. You did not hear that canard from Rush, Levin or any conservative, I daresay. It sounded good so you decided to repeat it without attribution.

IT DOES NOT AMOUNT TO A “CULT OF PERSONALITY” TO SUPPORT PALIN SIMPLY BECAUSE SHE IS THE ONLY GOP CANDIDATE WITH A.....PERSONALITY. I put that in caps in hopes that you would read it and understand what it means. A cult of personality generally arises when a compliant media creates an idealized or heroic public image of a leader, usually a dictator who CONTROLS the mass media, like Obama, Chavez, Stalin, Hitler or Mao.

In case you haven’t noticed, the mass media has done everything it can not to promote Palin but to DESTROY her. Her “cult of personality”, as you mis-characterize it, is her appeal both as a candidate and as a person which exists independent from, and indeed in spite of, the mass media (which creates genuine cults of personality such as Obama’s).

Word to the wise: Understand terms like cult of personality before you loosely throw them around and embarrass yourself.


122 posted on 05/15/2010 3:42:36 PM PDT by Brices Crossroads
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To: Brices Crossroads

Poor Sarah, she is a victim.


132 posted on 05/15/2010 4:00:54 PM PDT by dforest
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To: Brices Crossroads

Don’t lecture me on Sarah Palin.

It’s akin to lecturing the Pope on Catholics.

I will continue to critique her as I see fit whether you or any other freeper likes it or not.

You people are ridiculous just like the Bushbots were.


201 posted on 05/15/2010 6:50:38 PM PDT by wardaddy (never been particularly pious but I stand with Franklin Graham...bigtime...you betcha...ya'll)
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