"America: Freedom to Fascism" is pulled from the theaters by
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The Huffington Post
Brent Budowsky
Camelot 2 Is Coming: K Street Money Moves
The front page of the Washington Post reports that in
anticipation of Democrats winning at least one House of
Congress, there is now a major movement of corporate and
lobbying money away to Democrats. Trust me, it's true. I have
begun to regularly get calls from firms looking for places and
projects to put money ahead of the changes coming to Washington.
From today through the election, this trend will continue and if
Democrats regain either the House or Senate, it will skyrocket
through the roof. For everyone who reads these words there are
new and exciting opportunities to do well, and do good, and have
impact…
What has happened in American politics over the last six years
will be remembered by future historians as a political dark age
of disunity and far too often disgrace. We are not a nation that
spends its time doing Abu Ghraibs, demeaning political opponents
as traitors, and destroying our public life with petty and
larger corruptions that have become a way of life.
What has happened over six years is without precedent in our
political history in some very important ways. And what has
happened to the flow of money takes the petty corruptions of the
past to monumental new levels that have so offended the American
people that big changes are coming.
In Washington, corruption was institutionalized through what was
known as the K Street project invented by Tom Delay, in which
Republicans were hired, and money was recycled between
ultraconservative or corrupt donors, lobbyists and the
politicians they supported.
The Post only reports what I have been seeing for two months
now: this aberrant way of life in Washington is unravelling. But
it goes much further: what has begun is a shift in corporate
money, project money, public affairs money, entertainment money
and new media money that will soon realize opportunities that
are even minimally understood by either the mainstream, the new
media or the blogosphere…
What the Washington Post story says about the movement of money
in lobbying, the trend of Hollywood money to high concept
pictures, the support of Mark Cuban for quality in media, the
early stages of new radio through Air America and probably other
Air Americas will translate throughout the blogosphere.
Here is the revolution: what our current political climate has
done, is create huge new areas of endeavor that reach huge
numbers of people, are in the last stages of being under-funded
because money has been tied up, bottled up and held back by the
negative and reactionary political climate.
Watch what happens when Prometheus is Unbound. Watch what
happens when new money seriously funds new media; when high
quality internet news sources increase early stage capital and
evolve into the IPO"s of 2007 to 2008. Watch what happens when
the talent and ingenuity and creativity of those with huge
audiences, now excluded by the reactionary status quo, are
invited to the head of the table.
When I predict Camelot 2, what I mean is this: a new politics
that appeals to the best of our nature; a new era of engagement
between Hollywood stars who care and their audiences who care
with them; the movement of money into new areas of news,
activism, public spirit and idealism from motion pictures to
lobbying, from high def television to high quality blogs.
The Post story is interesting, because it tells of money moving
in the most reactionary world of lobbying. But it doesn't
scratch the surface of what is already happening, beneath the
radar of fear and negativity on the news. There are masses of
voters who want better than the political status quo; masses of
audiences who want higher quality entertainment and news; masses
of money which, like the stock market anticipating the future
economy, are staking their claim on the future of our politics,
society and media because they have finally come to know: the
future is now.
[Click through for much, much more. Contact Brent Budowsky at
brentbbi@webtv.net .—Caro]
Lots more really good stuff at MakeThemAccountable.com.
Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com
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doesn’t want us to use it. Political fundamentalists believe the
founders endorsed free speech, but didn’t want us to practice
it. Free market fundamentalists believe there should be no
interference with markets, except by CEOs of gigantic
corporations.