It's gibberish, like so much of what they drone on about.
I thought the best part was when Alan Colmes referred to "Barak OSAMA" instead of Barak Obama.
I have no idea what "speaking truth to power" means. Their pretzel logic is painful to endure.
When you get the name of a good professional, please pass it along to me.
http://news.google.com/news?q=speaking+%22truth+to+power%22&btnG=Search+News&hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8
Interesting - I haven't found a definition yet
It means, "However you thought you understood this phrase, you are wrong!"
Telling lies to convince the non-believers................
It's gibberish, like so much of what they drone on about.
OK, FRiends. I eagerly await enlightenment...
One more advantage of living overseas and only being able to gets soundbites or an hour at a time. Can't seem to get past 30 minutes anyway.
Thank God for the Discovery Channel.
I think it means something like defiantly delivering a message of "truth" to those in positions of power.
I believe the phrase was coined by Anita Hill.
She is a big-time liberal, so she probably stole it from someone else.
Hope that helps.
(steely)
The RATS are straining to keep their "we're for the little guy" class warfare electoral angle -- specially with a couple of filthy rich beyond all imagination candidates on their ticket.
But, I thought this was an interesting search result though:
It is an old Quaker teaching that urges followers to stand up and speak to governments, rulers and the powerful about wrongs, abuses, injustice and unpleasant truths. Anita Hill used it for the title of her book.
"Speaking truth to power" would be standing up at a gay pride parade filled with oppressed-by-society bankers and lawyers and accountants and landlords, and declaring to them that homosexual sodomy is a form of murder since it destroys both the soul and the body.
Carville and Clinton are running Hitlers campaign to a T. If they weren't so stupid it would be scary.
The phrase "Speaking truth to power" has its origins in suburban California, where a 14 year old Jerry Brown instituted this Democratic tradition. Young Jerry was commanded by his parents to stop hiding in his room and go mow the lawn, but Jerry Brown did no such thing. He spoke truth to power. "I don't feel like it Dad. Can't you just pay some Mexican guy to do it? I'm tired." The original phrasing was "Speaking truth to Dad about the power mower," but it has since been shortened. Jerry Brown went on to become Governor of California and a beacon to lazy kids across the country.
Speaking Truth to Power:
A Challenge to South African Intellectuals
Ptika Ntuli & Johannes A. Smit
The subject of Power/Knowledge and the regime of Truth is always a thorny one. It is the aim of my article to explore this subject in the context of South Africa with particular emphasis on intellectuals and institutions of higher learning.
I
It was Nietzche (1968) who showed that ‘Knowledge functions as an instrument of power’. Nietzche’s ‘Will to Power’ was a tour de force that sought to draw philosophy away from theorising about substances and to look at power as a relation; relations of forces that attract and repel, entice and dominate, restrain and subordinate. About seventy years later, the French philosopher Michel Foucault (1994) took up this theme and offered a definitive conceptualisation of power:
Power in the substantive sense, ‘le’ pouvoir, doesn’t exist …. The idea that there is either located at- or emanating from- a given point something which is a ‘power’ seems to me to be based on a misguided analysis, one which at all events fails to account for a considerable number of phenomena. In reality, power means relations, a more or less organised, hierarchical, coordinated cluster of relations.
He also related this understanding of power to Truth. Truth, for him,
isn’t outside power, or lacking in power: Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces
regular effects of power (Foucault 1980).
Foucault identifies five traits of this regime of truth—two of which are
produced and transmitted under the control, dominant if not exclusive, of a few great political and economic apparatuses (university, army, writing, media); lastly, it is the issue of a whole political debate and social confrontation (ideological struggles). Truth is always contested.
II
To be able to formulate practical policies in the context of student affairs in an academic institution and indeed in any site, it is important to raise correct questions within the context of Truth, Power and Knowledge.
Schrift (1994) formulates some of these (with very minor modifications from the author)
* How does one analyse academic relations of power?
* Who makes decisions in a college or university?
* Why are the decisions so often wrong, when so often basically good people are in the positions of decision makers?
* How do we change power relations in our institutions?
* How do we get more women and Africans in decision making positions, and how do we get more multi-cultural and multi-gendered issues included into the curriculum?
* Who are the enemies?
* Who do we fight?
When one attempts to answer these and related questions, Schrift warns that these relations must not be seen in exclusively personal ways. The reason is that such a focus on individuals tend to obscure any understanding of mechanisms of power.
Speak whatever it takes to regain power.
In the liberal mind truth is whatever you want to believe it is.