Leslie Thatcher for Truthout: Mike, tell us a little about your background before you were a GOP staffer and how you came to be disenchanted with the Senate. Mike Lofgren: I grew up in a provincial town, a company town, in Ohio, where there was an incestuous relationship between politicians, journalists and lobbyists: nominally, they were…
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Press Agent for the Super-Rich
Published Oct. 17, 2011 in the Washington Monthly. ( Link to article) It is hardly surprising that the super-rich hire press agents to sing their praises. Since time out of mind, the powerful have tossed a few pieces of silver to writers willing to extol them. So it appears to be with John Steele Gordon,…
Goodbye to All That
Barbara Stanwyck: “We’re both rotten!” Fred MacMurray: “Yeah – only you’re a little more rotten.” -”Double Indemnity” (1944) Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten – how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the…