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What Ballard Was Saying About Ronald Regan
In his commercials, regan used the smooth tele prompt or perfect tones of the t v auto salesman to project a political message that was absolutely the reverse of bland and reassuring. A complete discontinuity existed between regan's manner and body language on the one hand, and his scarily simplistic far right message on the other. And you can't tell the difference because you're so conditioned to the messages of hollywood and advertising. This is simply how politics is now. Politics takes place now, especially merican politics, british politics, political messages take place using the language of entertainment. When sky news has breaking news, it has a whishing sound, h like im watching forkin
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