Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes, Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:56:43 +0000

This reminds me of when McCain had his pr people handling Georgia re Russian crisis.

Turning to publicity handlers more than “statesmen” … I know, a term that is anachronistic … statesmen or stateswomen left in US can probably count on one hand with fingers left over. (so glad I am not bitter..:) )

The corporate carpetbagging in Iraq and Afghanistan horrifies.

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:52:47 +0000

#207 is for you. Sorry.

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:52:14 +0000

had to leave, eCAHN, sorry. well, iirc as my mother explained, it is an “acquired taste” … so I think it was … hmmm…. bitter was probably a good word. startling. I remember I said it was like eating “grass” soup, real grass, the color and maybe the strange flavor.

By: spocko

spocko — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:56:22 +0000

I got that too. I wonder just how effect “millions in the streets” really are anymore. But I was thinking the other day about a comment someone made, we don’t have a visual for the “Great Recession” yet. Hundreds of foreclosed homes? What does 10.2 or 18.2 percent unemployment look like?
What the media want are bread lines. I’m guessing that this thanksgiving they will do the same stories they do every year and talk about how, “This is the worst year in 29 years.” and then go off to something else.

There is no Dorothy Lange photographing the people carting their belonging to smaller homes. There are no ways to see enmass the fear of no savings and an underwater mortgages.

They need an X vs. Y story and nobody is doing PR for the unemployeed side of the story.

By: spocko

spocko — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:49:37 +0000

libbyliberal, Thanks I’ll read the diary later. I have a bit of connection to that story. M elanie M organ’s group Move America Fo ward was staffed by R usso M arsh & Rogers

In July 2005, O’Dwyers PR Daily reported that “the Kurdistan Regional Government has hired Republican lobby firm R usso M arsh & Rogers to get ‘free media’ to promote the interests of the Kurds in the post-Saddam Hussein Iraq.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Russo_Marsh_%26_Rogers

I don’t think she was a paid spokesperson, but the Kurds clearly spread some money around on this issue.

By: emerson

emerson — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:48:33 +0000

It will not happen until millions march in the streets. I was disappointed that Elizabeth Warren avoided answering when she was asked that question specifically on “Now.” I thought it was quite obvious she wanted to answer yes, but did not.

By: Knoxville

Knoxville — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:47:22 +0000

The Confucians believed that children who were raised according to xiao would be respectful toward political authority as well, and so infinitely less likely to rebel.

I will check out Alice Miller’s Drama of the Gifted Child.

Right now, gotta run!

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:43:28 +0000

Marcy's upstairs. Perhaps we should join her.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:42:01 +0000

So is it bitter? Or not?

By: libbyliberal

libbyliberal — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:41:49 +0000

gotta go. take care. :)