Arianna appeared on MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" Wednesday night to discuss Democrats running from their own party and platform in their reelection campaigns.
President Barack Obama's choice to attack the disaffected liberal wing of his party, as opposed to the conservative Democrats who are ostensibly defeating or watering down his initiatives, just weakens his image further, Arianna told Maddow.
"Maybe progressives and the middle class need to sort of face up to the fact that the President is not that much into them, that he would rather hang out with Larry Summers, or flirt with Olympia Snowe, or play wargames late into the night with General Petraeus," she said. "He has compromised his own arch-narrative. Remember, he set up a deficit commission before he set up a jobs commission."
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*sigh*
The Conservative/Regressive/GOTP media empire has by far the most viewers and listeners. Thus they have the first rule of propaganda on their side: Say something 1000X to enough people and it will start sounding like it is true, even if it isn't. Any alternate train of thought from Progressives, or even from Congress or the president, is working within the context of, and against the background of, the constantly repeated messages from folks like Limbaugh, Palin & Beck. And working against the background of the power of the lobbyists & Special Interest Campaign contributions.
Arianna, are you willing to expand your media empire enough & to research how to get ratings up by getting enough eyeballs to your site (and enough audience for your radio and TV stations if you start some), so that the Progressive message can have a chance of being heard rather than lost?
This is particularly important because of the GOTP's abilities 1) to destabilize feelings states of inner calmness & thus to disrupt coherent thinking, which can not take place during a state of emotional turmoil, & 2) to pander so well to people's vices that they begin to think they are virtues. In addition to being highly satisfying & self-esteem building in the short term, catering to people's vices makes them like you & feel loyal to your party/movement. When these GOTP folks do this, they are also role modeling such behaviors and causing them to spread like wildfire across the
Does anyone really care anymore about the people in this country? The loss of the middle class that is happening before my very eyes?
In reality, who cares who is who, but I do care how are we going to go about stopping all this bickering in our own parties.
thank you.
I appreciate the moderation on this site when it comes to standards of civility. I don't appreciate the willy nilly deletion that extends far beyond the faqs of this site and into some never never land none of us quite understand. But I digress. What I really want to say is thank you to the HP for allowing this debate to rage all day long, for publishing more that is negative to your CEO than I have ever experienced here, and for letting us have this fight, within the family, that we needed to have, without fear of deletion, or the need to write our posts in that w. eird. H. P. kind ***of way.
I hope this message makes it this time or I simply won't try again.
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http://static1.firedoglake.com/1/files/2010/03/mythfactshcr-2.pdf
Why, it was Barack Obama.
With you on electing some real Progressives.
Like I said, lucky.
This is a dicey time, as we approach the mid terms. And while I value critique, I don't value it so much right now, which is where I feel Ms. Huffington went off the rails. Our number one priority in this next month, should be to live to fight another day. The only way we do that is to win the mid terms. Period. After that, hey, let's rumble again.
You just have no clue.
Obama is center-right. Look at his record on civil liberties (torture, assassination, rendition, Guantanamo, surveillance), financial reform, and health care. He's what you call a neo-liberal, who believes in the invisible hand of the market.
We have no left, or even center-left major party in this country. The best we can hope for is for the Greens to rise and the Republicans to go away like the Whigs. Then we'll have a left and right again.