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"Center-Right Nation" Watch
Open Left - Front Page — In my newspaper column this week, I noted that the term "center-right nation" is now the word du jour for the elite media and Punditburo. We are being told that no matter how big a progressive landslide Tuesday may bring, our country nonetheless will always be a "center-right nation." The latest to invoke this is Charles Krauthammer in a column titled ...

"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Doug Schoen Edition
Open Left - Front Page — ... Schoen knows all this - and so his column is yet another preemptive effort to claim that a Democratic victory on Tuesday obviously - self-evidently! - means America is more conservative than ever. While he doesn't employ the exact phrase "center-right nation" as the rest of the Punditburo has, he's echoing the same message: Namely, that no matter how big a progressive victory may occur on election day, no matter ...

VIDEO: Center-Right Nation Highlight Reel
Open Left - Front Page — ... As I said in my column, "the 'center-right nation' phrase is being parroted with the propagandistic discipline of Cuba's Ministry of Information." ...

Fox’s Nina Easton: ‘I think there’s a real possibility’ that this is now a ‘center-left’ country.
Think Progress — ... of that, and partly because the nature of the use of government has changed so dramatically over the past year, two years.” Watch it: Conservatives, fearful that a progressive tide is coming, have been trying to push the claim in recent days that “this is a center-right country.” (Watch this video.) As David Sirota has explained, this propagandistic talking point is pure myth. ...

A Center-Left Country
Matthew Yglesias — Wow. As David Sirota has documented in print and Ali Frick in video form, pundits have been all over the place declaring, without evidence, that America is a “center-right nation” irrespective of election outcomes or opinion polling on issues. But now it looks like Nina Easton is breaking with the dogma and going with common sense — the huge progressive wave means we’re a center-left country: Of course it’ll only stay that way if the new ...

Conservatives Who Slammed Obama For Being A Socialist Now Say He Ran A ‘Center-Right’ Campaign
Think Progress — ... Rove, in particular, has been consistently hammering Obama for being too liberal. “Nonpartisan ratings say that he has a more liberal and a more straight-party voting record than Senator Clinton does,” quipped Rove back in January. “Pretty hard to do.” Rove has also said that Obama’s policies were “anti-business” and “almost Marxian.” Read more on the myth of the center-right nation by David Sirota, Paul Waldman, and Media Matters. ...

Elite Media Voices Begin Making Our Arguments
Open Left - Front Page — ... been one of millions of progressives who have been out in the wilderness for so long, it's hard to believe I can write this, but I can: It seems the demands for rejecting the "center-right nation" meme, accepting the progressive mandate of the election, Going Big and emulating FDR - the demands we've been all making - are starting to be echoed even in the elite media stratosphere. And that's a damn good thing. REJECTING THE CENTER-RIGHT NATION MEME Here's a syndicated column I wrote that appeared in national newspapers on 10/31/08: ...

David Sirota: Elite Media Voices Begin Making Our Arguments
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... one of millions of progressives who have been out in the wilderness for so long, it's hard to believe I can write this, but I can: It seems the demands for rejecting the "center-right nation" meme, accepting the progressive mandate of the election, Going Big and emulating FDR - the demands we've been all making - are starting to be echoed even in the elite media stratosphere. And that's a damn good thing. REJECTING THE CENTER-RIGHT NATION MEME Here's a syndicated column I wrote that appeared in national newspapers on 10/31/08: ...

"Center-Right Nation" Watch - Study Shows References Spiked Immediately After Election Day
Open Left - Front Page — ... When I wrote my first column about the "center-right nation" and subsequently launched the "Center-Right Nation Watch" series on this blog I predicted that the news media would actually increase its usage of this term after Obama won. In my column, I did a Lexis-Nexis search of the term and then wrote: "if Obama wins, expect more frantic talk from the fringe about how electing a black man billed as an Islamic Karl Marx obviously means our country is more conservative than ever." I asked a friend out here in Denver who works with a company called Trendrr to officially track ...

Center-Right Nation Update
Firedoglake — ... When I wrote my first column about the "center-right nation" and subsequently launched the "Center-Right Nation Watch" series on this blog I predicted that the news media would actually increase its usage of this term after Obama won. I... was the first to note the trend and make the prediction that "if Obama wins, expect more frantic talk from the fringe about how electing a black man billed as an Islamic Karl Marx obviously means our country is more conservative than ever." ...

Pre-Inauguration Obama Retrospective
Open Left - Front Page — ... - Mandate '08: Reagan vs. FDR (Creators Syndicate, 10/31/08): This piece, out just before the election, looked at how Obama's message down the stretch was straight out of Roosevelt, and how McCain's message was straight out of Reagan - and what that would mean for an Obama victory. ...