He's a regular visitor to "Imus in the morning" and does screenplays among
other things and is as provocative as such commercial cynicism can be
allowed in mainstream media. Perhaps anti-Limbaugh Lite?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 4:58 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:9705] A Fair Deal?


> I found this cited elsewhere.  I don't know the book.
>
> Queenan, Joe. 1992. The Imperial Caddy: The Rise of Dan Quayle and the
> Decline and Fall of Practically Everything Else (New York: Hyperion).
> 132-33: "Leftist intellectuals with hare-brained Marxist ideas get to
> control Stanford, MIT, Yale, and the American Studies department at the
> University of Vermont.  In return, the right gets IBM, Honeywell, Disney
> World, and the New York Stock Exchange.  Leftist academics get to tryout
> their stupid ideas on impressionable youths between 17 and 21 who don't
> have any money or power.  The right gets to tryout its ideas on North
> America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and parts of Africa,
> most of which take Mastercard.  The left gets Harvard, Oberlin, Twyla
> Tharp's dance company, and Madison, Wisconsin.  The right gets NASDAQ,
> Boeing, General Motors, Apple, McDonnell Douglas, Washington D.C.,
> Citicorp, Texas, CocaCola, General Electric, Japan, and outer space."
>
>
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>
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
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> Chico, CA 95929
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> fax 530-898-5901
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