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2 comments:
This episode felt like it took 45 minutes to find any sort of direction. With regard to Stephanie Miller, I didn't get how she's improving. Give her two weeks to a month and she'll probably explicitly state again that she doesn't believe in boycotts. I've severely cut back on listening to her show since she and John Fugelsang felt the need to cite the ability to be fired for comments you make as what makes the system "great."
I largely agree with your critique of the beltway media, but how do you explain people like your "friend" Bob Cesca, who puts reporters on a pedestal and talks about how people have to respect "expertise"? I feel like Democratics absolutely cannot allow the pundits decide who our candidate will be.
I'd just like to point one thing out about California politics regarding your section about them that I otherwise agree with:
We aren't this way by accident, and if we let up for even a microsecond we get things like Ronald the fuck Reagan, Pete the fuck Wilson, props 13, 187, and 8, and fucking Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The Republican party is beat down here because we beat it down.
They made that easier for us than it had to be by repeatedly shooting themselves in the foot, but even now they have a lot of money, and we can't take our eyes off of them for a moment or they'll be, oh, I don't know, conspiring with Fergus to suppress the release of damaging documents, authoring "memos" full of horse shit and selling them to the credulous media, and leading the Republican party in the house of representatives.
They still suck, even if we currently don't let them do much.
But that situation is only one bad election away from disaster, and we seem to have this perverse tic in our elections where one day we have Gray Davis as our governor and the next day it's the fucking Governator.
This was a bad week for hiding one's privilege, though, wasn't it?
Anyway, thanks again for the podcast, things are getting tense and strained, and an hour of sanity is very helpful.
-Doug in Oakland
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