[lbo-talk] MoveOn = wankers

Bob Morris bob.morris at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 17:41:13 PDT 2009


MoveOn is a lobby. Their primary goal is to raise money (and pay themselves well, no doubt, too.) One way to do that is to portray a Hideous Attacking Peril That Must Be Defeated.

Watching the big liberal blogs has been interesting. Started as semi-outsiders, they've increasing gotten drawn into the Democratic establishment orbit and now aren't really outsiders or change agents any more (except for the public option, their do-or-die issue)

But as mentioned here often. Most people, including them, don't really know what's in the bill.

Because the important thing, of course, is to attack the other side...

shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:


> At 12:10 PM 9/17/2009, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> [Do these people have any idea what's in this "reform"? Are they
>> lying, naive, or stupid?]
>>
>
>
> you said it yourself: it's the internet. no one has to actually read
> anything! it's an exercise in mobilizing the ranks --
>



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