"Beck and Palin are the inevitable outcome of that devolution. They are what we deserve. They are, in fact, what we've created."
Right. Would Fr. Coughlin have got where he did without the Internet deluge? Or William Jennings Bryan or William Duane? What half-ass posturing. Demagoguery does not and never has depended on the existence of a technology, though various technologies have given and advantage to one or another style of demagoguery.
Newsweek should know better than to publish this--or perhaps print has rotted their wits.
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"Beck and Palin are the inevitable outcome of that devolution. They are what we deserve. They are, in fact, what we've created."
Right. Would Fr. Coughlin have got where he did without the Internet deluge? Or William Jennings Bryan or William Duane? What half-ass posturing. Demagoguery does not and never has depended on the existence of a technology, though various technologies have given and advantage to one or another style of demagoguery.
Newsweek should know better than to publish this--or perhaps print has rotted their wits.