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Monte Davis
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Hardly new tactics
[Read the article: David Brooks and the deceitful tactics of the Beltway pundit]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's give rhetorical-historical credit where it's due. Surely the great virtue of the "silent majority" for Nixon, Agnew, Safire et al. was not such much its majority (to be tested only at intervals) but its silence (which permitted projection of White House attitudes full-time).
For that matter, the Brooksian distinction between the convictions of the chattering classes (aka my opponents) and those of Real Americans (presumably too busy doing Real American Stuff to bother with your whiny opinion polls) can probably be traced back to Whigs and Federalists, if not before.
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