A few months back I did some work for a client interested in building a broadly based community around sustainability. A stated concern was the desire to build a coalition that spanned all political groups in the US. The general goal of saving our environment shouldn’t be a concern only for progressives; however, there was a strong suspicion that non-progressive groups would resist any form of the word “sustainability,” perceiving it as some kind of “liberal code” signifying any number of things they were opposed to.
The environmental movement has, of course, been progressively driven, and it has evolved a vocabulary that probably correlates with other progressive political concerns. Full story »
These accommodations should in no way be taken as a commentary on the quality of our media coverage.
— Doug Hattaway, campaign spokesman for Sen. Hillary Clinton, on placing press accommodations in the men’s locker room of the Berger Activity Center in Austin, Texas; March 3.
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Regrettably, by declaring that Hillary Clinton is a “monster” in a London interview with the Scotsman, Samantha Power has become a liability for the Obama campaign. It doesn’t matter how much those opposed to Hillary may have lapped it up when Ms. Power claimed that “she is stooping to anything.” Not to mention “The amount of deceit she has put forward is really unattractive.”
For those unfamiliar with Ms. Power, she is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author who left her job as a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy Center to volunteer for Obama answering phones. In another interview, this time with Jon Weiner at Huffington Post last week, she said, “I thought, if you’re interested in helping change the world in your small way. . . even if I was just answering his phones, I would have more impact than writing these big books that I put out.” Full story »
Good news in the inbox this morning. Jonas Phillips, the Asheville freeway blogger, has been acquitted. Sure, AT&T is still monitoring your phone calls, but every little victory for freedom is welcome these days, huh?
Thanks to Clare Hanrahan for letting us know.
