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National Review's own Richard Brookhiser has described Mr. Keyes as America's answer to Mussolini. I've heard him speak a couple of times and consider the comparison apt. The guy's so shrill and off-putting I can't imagine him surviving long on TV, unless he learns to tone it down a bit.
7 posted on 01/07/2002 11:00:56 AM PST by ArcLight
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National Review's own Richard Brookhiser has described Mr. Keyes as America's answer to Mussolini.

Brookhiser can't stand the fact that Keyes is his intellectual better. Comparing Keyes to Mussolini is like comparing Ashcroft to Hitler.

18 posted on 01/07/2002 11:06:15 AM PST by AppyPappy
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Absolutely right. Keyes is OK in small doses, but although I agree w/ him on many things he is annoying as all hell.

I want to count the number of times he tells his guests to "Let Me Finish!". I wish him luck, but I think he's being set up by MSNBC, but one must give Fox News the credit, b/c without them the liberal media would not be trying to get conservative shows to boost ratings.

20 posted on 01/07/2002 11:07:15 AM PST by frmrda
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To: ArcLight
"The guy's so shrill and off-putting I can't imagine him surviving long on TV, unless he learns to tone it down a bit."

While I'm a reformed Keyester who doesn't hang wide-eyed on the guy's every word as if it came down directly from heaven, he' actually no more annoying in his speech and mannerisms than Chris Matthews. I wish the show well. It looks like, in contrast to CNN, MSNBC knows how to take a hint from the market. Like Buchanan, Keyes is a media personality - not a politician. This is a good move.

30 posted on 01/07/2002 11:09:36 AM PST by Harrison Bergeron
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National Review's own Richard Brookhiser has described Mr. Keyes as America's answer to Mussolini.

Ah, the voice of envy.

51 posted on 01/07/2002 11:17:47 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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National Review's own Richard Brookhiser has described Mr. Keyes as America's answer to Mussolini.

National Review being the arbiter of loving conservatism, it would never ever be so incompassionate as to compare its political competition with fascist dictators. Never. Ever.

Well, okay, only whenever the Manhattan cocktail party set decides to trash yet another conservative personality popular in "flyover country." Especially if he dares to disturb the comfortable designs of the GOP party leadership.

Everybody to the center! Center Center Center! Who cares that the Left has shifted the center? To the center! To the center!

153 posted on 01/07/2002 12:29:41 PM PST by Dumb_Ox
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The guy's so shrill and off-putting I can't imagine him surviving long on TV, unless he learns to tone it down a bit.

Keyes will use his show to bash Republicans, and promote HIMSELF and the Democratic leadership in congress.

Keyes will attack the Republicans far more than Whoraldo ever did. NBC hired Keyes to help defeat Bush in 2004. Keyes will do his best.


177 posted on 01/07/2002 1:48:52 PM PST by Common Tator
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Its okay to be shrill if you are a left-wing wack job, eh? Bill Press and Al Hunt and Greta Van Sustern all have done their share of attempting to yell-down conservatives. And they continue to haunt the news perpetually from their perches at CNN and the Wall Street Journal.

Alan Keyes clearly has more intellectual and philosophical grounding than they can hope to compete with, or the average drooling slob who thinks they know politics...and then votes for Ross Perot. And he successfully dominate their brazen efforts to shout them down. This is probably the greatest reason the Left fears him...he beats them at their own favorite tactic.

Alan Keyes only real faults (as such)are (1) that he never sufficiently practiced Ronald Reagan's 11th Commandment (thou shall criticize no other Republicans); and (2) that he is not, as was Ronald Reagan, focussed on the optimistic vision of hope for a better future, but dwells overmuch on the grim condition of the present state of moral, ethical, Constitutional, legal and national security neglect.

That being said, I sure do look forward to seeing him again.

335 posted on 01/07/2002 7:40:02 PM PST by Paul Ross
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. The guy's so shrill and off-putting I can't imagine him surviving long on TV, unless he learns to tone it down a bit.

He can't do that. "Shrill and off-putting" is the essensce of his personality.

390 posted on 01/07/2002 10:11:43 PM PST by sneakypete
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To: ArcLight
National Review's own Richard Brookhiser has described Mr. Keyes as America's answer to Mussolini. I've heard him speak a couple of times and consider the comparison apt. The guy's so shrill and off-putting I can't imagine him surviving long on TV, unless he learns to tone it down a bit.

You and Brookhiser apparently have "heard" Dr Keyes, but you never actually listened to what he is saying. Have a listen, you'll probably find you agree with him more than you disagree.

BTTT!!!

438 posted on 01/08/2002 8:25:45 AM PST by hattend
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