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- Subject: Re: Inauguration
- Message-ID: <21684@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 03:25:16 GMT
- References: <matt_wilkinson-180193123405@mac93.tpc.nwu.edu> <1993Jan20.051946.13961@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.051946.13961@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >
- >What I thought was interesting was the way one of the inaugural events
- >(I think the one on HBO) was advertised as the 'First Ever People's Inaguagural
- >Celebration" or something like that, as if the previous administration was
- >a dictatorship or something. Limbaugh mentioned this on Monday.
- >
- Doesn't freedom of speech suck? That damn HBO can tout it any way they want.
- It's just disgusting.
-
- Unfortunately, labeling things beyond the pale of accuracy is part of the media.Lberal media? Sure. Conservative media? Even more sure.
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- In fact, it's funny that Limbaugh would have mentioned this (which you dittoed
- above). Then again, it's not funny. It's natural that he would have recognized
- it -- as he is a practiced and smooth operator in this arena.
-
- Dan
-