I don't buy pinning the blame on this for the media. When John McCain dinged Hillary for funding the Woodstock museum (remember? he's sure it was a nice concert, but he was tied up at the time?) the source wasn't the media and the target wasn't the media - it was a points scoring line for his consituancy. Likewise when Democrats discuss Iraq policy you can generally use your fingers count the number of minutes or paragraphs before someone mentioned Bush/Cheney/Rumsefelds/Whomever's student deferments from 'Nam. Any discussion of race includes ones relative proximity to MLK.
In both parties it's not about what's happening now - it's about what's happening now in the context of what happened in the late 60's. Everything, in the end, revolves around trhe late 60's. And it's getting pretty old.
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Date: 2008-04-18 10:07 am (UTC)In both parties it's not about what's happening now - it's about what's happening now in the context of what happened in the late 60's. Everything, in the end, revolves around trhe late 60's. And it's getting pretty old.