Word: populist
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...Wire, Simon and a staff of top-shelf crime writers like Richard Price are free to make things up. But in a way, the show is a variation on old-fashioned populist reportage à la Studs Terkel. It elevates the lowlifes and mocks the highlifes. It's steeped in lived experience, with voices as distinctive and regional as a crab boil. Simon may be angry and intellectual--The Wire differs from most TV drama, he says, because it's based in Greek tragedy about fated individuals, not Shakespearean tragedy about heroic individuals--but his show doesn't play like...
...George H.W. Bush learned, you can't run for President pretending to be one thing and succeed in office as someone else (Bush ran as a viciously negative, antitax populist instead of the thoughtful, tax-raising moderate that he actually was). Romney reminds me a bit of Bush the Elder. He seems very intelligent. His candidacy had real potential. But I don't think Romney believes a word he says on any of the red-meat issues that he's been using to bludgeon his opponents. Which is why he says those things only on television, where he doesn...
...populist message is one that revolves around, and is squarely directed at, blue-collar Iowans. And while it would seem to be a risk to focus so exclusively on one group, the campaign says the message of economic inequity - a middle-class version of the poverty tour with which Edwards launched his campaign in December 2006 - resonates with all kinds of Americans. "One of the things that I've seen just in the last 12 to 14 hours is the energy and excitement as I move across Iowa," Edwards told reporters Wednesday in Mount Pleasant. "And the one thing that...
...Echoed his spokesman, Mark Kornblau: "It's not a populist, union message. It's a message that people across Iowa recognize as the truth as what's happening in this country." When asked why he doesn't bring up other issues, Kornblau added: "The style is, he takes questions at every one of these events and he knows the topics will be raised...
...Edwards may be worth an estimated $100 million, but his humble roots often convince people that he knows what needs to be done to fix class inequalities. The message certainly resonated with Pat Salvo, who owns his own appliance repair business in Council Bluffs. The self-proclaimed populist waited for more than an hour in subzero temperatures to greet Edwards on his midnight stop in Salvo's home town. "He represents the American dream," said Salvo, 50. "And, at the same time, he's an ordinary guy standing up for poor people. He's going after corporate America. Having grown...