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Posted on 06/09/2008 9:53:13 AM PDT by bamahead
Minneapolis: Dropping any pretense of objectivity and non-partisanship, the “National Conference for Media Reform” on Saturday night turned into a Barack Obama-for-President rally, as left-wing media figure Arianna Huffington denounced Senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain as a “Trojan horse for the right” who had “sold his soul” to become president.
Several speakers, including Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, used the Obama campaign slogan, “Yes, we can,” as they urged the thousands of “progressives” in the audience to bring “change” to Washington, D.C.
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Meanwhile, a Canadian, Naomi Klein, who writes for the British Guardian and The Nation magazine, told the conference that Hillary Clinton’s endorsement of Obama was “a partial victory for the forum gathered here tonight.” She said that Clinton was the candidate of the establishment and that her “coronation” had been derailed.
Klein, a critic of what she calls “disaster capitalism,” said that Obama’s support from Wall Street financial interests was a problem and griped that Democrats, rather than Republicans, were now getting more campaign dollars from the “arms industry.”
Nevertheless, under pressure from a “radicalized” populace, Klein said, that Obama could not only get the U.S. out of Iraq but carry out a “Green New Deal” and transform the U.S. economy. But she cautioned that Obama hasn’t yet articulated a “green agenda” that “is a match for our climate crisis.”
Klein received a standing ovation from the conference participants.
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By comparison to Huffington and Klein, the speeches of Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan and disgraced former CBS Evening News anchorman Dan Rather, which were delivered as part of the same “Media Reform Begins With Me” Saturday evening program, seemed mild and almost dull.
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Several speakers, including Federal Communications Commissioner Michael Copps, used the Obama campaign slogan, “Yes, we can,” as they urged the thousands of “progressives” in the audience to bring “change” to Washington, D.C.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, well Dubya did it again with his "reaching out"...
Copps served until January 2001 as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development at the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he was previously Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries. Copps came to Washington in 1970, joining the staff of Senator Ernest Hollings (D-SC) and serving for over a dozen years as Chief of Staff. He has also held positions at a Fortune 500 company and at a major trade association. Before coming to Washington, Copps was a professor of U.S. History at Loyola University of the South. Copps received a B.A. from Wofford College and earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
John McCain is going to pay homage to La Raza but has no time to meet Rev. Billy Graham. We are doomed.
Rush made an error. McCain did not say he has no time for Billy Graham.
Not the first time GWB has appointed Leftist rats in as well as kept rats like Tenant! It is not a mistake after so many instances
Aren’t shy about identifying themselves because half the country has swallowed the koolaid and the other half is asleep. The depth to the stupidity..the lack of knowledge of history!? Truly amazing how naive ....these people really believe that with the right people in charge we will have utopia, that government can save them... despite the lessons of history.
And apparently the FCC is in agreement, because the chairman was there hoorahing right along with the nutcases.
I guess the "congress shall make no law" regarding he 1st amendment escaped these fellows some how. Anyone who votes for Obama has to be a total idiot.
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Actually, Bush had no choice but to appoint a 'Rat to that seat. There are five commissioners, and by law there can be no more than 3 from either party. Thus the lineup in the FCC is just about always 3-2 in favor of the party in the WH and can't be 4-1 or 5-0.
...it had also become absolutely clear that the "media reform" movement has emerged as a critical part of the partisan political effort to help the Democratic Party gain absolute and total political power on the federal level and to use that power to silence conservative and Republican voices in the media.
Another compelling reason to see to it that the 'Rats will never again own the presidency in our lifetime.
...it had also become absolutely clear that the "media reform" movement has emerged as a critical part of the partisan political effort to help the Democratic Party gain absolute and total political power on the federal level and to use that power to silence conservative and Republican voices in the media.
Another compelling reason to see to it that the 'Rats will never again own the presidency in our lifetime.
You've just identified and classified over half of the electorate, and you are correct in your assessment.
“... and transform the U.S. economy.”
But into what, I ask? Anything that even remotely resembles a live, functioning, free-market economy? Highly doubtful...
There. Fixed that!
BTTT
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