Why is MSNBC in Aspen?

Did I miss something?

I thought maybe it was vacation time and then wondered if it was cooler there or something.

EDIT: There seems to be something going on there as a Union leader is there, and IIRC an Ambassador or official from Mexico.

Plutocrats Rising-- in Aspen! ...

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/07/paul-ryan-r-wi-may-be-clueless.html

More:



http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-rain-on-their-parade-randism-and.html

promoting their presense there, I suspected it was some sort of deal like that.

So far I've seen Andrea Greenspan and Chuckie Todd there. Anyone else?

Entering its sixth year, the Aspen Ideas Festival is taking place this week. Many Washington faces have been seen at the festival including Ayann Hirsi Ali, Fred Barnes, Gen. George Casey, Jr., Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.), Sidney Harman, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra, Andrea Mitchell, outgoing OMB director Peter Orzag and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.

Presented by the Aspen Institute and The Atlantic magazine, the Festival strives to highlight the ideas of experts at the forefront of their fields and of leaders whose actions are changing the world.

Pics of some other attendees:

http://washingtonscene.thehill.com/party-events-pictures/archive/5017-2010-aspen-ideas-festival

Can these people be considered human anymore?

I have NO doubt MSNBC would not want to miss that unless, of course, Lohan changes her nail polish to showcase a new 'thought'.

:rofl:

:-)

I was going to say waiting for the aspens to turn.

Do Aspens Turn in Clusters?
How much does Scooter Libby really know about trees?

http://www.slate.com/id/2128205

Your reporting, and you, are missed. Like many Americans, I admire your principled stand. But, like many of your friends and readers, I would welcome you back among the rest of us, doing what you do best – reporting......


You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover – Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work – and life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers.


The full letter here

It is now famous thanks to Scooter and Judith, lol.

"Out west, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- to life." (Scooter to Judy)

It makes it convenient to spread their BS that Obama is anti-business. This is how the media works to make sure that Democrats don't actually govern as Democrats.

:puke:

they never really explained it......

Obviously they went there to do some man on the street stuff to find out how the average American is doing. Up next, a town hall meeting in Malibu.

A few days ago my local ex-radio talkshow wingnut GLEEFULLY sent me the first link, below, that says OBAMA's natural constituency/intelligencia were turning against him.

I replied: "Lloyd GROVE is a gossip columnist. ZUCKERMAN is an albatross, formerly a FOB (Friend of Bill's). As for Babs and Mr STREISAND, I love her as a musical treasure and value all exceptional people who publically identify themselves as being on the political Left and love it when such artists fling zingers at wingnuts, but as for gossip GROVE to cite the STREISANDs as political authorities, uh, no."

Later I found the CONASON article on Nazi FERGUSON.




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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-07/aspen-ideas-festival-obama-loses-support-of-nations-elite/?cid=hp:beastoriginalsC2

The Elite Turn Against Obama

by Lloyd Grove

Even the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, isn't Obama country anymore. Lloyd Grove on the president's waning support among the intelligentsia. ....

“If you’re asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, I’d say it’s actually about to become a European state, with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what we’ve already experienced in Western Europe,” Harvard business and history professor Niall Ferguson declared during Monday’s kickoff session, offering a withering critique of Obama’s economic policies, which he claimed were encouraging laziness. ....

Ferguson was joined in his harsh attack by billionaire real estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. Both lambasted Obama’s trillion-dollar deficit spending program—in the name of economic stimulus to cushion the impact of the 2008 financial meltdown—as fiscally ruinous, potentially turning America into a second-rate power.

This was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbra Streisand and her husband James Brolin. “Depressing, but fantastic,” Streisand told me afterward, rendering her verdict on the session. “So exciting. Wonderful!”

Brolin’s assessment: “Mind-blowing.”





http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joe_conason/2010/07/07/fergie/index.html

Sure, listen to Niall Ferguson -- but always ignore his bad advice

The celebrity historian sternly advises us to adopt a GOP budget, which will leave us deeper in debt

By Joe Conason

Before the inquiring minds at the Aspen Ideas Festival go totally gaga over Niall Ferguson, perhaps they ought to know a little more about the British historian's keen desire to punish our pampered working families, and how he would prefer to see us spend our dollars.

As a celebrity intellectual, Ferguson much prefers the broad, bold stroke to the careful detail, so it is scarcely surprising that he endorsed Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan's "wonderful" budget template, confident that his audience in Aspen would know almost nothing about that document. For Ferguson, the most beguiling quality of Ryan's budget must be its bias against the working and middle classes and in favor of the wealthy. But as the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities revealed in a scorching review, the plan doesn't work even on its own terms. ....

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It's called Medieval Europe.

They don't even bother to hide it anymore. The Titanic is going down and they want to make sure we're locked in Steerage with a gun pointed at us.