Al From & DLC 'agent provocateurs'

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/views04/0105-07.htm

Published on Monday, January 5, 2004 by
the San Francisco Chronicle

DLC: Wolves in Democrats' Clothing
by Harley Sorensen

 I'll bet not one American in 200 knows, or cares, who Al From is. And (let's go double or nothing) I'll bet not one in 20 knows, or cares, what the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is.
I know ... now ... because I looked it up last week. And both From and his council are powerful influences in this year's presidential campaigns.

Mr. From would argue with my description of him, but I'd describe him as a kind of agent provocateur, a plant inserted by the Republicans into the leadership of the Democrat Party. His goal: Wreck the party, turn it into the Republican Lite Party.

If that's his goal, he's doing a fine, fine job. And he's using the DLC to do it. He founded the DLC, a collection of Democrat politicians, in 1985, apparently out of fear that the Democrats were done as a political party. After all, they had not had a president for five full years.

In Al From's world, any Democrat who thinks like a Democrat is an extremist. A Democrat who thinks like a Republican is a centrist.
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[NJCher]

1. Al From and Joe Lieberman

What convinced me they truly are plants to subvert the Democratic party is when I heard them both use the same words in different interviews. You will notice this use of a couple marketing words--one of which is "new." "Move ahead." Both From and Lieberman used those words in different interviews.

You don't have to be in marketing or advertising to know this but there are certain words which have tremendous appeal: "free" is numero uno. A close runner up is "new." As a former copywriter, I used those words prolifically. There is even a book--"Words that Sell." They list the words that produce the best response in ads. "New" and "free" are just a few of them but those two are at the top of the list.

They use these terms without explaining them. "New." Yeah, totalitarianism and dictatorships are "new" to America. Does that mean they're good?

And "move ahead." Move ahead to what? From democracy to fascism?


Cher

[Bombtrack]

2. I sometimes wonder if these anti-moderate leftists are capable originality

or any kind of maverick thought.

I know you won't be happy until every democrat to the right of Ted Kennedy is kicked out of YOUR "open-minded" inclusive party.

On behalf of all of us "wolves in democrats clothing" I'd just like to sink to you're black-and-white, comic-book, level of discourse and say to Harley Sorensen and his fellow utopian whiners to fuck off

[Iverson]

3. You mean like that inept dodge?

Originality is nice, but accuracy is far more important.

Your post is a total straw man. Try debating the points that were actually raised instead of a convenient reinterpretation.

I also read the entire article, and nowhere did I find anything remotely similar to the "fuck off" that you offered as a representative sample of discourse. On the contrary, I found the solid information about Al From's membership in the national Chamber of Commerce to be useful.

Now that you've told lefties to "fuck off," are you still demanding their votes in 2004? America wants to know!

[Bombtrack]

4. I am a lefty

But I don't bash moderates or equate them to right-wingers , even moderates who are the most conservative of all dems, people like Breaux or Bayh, who are alot more conservative than me, but not "conservatives" at all.

[CWebster]

5. And

he is such a namby-pamby,soft, pasty white mama's boy to boot.