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Myth # 3: Powell cannot win as a third party or independent candidate. In 1992, Ross Perot captured 20 percent of the electorate. Perot had arguably more negatives than any other candidate in modern history, maligned both by the press, which was vicious in its coverage, and by his own tongue. He abandoned his supporters in July, angering the vast majority of them. Then, he reentered, did well at the first debate with his folksy humor and soared in the polls. But he undid himself again, declaring in a 60 Minutes interview that Republicans had plotted to disrupt his daughter...
TIME's Johanna McGeary says Israelis are still trying to gauge whether the mainstream right contributed to the killing: "The political debate here has become incredibly vicious and personal. The far right has been saying Rabin's a traitor, Rabin's a Nazi, and it's OK to kill such a person. This assassination grew out of a vitriolic atmosphere that the extreme right translated trading land for peace into betraying the Jews. There was a period a few months ago where the extreme right advocated killing Rabin and the mainstream right never disavowed...
...movie, as I tried to explain in my lecture...deals with the appetite of contemporary consumers," says Huggan, who also calls the movie a "vicious political satire...
Huggan's entire class may well be intended as just such a "vicious political satire...
...state but to Jewish history and the Jewish God--became a virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that it is difficult to construe the murder as anything but the direct outgrowth of an increasingly poisonous political culture...