{"id":12180,"date":"2008-05-15T14:22:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12180"},"modified":"2008-05-15T14:22:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-15T20:22:52","slug":"progg-media-respects-barack-obamas-authoritah-karl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12180","title":{"rendered":"Progg Media respects Barack Obama&#8217;s authoritah [Karl]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Media USA &#8211;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the David Brock-helmed group organized to be the main soft-money advertising vehicle for Democrats in the fall &#8211;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2008\/05\/democratic_media_group_scales.html\">ditching<\/a> its previously announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0408\/9514.html\">$40 million\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0attack\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0effort<\/a> against John McCain,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 after Barack Obama&#8217;s camp\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0told supporters\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0508\/10315.html\">not<\/a> to give money to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0independent expenditure\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0groups.<\/p>\n<p>That does not mean that McCain will not be attacked.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Rather, it means that such attacks will be coordinated\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0through the DNC or Obama&#8217;s campaign infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Open Left&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openleft.com\/showDiary.do?diaryId=5637\">Chris Bowers<\/a> wrote an important post last week about the way in which Obama&#8217;s campaign infrastructure was consolidating his power over the Democratic party.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 However, a close reading of Bowers also lends itself to concluding that Obama&#8217;s campaign infrastructure is both independent from and likely an\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0influence overarching the Democratic party if (as expected) he becomes the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p>The immediate capitulation of Brock&#8217;s Progg Media (which is likely indirectly tied to George Soros) is the first concrete\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0sign of Obama&#8217;s increasing authoritah.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Those who were already inclined to see the Obama campaign as a cult of personality should take note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Progressive Media USA &#8211;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the David Brock-helmed group organized to be the main soft-money advertising vehicle for Democrats in the fall &#8211;\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0is ditching its previously announced $40 million\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0attack\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0effort against John McCain,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 after Barack Obama&#8217;s camp\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0told supporters\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0not to give money to\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0independent expenditure\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0groups. That does not mean that McCain will not be attacked.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Rather, it means that such attacks will be coordinated\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0through the DNC or Obama&#8217;s campaign infrastructure. Open Left&#8217;s Chris Bowers wrote<\/p>\n<div class=\"belowpost\"><a class=\"btnmore\" href=\"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12180\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}