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Originally posted by mml
I'll give you Carville, I've met him a couple of times and while he is a real hoot, he can go a little too far. Franken is a satirist and I think too many conservatives have too little humor and miss that he is trying to get their goat. Hillary whether you like her or not, is not as liberal as she is painted and come on she was First Lady and is now a U.S. Senator so she gets to have the press. And Sharpton, come on you threw that in just get my goat. As far as the Hollywood crowd, they have every right to state their opinions, just like Charlton Heston, Arnold and Tom Selleck.
People like her have brought this country further to the right than it has ever been.
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I agree Carville can be quite entertaining. Franken is not just a satirist since it's obvious that he truly believes most of what he spouts as satire. Sorry, but in my book Hillary is very liberal (unless she has really changed her beliefs since college) as evidenced by her writings and speeches. I think she knows that many of those beliefs won't sell so she minimizes them (as all good politicians do). Threw Sharpton in just because he's a perennial candidate for everything.
The hollywood crowd certainly has every right to state their opinion just like Ann. And there's no comparison between the amount of press that the conservative hollywood crowd gets versus the liberal hollywood crowd (IMO, Heston can't really count since the press he gets is more associated with the NRA and is part of his "job" in that regard.)
I do disagree that we are further to the right than we've ever been. All the Clintonites point to GWB's election as proving that he is not the popular choice, yet in the same breath they claim the American public is shifting so far to the right. It can't be both. And, I think we (speaking for all of America here
) were MUCH farther right during the Reagan years than we are now.