[lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye

[Alan Rudy]

Again, I can't agree with this.  Even within the constraints of his
neoliberalism, he's a much less engaging, critical, visionary and
provocative speaker than he was... in fact, the change in his tone, style
and frequency of his speaking was so passive that the monopoly media - given
the 24 hour news cycle and the fact that Obama's opponents were saying
provocative, robust and regular things - responded accordingly.  If it was
important to the Obama admin not to be mischaracterized by the monopoly
media they had and have a platform for correcting the characterization and
filling the monopoly media with different content... but they don't.  He
doesn't do press conferences of any note, at the ones he does he doesn't say
anything of note, and when he does say something of note its more likely to
be directed at the unreasonable expectations of the constituency that
elected him (as if they were on the left.)

I think most of the policies were pretty lame given what they could have
done given the breadth of support they had upon election, but if Obama and
his Admin agree with the argument made in that recent Rolling Stone article,
of the stance taken at this website http://bit.ly/bvEVyU , then THEY could
be the ones making it... but they aren't, not with any verve, volume or
vegularity (had to stick with the v-thing), even Obama gave a lackluster
defense on the Daily Show.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:46 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:


> ^^^^^
> CB: Pretty sure he is trying to continue to be a superb speaker just
> like everybody agreed he was just a little while back. He's still
> speaking superbly, but  the monopoly media has changed its frame on
> him
>
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