Well, in the Spanish mass-media they also spread some FUD (ie, "a party from the computer crackers", "a party for the illegal downloads", etc).<br><br>We (politely) wrote to the Spanish public television (RTVE, <a href="http://www.rtve.es">http://www.rtve.es</a>), and we got a nice response excusing themselves.<br>
<br>So just try to show them their mistake :-)<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Reinier Bakels <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.bakels@planet.nl">r.bakels@planet.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">My (Dutch) newspaper
tonight gives an overview of the results of the European elections in all the
member states. The Swedish PP is geven the label "populist". Is that correct? If
not, PP NL may write a letter to the newspaper (which is another
opportunity to advertise ourselves!)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">The Wikipedia entry <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism</a> tells
me that populism (usually) is a pejorative term which is not appreciated by
the politicians who are designated as "populist". And it explains that there are
many definitions of populism. If the definition is: reponding to a specific
desire of people (instead of following an abstract philosophy like "socialism"
or "liberalism"), I don't think one can blame populists. But in my perception, a
true populist manipulates voters by dishonest, demagogic propaganda, creating an
artificial ennemy for its own benefit. That definition does not apply to PP, I
guess?????????</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">Does anyone have a better
reason to argue that PP is *not* a populist party? (assuming that it is an
undesirable negative designation)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS">reinier</font> </div>
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