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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  FRANK RICH: I'LL MISS THE RECALL CIRCUS Tue Oct 07 2003 17:59:55 ET "Forgive me for mourning the passing of the recall election in California," NY TIMES columnist Frank Rcih is planning to write in a coming essay. "Maybe it wasn't the greatest show on earth, but in its lasting impact it may prove one of the more transformative cultural events of our young century." Newsroom sources tell DRUDGE that Rich will lament: "Eastern snobs who airily condescended to the spectacle as merely another example of left-coast madness just didn't get it. As goes California, so goes the nation. "It's Disneyland, not Colonial Williamsburg, that prefigures our future, and the action-packed recall ride was nothing if not the apotheosis of the Magic Kingdom. It was fun, it was instructive, it was expensive, it was hawked relentlessly on television, it starred an Audio-Animatronic action figure. " "It even had product placement for its leading man's vehicle of choice, the Hummer. And it will set off a chain of unanticipated consequences whose full meaning will become apparent only with time." Developing... |
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