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This makes me think maybe the next generation doesn't need a kick in the teeth.Submit this article to The Obama News

"Obama's crew, I think, will finally understand how to use that technology to effectively bypass journalists and journalism. (Think of how that much-vaunted e-mail and text-messaging list could be used to effectively blunt the impact of any negative news. Start by simply releasing the news using these channels while the journos are tied up in the news conference.)"Submit this article to The Obama News

Bill Ayers's first (I think?) interview since the election. In any case, he didn't talk during the election, but now he is talking. I like: "Well, what I didn't want to comment on was the political campaign. I didn't want to enter into that. The reason is simple: I thought that I was being used as a prop in a very dishonest narrative -- and I didn't want to be part of the narrative and I couldn't find a way to interrupt it. Anything that I said was going to feed that narrative. So I felt that part of this was the demonization of me -- certainly that I'm some kind of toxic agent that has to be feared." It has to feel weird to be That Guy -- the one everyone's talking about as some kind of evil man.Submit this article to The Obama News

The good news: we just have to wait for these assholes to die off.Submit this article to The Obama News

Eight years ago a new president, having won barely a majority of electoral votes and having lost the popular vote, named one of the most partisan, divisive men in America as his attorney general. Fourteen years ago, Newt Gingrich and his pals came into power with a net gain of 54 House seats and eight seats in the Senate and called it a revolution, and until they shut down the government in 1995, it was unheard of to question whether or not they might "overreach."Submit this article to The Obama News

Who in the media should I thank for dumbing down Americans?Submit this article to The Obama News

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