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Glenn--
As usual, your post is enjoyable and informative. However, I think you may have missed an important ancillary reason that the falsehoods about "the American people" are so often allowed to stand unchallenged. Put simply, there appears to be broad agreement amongst the mainstream pundit's circle that there is no overlap between "the American People" (or, "Real Americans") and people with liberal views or lifestyles ("the Left"). So if 60% of voters want an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, all that means is that either a) those voters are not Real Americans, or b) those voters have been hoodwinked by the Far Left. Taken in this light, Liasson's comments and similar remarks are even more offensive, but a contextual world where the left-wing position is necessarily never representative of the "American People's position" makes it so that, in the eye of the speaker, this kind of statement will always be true.
