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DEMAGOGUE: An orator who appeals to popular desires or prejudices to further personal interests. (Oxford English Dictionary).
Example: Adolph Hitler.
Here are some snippets from Ann Coulter’s latest book, “Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America:”
“Democrats will champion any group of hooligans in order to attain power…(they) transition so seamlessly from defending Bull Connor racists to defending Black Panthers, hippies, yippies, Weathermen, feminists, Bush-derangement-syndrome liberals, Moveon.org, and every other indignant, angry mob.”
“Although it is accepted wisdom that the Allies were too harsh on Germany after World War I, leading to World War II, in fact, the truth is the opposite. We didn’t crush Germany sufficiently the first time.”
This girl is good.
Most Tea Party-ers can manage only to spit and scowl and produce sentence-fragment beer-drenched ideas. But Ann? She can take those dribbles of rage and shape them into a voice. No, her ruminations aren’t based in much fact or real history. Hers are thoughts drenched in the slobber of an angry mob. Myths, molded into truths.
Thing is: the more you say something, and the harder you say it, what you say becomes, in all our minds, fact. That’s a pretty neat trick.
Maybe Obama’s folk should try it.
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