[Peace-discuss] Fw: [MEDIAMATTERS] Media Matters Update July 10th, 2011

[C. G. Estabrook]

Imagine a MoveOn That Doesn't Answer to Democrats
By davidswanson - Posted on 02 July 2011

On Friday I read in the New York Times that President Obama would be happy to 
cut $200 billion out of Medicare in order to inflict pain on his Democratic 
base, part of an imagined tradeoff in which the two parties inflict pain on 
their imagined bases in order to reduce the deficit without imposing sensible 
taxes on billionaires or shrinking military spending to sane levels. Also on 
Friday I got an Email from True Majority asking me to celebrate Obama's defense 
of Medicare.

We've progressed from "I feel your pain" to "I inflict your pain," and we're 
being told to like it.

"President Obama: If you stand up to the Republican hostage-takers and protect 
Medicare," it says on MoveOn.org's website, "we will have your back." Or, of 
course, even if you don't do that, President Obama, even if the whole idea of it 
is based on myths about who is on whose side, MoveOn and most other online 
groups that don't have the back of the Republican Party will have yours. That's 
the way this game works. Except that it hasn't been working...
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Full article at 
<http://warisacrime.org/content/imagine-moveon-doesnt-answer-democrats>./


On 7/6/11 12:47 PM, Jenifer Cartwright wrote:
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>  Fyi -- Media Matters shows are all archived -- see 'way below for
>  more. --Jenifer
>
>  --- On *Tue, 7/5/11, Melisse Trentz /<mtfaye at YAHOO.COM>/* wrote:
>
>  MEDIA MATTERS WITH BOB McCHESNEY
>
>  THIS WEEK'S PROGRAM Eli Pariser is an online organizer and
>  disorganizer, the former Executive Director of MoveOn (and now the
>  board president), a co-founder of Avaaz.org, and as of May 2011 the
>  author of The Filter Bubble. www.thefilterbubble.com
>  ...

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