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|1920<ref>[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=135140 Attributed originally to Lenin], but since used by others like [[Nobel Prize]] winner (Literature) Doris Lessing to describe how she was manipulated by the [[communists]]: “I was taken around and shown things as a ‘useful idiot’... that’s what my role was. I can’t understand why I was so gullible.” [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/07/100624_doc_useful_idiots_lenin.shtml]</ref>
 
|1920<ref>[http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=135140 Attributed originally to Lenin], but since used by others like [[Nobel Prize]] winner (Literature) Doris Lessing to describe how she was manipulated by the [[communists]]: “I was taken around and shown things as a ‘useful idiot’... that’s what my role was. I can’t understand why I was so gullible.” [http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/07/100624_doc_useful_idiots_lenin.shtml]</ref>
 
|Sample usage:  "There are not as many useful idiots on college campuses for the Obama reelection campaign in 2012 as there were in 2008, and it's doubtful he can fill a stadium rally unless the campaign pays students to attend."
 
|Sample usage:  "There are not as many useful idiots on college campuses for the Obama reelection campaign in 2012 as there were in 2008, and it's doubtful he can fill a stadium rally unless the campaign pays students to attend."
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|popularized by Phyllis Schlafly as first cited by the media in a front-page ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' article, which quoted her for saying "that the 'vaccine police' want to deny American parents the right of informed consent to vaccines and that the personal immunization records kept by states are the first step toward 'compulsory control of individual health care.'"<ref>Huntly Collins, "LIFE GIVER OR LIFE TAKER: A DEBATE ON THE VALUE OF VACCINES SPECIAL REPORT, IMMUNIZATIONS: A PUBLIC-HEALTH STAPLE COMES UNDER SIEGE" A1 (Oct. 3, 1999).</ref>
 
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