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Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In, has a favorite tactic--though not an original one: connecting today's Republicans with the racist Democrats of the old South. In June, he rewrote history by casting George Wallace as a Republican--an error for which, to his credit, he later apologized. On Wednesday, he appeared to use a more subtle tactic to connect the Tea Party's Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio to the Ku Klux Klan.
In a segment on possible Tea Party contenders for the Republican Party's nomination in the 2016 presidential race, Hayes used a graphic (above) that portrayed Cruz, Paul, and Rubio as kings in a deck of cards--and that, rather conveniently, spelled out the initials "K K K." (Hayes did not say the word "kings" during the segment.)
...Before joining Comcast, Mr. Burke served with The Walt Disney Company as President of ABC Broadcasting.... Mr. Burke serves on the Board of Directors for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Jeff Shell serves as President of Comcast Programming Group for Comcast Corporation...
Prior to joining Comcast, Mr. Shell was CEO of Gemstar TV Guide International where he successfully navigated Gemstar through a number of legal and operational challenges. Before joining Gemstar, Shell held a number of positions within News Corporation including President of the FOX Cable Networks Group, where he oversaw the operations of FOX’s entertainment and sports cable programming businesses including FOX Sports Net, FX and the National Geographic Channel. Shell also worked in the Strategic Planning Group at the Walt Disney Company and at Salomon Brothers Inc....
...Michael J. Angelakis serves as Chief Financial Officer for Comcast Corporation...
Prior to joining Comcast in 2007, Mr. Angelakis served as Managing Director and as a member of the Management and Investment Committees of Providence Equity Partners, one of the leading private equity firms investing in communications and media companies around the world. Before joining Providence Equity Partners in 1999, Mr. Angelakis was President and Chief Executive Officer of State Cable TV Corporation and Aurora Telecommunications, LLC. He also served as Vice President at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company in New York, where he oversaw one of the bank’s media and communications portfolios. Additionally, Mr. Angelakis spent several years in London developing Manufacturers Hanover’s acquisition finance and merchant banking activities throughout Western Europe....
www.comcast.com...
guohua
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MSNBC is losing it all, Obama's credibility is melting away before their eyes and all their Progressive Leaders in the Senate that are running for reelection are now saying obamacare needs to be delayed.
They have to attack to keep they few loyal watchers they have left.
So they:
guohua
reply to post by Bassago
MSNBC is losing it all, Obama's credibility is melting away before their eyes and all their Progressive Leaders in the Senate that are running for reelection are now saying obamacare needs to be delayed.
They have to attack to keep they few loyal watchers they have left.
UnBreakable
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Who cares? This guy is irrelevant. Nobody watches his show anyway. I believe it's the lowest rated cable news show in it's timeslot.
sealing
That's funny most of those terms were used by Conservative propagandists to describe the President.
Hater Racist
Willtell
Yeah a k for each one of them!
That's funny most of those terms were used by Conservative propagandists to describe the President...
Obama's "Third Way" At The New Republic yesterday, Franklin Foer and Noam Scheiber undertook the latest effort to define "Obamaism," and concluded that the president represents a sort of hybrid liberalism that reflects the market-friendly attitude of Bill Clinton's New Democrats tempered by a more traditional commitment to equality...
www.thedemocraticstrategist.org...
In 1998, President Bill Clinton announced: “We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say Government is the problem and those who say Government is the solution. My fellow Americans, we have found a Third Way.”[1]
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... I wasn’t by any means the first to use the term “third way” itself, which crops up recurrently in the history of political thought – used most often by authors on the left but also occasionally by those on the right. The phrase was resurrected by the Swedish Social Democrats in the late 1980s, but its return to popularity came mainly from its adoption at roughly the same time by Bill Clinton and the thinktank to which he was closely connected, the Democratic Leadership Council. The “third way” was self-consciously associated with the invention of the term the “New Democrats” in the US – and later with “New Labour” in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair. I wrote the book initially in part as a result of taking part in dialogues which Bill and Hillary Clinton had established with Tony Blair in 1997 ...
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CLINTON: Thank you very much...
Tony, my old friend, it is true that I came to LSE when I was a student, but I have to acknowledge I never came here for anything remotely approaching an academic purpose. (laughter) Perhaps I will remedy that somewhat tonight. I want to thank Tony Giddens for making Tony Blair and me look good (laughter) and for the words and ideas that did so much to give life to the Third Way movement, for the constant encouragement to move beyond the false choices of the past and look at our world and our future possibilities in entirely new ways.
Italian Fascism and the Aesthetics of the 'Third Way'
...While scholars of fascism continue to debate whether this 'revolution' was conservative or radical in its aims, most aree on the centrality of the catagory of 'spirituality' to any definition of fascism as a 'third way'distinct from liberalism and Marxism...
For European intellectuals who embraced technological progress and yet had anxieties regarding the effects of taylorist visions of efficiency and productivity on the individual, the search for a political and economic 'third way'...
www.jstor.org...
Just as progressives were generally enthusiastic about socialist movements in the Soviet Union and Europe, they were also overwhelmingly supportive of the fascist movements in Italy and Germany during the 1920s and 1930s. “In many respects,” writes journalist Jonah Goldberg, “the founding fathers of modern liberalism, the men and women who laid the intellectual groundwork of the New Deal and the welfare state, thought that fascism sounded like ... a worthwhile 'experiment'”:...
According to Goldberg, progressives' affinity for fascism was quite understandable because, contrary to popular misconception: “[F]ascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left.”
To clarify this point, a working definition of fascism is in order. A comprehensive discussion of fascism's tenets and variations can be located here, but for the purpose of this discussion, fascism can be distilled down to this: It is a totalitarian movement that empowers an omnipotent government to control every nook and cranny of political, economic, social, and private life – generally in the name of “the public good.”...
Because progressivism embraces the ideal of nationalism and touts the so-called “Third Way” between capitalism and communism, its pedigree is closer to fascism than to communism. Progressivism and fascism share the totalitarian belief that with the proper amount of tinkering, social engineers will be able to realize the utopian dream of establishing a nation where perfect equality reigns. This mindset accounts for the support that the early progressives gave to eugenics, whose ultimate aim was the creation of a pure race, a “New Man”...
www.discoverthenetworks.org...
Corporatism and the Ghost of the Third Way
As the 19th century drew to a close, his Holiness Pope Leo XII grieved at the twin evils of liberalism and socialism, which he foresaw imperiling the peace of the coming century. His solution was the 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum...
These rules describe an economic model that soon gained wide acceptance as a Third Way:
...Corporatism is a body of normative economics promoted by the Roman Catholic Church from the late 19th century through the mid 20th century as a Third Way, in overt opposition to Protestant liberalism and atheist socialism.4 In truth, much of the model predates Leo’s encyclical, and is really due to 19th century academics disenchanted with liberalism and fearful of socialism – anti-Cartesian
philosophers romanticizing medieval Europe’s feudal guilds. However, the church’s explicit endorsement surely moved corporatism from seminar rooms to presidential palaces. Sermons from Catholic pulpits throughout Europe legitimized variants of corporatism in Fascist Italy.....