Bush Apologist Who "Threatened" Me is Olbermann's "Best (Worst)"

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Tuesday April 14, 2009 · 8:01 PM PDT

2009/04/14 · 20:01

This is immensely gratifying!

I recently posted two diaries about Pepperdine University's Professor Robert G. Kaufman's statement that:

If I had to recommend one single thing that the Republicans should be doing to help articulate the message, it is to acquire another television network so that there is not just FOX....

I thereafter sent "tips" to Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and MediaMatters, among others, about the statement, linking my first diary. Soon thereafter, independent links to that diary, and a YouTube clip of Kaufman, courtesy of Kossack tbetz, were proliferating on the blogosphere.

Yesterday, I wrote to Professor Kaufman requesting clarification or elaboration. Our exchange is memorialized in my second diary. But there's more: Professor Kaufman now has the distinction of being at the top of Keith Olbermann's Countdown's "Best Persons in the World" for April 14, 2009, as the number one "Best Confession".

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 9:14 AM PDT

2009/04/13 · 09:14

Over the weekend, I diaried about Professor Robert G. Kaufman's remarkable statement that the GOP needs to "acquire another TV network" so that FOX isn't the only alternative source for the right. At the time of that diary, the C-SPAN webcast had been viewed 3 times. As of a short while ago, it had been viewed 44 times, the YouTube clip courtesy of tbetz had gotten over 2000 hits, and at least a dozen blogs had picked it up.

I'd like to reiterate that what we refer to as the right's "ownership" of FOX is not news. By contrast, however, Kaufman's very casual public pronouncement implying just that was stunning news indeed. Not for what he said, but the fact that he said it. Consequently, I emailed Kaufman (robert.kaufman@pepperdine.edu) and his "media staff" (ted.garcia@pepperdine.edu, christina.ramirez@pepperdine.edu) at Pepperdine University requesting clarification of his comments. A copy of my message is below.

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Saturday April 11, 2009 · 3:55 PM PDT

2009/04/11 · 15:55

On April 6, 2009, the University of Colorado hosted the 61st Annual Conference on World Affairs, which included a panel presentation entitled Rebranding Republicans: Don't Misunderestimate Us, recorded by and broadcast on C-SPAN. Among the panelists was Robert G. Kaufman, author of In Defense of the Bush Doctrine: Moral Democratic Realism and American Grand Strategy, published in 2007. In a ten-minute presentation, Mr. Kaufman posited five "core principles" that Republicans must embrace if they are to succeed "when Obama fails." (emphasis suppied)

There is much to find disturbing in Mr. Kaufman's presentation, such as his assumption that Obama will fail and his assertion that "multiculturalism is a euphemism for the Balkanization of the United States". However, his "recommendation" that the GOP "acquire another television network" to disseminate its message in future elections is both an audacious proposal and a stunning admission.* (emphasis supplied)

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 9:27 AM PDT

2008/10/24 · 09:27

Me? I'll be eating a four-year-old fortune cookie with a glass of champagne.

Just a little more than four years ago, I flew from New York to Florida to train and serve as a Democratic party pollwatcher on Election Day. It seems like yesterday. I remember the sleepless night and the anxiety, the smugness of my Republican counterparts. As I stood in the airport security line to come home, I heard whomever was behind me in line talking animatedly with a companion, laughing...LAUGHING! I recall wondering how anyone could laugh on that day, when it felt to me like someone close or something important had died an unjust death, and I realized, sadly, that we, as a nation, had "chosen" Orwellian rule over reason. Laughter that day seemed to me as strange and unexpected as it might have in New York City on the sunny afternoon of September 11, 2001, or on the many days after it, when even the music didn't play. I experienced each, to quote Don McClean, as "the day the music died..."

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How will you celebrate an Obama victory?

I'll be hootin' and hollerin' in a bar with my friends.

5 votes

I'll be dressing up as Sarah Palin wearing something tattered from the Salvation Army with sensible flats.

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By eating P-I-E!

8 votes

By reapplying my lipstick and, also, kissing anyone and everyone I see. Also.

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I'll be right here with you guys reading and posting and sharing the joy!

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I'll have too many tears in my eyes to do anything except feel around for the tissue box..

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Hell, no, I ain't jinxing things by thinking yet about any damned celebration, thank you.

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