Kool-Aid drinker = dupe of propagandists, publicists, etc.

[Mullins, Bill]

>
> Somebody phoned _Fox & Friends_ just now to ask,
>
> "Is Cindy Sheehan the perfect example of a Kool-Aid drinker,
> or what ?"
>
>

>From Newsbank:

PSL HOTLINE: CALLERS WANT TO DUMP 'EM, JUMP 'EM, PUMP 'EM
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 1, 1996
Author: By Bernie Miklasz
Edition: FIVE STAR LIFT
Section: SPORTS
Page: 3C
" "Don't sell. You need to hang in there. Fight through. I'm not a
Kool-Aid drinker, but there's hope." "


Jolly Roger Ailes Hoists O'Reilly Flag, Declares News Victory
New York Observer, The (NY)
April 28, 2003
Author: Jason Gay
Section: TheFrontPage
Page: 1
Column: Front Page 5
"Mr. O'Reilly likes Mr. Ailes and is grateful for making him what he is,
but he cuts his own path in the newsroom. "He's not a Kool-Aid drinker,"
said Mr. Shine."

"Drink the kool-aid" has been discussed earlier in ADS-L, and carried
back to 9/1985.
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0303B&L=ADS-L&P=R2988&
I=-3

Although it isn't entirely clear from context if this cite has the same
connotation (they make be talking about drinking Kool-aid literally, or
electric Kool-aid (laced with LSD, a la Tom Wolfe and Ken Kesey), here's
a slight antedate:

GRATEFUL DEAD SHOW QUITE A TRIP
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
June 26, 1985
Author: Mark Faris, Beacon Journal staff writer
Edition: 1 STAR
Section: ENTERTAIN
Page: B5
"Even if you don't drink the Kool-Aid, a Grateful Dead show is a trip."