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potent, I think. The television camera coming up
close, just showed his slipperiness, showed that he
is a wonderful outside critic of establishment
excesses, but that this is not someone you want to
trust in the White House. So again, I feel that
television, far from, as Postman says, causing the
death of politics, is the way that we will avoid
Hitler. Hitler could not have survived. That small,
absurd man with the moustache could not have
risen, I believe to national power in Germany with
the television camera following him around. He
would look too absurd. And certainly I think it’s one
of the reasons why the Klan, despite the Ku Klux
Klan continuing to arise in spots all around the