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As I remember it, in 1987 Podhoretz wrote an article in National Review that claimed to see signs of a conservative cultural revival in Boy George's music. It's been hard for me to take him seriously ever since.

I don't recall the Boy George article, nor am I a fan of American Idol. All I know about it is from reading articles like this one.

I do think that in a culture where most of our young people get their news from Comedy Central and cannot name more than two Presidents, that the fact that millions of young people who are eligible to vote in a political election, get to practice on Idol. Just by reading the posted responses, we see people weighing their options, their pick has already lost but they are still interested in voting for the second choice, and most importantly, they are PAYING ATTENTION.

One of the most disturbing and telling stories from the last election was Puffy Daddy Diddy whatever. Here we had a man who flew across the country, in the "Vote or Die" campaign for Kerry. Puffy was the leader of this highly publicized stunt. He himself is not registered to vote, so he probably didn't. Puffy has my vote as the ultimate Democratic Party member, I wish there were a million of them.

As I remember it, in 1987 Podhoretz wrote an article in National Review that claimed to see signs of a conservative cultural revival in Boy George's music. It's been hard for me to take him seriously ever since.

OMG, that's too funny!!!! Does he also see Mary Magdalene in coffee grounds?

It's been hard for me to take him seriously ever since.
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He is doing a book tour of talk shows, and inserts "you know" about 3 times in each sentence he utters. He may be a writer, but he is definitely not a public speaker.

I can't take him at all. It seems to me that the NRO crowd have gelled into some kind of "how can we show our superiority to Bush today" playground clique.