From: train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com (Herbert Rutledge)
Subject: Re: If Marilyn has only one life to live...
Organization: Paramax Systems Corporation, Paoli PA
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:01:44 GMT

In article <92317.011245KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu>, KEL111@psuvm.psu.edu
(Kurt Ludwick) demonstrates that we are wrong to assume that it is only the
North Koreans who are skilled at brainwashing:

|> In article <1992Nov9.154503.26592@gvl.unisys.com>, train@gvls2.gvl.unisys.com
|> (Herbert Rutledge) says:
|> 
|> >  You don't need to be Sigmund Freud to discover her motivation.  Did
|> >  you pay attention to her speech at the Republican convention in Houston?
|> >  The one where she attacked the very existence of women who managed to
|> >  juggle a career and family?  Look at her targets:  Hillary Clinton, Tipper
|> 
|> Did -you- pay attention?  She said no such thing!  I have no idea how you could
|> possibly twist what she said into an 'attack' on working mothers....!
|> 
|> ------------
|> Kurt Ludwick
|> ------------

  Well, I paid as much attention as anyone laughing hysterically  possibly   
  could.  Marilyn veritably foamed at the mouth as she fulminated against the
  '60s.  It was definitely the funniest speech of the entire convention. 
  Sample:  "Not all of us dodged the draft."  Remember, this is from Marilyn
  "I Married a Draft Dodger" Quayle!

  Her rantings to the effect that there were some women who did not want
  to deny their essential nature as women was one of a piece with the
  orchestrated attacks on Hillary Clinton prior to the convention that
  culminated on the opening night.  Marilyn didn't need to denounce Hillary 
  Clinton by name.  Pat Buchanan had alread done the dirty work for her.  
  All Marilyn had to do was compare and contrast.  Compare Hillary, the
  cold-blooded lawyer who wanted children to sue their parents to Marilyn,
  the warm-hearted lawyer who gave up her career to raise her family.  As if
  every woman in the country had that luxury.  As I listened, I was reminded
  of a Marilyn QuayleQuote (tm):  "I would never have married Dan Quayle if
  I had not thought he was my intellectual equal."  How true, how true. 

  I'll tell you how I knew that "Family Values" night had failed.  I listened
  to Marilyn on the radio.  When it came time for Barbara, I rushed over to
  the neighborhood bar to be able to see it on television.  Once there, I
  ordered a beer and just sat back.  They had the TV on at full volume, but
  it didn't matter.  The bar was filled with men and women shouting at the
  top of their lungs (in order to be heard over the TV) about what an asshole
  Ronald Reagan had been.  Nobody was paying even the slightest attention to
  Barbara Bush!  And then, when she introduced her family, the bartender
  turned to the television, and seeing that Barbara was no longer on, switched
  the channel to professional wrestling.  It was at that moment that I realized
  that the Bush/Quayle ticket was doomed.


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