The Lunatics Crashed The Chamber of Commerce

[otohara]

server, trying to donate money per Glen Beck.

Guess they won't be satisfied until every job is outsourced to India and The Kingdom of Bahrain.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101014/bs_yblog_...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce says it received an "outpouring of support" that crashed its servers Thursday morning after conservative host Glenn Beck pledged $10,000 on the air to the organization and urged his listeners to donate what they can afford.

"Let's break all records," Beck said. "Let's show these people that we actually believe in something different from what Barack Obama and Joe Biden are saying, that we don't think the Chamber of Commerce is all of a sudden some KGB agent."

The Obama administration has recently questioned funding sources for the Chamber of Commerce, a business lobbying group that is spending tens of millions of dollars on advocacy ads critical of Democratic policies and candidates. ThinkProgress, a liberal blog run by the Center for American Progress Action Fund, has alleged that foreign funding is paying for political ads.

[704wipes]

1. Unless it was DUers just logging in to click around

for a while and donate NOTHING...

[otohara]

2. Nah - The Stupid, Following

their stupid leader Beck.

Millionaires and multinational corporations give thousands, these poor people don't need to be giving their Social Security money to The Chamber of Outsourcing.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Talking to these folks

I got to tell you somewhere their ability to think critically went away.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Once again...like the French Revolution, but in reverse

http://markmaynard.com/?p=7501

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The best part of the article is the contribution by Thomas Frank, the author of What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Here’s a highlight:

….Right-wing politics has become a vehicle for channelling this popular anger against intellectual snobs. The result is that many of America’s poorest citizens have a deep emotional attachment to a party that serves the interests of its richest.

Thomas Frank says that whatever disadvantaged Americans think they are voting for, they get something quite different:

“You vote to strike a blow against elitism and you receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our life times, workers have been stripped of power, and CEOs are rewarded in a manner that is beyond imagining… It’s like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy.”

As Mr Frank sees it, authenticity has replaced economics as the driving force of modern politics. The authentic politicians are the ones who sound like they are speaking from the gut, not the cerebral cortex. Of course, they might be faking it, but it is no joke to say that in contemporary politics, if you can fake sincerity, you have got it made.

And here, according to the author of the article, is the big takeaway message from all of this… “If people vote against their own interests, it is not because they do not understand what is in their interest or have not yet had it properly explained to them. They do it because they resent having their interests decided for them by politicians who think they know best. There is nothing voters hate more than having things explained to them as though they were idiots. As the saying goes, in politics, when you are explaining, you are losing. And that makes anything as complex or as messy as healthcare reform a very hard sell.”


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Those morons are giving their money to people who would spit on them if they could....

[otohara]

5. Nice

thanks for this...

[BrklynLiberal]

6. It is just soooooooo perfect for what is going on with the tbaggers and repuke followers.