no doubt that the namesake legator, Walter Annenberg, is rolling over in his grave:
"Annenberg remained supportive of conservative political causes throughout the years, and his efforts on behalf of Republicans were rewarded with his designation by President Richard Nixon as U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain in 1969. The appointment led Annenberg to sell his newspapers and television stations, but he retained TV Guide and remained active in managing the publication throughout his five-year tenure as Ambassador.
Shortly after the election of his close friend, Ronald Reagan, as President in 1980 (he would endorse Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984 in TV Guide, the only such political endorsement ever to appear in the magazine), Annenberg announced a plan to provide the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with $150 million in funds over a fifteen year period to produce educational television programs through which viewers could obtain college credits. Annenberg's sympathy for educational causes had already been evidenced by his financial support of the Annenberg Schools of Communication at both the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Southern California."
nevertheless, as opinion leaders we'll need to work like hell in the blogoshpere and among 'persuadables' (i call them 'unreliables') in our spheres of infulence to preempt the 'strong closer' or 'comeback kid' story arc from taking off
Yes, but don't you know that when you die, you become a far out leftist? No matter where you started or ended your life, you become the bastion of ultraliberalism in the afterlife.