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RJjr
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Gopher
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| You gentlemen have missed my point entirely. |
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mises
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| Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| You gentlemen have missed my point entirely. |
Well, yeah. Or I ignored it and editorialized (confirming your point), and the other dude ran with it. |
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huffdaddy
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| Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| Gopher wrote: |
| So W. Bush entered office determined to make the place "respectable" again. He also wanted, as do many Republicans, to imitate R. Reagan, who wore full business suits, too -- which is probably where all of this started, as, I suspect, W. Clinton was in turn reacting against this when he went lax after 1992... |
Nixon was famous for never being out of his suit - even at the beach. He also expected everyone, even his closest confidantes, to call him Mr. President. Off hand, I'm guessing that the business suit look was de rigueur for every President before Kennedy. |
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ManintheMiddle
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Rather, "highly committed social activists with airtime." |
I'm afraid you're closer to the mark. The problem is also one of programming, i.e. blurring the lines between news commentators and news reporters. O'Reilly and Hannity are clearly presented as the former. But on CNN, people like Cooper serve in both capacities. The same holds on MSNBC.
Of course, guys like Dan Rather of CBS crossed over that line long ago by joining 60 Minutes when he was still anchoring the evening news. |
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