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"...is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy -- then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece."
Hunter Thompson
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
Warner Books, New York, 1973, pg. 127