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In reply to the discussion: Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)153. Fascinating...for background...before Cass was Cass as we know him today?
http://exiledonline.com/all-the-president%E2%80%99s-middlebrows/
Cass Sunstein: Meet The Horrible New Obama-Era Elite, or All The Presidents Middlebrows
By Mark Ames
Last week, Obama moved another step closer to creating the ultimate retro-70s Middelbrow-ocracy when he appointed a loathsome overachieving hamburger-head named Cass Sunstein to a little-known but highly-powerful government post: director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairsotherwise known as the Regulation Czar. Before the financial crash, we wouldnt have thought much of how powerful a post like this is, and how it can shape our lives and help decide whether we have retirement money, a home mortgage, and a plutocracy-led society.
Since its the behind-the-scenes activity that is defining our lives, I took a trip into the Heart Of Blandness that is Cass Sunsteins life story, and the men and women whove helped define him. Conclusion: a new set of horrible ghouls are moving in to rule us, and it wont be perty. The best you can say about the Cass Sunstein-ocrats is that they arent Bush-era apemen, who were so savage and destructive that it never seemed quite real.
But as the awful memory of the Bush Era fades, we have to face a more immediate threat: The New Elite, who are taking up their places in power and preparing to rule over us. Anyone who has even a faint childhood memory of the 1970s will understand immediately whats wrong with the new crew moving into Washington. Cass Sunstein offers a perfect, nauseating example of this Man of the 70s returning to America in the new millennium after having been frozen for the past 30 years like Encino Man.
The 70s, in case you were lucky enough to have missed it, wasnt about whacky mustaches and zany platformsit was about ponderous middlebrows concealing their old-fashioned pursuits of sex, money and power underneath a new set of secular lies for the secular 60s generation, because the old lies stopped working in Americas big cities.
So lets up a few years to 2007 or soand we focus on Cass Susntein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, still happily partnered to Martha Nussbaum, a self-described daughter of the WASP elite from the east coast, now a philosophy professor also at the University of Chicago.
http://exiledonline.com/all-the-president%E2%80%99s-middlebrows/
Cass Sunstein: Meet The Horrible New Obama-Era Elite, or All The Presidents Middlebrows
By Mark Ames
Last week, Obama moved another step closer to creating the ultimate retro-70s Middelbrow-ocracy when he appointed a loathsome overachieving hamburger-head named Cass Sunstein to a little-known but highly-powerful government post: director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairsotherwise known as the Regulation Czar. Before the financial crash, we wouldnt have thought much of how powerful a post like this is, and how it can shape our lives and help decide whether we have retirement money, a home mortgage, and a plutocracy-led society.
Since its the behind-the-scenes activity that is defining our lives, I took a trip into the Heart Of Blandness that is Cass Sunsteins life story, and the men and women whove helped define him. Conclusion: a new set of horrible ghouls are moving in to rule us, and it wont be perty. The best you can say about the Cass Sunstein-ocrats is that they arent Bush-era apemen, who were so savage and destructive that it never seemed quite real.
But as the awful memory of the Bush Era fades, we have to face a more immediate threat: The New Elite, who are taking up their places in power and preparing to rule over us. Anyone who has even a faint childhood memory of the 1970s will understand immediately whats wrong with the new crew moving into Washington. Cass Sunstein offers a perfect, nauseating example of this Man of the 70s returning to America in the new millennium after having been frozen for the past 30 years like Encino Man.
The 70s, in case you were lucky enough to have missed it, wasnt about whacky mustaches and zany platformsit was about ponderous middlebrows concealing their old-fashioned pursuits of sex, money and power underneath a new set of secular lies for the secular 60s generation, because the old lies stopped working in Americas big cities.
So lets up a few years to 2007 or soand we focus on Cass Susntein, a law professor at the University of Chicago, still happily partnered to Martha Nussbaum, a self-described daughter of the WASP elite from the east coast, now a philosophy professor also at the University of Chicago.
http://exiledonline.com/all-the-president%E2%80%99s-middlebrows/
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Obama taps "cognitive infiltrator" Cass Sunstein for Committee to create "trust" in NSA [View all]
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
OP
and who knew it would be so easy to dismantle the social network post-election!
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#144
was Sunstein was tapped in order to implement his "infiltration" strategy?
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#12
My Theory? The Koolaid Brigade© is feeling slighted and underappreciated right now.
Dragonfli
Aug 2013
#177
Sunstein defines CT as "reference to the machinations of powerful people"
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#24
Yes, that is the irony of his proposals. And if someone in one of the threads notices something
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#105
Yes, and now we have someone who is going to watch out for our privacy, actually
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#116
I'm pretty sure Sunstein isn't a Republican. I just have a hard time believing that anyone
SlimJimmy
Aug 2013
#134
It's not a possibility. It's a reality that "Obama is just as good at his job as he seems,"...
truth2power
Aug 2013
#197
Couldn't get much more blatant, could it? "Hey, we hiring professional liars
DirkGently
Aug 2013
#27
That they'd hire PROfessionals to infiltrate forums makes a lot of SENSE. n/t
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#22
"That poster has been here since at least 2005 and has been very consistent in her positions."
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#103
and the conceit that they can make people believe that POWER doesn't affect change
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#30
Trust them? .....................................................LMFAO ....pathetic. n/t
L0oniX
Aug 2013
#33
well you know...journalists are terrorists, so if you knew what's good fer ya...
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#35
Hey - That's not a reform committee, It's a propaganda panel like the Creel Committee !
limpyhobbler
Aug 2013
#36
"on-shoring" of previously exported programs: Naomi Klein on China's All-Seeing Eye
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#41
it's really eye-opening...the problem with spying is as bad or worse when it's
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#146
I think so too. I just don't know what to say about this latest development...nt
Mojorabbit
Aug 2013
#96
I eagerly await the palace guard's rhetorical gymnastics on this, should be amusing.
KG
Aug 2013
#60
The left wing Robert Bork is someone we can all trust to protect our privacy!
Dawson Leery
Aug 2013
#79
there's been outrage about domestic spying since Cointelpro become known
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#85
He unwittingly trusts the wrong people, he's threatened by the wrong people, or...
polichick
Aug 2013
#115
Because from a slightly different point of view the're not "wrong" at all.
GliderGuider
Aug 2013
#199
I guess I am one they would target b/c I KNOW OUR GOVERNMENT IS TOTALLY BOUGHT AND
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#98
to add on to what you're saying...a particular Rep/Sen doesn't even have to be "bought"
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#100
I agree. As to Alan Grayson, I love him. Everyone loves to bash us Plaintiff lawyers as ambulance
Dustlawyer
Aug 2013
#135
i don't think anyone is dashing his smarts -- it's on the subject of NSA that he's questionable
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#145
or psyops, even. these are dark waters for someone so close to the president.
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#141
Thank you for posting this. Am so looking forward to barrage of Linkosaurus-Blue links
idwiyo
Aug 2013
#151
Interesting that he never lifted a finger to market the benefits of Obamacare
BlueStreak
Aug 2013
#127
Sounds like a tacit admission that the NSA is inherently untrustworthy. n/t
winter is coming
Aug 2013
#128
add this link: CASS SUNSTEIN: Meet the new Obama elite, or "all the president's middlebrows"
nashville_brook
Aug 2013
#150
Obama's "close confident" is also the husband of Obama's Ambassador to the United Nations.
Zen Democrat
Aug 2013
#205
Kind of like how Priebus says Repuke policies are fine; they just need better messaging
bullwinkle428
Aug 2013
#168
The crowning insult to this affair is that Sunstein and the other apparatchiks
HardTimes99
Aug 2013
#175
I respect Clarke. He has always done his job honestly and to the best of his ability.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#180