The Elite surround themselves with their peers, minions, and court jesters. Their minions are expendable, the jesters replaceable, and periodically they wage war against their peers. But … The Elite can always agree on this:
They never support anything that would thwart whatever it is they want to do. And they want what all gangsters have always wanted … more.
Yesterday I read the latest at the Brilliant at Breakfast Blog: The rise and fall of prog-talk radio
(http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-rise-and-fall-of-prog-talk-radio.html)
She extensively quotes from a column at Truthout.org written by Peter B. Collins.
An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution (http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14355-an-insiders-view-of-the-progressive-talk-radio-devolution)
The blogger and Peter B. got some of it right but most of it wrong.
Disclaimer: The optimists say the glass is half full. Pessimists say the glass is half empty. I tend to think the glass is half empty and we’re all gonna die.
But I digress …