Commentary These days, almost all of us are inundated by text messages soliciting money for political candidates and parties. Sometimes it seems we’re getting one every three minutes—and maybe we are. It’s a form of internet pollution—there are many—that could drive a good man or woman to drink. I even got several in one day, putatively from Donald Trump Jr., saying his father just personally asked what had happened to me, was I still a supporter? They hadn’t heard from me. Had I switched parties? Who writes these things? (Not DTJr., I would wager.) Years ago, I wrote a screenplay for Paul Mazursky about a screenwriter so down on his luck he was forced to write fortune cookie messages for the local Chinese restaurant. This may beat it. Yes, to my everlasting regret, someone once constructed one of these text ads so that I gave something, making me a target …
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