In Honor of Netroots Nation, Washington Journal Features Susie Madrak
By Susie Madrak Sunday Aug 16, 2009 9:00amIt's a little weird to be posting a video that features me as a guest on Washington Journal (not the least of which is that it feels really creepy to be writing headlines about myself), but here goes: On the whole, I'm happy with my segment. (Except for the part where I missed it that a caller said he was reading the Drudge Report to find out what was going on. Arggh. I missed a real opportunity to educate him.) You can see Parts 2 and 3 here. (Thanks, Heather!)
My favorite part is when I call Glenn Beck "a nut, we all know he's a nut".
Among the other issues addressed: Netroots "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" Syndrome; healthcare reform; network news "analysts," and much more. Enjoy!
And as I mention in the closing segment, I was interested to note that the Republican and Democratic callers all expressed similar concerns.
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It does little for objectivity.
Ms. Madrak is putting herself out there so we can express our subjectivity.
I think you just repeated what I said, IN SPITE, of saying ACTUALLY.
I thought you meant her objectivity.
Objectivity period.
My point is reinforced repeatedly.
Never mind.
[Never mind.]
Best point you've made yet.
You have not followed my work.
...on this thread.
See below…
Glenn Beck is a highly paid PERFORMER.
He performs on behalf of the Corporate Feudal Overlords.
He plays the role of a nut case. He does it extremely well.
I only needed EVER, all told, to watch ONE five minute clip of him to understand this.
Ms Madrak seems NOT to have gotten the memo and is really not up to the task. My purpose is not to diminish her efforts but to help her refine them.
The Corporate Media is operating on two planes, what appears to be, and what actually is.
Glenn Beck, the person, is completely unimportant. Where or when he fails, the Overlords will find another.
The mission is propaganda. Influencing and manipulating public opinion against its own interests.
It is a corollary of Madison Avenue. Selling you something that is AGAINST your interest, and making you LIKE IT.
Or with the nut cases, or most of the public which does not seek out the solid information, sowing confusion.
Madison Avenue has very smart, highly paid, highly cynical people working overtime to do this.
Obama's campaign won the Cannes Award. It was ALSO all about advertising.
We have a Corporate State, all push back needs to be directed accordingly.
is to create conflict/dissent where there isn't any, same with all of them. The corporate tools.
Right on
So what if Glenn Beck is a nut. He and his crowd have driven the health care reform their way. They have effectively killed it. What have the "netroots" accomplished? Wait until 2010 I hear. I can't tell you how disappointed I have been in Obama. If the "netroots" somehow thought that they could count on him for any progressive action, I think their eyes should be wide open at this point. Obama's and the Democrat's failure on this health care reform should be a hard lesson. The poor and the middle class will gain nothing from this reform. The insurance and drug companies stand to reap great rewards. The best thing the progressives can do at this point is to vote no with the republicans and let things continue as they are.
That's so what. Nothing has been voted on yet to fail. The only 'failure' I see is the fact that The Obama White House has yet to really get tough on all the destructive misinformation concerning Healthcare reform and those that are spreading it, namely Big Insurance. It's Big Insurance that will take most of the beating. If Public Option becomes a reality, which I hope it does, they will have to start lowering their premiums just to be competitive. It is said that Big Pharma is on board with Healthcare Reform because they were promised their profits won't suffer. I know that sounds like sell out, but you have to start somewhere.
But, unfortunately, it will be watered down and have just enough (meaningless) reform so that both sides can claim "victory". I can already hear Obama saying "..Look...we didn't get everything we wanted...but it's a start...". Of course the Republicans will use it as a battle cry for the next 3.4 years ("we fought back...and won!"). Then, we'll move on to the next issue (taxes, climate, iraq etc..) and each one will again be a battle against the Rightwing propaganda machine and each time the (too late) WH response will be "We didn't see it coming" (Yep, that's what they said about the pushback on healthcare!).
And at this point, that's how I'm leaning. Unless Howard Dean encourages me to support the final version, I will ask my congress critter to vote no.
unless it's "Single Payer"! Then start over.
I'm on Medicare and it's the most secure I've felt my whole life.
the Republicans will say "The Democrats didn't even have the conviction to vote yes on their own bill! They can't be trusted to lead."
The "death panel" canard began over amonth and a half ago. By not responding IMMEDIATELY and forcefully on message to the pushback the Dems put themselves in a no-win situation. Instead, the WH says "we never saw it coming." It's their JOB to see it coming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjVKUap1HgU
I watched all 3 honey. Can we get some Nicole Belle and some Blue Gal on that boob tube too. I don't mean to leave out the other writers just saying.
Because one of the the Washington Journal producers is a long-time reader of my blog.
My blog is http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. I do video blogs fairly regularly, and if you wanna see a retrospective you might like this one, for instance. (Nicole Belle is anonymous, and blogs only at C&L as far as I know.) xoxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYsvre1h6Oo
I just went over your blog yesterday, for real. I was going to ask for a larger picture of your tire so I could see if it was underinflated. :P An underinflated tire chews the sidewalls up very bad, you would see a ring of white cords around the sides walls on the inside, and a pile ground up rubber. It is not safe but also severly drops the fuel milage to run tire that low. I believe what you wrote, but I don't take other mechanics opionions to seriously, I have to see it for myself.
I am a you tube subscriber of yours, think its Veohblows, maybe highcrimes105.
**Susie I see allot of guests on Washington Journal, I think you did a good job, I also think bluegal would do great too. Hint, Hint, wink , wink**
P.S.
You in that bath tub full of cheetos is HOT, lol.
And as I mention in the closing segment, I was interested to note that the Republican and Democratic callers all expressed similar concerns.
An excellent observation. That's why the corporations have to manufacture the lies and fear that divide the public. Poor, white, rural (and angry) Republicans lack access to adequate health care (and deserve better) just as badly as the rest of the people in this country do. They simply (often willfully) lack information--but think of the muscle they could provide if they'd just get behind their own best interests. And I'd go to the wall for my Republican relative in Oklahoma--we ALL deserve adequate health care; we're ALL worried about our medical expenses bankrupting us.
The corporations better hope like hell they never wake up to this fact. Imagine if all of us were pulling in the same direction to "support the general welfare," regardless of political persuasion. We'd be a force. And no one would tell us no.
handed it to them on a sliver platter in fact.
chrome-plated (poorly) recycled steel. Probably a '75 Mustang II, sent from some US port city, to China, where it was melted down, repoured, thinly-chromed, sold to Corporate secretaries (at a discount), used by us (paid minimum wage), to serve Them.
using toxic chemicals that will assuredly leach into our environment.
WASHINGTON – Bowing to Republican pressure, President Barack Obama's administration signaled on Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new U.S. health care system.
Okay, back to our crumbling economy.
Oh well.
It was fun while it lasted.
What's next on Obama's agenda?
Does it really matter?
the rich . . . while the rest of us sink.
That's been the tagline of the Democratic Party ever since Clinton was impeached.
That's been the tagline of the Democratic Party ever since Clinton was
impeachedELECTED.Fixed it!
A tagline it is. Most of the time the Demblicans and Replicats are going in the same direction anyway.
They just try to maintain the appearance of being different, opposing forces.
They are one in the same.
they are philosphically very different but equally corruptable.
There were ideological differences in the recent past.
but where are they now?
add to the discourse by calling it government run. If we can't get the message right, how do you expect the teabaggers to?
...it's just kind of self serving and self promoting. Blogging about yourself going on TV news to talk about yourself blogging about TV news seems kind of empty, circular, and self absorbed to me.
That aside I thought that your comments about others distorting debate of the news sounded kind of hypocritical considering it was just days ago on this blog you were comparing people you don't agree with to brutal Nazi prison camp guards.
I generally agree with your politics and I am not trying to attack you here. I am just offering a little constructive food for thought.
Bon Appetit!
"self serving and self promoting"
Because corporate control of the government is actually one of the hallmarks. Treating workers badly, stripping them of protections, making them work harder for less money and making them fear for their jobs...
Do you think fascism marches in with a big sign identifying itself? It's incremental, like the old story about the frog in the pot of boiling water.
I don't mind being self-promoting. I think there should be more people like me on TV. I care about average people and most of the talking heads don't.
Keep on the good job!
Fascism, pronounced /ˈfæʃɪzəm/, comprises a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology[1][2][3][4] and a corporatist economic ideology. [5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism
You did an outstanding job, laying out what's wrong with the healthcare debate! Thank you so much!
Calling someone a "nut" should not be your favorite part of appearing on Washington Journal. You loose all your credibility when you resort to name calling. I dislike it when the conservatives do it, and dislike even more when liberals do it. I think we are better than that!
I think we keep losing the political battles because we're not good at marketing our ideas, nor do we push back effectively against their bad ones. Notice how they got "death panels" all over the place within a few days. Where's our counterpart?
How about hijacking some of their stuff, they are like the little kid thats mocks everything you say, you can win if they slip up and start mocking them!!!
I invision a nice comercial, you could use my story or even yours, show the phone conversation with the health providers, 1 side of the screen a death panel with actors dressed as the reaper with a sickle, and the other side a sick or hurt person asking for help. Lawyers dressed as reapers, too. Back at em. Keep it up.
I believe I need to get active, was think of making Hr.676 flyers and hanging them up all around Lebanon, hehe.
it would have sounded better if one of the other writers at C&L introduced it as such. That said, I doubt Ms. Madrak's ego will ever rival that of glenn beck's, nor get his national platform anytime soon, sadly, so self-promote away!
Calling glenn beck a "nut" IS name-calling and perhaps childish, but I'm glad it was said. Perhaps now, others will feel freer to criticize him and others in the corpromedia. I'm tired of people having to mince words when discussing these tools.
Then this existing bill needs to be defeated. Yes, I'm serious. Otherwise we may end up with a Medicare Part D but worse and far-reaching. No bill is better than a bad bill.
If you take the good parts out of this bill, then you are left with only the things added to it to get Republican votes. Then Republicans can still vote against it and look good while getting the parts they wanted.
I really don't like the congressional dem leadership, but I think they are being outfoxed here (yes double-pun). But, how many Dems are also heavily lobbied and financed by PhRma?
(disclosure - used to work at two major pharmaceuticals)
If no public option and no single-payer then "Kill Bill!". Do not let them position us that we are so happy just to get "anything" and take an even larger compromise of bad inclusions. Make this congress take the hit as the guys that didn't have the spine - again - to reform health care even with a majority and a Democratic president.
Also, don't lose focus. Take the 2-4 year (election cycle) gap to collect US health care horror stories and make the pressure on re-election very large. IIRC I think Carville put an article out thinking the same way on targeting any non-supportive Congress up for re-election. Shouters at town halls may get them to back down, but they can be booted quietly at the ballot box.
And guaranteed that every Rethug will indeed jump ship when the vote is called, so they can say that they voted against "Socialized medicine" when '10 election season begins.
And I'm not a big one for 11-dimensional chess, as you may have noticed. I think they're going to structure something that will work like the public option, but will be called something else.
It might work.
I don't know if C&L brought Susie on to driver readers away or if she bought the company, but either way, she is is full of herself and so lacking of the facts that I assume Mr. Amato is no longer part of this self serving crap.
Good job Susie. Congratulations and thank you.
The two parties have ideological differences on paper... their propoganda is different to appeal to different people. But they DO the same things. Don't believe me? Now that democrats are in control, how much of the BS that happened under GWB has been reversed or undone? Not much... if anything.
The war on terror rages on... and of course it will, that is exactly what the MIC wants/needs. A never ending supply of orders/cash to kill an enemy that doesn't really exist and thus can never be destroyed. The War on Terror, the forever war... supported by both parties.
This isn't about R vs D, . It is about gov vs the people. Or maybe the elite vs the masses. It doesn't really matter. The masses are so busy calling each other names and blaming each other that the criminals in charge can do pretty much anything.
That campaign finance reform should be our primary focus.
Campaign finance reform is merely that thin sliver of the iceberg that's visible above the waterline. Capitalism as our primary means of economic behavior comprises the bulk of that berg. Dare I say that Capitalism needs a total rework?!
Wow, just saying that seems sacrilegious, doesn't it? We seem to have a sworn fealty to this now ubiquitous economic system. And, we don't seem to have a frame of reference for the fact that less than 460 people worldwide control better than 45% of our planet's resources. There are better than 6.7 billion people on this planet!!! Doesn't anyone else see anything WRONG with this picture?!?!
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