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Old July 19th 17, 09:31 PM posted to rec.arts.mystery,rec.arts.poems,rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.tv.x-factor,rec.autos.misc
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Default Don't Fire That Loser Colbert - Fire His Knuckle-draggingChicken-gut-eating Crowd

In article >,
Rebos > wrote:
>The problem is that this silent majority is largely irrelevant
>to the prevailing discourse. Our political and cultural agenda
>is typically dictated by those who care the most, and right now
>those who care the most also tend to hate their opponents on the
>other side with a fiery, reflexive passion. Colbert’s crowd may
>be smaller than, say, the less-political Jimmy Fallon’s, but it
>is much, much more likely to set the terms of the American
>discussion.


Just like Yeats said a hundred years ago.

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