{"id":717,"date":"2010-12-17T19:40:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=717"},"modified":"2010-12-17T19:40:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T00:40:22","slug":"no-labels-not-left-not-right-not-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=717","title":{"rendered":"No Labels: Not Left, Not Right, Not Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“He’s a real Nowhere Man, sitting in his Nowhere Land,
\nmaking all his nowhere plans for Nobody!”<\/strong>
\n–the beatles.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, a few days ago,<\/strong> I read about some so-called “post-partisan” or “anti-partisan” or “centrist” or whatever the hell kind of outfit they’re supposed to be called “No Labels” that’s just had its big launch<\/a> with all manner of bland corporate politicos and media hacks boosting it, including MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough — that’s right. one of the most right-wing howlers I’ve ever seen on the tube lending his gushing endorsement to an allegedly “centrist” group. You know when some emerging astroturfers use the phrase “common sense” in their press materials, it’s time to look the fuck out.<\/p>\n

“Woodstock For Moderates” I heard it being called; that was such a horrid notion to imagine that there was only one thing I could do, and that was to hit the search engines. As I suspected, it was some weak-assed corporate centrist astroturf outfit<\/a> being co-led by none other than Mark Penn, the Democrats’ famed Campaign Manager Of Losers and his socialite wife,<\/a> and dragging along with such glittering moderate luminaries as Evan Bayh and a gaggle of GOP flunkies including former Rudolph Giuliani speechwriter John Avlon and McCain campaign advisor Mark McKinnon (hell, how does he<\/em> rate?). Along with the eye-glazing politics of “civility” they’re pimping, it sure doesn’t help that they’re still being cagey about who’s signing their checks.<\/p>\n

But, let’s just see what Salon<\/em><\/a> was able to dig up…<\/p>\n

The <\/em>Wall Street Journal reported last month that seed donors to No Labels include Loews Corp. co-chair Andrew Tisch, Panera Bread founder Ron Shaich,<\/a> and ex-Facebook executive Dave Morin.<\/a>pro-corporate Democrat.<\/a> Ditto for Tisch, a former tobacco executive<\/a> who has given money to Sens. Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh, and Kirsten Gillibrand over the years. It’s not clear where Morin, a young Silicon Valley investor, is coming from politically.<\/em>..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ewwwwwww. Lieberman. Bayh. Facebook. Eeeeeewwwwwwww.<\/strong><\/em> Anti-partisan, my ass.<\/em><\/p>\n

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