By Michael J. Smith on Saturday July 1, 2006 03:44 PM
p2pnet.net had a wonderful item about Kosnik sweetheart Barbara Boxer's
sedulous support for the Broadcast Flag. A few excerpts:
Full disclosure: p2pnet also picked up a thing of mine that originally appeared on CounterPunch.
p2pnet.net had a wonderful item about Kosnik sweetheart Barbara Boxer's
sedulous support for the Broadcast Flag. A few excerpts:
| The audio flag provision, written by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR), has the full support of the Recording Industry Association of America....
By a startling coincidence, [media] cartel support for Boxer is rising. This year she's so far received a massive $750,660 from the movie, music and tv industries, says opensecrets.com. In the 2004 cycle, she clocked up $740,260, and in 2002, $485,340. |
Comments (2)
Here's a site promoting Boxer for president.
Posted by J. Alva Scruggs | July 1, 2006 10:20 PM
Posted on July 1, 2006 22:20
Here's what leaped out at me first and foremost after looking at that link:
"...It is the duty of the people of Connecticut to upbraid Joe; Barb has to work with him..."
I wonder what this means. The blogger defends Boxer's (perhaps willful) cluelessness about Lieberman's Neanderthal views on women's health. Because "she has to work with him."
Even if I knew nothing of Lieberman per se, this would rub me the wrong way. I used to be a civil servant. Public servants should not be lauded for making cordial relations with uncooperative co-workers more important than serving the people who pay their salaries. The pro-Boxer blogger is terribly, terribly worried that it would be a breach of ettiquette for anyone to suggest that Boxer ought to care what the people she serves think of her, more than she cares about what Lieberman thinks of her.
And in a nutshell, you can see why our elected officials are such arrogant fucks toward the people who are most loyal to them. I never saw myself as an anarchist before, but reading much more of this drivel may force me to change my mind about that. :(
Posted by ms_xeno | July 2, 2006 1:41 PM
Posted on July 2, 2006 13:41