{"id":168,"date":"2011-09-25T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=168"},"modified":"2011-09-25T10:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:12:49","slug":"establishment-media-shills-for-the-establishment-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Establishment Media Shills for the Establishment (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s hardly a new thing for them to do, but an item on the NPR<\/a> news this morning shows them doing so yet again. To paraphrase what they said, they reported the following:<\/p>\n

President Obama will be speaking at two engagements in Seattle. One is a $35,000 per head fund raiser, the other is larger and cheaper.<\/p>\n

Cheaper? Than $35K\/head? That’s meaningless. Virtually every<\/em> event is cheaper than that. $1,000\/head is a full 35 times<\/em> cheaper and it’s still unaffordable to Americans of normal means. $100\/head is 350 times<\/em> cheaper (enough to qualify as “much cheaper” by most definitions), yet is still<\/em> out of reach to most.<\/p>\n

It’s quite transparent what NPR is trying to do: spin the story to make the Democrats seem as something other than a bourgeois party. And sure enough, a little research on Google comes up with this story<\/a>, which reveals that neither event is geared towards the sort of average Americans that liberals profess to be so concerned about:<\/p>\n

Then Obama will head to a larger fundraiser at the Paramount Theatre in Seattle, with tickets starting at $100<\/strong> for balcony seats and up to $7,500 for VIP seating and a receiving-line photo with the president, according to event invitations. Up to 400 people are expected at that event, which will include a lunch catered by chef Tom Douglas and a performance by the Robert Cray Band. [emphasis added]<\/p>\n

And really, how could it be otherwise? It’s a bourgeois society; if you participate in its formal means of exercising power, you will<\/em> be compelled to act according to bourgeois values. You can’t fundamentally change rottenness simply by participating in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s hardly a new thing for them to do, but an item on the NPR news this morning shows them doing so yet again. To paraphrase what they said, they reported the following: President Obama will be speaking at two engagements in Seattle. One is a $35,000 per head fund raiser, the other is larger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}