People love narratives. And the media love narratives. So lets compare two possible narratives going into the next Dem primary (either 2020 if HRC loses to Trump or 2024 if she becomes the president (keep in mind that these are political narratives, they are not necessarily true)
Narrative 1:
I was watching a recent Daily Show episode and how it blamed Trump's rise entirely on the news media hungry for viewers, and I couldn't help but remember how this same show literally begged Trump to run just last July, and how hypocritical they are to point fingers now.
So, many recognizable names from DK.. right off the bat, I see diaries from divineorder, dkmich, gulfgal98, and more with comments from PhilJD, Tomp, gjohnsit and my very favorite DallasDoc. Although we've never met or communicated - DallasDoc is a far better writer and of everyone on DK I think I have agreed with his opinion 99.9% of the time. Thanks, Doc! Oh, I've missed so many important names, including Meteor Blades!!!
This morning the ban hammer came down on GBB.
I'm sure he pointedly posted his parting shot with full expectation of the ban.
Oct. 29, 2004 (uid:28783) almost 12 years, time to move to bluer pastures.
Short historical note: From the wreckage of the Dean campaign rose the first activist blogs. Chis Bowers' myDeanDemocrat was first I believe,
Then came GOS. But now, my how things change. Dean is in the tank for big-pharma and GOS ...well.
Watching the Primaries unfold, the candidacy of Senator Bernie Sanders unarguably benefits from new media's ability to subvert the narrative being pushed by the corporate news machine. Where would such a campaign be without The Young Turks, Thom Hartman, Daily Kos (sans Markos) and Social Media?
Author's note: This book review was published 16 February of 2011, and I'm surprised it went through over at Orange without comment, as Lance Selfa does reveal in detail how insidious the Democratic Party really is.
Conservation International Presents
Nature Is Speaking
There are a whole series of thought provoking videos - like this
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
- attributed to Sinclair Lewis
Living as a Democrat in red state Idaho for 19 years, the idea of attending the Dem caucus felt like a futile endeavor. I've always shown up to vote on election days to at least secretly savor the idea that I was cancelling out my now ex-husband's ballot choices. As Idaho is a lightly populated state, the caucuses are county events instead of being portioned down into voting precincts, and my county, Canyon's caucus was in a high school's auditorium.
