A conversation with The Publisher & Editors of Politico

with Ben Smith, Jim VandeHei, John Harris and Robert Allbritton
in Technology, Current Affairs
on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 * * * * *

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A conversation with The Publisher & Editors of Politico, John Harris, Editor in Chief, Jim VandeHei, Executive Editor, Robert Allbritton, Publisher and Ben Smith

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    1. tartufe  07/29/2009 07:25 PM Report

      Hey B_ellis, I'm an equal opportunity anti-killer(s). The US is just as culpable. Hate? Maybe. Disdain for sure. Does your lecture on hate apply equally to Israelis who I'M sure have no love lost for Pals?

    2. B_ellis  07/27/2009 09:17 PM Report

      I think tartufe has been reading too much of mein kampf to think that Jews are in control of American foreign policy. As a Jew I must tell you "hate is bagage, life is too short to be pissed off all the time" to borrow a quote from a movie. Your soul must be very tormented or your just envious that you never had a bar mitzvah lol.

    3. B_ellis  07/27/2009 09:16 PM Report

      I think tartufe has been reading too much of mein kampf to think that Jews are in control of American foreign policy. As a Jew I must tell you "hate is bagage, life is too short to be pissed off all the time" to borrow a quote from a movie. Your soul must be very tormented or your just envious that you never had a bar mitzvah lol.

    4. B_ellis  07/27/2009 09:16 PM Report

      I think tartufe has been reading too much of mein kampf to think that Jews are in control of American foreign policy. As a Jew I must tell you "hate is bagage, life is too short to be pissed off all the time" to borrow a quote from a movie. Your soul must be very tormented or your just envious that you never had a bar mitzvah lol.

    5. phalanx  07/27/2009 06:51 PM Report

      tartufe seriously I feel sorry for you it seems to me the only thing you are capable of doing is hating everything Americana or that some how were are the worst thing to ever happen to this planet. Chill out dude and quite insulting people views so harshly be a gentleman and if you don't like the U.S., guess what you don't have to live here. I beat you never have the courage to spew your far out opinions into somebody’s face because I’m certain you would suffer from the physical consequences on more than one occasion. I expect you'll continue to insult thru cowering behind your anonymity that the internet provides.

    6. tartufe  07/24/2009 04:59 PM Report

      This just in. New jersey and Wash. D.C. have adopted each other (simultaneously) to form the first non-contiguous border state. Values are all the cohesion needed, the courts have ruled. (Israel has dropped their petition as they concluded they have the system co-opted under any configuration.)

      The new state flag consists of 50 bowls holding two rotten apples each in a corroded inverted capitol dome within a six-pointed star. Not enough symbolism? Add seven stripes representing blood spilled in quest of greedy exploitation, along with six stripes for the cowardice required.

      Official state sponsored Saturday Sabbath congregations hold Corruption 101 classes in bribery acceptance, child molestation and kidney harvesting from the unsuspecting and underprivileged for resale at unseemly profits in Israel.

      Shalom to us. Goyim kidney stew aboard our state yachts every night. Pre-pubescent boys WELCOME!

    7. NoPardonforMichaelMilken  07/23/2009 02:00 AM Report

      Where are you going?

      Answer: Wherever our Neoconservative offshore paymasters tell us to go.

    8. NoPardonforMichaelMilken  07/23/2009 01:59 AM Report

      A bunch of snot-nosed, silver-spooned, Ivy League legacy admissions - that's Politico. Skull & Bones without the stupid, juvenile skits. Biased of, by, and for big money, big business, and Neoconservatism.

    9. sbpoet  07/22/2009 02:27 PM Report

      When I see a table crowded with white men in suits, it's difficult for me to believe that this is the *new* journalism. It's the old journalism with new technology and good old boys.

    10. REMant  07/22/2009 02:10 PM Report

      There are ppl who want to be told what they should think about things. Ppl who want to know the latest, whatever it is. And ppl who want to know what it means. But unless you are an insider, I think you have to do all of them to be successful, which equates to old-fashioned journalism. I would gather that's what Harris really means by driving the conversation. The costs for web production are a lot cheaper and can be afforded by less advertising, but there is much more competition for ppl's attention. Nevertheless, I would not be surprised to see dominant websites emerge in both geographical and topical markets just as the newspapers had, however they will have work at it.

      Most ppl, I believe, expected Obama to be something different from a tax-and-spend Democrat and so far that has not very observable, and it is entirely possible that he is letting himself in for an even tougher time as a result down the road.

    11. tartufe  07/22/2009 12:20 PM Report

      Pardon my cynicism, but these guys are too fanciful for the public weal. They will feed the daily dose of pablum that the Politico politics is some how meaningful. But one of them mentioned it's all for sale.

      That acknowledged reality makes all their heroics moot. Our politicians are merely middle-men money sops between what the Oligarchs want and putting it into legislative form.

      The only true and effective reporting would be the amount of lobbyists contributions received by each Senator and Congressperson. All else is buffoonery for public consumption. The daily dose of media orthodoxy that disguises and glosses over the reality of the monetized system that has commoditized our legislators and legislation.

      The Politicos to be useful could publish the 'bribery' amounts by type of Oligarch; i.e., MI, Finance, Health (including Ins. and Big Pharma), Agri., Israel, et al.

      All other reporting merely feeds the myth. But to be fair, the Oligarchs are too powerful to put up with exposing the amounts of their bribery on a daily score-card, and the Politicos would be duly obliterated. So they're co-opted into the sytem as we know it.

      Which sadly means that they too can be ignored.