Friday, January 23, 2009

I wonder

How much of the right-wing bloviating about the fairness doctrine's apparently unlikely revival is due to the fact that these folks would do something similar if they had power? Not only that, but they tried to do so repeatedly--anyone else recall when Karl Rove laid out his governing agenda and, like, everything on it was explicitly stated to be to crack the Democratic coalition? You know, like tort reform to clean out Democratic-donating trial lawyers, or Medicare Part D to break off seniors? School vouchers to appeal to Blacks? All of the GOP issues were put in precisely such terms. Everything the Bush Administration did--and I do mean everything--was done out of a desire to win, and to advantage the Republican Party. It's unsurprising when you consider that a cheerleader was running the party at that point.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.