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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- June 12, 2009
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LETTER OF THE DAY: The new face of GOP strategy: treasonous and inflammatory?
Is it insanity or cunning to have Jon Voight bloviate that President Obama is "a soft-spoken Julius Caesar," as he did this week at a Republican fundraiser? After successfully co-opting Jack Bauer to rationalize torture, the RNC hauls out an actor from the same (Fox) program who portrayed a defense contractor intent on overthrowing the government.
These calculated theatrics -- to conflate our president with an historical figure who met a malevolent end -- go beyond coarse political discourse and cross into the margins of rhetorical treason. It may play well to a public they ...