Each week The McLaughlin Group sits around in a TV studio on PBS giving us a clinic on the mindset and “conventional wisdom” of millionaire Washington elites. And they’re already constructing the template for the dominant narrative following the elections. While setting up a discussion, John McLaughlin quoted Naomi Klein’s “squib” on a new...
Last January, during his State of the Union Address, when President Obama broached the topic of Citizens United saying it was going to unleash a torrent of corrupting corporate money into our political system, Associate Justice Samuel Alito mouthed the defiant words: “No, that’s simply not true.” The 2010 midterm campaigns have shown us...
Last March, when President Obama announced he was fast-tracking a bunch of deepwater oil leases, mainstream media commentators told us what a politically sophisticated move it was. He was showing the “courage” to defy his base among the anti-drilling crowd and when those dolphin-huggers screamed foul, he stood his ground. A few weeks later,...
Civic-Minded Plutocrats
It’s truly touching how much interest in America’s great democratic experiment that our esteemed men and women of industry, finance, and commerce have shown in the 2010 midterm elections. Elementary school teachers across the land might lead civics lessons by pointing to these salt-of-the-Earth hedge-fund managers, oil tycoons, derivatives traders, and outsourcing zealots who...
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