Arianna took part in a wide-ranging roundtable discussion on CNN's "Parker Spitzer" Friday night, together with Steve Kornacki, News Editor at Salon.com, author and model Paulina Porkizkova and political veteran Ed Rollins, a CNN Senior political correspondent.
The panel began by discussing Sarah Palin's new TLC reality series, "Sarah Palin's Alaska"
"You have to give her credit for the fact that she really knows how to do social media," Arianna said. "Look at her Facebook reach - the fact that she doesn't really have to give an interview to The New York Times, she can just post something on her Facebook wall."
Switching gears, Eliot Spitzer asked: "Is this a center-right country?"
"No, it is absolutely not a center-right country," Arianna responded. "Where we are is in a huge new game. ... A lot of people are deeply anxious. Not just the people who have lost jobs and lost homes, but the people whose relatives have lost jobs, whose kids are graduating from college and can't get jobs. So what we are facing is really just a deep need to reset our values, see what the future is."
"I think it's the people who are stuck on that New York-Washington axis who want to portray everything as a left-right issue," Arianna said.
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Uhhh, Arianna, she had her fame among her admirers long before she started Facebooking & Tweeting. It is the fame alone that propels her "success" with social media, not some kind of aptitude as you suggest.
Maybe you can name 5-maybe 10 ceos and thier corporations You have some insight?
Some "real truth" or maybe something beck or rush told you... let me guess ..you are a real critical thinker...you have a real filter and sort out the truth from the lies and misinformation. Maybe you worked at the pentagon in psyops...maybe you worked in some intellegence related field. You have some inside info eh?
or do you really think the "elected" have power. really? the elected. They are nothing but the hired help approved by the unwashed masses. Turn your tv off and get some fresh air. The reality tv is getting to you.
Bagman: dishonest official; a person who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money
Bagwoman. a woman who collects, carries, or distributes illegal payoff money
Who's your daddy?
Karl Rove
Ed Gillespie
David Koch
Charles Koch
People's Republic of China
Rupert Murdoch
Sean Hannity
US Chamber of Commerce
Glen Beck
Just Asking!
Follow the money.
Take away the Koch money, the TeaBaggers dry up. Quickly.
I thought Obama would be the same as Jimmy Carter and I was right.
Even if I want to take control of my life, I have to pay for the privilege of doing that. While the financial industry has very little in the way of effective regulation, if I want to build my own house, I have to get a whole stack of permits and a contractor's license. Then, I have to pay for a constant barrage of inspections. Some how we can always afford to regulate the common person, but the most abusive just slide by.
I have some amazing skill sets. But I live in a country that absolutely discourages their use and then leaves me with no time on top of that.
I am restructuring my life as quickly as I can. As I do it, I find that my country and my government are farther and farther from me and my little insignificant existence.
Corporate assimilation awaits me...
Good luck.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm
Stories always trump statistics, which means the politician with the best stories is going to win: "One of the fallacies that politicians often have on the Left is that things are obvious, when they are not obvious.
"Obama's administration made a tremendous mistake by not immediately branding the economic collapse that we had just had as the Republicans' Depression, caused by the Bush administration's ideology of unregulated greed. The result is that now people blame him."
of why Sarah Palin quit as Governor of Alaska !
Answer the questions NOW sarah !
(In fact, each time correct figures about, for example, how much government help General Motors got, and how much has been paid back was stated clearly, she would just say, "Well there's a lot of figures out there." This was her response several times to exposure of her mis-representations.)
All along I had bought the media hype that many of these people really did care about fiscal responsibility. Indeed it has been the media that has given the tea party its so much publicity for its platform and its legitimacy in constantly championing their "real anger out there at the spending." Yet here we saw clearly that the spending anger has no logic behind it all. It's politics -- and perhaps sometimes worse -- that's driving all this after all.
A perfect case in point came in my local newspaper today. In the letters-to-the-editor section there were a number of shrill letters calling for the repeal of the health care bill. In each and every one of these letters the writer claimed that the vast majority of Americans don't want the bill. Now exactly one column over from the letters was a series of polling charts that showed that 46% of Americans don't like the health care bill and 49% of them do. In fact, more than half the people who favor the bill want to see it expanded.
Clearly, a "vast majority" of Americans do not oppose the bill. However, if you watched cable news and listened to AM radio talk shows 24/7 for a month, you would conclude that they do because they keep repeating that made-up "fact" over and over again.
So I think Arianna is correct. The U.S. is not a center-right nation. It just looks that way through the lens of the media.