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...election, when the Bush campaign positioned itself against ivory-tower liberal élites. Colbert's persona has a conservative bent: in his words, he's a reflexive "Blame America last-er" and has a dog named Gipper. But Colbert is also spoofing the general trend in news to pander to emotion, to value graphics over thinking, gut over brain. "That, I think, is the nutmeat of the show," he tells me. "Enough mind. We tried mind for a long time, and what has it gotten us? You know, except for vaccinations." Credit Colbert's gut or his head...
...Rohrabacher of California opened the discussion, Parsons recalls, by declaring, "You're the channel that hates freedom and loves terrorism." Another conservative whom Parsons visited was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Elizabeth Cheney, daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. According to Parsons, she expressed concern that his channel would pander to anti-American sentiments. "She was skeptical in the beginning, but at the end she was friendly," he says. "She seemed prepared to judge us on our merits...
SARGENT: We found that 67% of our customers accounted for 90% of profits. Rather than continue to pander to everybody, we decided to focus on the 67% primarily small-business or home-office power users. Small-business customers don't want to have to wade through the pens with feathers and the Britney Spears backpacks...
...talks a good game about his willingness to fight the GOP on matters of principle when necessary. The Democrats’ prospects over the next four years will largely depend on whether Reid is serious about defending progressive Democratic principles, or whether he will give into the temptation to pander to hard-line social conservatives. The latter is a losing proposition: fashionable pundit-babble about “moral values” aside, over the past few decades, Americans have been abandoning social conservatism like rats off a sinking ship. Rather than wanting to legislate their moral values for others...
...Texas Board of Education have far-reaching consequences for the rest of the nation. Texas buys almost ten percent of America’s textbooks, and its market power allows it to influence which textbooks are sold nationally. When overzealous board members in Texas force textbook publishers to pander to the ideology of the right, students in dozens of states are worse...