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McCain running mate in 2008.
N onetheless, it and the Public
Policy Polling survey confirm con­
servative analyst David Frum ’s
sharp assessm ent o f our current
era as “a time of political and m e­
dia d em agoguery u n p aralleled
since the 19th cen tu ry . M any o f
o u r m ost im p o rtan t public fig ­
ures have gained th eir in flu en ce
and pow er by in citin g and e x ­
p lo itin g the u g liest p assio n s -
by m anipulating fears and p reju ­
dices - by serving up falsehoods
as rep o rted tru th .”
heritage wants to take the country
back to the antebellum era, a time
when ninety percent of the nation’s
African Americans - including many
whose fathers were their mother’s
“owners” - were enslaved.
That makes sense, right? David
A. Graham, an associate editor at
The Atlantic skillfully shows that it
doesn’t.
True, Palin, whose ginned-up an­
ger has brought her a fresh burst of
media attention, might have been
Lee A. Daniels is Director of
motivated more by a desire to push
aside discussion of the movie “Game Communications fo r the NAACP
Change,” which examines her 2008 Legal Defense and Educational
crash-and-bum performance as John Fund.