traveler = 'Communist sympathizer'

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:12 AM -0500 3/2/11, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>By re-analysis of "fellow traveler":
>
>2009 _IMDb_ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052600/usercomments?filter=hate :
>A Great Film For A Traveler, Otherwise Just a Curiosity ...  If you read who
>the reviewers are and where they live it gives you a better clue on who
>would totally love this film, I have to think they are travelers, it's all
>good, but I'm just saying....it was good, but not great. Then again, I'm not
>a traveler (I joined the military to help protect the USA from Soviet
>aggressions in the 1980's) so take that into account.
>
So it doesn't mean that the film was designed to appeal to that
notoriously well-heeled demographic of Marxist gypsies?

LH

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