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From mid to late 2000s, the position of 'conservative' editorialist for the ''Dallas Morning News'' was a major rung in the career ladder climb of talking head, political pundit and self-appointed 'culture warrior' Raymond Oliver Dreher Jr. (aka 'Rod'), ardent player of the parlor game of "creeping socialism" (already several or more decades old when 'Rod' began playing) that was newly popularized in the early '60s. | From mid to late 2000s, the position of 'conservative' editorialist for the ''Dallas Morning News'' was a major rung in the career ladder climb of talking head, political pundit and self-appointed 'culture warrior' [[Raymond Oliver Dreher Jr.]] (aka 'Rod'), ardent player of the parlor game of "creeping socialism" (already several or more decades old when 'Rod' began playing) that was newly popularized in the early '60s. | ||
Dreher is the antithesis of the scholarly informed and well reasoned Dr. Alfred E. Burke and emblematic of the condition of USA today, where someone with nothing more than an undergraduate degree in journalism, an egghead, years of accumulated reading high mileage, an above average vocabulary, and the right connections can become a political "influencer" who's put on a pedastal as if he actually knows something about that which he mouths. | Dreher is the antithesis of the scholarly informed and well reasoned Dr. Alfred E. Burke and emblematic of the condition of USA today, where someone with nothing more than an undergraduate degree in journalism, an egghead, years of accumulated reading high mileage, an above average vocabulary, and the right connections can become a political "influencer" who's put on a pedastal as if he actually knows something about that which he mouths. | ||