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Obama Reclaims Outsider Status
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — Greg Sargent points out an interesting dynamic: "The yawning gap between what the pundits say about who's winning the stimulus war and what the ...

Midday open thread
Daily Kos — ... Whereas if the TED conference didn't exist and you just called people on the list and said why don't 20 of us get together for coffee, that would be a weird phone call to make.... That's part of what it means to make a movement – do something difficult to overcome the social friction. Reminds me a lot of why this place came into existence, and why it continues to grow and prosper seemingly against the odds. The Administration can't rip cable news enough for being out of touch with America. There is certainly a huge disconnect ...

It’s an isolated Village
Balloon Juice — ... primarily among cable news pundits is catching on. Here’s Josh Marshall: What’s most striking about these numbers is the continuing disconnect between the mood of the capital and that of the country. For me, a lot of that is a product of how Washington continues to be wired for Republican control. A president, and particularly one like Obama, is the one person who is in a position to cut through that. And here’s some comments from the Obama team: Gibbs: I think ...

Miss McConnell: The New Deal Did Not Work
DownWithTyranny! — ... whose primary function is stealing from those paragons of virtue, the banksters and businessmen. McChesney is stark raving mad and the fact that Northwestern presents him as though he were a normal dispassionate teacher makes the entire school extremely suspect. A lecture hall of right wing propagandists spewing nonsense isn't my idea of a college eduction. You don't need an expensive school like Northwestern to hear that when you can get it for free all day and all night on cable TV. No one but brainwashed rubes expect to hear anything resembling truth from the likes of paid ...

Calling it like it is: Obama Aides Rip Cable News, D.C. Media And Political Elite
Crooks and Liars — Greg Sargent: Case in point: White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, on the presidential plane today, directly targeted cable news as out of touch with America when asked about polling on the stim package. From the White House transcript: I think it’s illuminating because it may not necessarily be where cable television is on all of this. But, you know, we’re sort of used to that. We lost on cable television virtually every day last year. So, you know, there’s a conventional wisdom to what’s going on in America via Washington, ...