You Got The Power, Inc.
Program Outline
April 14, 2010
Topic of Discussion: Political Pimping
- ABC News reports that former Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin earn $12 million since she resigned as Governor
- A copy of Palin's contract for a speech at a California University found in a trash can reveals Palin's compensation demands
- Among the perks laid out in the contract, the former Alaska governor will fly first class from Anchorage to California — if she flies commercial. If not, "the private aircraft MUST BE a Lear 60 or larger ..." the contract specifies
- Palin also must be provided with a suite and two single rooms in a deluxe hotel near the campus
- During her speech, her lectern must be stocked with two water bottles and bendable straws
- Her appearance at the university gala is expected to draw a large crowd, with tickets selling for $500 each
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In his book "What's the Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America." Thomas Frank asks a question that many people are asking today when watching protesting groups act against their own interest.
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Frank uses Kansas as a metaphor for the entire United States
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Frank says "the pre-eminent question of our times" is why people misunderstand "their fundamental interests"
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Frank believes the rich manipulate people of modest means, making them angry about abortion and other social issues so that they will vote for politicians who will cut taxes on the rich
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Fevered thinking creating cultural wars in the United States is a staple of what historians call "the paranoid style in American politics," a style practiced, even pioneered, a century ago
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Instead of selling politics on sound principles manipulators have people of modest mean imagining themselves in a revolt of the little people against a high and mighty elite
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The manipulators use soundbites that insists the elite's scheme is to press down on the hard-working world, which, by the way, most white Americans identify themselves as the "hard working" group being abused
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Another peculiarity of the "hard working" group's backlash is its fantasy of victimhood
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Populist in these new grassroot movements understand themselves as people with a terrible grievance against a society that that insults them, discriminates against them, and even persecutes them
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They are chronically outraged and offended by everything
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Republicans leadership have transformed themselves from aristocrats into a national political party that is the brawling, beer-drinking buddy of the working man
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The relationship between the people of modest means and their aristocrat beer-buddy has helped to sell: Privatization. Deregulation. Monopolies in every industry from banking to radio to meatpacking
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We are observing a populist movement that has done irreversible harm to the material interests of the common people it professes to love
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Ernest C. Dillard in his series "Truth on Race" wrote an article titled: 'White People Wake Up'
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Dillard writes:
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"Today, in the first decade of the Twenty first Century, conservative, and racist politicians treat white voters like shackled, white Slaves, standing without voice. nor vote … at high-noon, on today’s political Auction Block, in the nation’s Capitol"
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"It is a tragic fact, that conservative and racist politicians’ hold an organic, public contempt, for white folk with problems"
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Dillard ask the White voter:
Comments
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Apr 24, 2010Posted By
Mike MObama made money off his books but wrote them while he was in office - moon lighting. Sarah spit at all those liberal funded litigaters in Alaska who would have loved to have schackled her from doing her job there and turned it all around. Good for her; nothing can infuriate your enemies more than shoving a cork in their mouths and making a LOT of money in spite of them.
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Apr 25, 2010Posted By
MorphusAt least then Senator Obama wrote his own book. The grifter and quitter used a ghost writer to write her book, plus the books are sold in bulk. Meaning, the 'Hockey Mom' is about as real as a three dollar bill.
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