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hilary clinton was the object of a sustained smear campaign in right media during the clinton period. the arguments were few, as i remember: she got blamed for the national health panel clinton set into motion--and a whole series of other absurd things.
the way the campaign worked, it really did not matter what if any substance there was behind anything: what mattered was that is was elaborated through repetition.
it looks like the clinton period was a kind of laboratory for the right media apparatus--working out the kinks in the delivery system, testing how far they could go in shaping the perceptions of the faithful by repeating just anything.
slander of hillary clinton was a letimotif for limbaugh for years.
that it seems to have stuck with anyone gives a pretty good indication of how important the dynamics of the "group hate" is to conservative ideology--straight out of orwell, into your lap across (at the time) the medium of am radio.
at this point, my post merges directly into that by shakran, above.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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