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- From: mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell)
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- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: 4 Jan 93 15:38:00 GMT
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- In article <1i8r1lINNlke@pongo.West.Sun.COM>,
- johnch@smaug.West.Sun.COM (John Chandler [Contractor]) writes...
- >In article <30DEC199221400138@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu>
- >mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
- >>
- >>Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems that political conservatives seem
- >>more likely to take up new technology than liberals. Liberals seem to be
- >>neo-Luddites in this respect.
- >
- >I'd like to see his research on this. I know no one who still has [a
- >[rotary phone], and only one of my friends admits to believing
- >Ronald Reagan is a member of the animal kingdom.
-
- <arf!> I should have been clear that mine is a personal observation, not
- based on research or even fact. Only hints, suggestions, innuendo, rumors,
- and whispers in the dark. Oh, and Rush Limbaugh's 'opinion.'
-
- >> (That's one of the
- >>things Rush is good for, he makes liberals think about themselves
- >>(ourselves)).
- >
- >Your perspective on Rush *may* be widely held among liberals, but he
- >make *me* think about how valuable it is to be able to select another
- >station.
-
- I can't believe I'm *actually suggesting there's any good reason to listen
- to thEwIndBag!* but it doesn't hurt (all that much) to listen to the other
- side once in a while. Besides, I find him to be an excellent early warning
- system for the next batch of froth to come out of the mouths of the
- radical-christian-right.
-
- >I strongly suggest that at the earliest opportunity, you email your
- >representatives this observation. :-)
-
- Good Idea. What's the address again... BTW, in a previous life when I was
- a cable television activist, I tried to get Senator Al Gore's D.C. fax
- number and was told, in no uncertain terms, that it wasn't for public use.
- Harraumph. Next time I pay my taxes I just may deduct that portion of then
- that I believe go to buy him fax paper <arf!>
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