Re: "liberal media"

From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 10:55:26 MDT

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    In a message dated 5/16/2003 10:37:16 AM Central Standard Time,
    mwiik@messagenet.com writes: While I'm sure (assuming you vote republican)
    that they appreciate your vote and your canvassing work, there's suggestions
    they couldn't care less about your 'influence' on their 'policy'. Consider:

    Mike,
           How could you ever be wrong? Let me count the ways. I have a Masters
    Degree from the University of Chicago but I have never heard of Leo Strauss.
           I am not a conservative, I am a radical. I don't want to stand still
    or move backwards, my ambition is to move our country ahead.
           I love listening to Rush Limbaugh. He was raised only thirty or forty
    miles from where I was. I don't listen to him because I agree with him, I
    don't agree, but because he is a better speaker than his opposition on the
    dial. Rush is a true conservative although a nice guy personally, I am a
    radical, do you understand now?
           Now don't you know that a guy (me) that reads Al Jazeera also reads
    plenty of the right wing stuff also. Neo Conservative is a term they never
    use. The people you discuss are people they don't even know. Neo
    Conservative seems to be a straw man erected by various left wing groups for
    their own propaganda purposes -- nothing more. The right wing never heard of
    it except from the babbling left.
           You also wrote, "He [Leo Strauss] also argued that Platonic truth is
    too hard for people to bear, and that the classical appeal to "virtue" as the
    object of human endeavor is unattainable. Hence it has been necessary to tell
    lies to people about the nature of political reality. ***An elite recognizes
    the truth, however, and keeps it to itself. This gives it insight, and
    implicitly power that others do not possess. This obviously is an important
    element in Strauss's appeal to America's neoconservatives.***"
           That is straight out of the Marx-Lenin playbook. I guess after 150
    years most people will have forgotten it and you can pass it off as something
    new.
    Ron h.



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