# kennedy u moron

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 23, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-u-moron/163502 "2003-03-23T04:36:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![cyberer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@cyberer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cyberer)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-u-moron/163502/1 "2003-03-23T04:36:28Z")

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he admitted that he made up the story… i agree… but that has nothing to do with the populist allegory! it is a fictional story which tried to further prove the point of the populists you idiot.

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**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-u-moron/163502/2 "2003-03-23T05:24:52Z")

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1. No name calling. A moderator will be along shortly.

2. I think you hit “new thread” instead of “post reply”. Post reply puts the comment in the existing thread. New thread starts a new thread.

3. I think you meant to post in this thread: [Concerning The Wizard of OZ](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=171406)

4. True it is a work of fiction. Duh! **John W. Kennedy** wasn’t talking about that. From [http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm](http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/Populism.htm) :

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> A month later, Henry M. Littlefield responded to Hearn’s letter, agreeing that “there is no basis in fact to consider Baum a supporter of turn-of-the-century Populist ideology.”

Littlefield is the author of the original paper\* that started the whole “Oz is a Populist Allegory” movement. In other words, the guy who started the whole thing rolling states that Baum was not a populist supporter. So why would Baum write a story that supports the populist movement? In other words, _Littlefield_ made up the story _that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a populist allegory_. That is what Kennedy was saying.

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- Henry M. Littlefield, “The Wizard of Oz: Parable on Populism,” American Quarterly 16 (1964): 47-58 (quotation on 54); L. Frank Baum, TheWonderful Wizard of Oz (Chicago, 1900).

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kennedy-u-moron/163502/3 "2003-03-23T06:35:50Z")

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Dear cyberer, personal insults are not allowed in this forum. Please do not post these kinds of personal attacks again.