Right before the Wisconsin Primary debate, I posted about how I thought Howard Dean could dramatically re-shape the race with his own Sistah Souljah moment...
I wanted him to use a big news story, Janet Jackson and the Super Bowl, to get Howard some headlines and I thought I found an intellectually consistent way to do it.
Everyone here thought I was crazy...
I wanted him to link the view by some in this society that there has been a downward spiral of violence and vulgarity in popular culture to the view by others that the media had been letting us down in their reporting of the news...
I wanted him to tag John Kerry (who was getting big support from Sumner Redstone owner of Viacom and CBS) as the candidate of Big Media -- and to tag Bush with this in the general election, too).
The Right and Left come together in their concern about Big Media Corporate Consolidation. It is something that, for different reasons, social conservatives, media critics, and anti-corporate populists can all agree...
Joe Klein was saying on Air America yesterday that Middle America is working long hours and is forced to leave their kids in front of the TV and that they feel powerless against "Liberal Hollywood" and their ability to influence their children's morals and values in the current climate.
But who's really responsible?
Corporations like FOX networks, who on the one hand preach RNC talking points, but who have been the chief architects of the dumbing down of American culture.
And corporate execs like Sumner Redstone, who owns Viacom and CBS, supported Kerry in the Primaries and then switched to endorse Bush in the general.
It is not the liberal Hollywood elite -- it is unrestrained corporate profiteering...
It is not liberals, but Republican supporting corporations.
I'm not saying this as eloquently as I would like, and I apparently didn't in February since nobody wanted to discuss it...
But if we want to start peeling some support away from the Republican corporate power structure in this country, and we want to stop having elections on God, guns, and gays... And we want to start appealing to families with confederate flags on their cars who don't have jobs or healthcare...
Then I think this is a solid place to start.
Still sound crazy?
