Word: listened
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Most of us, consular virgins imagine that, no matter how our people are mistreated and ignored at home, our country is our protector and Paladin abroad. In Washington, cold-hearted lobbyists trade handshakes with spurious politicians and inhuman CIA agents in Gucci sunglasses listen coldly to our wire-tapped weekend plans. But abroad, by god, our government is there for us! It will fight for our life and liberty, smile a familiar smile in a foreign crowd, and be there with a hug and a cup of tea when it all goes wrong...
...officials and bureaucrats and even the media are responsible for the greatness of the country. I think it's individual Americans laboring in anonymity, not seeking fame, just trying to get by, play by the rules, work hard, ordinary people doing extraordinary things. And those are the people who listen to talk radio. And the media think that they're all hayseeds and hicks without minds of their own. When in fact they are totally independent thinkers. And most of my audience is there not because I have Pied Pipered them to where they believe. They already believed what they...
...assumption is that people who listen to talk radio are idiots or mindless robots or victims of slick marketing and packaging. So there's sort of a condescending view of the audience of talk radio; people are sometimes held in contempt by some people. It's just totally wrong. It's 180 degrees out of place...
...dirt comes in the form of a 1968 debate with homosexual essayist Gore Vidal (this was back when people other than Chris Matthews were permitted to speak on American television). Told to ‘shut up” and otherwise antagonized, Mr. Buckley lashes out: “Listen, you queer. Stop calling me a crypto-Nazi or I’ll sock you in the god-damn face, and you will stay plastered.” Quaint postwar vernacular aside, the moment, somehow benign on the page, seems pretty ugly on video, in the light of day. From...
...listen, I read, I hear everything that's said. After the municipal elections I will take, with sang-froid, the necessary decisions," Le Figaro and other media reported Sarkozy warning government ministers. That was clearly Sarkozy's warning that all carping was to stop, widely interpreted as an implicit threat to ministers who'd already crossed the line that they'd be removed once the municipal elections are over...