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Corporate Supreme
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| Categories: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, John McCain, CBS, President Reagan, cabletelevison, Politics, Obama Administration, healthcare policy, government regulation, Hillary Clinton, Supreme court, Roberts court, Samuel Alito, Warren Court, Citizens United v. FEC, campaign finance Years ago, when I was in a quandary about the direction of my career, I got some sound advice: Never fall in love with a corporation, because it’s constitutionally unable to reciprocate.
This week, the Supreme Court created a limited redress to that issue in Citizens United v the Federal Elections Commission, giving corporations unfettered permission to spend their general funds on the campaigns of politicians they favor, and turning them into “a real live boy” as Slate put it. Who says money can’t buy you love? If the Rehnquist court handed Republicans the presidency in 2000, it’s hard to believe the Roberts court hasn’t handed them the Congress in 2010.
Pull the Plug, Mr. Murdoch
| Categories: News, Talk Radio, cabletelevison, Obama Administration, media policy, healthcare policy Link: http://gawker.com/5332558/whats-bad-for-the-gop-is-good-for-fox-news
Rupert Murdoch
Chair and CEO
The News Corporation
1211 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10036
Dear Mr. Murdoch:
The speech President Obama gave about health care last night was one of his best to my ears. It has been a long summer for us progressives, and some of us had begun to wonder if the candidate we worked so hard to elect had somehow lost his moxie or, in the words of New York Times columnist Frank Rich, we had been punked.
Since our politics spring from very different experiences, I have no idea how you view the president’s performance. But since you gave him your endorsement, I assume you saw something in the man that speaks of greatness.
Last night’s speech demonstrated for me that Obama still understands that change must come, and it must come under his watch. But I must confess that when South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson shouted “You lie,” to the president’s claim that health care reform would not extend coverage to undocumented immigrants, I held my breath while the president took his measure of the man and stood his ground.
A Good and Decent Man
| Categories: News, Barack Obama, Religion, Spirituality, liberals, cabletelevison, Politics So today’s blog comes from a friend, Carter Smith, whose father, also Carter Smith, of Sharon, CT, died suddenly while waiting for a presidential debate to begin. [I think of the elder Carter as Episcopal Carter and the son as Unitarian Universalist (UU) Carter, but they are cut from the same cloth.] I’ve known both of them through the independent publishing firm they ran, Media Projects.
I hope you will be inspired by the Smiths as I am.
Commercial Intent
| Categories: News, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, John McCain, environment, cabletelevison, network television It’s been a long time since I’ve rested as well as I did last night.
Thank you, Bill Clinton, for delivering a ringing, unequivocal endorsement of Barack Obama. Thank you, Barack Obama, for choosing a running mate who is not afraid to speak truth to power. Joe Biden finally confronted the debacle that Republicans have visited upon the American people. And he addressed directly the “issue” of Barack Obama’s patriotism by introducing his great uncle who helped liberate Buchenwald. Nice touch.
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