Brit speaks fluent Newspeak

On Fox News Sunday (June 25, 2006), Brit Hume, managing editor of the Fox News Channel, derided The New York Times’ justification for revealing a Bush administration program that monitors international financial transactions.
Responding to the claim that it is “a matter of public interest,” Hume said, “Well, that can apply to almost anything. … That applies to ball scores. And you know, I mean, women with their breasts exposed are a matter of public interest to some people.”
With more than 35 years of journalism experience to draw from, Hume surely remembers the definition of “public interest” from Journalism 101. Even in the USA, the public interest, however you dumb it down, means the common well-being or general welfare.
In Orwell’s novel 1984, the policy of Newspeak was to remove all shades of meaning from language, leaving simple dichotomies that would reinforce the ruling ideology.
When Hume claims the public interest is whatever the public may show an interest in, he must be aware he’s indulging in Newspeak. But he's not really in the news business. He's an entertainer. And Fox News Sunday is about as reliable as Big Brother — which, oddly enough is a reality show broadcast on CBS.

Progressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush’s plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush’s “failures” and label him and his administration as incompetent. Self-satisfying as this criticism may be, it misses the bigger point. Bush’s disasters — Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit — are not so much a testament to his incompetence or a failure of execution. Rather, they are the natural, even inevitable result of his conservative governing philosophy. It is conservatism itself, carried out according to plan, that is at fault.

Bush Is Not Incompetent

by George Lakoff, Marc Ettlinger and Sam Ferguson

Progressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush’s plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush’s “failures” and label him and his administration as incompetent. For example, Nancy Pelosi said “The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.” Self-satisfying as this criticism may be, it misses the bigger point. Bush’s disasters — Katrina, the Iraq War, the budget deficit — are not so much a testament to his incompetence or a failure of execution. Rather, they are the natural, even inevitable result of his conservative governing philosophy. It is conservatism itself, carried out according to plan, that is at fault. Bush will not be running again, but other conservatives will. His governing philosophy is theirs as well. We should be putting the onus where it belongs, on all conservative office holders and candidates who would lead us off the same cliff.

To Bush’s base, his bumbling folksiness is part of his charm — it fosters conservative populism. Bush plays up this image by proudly stating his lack of interest in reading and current events, his fondness for naps and vacations and his self-deprecating jokes. This image causes the opposition to underestimate his capacities — disregarding him as a complete idiot — and deflects criticism of his conservative allies. If incompetence is the problem, it’s all about Bush. But, if conservatism is the problem, it is about a set of ideas, a movement and its many adherents.

The idea that Bush is incompetent is a curious one. Consider the following (incomplete) list of major initiatives the Bush administration, with a loyal conservative Congress, has accomplished:

Centralizing power within the executive branch to an unprecedented degree

Starting two major wars, one started with questionable intelligence and in a manner with which the military disagreed

Placing on the Supreme Court two far-right justices, and stacking the lower federal courts with many more

Cutting taxes during wartime, an unprecedented event

Passing a number of controversial bills such as the PATRIOT Act, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Medicare Drug bill, the —Bankruptcy bill and a number of massive tax cuts

Rolling back and refusing to enforce a host of basic regulatory protections

Appointing industry officials to oversee regulatory agencies

Establishing a greater role for religion through faith-based initiatives

Passing Orwellian-titled legislation assaulting the environment — “The Healthy Forests Act” and the “Clear Skies Initiative” — to deforest public lands, and put more pollution in our skies

Winning re-election and solidifying his party’s grip on Congress

These aren’t signs of incompetence. As should be painfully clear, the Bush administration has been overwhelmingly competent in advancing its conservative vision. It has been all too effective in achieving its goals by determinedly pursuing a conservative philosophy.

It’s not Bush the man who has been so harmful, it’s the conservative agenda.

The Conservative Agenda
Conservative philosophy has three fundamental tenets: individual initiative, that is, government’s positive role in people’s lives outside of the military and police should be minimized; the President is the moral authority; and free markets are enough to foster freedom and opportunity.

The conservative vision for government is to shrink it – to “starve the beast” in Conservative Grover Norquist’s words. The conservative tagline for this rationale is that “you can spend your money better than the government can.” Social programs are considered unnecessary or “discretionary” since the primary role of government is to defend the country’s border and police its interior. Stewardship of the commons, such as allocation of healthcare or energy policy, is left to people’s own initiative within the free market. Where profits cannot be made — conservation, healthcare for the poor — charity is meant to replace justice and the government should not be involved.

Given this philosophy, then, is it any wonder that the government wasn’t there for the residents of Louisiana and Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina? Conservative philosophy places emphasis on the individual acting alone, independent of anything the government could provide. Some conservative Sunday morning talk show guests suggested that those who chose to live in New Orleans accepted the risk of a devastating hurricane, the implication being that they thus forfeited any entitlement to government assistance. If the people of New Orleans suffered, it was because of their own actions, their own choices and their own lack of preparedness. Bush couldn’t have failed if he bore no responsibility.

The response to Hurricane Katrina — rather, the lack of response — was what one should expect from a philosophy that espouses that the government can have no positive role in its citizen’s lives. This response was not about Bush’s incompetence, it was a conservative, shrink-government response to a natural disaster.

Another failure of this administration during the Katrina fiasco was its wholesale disregard of the numerous and serious hurricane warnings. But this failure was a natural outgrowth of the conservative insistence on denying the validity of global warming, not ineptitude. Conservatives continue to deny the validity of global warming, because it runs contrary to their moral system. Recognizing global warming would call for environmental regulation and governmental efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Regulation is a perceived interference with the free-market, Conservatives’ golden calf. So, the predictions of imminent hurricanes — based on recognizing global warming — were not heeded. Conservative free market convictions trumped the hurricane warnings.

Our budget deficit is not the result of incompetent fiscal management. It too is an outgrowth of conservative philosophy. What better way than massive deficits to rid social programs of their funding?

In Iraq, we also see the impact of philosophy as much as a failure of execution.

The idea for the war itself was born out of deep conservative convictions about the nature and capacity of US military force. Among the Project for a New American Century’s statement of principles (signed in 1997 by a who’s who of the architects of the Iraq war — Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Zalmay Khalilzad, I. Lewis Libby among others) are four critical points:

we need to increase defense spending significantly if we are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our armed forces for the future

we need to strengthen our ties to democratic allies and to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values

we need to promote the cause of political and economic freedom abroad

we need to accept responsibility for America’s unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles.

Implicit in these ideas is that the United States military can spread democracy through the barrel of a gun. Our military might and power can be a force for good.

It also indicates that the real motive behind the Iraq war wasn’t to stop Iraq’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction, but was a test of neoconservative theory that the US military could reshape Middle East geo-politics. The manipulation and disregard of intelligence to sell the war was not incompetence, it was the product of a conservative agenda.

Unfortunately, this theory exalts a hubristic vision over the lessons of history. It neglects the realization that there is a limit to a foreign army’s ability to shape foreign politics for the good. Our military involvement in Vietnam, Lebanon, the Philippines, Cuba (prior to Castro) and Panama, or European imperialist endeavors around the globe should have taught us this lesson. Democracy needs to be an organic, homegrown movement, as it was in this country. If we believe so deeply in our ideals, they will speak for themselves and inspire others.

During the debate over Iraq, the conservative belief in the unquestioned authority and moral leadership of the President helped shape public support. We see this deference to the President constantly: when Conservatives call those questioning the President’s military decisions “unpatriotic”; when Conservatives defend the executive branch’s use of domestic spying in the war on terror; when Bush simply refers to himself as the “decider.” “I support our President” was a common justification of assent to the Iraq policy.

Additionally, as the implementer of the neoconservative vision and an unquestioned moral authority, our President felt he had no burden to forge international consensus or listen to the critiques of our allies. “You’re with us, or you’re against us,” he proclaimed after 9/11.

Much criticism continues to be launched against this administration for ineptitude in its reconstruction efforts. Tragically, it is here too that the administration’s actions have been shaped less by ineptitude than by deeply held conservative convictions about the role of government.

As noted above, Conservatives believe that government’s role is limited to security and maintaining a free market. Given this conviction, it’s no accident that administration policies have focused almost exclusively on the training of Iraqi police, and US access to the newly free Iraqi market — the invisible hand of the market will take care of the rest. Indeed, George Packer has recently reported that the reconstruction effort in Iraq is nearing its end (“The Lessons of Tal Affar,” The New Yorker, April 10th, 2006). Iraqis must find ways to rebuild themselves, and the free market we have constructed for them is supposed to do this. This is not ineptitude. This is the result of deep convictions over the nature of freedom and the responsibilities of governments to their people.

Finally, many of the miscalculations are the result of a conservative analytic focus on narrow causes and effects, rather than mere incompetence. Evidence for this focus can be seen in conservative domestic policies: Crime policy is based on punishing the criminals, independent of any effort to remedy the larger social issues that cause crime; immigration policy focuses on border issues and the immigrants, and ignores the effects of international and domestic economic policy on population migration; environmental policy is based on what profits there are to be gained or lost today, without attention paid to what the immeasurable long-term costs will be to the shared resource of our environment; education policy, in the form of vouchers, ignores the devastating effects that dismantling the public school system will have on our whole society.

Is it any surprise that the systemic impacts of the Iraq invasion were not part of the conservative moral or strategic calculus used in pursuing the war?

The conservative war rhetoric focused narrowly on ousting Saddam — he was an evil dictator, and evil cannot be tolerated, period. The moral implications of unleashing social chaos and collateral damage in addition to the lessons of history were not relevant concerns.

As a consequence, we expected to be greeted as liberators. The conservative plan failed to appreciate the complexities of the situation that would have called for broader contingency planning. It lacked an analysis of what else would happen in Iraq and the Middle East as a result of ousting the Hussein Government, such as an Iranian push to obtain nuclear weapons.

Joe Biden recently said, “if I had known the president was going to be this incompetent in his administration, I would not have given him the authority [to go to war].” Had Bush actually been incompetent, he would have never been able to lead us to war in Iraq. Had Bush been incompetent, he would not have been able to ram through hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts. Had Bush been incompetent, he would have been blocked from stacking the courts with right-wing judges. Incompetence, on reflection, might have actually been better for the country.

Hidden Successes
Perhaps the biggest irony of the Bush-is-incompetent frame is that these “failures” — Iraq, Katrina and the budget deficit — have been successes in terms of advancing the conservative agenda.

One of the goals of Conservatives is to keep people from relying on the federal government. Under Bush, FEMA was reorganized to no longer be a first responder in major natural disasters, but to provide support for local agencies. This led to the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. Now citizens, as well as local and state governments, have become distrustful of the federal government’s capacity to help ordinary citizens. Though Bush’s popularity may have suffered, enhancing the perception of federal government as inept turned out to be a conservative victory.

Conservatives also strive to get rid of protective agencies and social programs. The deficit Bush created through irresponsible tax cuts and a costly war in Iraq will require drastic budget cuts to remedy. Those cuts, conservatives know, won’t come from military spending, particularly when they raise the constant specter of war. Instead, the cuts will be from what Conservatives have begun to call “non-military, discretionary spending;” that is, the programs that contribute to the common good like the FDA, EPA, FCC, FEMA, OSHA and the NLRB. Yet another success for the conservative agenda.

Both Iraq and Katrina have enriched the coffers of the conservative corporate elite, thus further advancing the conservative agenda. Halliburton, Lockhead Martin and US oil companies have enjoyed huge profit margins in the last six years. Taking Iraq’s oil production off-line in the face of rising international demand meant prices would rise, making the oil inventories of Exxon and other firms that much more valuable, leading to record profits. The destruction wrought by Katrina and Iraq meant billions in reconstruction contracts. The war in Iraq (and the war in Afghanistan) meant billions in military equipment contracts. Was there any doubt where those contracts would go? Chalk up another success for Bush’s conservative agenda.

Bush also used Katrina as an opportunity to suspend the environmental and labor protection laws that Conservatives despise so much. In the wake of Katrina, environmental standards for oil refineries were temporarily suspended to increase production. Labor laws are being thwarted to drive down the cost of reconstruction efforts. So, amidst these “disasters,” Conservatives win again.

Where most Americans see failure in Iraq – George Miller recently called Iraq a “blunder of historic proportions” – conservative militarists are seeing many successes. Conservatives stress the importance of our military — our national pride and worth is expressed through its power and influence. Permanent bases are being constructed as planned in Iraq, and America has shown the rest of the world that we can and will preemptively strike with little provocation. They succeeded in a mobilization of our military forces based on ideological pretenses to impact foreign policy. The war has struck fear in other nations with a hostile show of American power. The conservatives have succeeded in strengthening what they perceive to be the locus of the national interest —military power.

It’s NOT Incompetence
When Progressives shout “Incompetence!” it obscures the many conservative successes. The incompetence frame drastically misses the point, that the conservative vision is doing great harm to this country and the world. An understanding of this and an articulate progressive response is needed. Progressives know that government can and should have a positive role in our lives beyond simple, physical security. It had a positive impact during the progressive era, busting trusts, and establishing basic labor standards. It had a positive impact during the new deal, softening the blow of the depression by creating jobs and stimulating the economy. It had a positive role in advancing the civil rights movement, extending rights to previously disenfranchised groups. And the United States can have a positive role in world affairs without the use of its military and expressions of raw power. Progressives acknowledge that we are all in this together, with “we” meaning all people, across all spectrums of race, class, religion, sex, sexual preference and age. “We” also means across party lines, state lines and international borders.

The mantra of incompetence has been an unfortunate one. The incompetence frame assumes that there was a sound plan, and that the trouble has been in the execution. It turns public debate into a referendum on Bush’s management capabilities, and deflects a critique of the impact of his guiding philosophy. It also leaves open the possibility that voters will opt for another radically conservative president in 2008, so long as he or she can manage better. Bush will not be running again, so thinking, talking and joking about him being incompetent offers no lessons to draw from his presidency.

Incompetence obscures the real issue. Bush’s conservative philosophy is what has damaged this country and it is his philosophy of conservatism that must be rejected, whoever endorses it.

Conservatism itself is the villain that is harming our people, destroying our environment, and weakening our nation. Conservatives are undermining American values through legislation almost every day. This message applies to every conservative bill proposed to Congress. The issue that arises every day is which philosophy of governing should shape our country. It is the issue of our times. Unless conservative philosophy itself is discredited, Conservatives will continue their domination of public discourse, and with it, will continue their domination of politics.

©The Rockridge Institute, 2006

The new state quarters

I shall henceforth be known as Aubrey-nominee Michael C. Burgess.

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Separated at birth: Ann Coulter and General Grievous

‘Bedazzled’ and ‘The Bed Sitting Room’ Return to the Big Screen for One Night Only

Sid Grauman's fully restored Egyptian Theater, 6712 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90028, will salute Peter Cook and Dudley Moore by screening a double feature on Thursday, July 13, 2006, at 7:30 p.m.

'Bedazzled,' 1967, 20th Century Fox, 107 min. Dir. Stanley Donen.
A brand new 35mm print of the definitive mod comedy, filled with leaping lesbian nuns, bottles of froony green eyewash and Raquel Welch as Lillian Lust (the Babe with the Bust). Peter Cook wrote the screenplay and stars as the deliciously hip Devil, merrily ripping the last page out of Agatha Christie novels. Dudley Moore co-stars as the hapless hamburger chef who trades his soul for seven chances to bed the luscious Eleanor Bron.

'The Bed Sitting Room,' 1969, Sony Repertory, 91 min. Dir. Richard Lester.
An ultra-rare lost classic, this surreal dark satire anticipated and influenced Monty Python and blended Dr. Strangelove- style apocalyptic barbs with Salvador Dali-meets-Fellini’s Satyricon visual brilliance. Lester and his co-author British Goon/comedy guru Spike Milligan concocted a post-nuclear-holocaust Britain as a device to savage every last sacred cow — utilizing absurd characters drawn from a Who’s Who of British comedy: Milligan, Harry Secombe, Marty Feldman, Roy Kinnear, Arthur Lowe, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore and luminaries of the stage such as Ralph Richardson, Rita Tushingham, Michael Hordern, Mona Washbourne. The film defies descriptions but is universally hailed as the Holy Grail of black comedy by those lucky enough to have seen it. Check out the reviews on IMDB. File under “unmissable!” NOT ON DVD!

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New Web Site Makes Writing for Magazines Easier

June 16, 2006 — Freelance article writers will make more money easier with the help of the Wooden Horse Publishing site, which offers news and resources not found anywhere else. Subscribers are continually updated about magazines that have ceased publication, those that have just started up and those that recently hired a new editor.

“Writers need reliable news, up-to-date contact information and the latest marketing tools,” owner and longtime writer Meg Weaver said. “Today’s magazine industry is complex and constantly changing. But writers want to concentrate on writing and that doesn’t leave much time for marketing their work. That’s where we can help.”

The site provides continually updated industry news, articles and books about making money from writing, a free newsletter with numerous new paying markets every week, a searchable database of more than 2,000 US and Canadian consumer and trade magazines with full contact information, writers guidelines, and — unique among writers sites — reader demographics and editorial calendars.

Anybody who writes for magazines needs to keep up with new markets and now the Wooden Horse Web site makes it less impossible. Recent updates in the magazines database include:

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Who buys Coulter's crap?

Anne Coulter appeared on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, June 14, to ask: Why aren't the liberals complaining about being called "Godless liberals"? And how come their only problem with her book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism" is the chapter about "the Jersey girls"?

That's an interesting couple of questions. To speak for myself for one moment, I'll just say that I'm much happier to be called "Godless" than a liberal. A secular world view is probably the last best hope for civilization as we know it. Liberalism, on the other hand, seems to be in crisis.

But the so-called Jersey girls should be spoken up for. She's refering to women who, through no fault of their own, lost their loved ones in the atrocities committed by America's enemies on Sept. 11, 2001. If Godless is a dirty word to Coulter, I'll assume she's some kind of Christian, the sort of Christian who says mean things to the bereaved.

Coulter appeared to laugh off any criticisms. But her attempts to be amusing were labored. Leno asked her if she might get her point across better by sweetening her message. Oh, no. If she wanted to be attractive, she'd wear a sexy dress and grow her hair long...

Oh, wait. That was her awkward little joke. But Leno's studio audience seemed to lap it up. Did Coulter bring in her own band of shills? Perhaps not. In the U.S.A, blonde + emaciated = beautiful. She might almost be Paris Hilton's mother. She implied that this is the reason she doesn't have to worry about running into anybody who might be angry enough to harm her. She said she always travels in the company of conservative men.

But Coulter was able to clarify the recent uproar over her bestselling book. Concentrate for a moment and let me know if this story of hers seems to hold water. She said all this outcry is proof of her book's central premise. She said it's only Liberals who have a problem with her remarks. And they only object because liberals have been strategically using victims such as Cindy Sheehan and the 9/11 widows as their spokespersons so that good conservatives would feel too inhibited to respond in the same spirit that they would to a Howard Dean or a Hillary Clinton.

So that's the only reason she felt she had to refer to "these broads," as she puts it. She believes she has put forward her conservative perspective in response to the liberal arguments raised by the widows. And yet her refutation to those Liberal stalking horses seems to be nothing beyond the unsupportable allegation that these "Jersey girls" are enjoying their financial compensation so much that they're actually happy to have lost their husbands.

I'm not sure this ad hominem attack is actually a conservative position at all. And it doesn't seem very Christian. While Dean and Clinton are generally debated in terms of political discourse, the victims of terror are subjected to the most unpleasant second-guessing of their personal motivations. And yet Coulter's book remains on the top of the Amazon.com bestseller list?

Who is buying this book? Are American conservatives so demoralized by the war on terror that they have gone into denial and they need to convince themselves that the victims on our side are actually happier now? Was this the sort of conservative denial we heard from first lady Laura Bush when she reportedly said those who lost their homes in New Orleans are mostly poor people anyway and will be better off with the government's paltry compensation?

I checked the Amazon.com best seller list today and Coulter's book is number two; which seems appropriate, some how.

Try this little quiz and the results may surprise you.

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Two medics had to stay at the same hotel after a conference. So they agreed that she'd go to his room in the night and have sex.

She arrived, and immediately undressed and started energetically scrubbing her fingers, hands, arms, etc. Then, they got into bed and screwed for an hour.

Afterwards, he said to her, "I suppose you must be a surgeon."

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So she said, "I'm guessing, but I reckon you're an anaesthetist."

He said, "Yes. How on earth did you know?"

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