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- From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
- Subject: Re: Ratings & Rush
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 16:59:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.140602.6563@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams) writes:
- >Yup, that's DAVE all right, but... i've never really thought of right-wing
- >conservatives as generally being comedyphiles.`
-
- Give me a break. You think everyone has to agree with you politically
- to have a sense of humor? Talk about ego-centricity...
-
- > ... Just look at how the Bush
- >administration reacted to comedy like Murphy Brown and Howard Stern, etc.
-
- Occassionally Democrats with no sense of humor get in power too. So what
- does that prove?
-
- >just too "far out" for most right-wing fundies. Also, the typical VERY
- >enthusiastic reaction among the studio audience to Dave's many (great)
- >bush/quayle jokes tend to reinforce that idea.
-
- A lot of Republicans winced when they checked off George Bush's name
- on the ballot. They probably also laughed at Dave's jokes. I did.
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