"In many ways, President Clinton was the best Republican president since Ronald Reagan – his three signature accomplishments were NAFTA, welfare reform and dismantling the rules that governed Wall Street. In his defense, he didn’t know at the time how they would turn out."

Not to mention the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996

I'm no fan of Fox News.....that being said.....isn't it a very slippery slope
once we start trying to silence ANY news assimilating organization just because we don't
agree with their views?

It said the left should fight them by building an equivalent communication and media infrastructure.

This dates back to the 1960's - hell even the 1950's with the Bircher/Anti-Communist movement.

Fox is just the mouth piece for dominionists who truly believe in the depth of their souls that biblical law should rule the land.

I think the headline writer was just trying to grab attention, but it's somewhat deceptive since Fox is not the focus of the piece.

<<The conservatives after the Goldwater election, Goldwater defeat, they built out a network of think tanks, the Federalist Society, CATO, AEI, the Heritage Foundation, those in combination with the Chamber of Commerce, with the Koch brothers … this whole infrastructure is the problem. And the legacy needs to address that infrastructure problem....


...Expanding on her last point, Payne elaborated:

It was just 12 years ago that people woke up to what the right wing had built since the 1964 Goldwater defeat. I was in many of those early meetings in which we shared the research about the right-wing intellectual and communications infrastructure with activists, funders and political leaders. The idea that there was a world outside – or, more accurately, underneath and behind — electoral politics was paradigm shifting. Now, 12+ years later working together, those people have built some of the institutions that will change the country for the better. But as trite as it sounds, you have to walk before you run – and these organizations have just now begun to get to the place where they can start to run.>>

It has some good dot connecting in it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5074259

There's also an interesting blog out of Western Michigan I've come across - Media Mouse.

This writer really has his/her hooks into a complete outline of the organizations.

What I would love to do is some sort of map showing how all points on this nonsense lead to a select few people at the top. And all of those top folks - all of them want a Far Right Christian take over of America and have for almost 100 years.

on Steve Kornacki's show (last Saturday?) and thought, "she's spot on and brilliant."

Bookmarking this to delve into later.

K&R.

crocodile.