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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Not a Boomer)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism
- Subject: Re: Rush Myth #93{
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.222057.6800@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:20:57 EST
- References: <21710@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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- Organization: ACME Products
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- In article <21710@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, ez012344@chip.ucdavis.edu writes:
- > Rush Myth #930: His Audience is Individualistic, Attractive and Diverse
- >
- > As I watched Limbaugh's television audience blow two "applause 'n'
- > smile" cues I got a good laugh at the demographics as the camera panned across
- > the audience, who were trying to sneak looks at the monitors to see if they
- > could see themselves (in the fashion of drunk football fans at large arenas and
- > religious fundamentalists at large churches).
- > Male. White-bread.
- > Goofy white-bread.
- > Goofy glasses, goofy hair-cuts.
- > Dateless men.
- > Womenless men.
- > Women who look like goofy white-bread men.
-
- What a very un-PC thing to say!
- :)
-
- Funny, but all of the audiences I've seen have included people from all
- walks of life.
- And the last people I saw craning to see the monitor for their mug
- shots were attending...the inaugural ball(s). Where, btw, the clientel
- definately was lily-white, dateless, and not-so-desperate (after 12 years).
- Unless, of course, you were at the designated "black" function.
-
- Brett
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