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Tue May-20-08 11:38 AM
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Obama's inner circle & Big Media

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2008/02/obamas-inner-circle-big-media.html

Here are three pieces, sent to me by my friend Mark Lloyd. In "Obama boasts a dedicated, high-powered inner circle," which ran on popmatters.com about a year ago, we learn a lot about that group.

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Right now I want to focus on Obama's connections with the telecom industry. Among his closest friends are Broderick Johnson, a lobbyist for AT&T (and former Clinton White House aide), and Julius Genchowski, general counsel and senior VP of corporate deveopment at Barry Diller's HSNi Broadcasting.

Just below are some pertinent pieces: one on Genachowski's appointment, and the other on AT&T's recent lobbying effort.

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Hillary Clinton is not likely to make things much better. (Rupert Murdoch hosted her first big fundraiser in New York!) And what about Barack Obama? From his words, one gets a vague impression that he'd surely do what's right. But we don't get that impression from the company he keeps; so we should keep an eye on this, and make sure that Obama, on this all-important issue, is really as unlike McCain as we would like to think.

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BlooInBloo

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Tue May-20-08 11:43 AM
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1. He's fine on net neutrality, media consolidation and other liberal positions...

http://obama.senate.gov/podcast/060608-network_neutral/

http://obama.senate.gov/press/071022-obama_fcc_polic/

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/

And telecom immunity, he's on the correct side as well:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/feb/12/terrorism.usa

So your fear, uncertainty, and doubt tactics can fuck off.

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DevonRex

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Tue May-20-08 11:52 AM
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4. Very well said. :) nt

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leftofcool

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Tue May-20-08 11:45 AM
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2. I guess you didn't get the memo

Obama is perfect. He keeps company only with saints.

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DAGDA56

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Tue May-20-08 12:11 PM
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5. I'm not so sure...that Broderick Johnson fellow seems to have worked for some

Edited on Tue May-20-08 12:11 PM by DAGDA56

pretty shady characters in the past.

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cliffordu

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Tue May-20-08 11:51 AM
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3. Aren't you forgetting about Obama's constant quoting of Rove's

statistics and using his playbook??

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