Newsmax sent out an email today to
its mailing list touting the presence of Sarah Palin in “a special pre-election
webcast series we will be airing exclusively online” starting October 12.
According to the email, the webcast, to be called “Make America Great Again,”
will be hosted by Michael Reagan and feature Palin as well as “other opinion
leaders such as Dick Morris.”
Morris, of course, has been a longtime
marquee participant in shilling for Newsmax’s money-making schemes. Like
Palin, Morris is a Fox News contributor, making her at least the third Fox News
employee to team up with Newsmax; the other is Bill O’Reilly, who did an
interview featured in an informercial for yet another financial
product (though Fox News denied that it knew O’Reilly would be used in that way).
Palin has also previously touted Newsmax as one of the news sources she reads.
It wouldn’t be Newsmax, though, if
it wasn’t using people like Palin to try and sell you something.
If you sign up for this webcast, you
are directed to a web page (PDF) that gives you the opportunity to upgrade your Palin experience --
for a price, of course. You can continue to pay nothing and receive only “Brief
Clips of the Exclusive Interviews With Governor Palin, Dick Morris, Mike
Reagan, and the Entire Lineup of Important Guests” and “Limited Access to the
‘Make America Great Again’ Attendee Website.” Or you could pay $9.95 to be a
“VIP Member” and receive “Unlimited Access to the Make America Great Again
Campaign, PLUS” a copy of Palin’s forthcoming book.
You also get trial subscriptions to Newsmax’s magazine and one of its financial
reports, which has the usual caveat that you must cancel before the trial
period ends to avoid being automatically charged for a year’s subscription to
them.
Or you can pay Newsmax an extra $20 not
to send you the magazine and newsletter; a $29.95 “Book Subscription” gives you
“all of the benefits of VIP access as noted above, as well as Sarah Palin’s
upcoming new book, but you will NOT receive free trial subscriptions to Newsmax
magazine and The Franklin Prosperity Report.” Seeking payment for not doing
something is an interesting money-making strategy, and it’s a big clue as to
how much the profitability of Newsmax’s promotion depends on people forgetting to
cancel their trial subscriptions.
The web page also gives previews of
the webcast series, which looks like it will be mostly about attacking Obama, reinforcing right-wing talking points,
and encouraging conservatives to vote in November. It also sycophantically
calls Morris “the top political strategist and the man Time magazine referred to as ‘the most
influential private citizen in America’
” – which, as we’ve previously noted,
it did just before Morris resigned in disgrace from Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election
campaign.
Newsmax may not be selling financial
schemes for once, but it sure has a connection with Fox News that it has no
problem exploiting.
I read Foust’s take on the report of the Afghanistan Study Group and came away somewhat . . . puzzled. I haven’t read him before, and don’t had a sense of his perspective, which is part of that, I suppose. Most of his remarks amount to hairsplitting or know-better-ism. He just doesn’t seem to like those who put out the report, for reasons he doesn’t make clear. I’d have been far happier with him simply saying, “Here is a better plan, in contrast to x, y, and z in the report.” [This is not a criticism of the link to his blog post btw.]
I think Foust must know that the function of a report of this kind is not in its analysis but in its locus in policy debate. That is, it’s not the content but the audience. Despite that, Foust wants to parse minituae in analysis which he feels he has better command of than the authors. (And perhaps he does given that what he does say strikes me as sound in its disagreements.) The function of this report by the ASG is to give ’substantive cover’ to those who want to at least build down a US presence/committment in Afghanistan. It doesn’t seem (to the authors) politically possible either to meaningfully negotiate or leave, so they come up with a Third Way. I’m not endorsing that Third Way; there are definitely problems with it. And I suspect that I’d agree with Foust on most of his (undeveloped here) objections with that policy brief. The important thing, to me, is that there is an effort to shift policy away from Up the Surge. —And curiously Foust doesn’t even engage with that aspect. . . . Which seems to me the point of his remarks, somehow. I get the sense he thinks nation-building can be done there, just not at gunpoint. To which I would say, “And not by an occupying power in any way, shape, or form.”
The US occupation of Aghanistan is a straight-forward imperialist punitive action of prerogative. It never had any other stratetic objective than to punish distant indigenees which those in power here didn’t like, nor does it have any now. ‘Nation-building’ was not, is not, and won’t be on any substantive agenda _ever_; what has been done there amounts to Potemkin clinics to give foreign media shills photo-ops and talking points. I could say more in that vein, but I’ll spare all today. —But it’s all gone south(west). It is of vast significance, for example, that a substantial _Uzbek_ insurgency has flared up against the US occupation. This is touched on by Foust, and has been ‘kinda-sorta’ mentioned in the US and UK press without really being pursued. Because this is an imperialist venture, it is not presently conceivable that the US will be willing to _substantively_ negotiate with the insurgency; just too humiliating to actually discuss terms with ‘those brown people.’ And just leaving would look, too, too . . . Russian; too humiliating. So that’s not on anytime soon. That would leave, in effect, a policy direction very nearly like what is proposed in the ASG report, a snuff-and-puff overwatch while pulling most of the boots out; sort of like Iraq presently, with 50k+ US troops in ’select in-country bases.’ Sort of like the US policy to Haiti between the World Wars; own you and kill you when we feel like it, but wouldn’t live in a shithole like that. Sort of.
The illusion to me in this policy suggestion is that it will be _the US_ who will dictate the shape of the outcome, that outcome or any other. The success of the insurgency in Afghanistan, and it is an increasing success, has huge implications for Pakistan. Which potentiality/probability makes any plan for Afghanistan likely worth less than the pixels its postulated with. The most realistic ‘realist’ assessment of prospects in this region is, to me, a containment strategy. We’d get a better deal if we’d eat enough crow to actually negotiate, but I don’t think we’re that smart. Or for that matter that interested in putative success. Our only real goal has been to show ‘those brown people’ we can kill them if we feel like it, and we can keep doing that whether we’re on the ground, winning anywhere, or not. We won’t get a better outcome until we change our attitude, over here. And even defeat is unlikely to do that for us. Unless it’s a massive defeat on a scale we are rather unlikely to experience in our AfPak adventure as presently constituted.
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Newsmax sent out an email today to
its mailing list touting the presence of Sarah Palin in “a special pre-election
webcast series we will be airing exclusively online” starting October 12.
According to the email, the webcast, to be called “Make America Great Again,”
will be hosted by Michael Reagan and feature Palin as well as “other opinion
leaders such as Dick Morris.”
Morris, of course, has been a longtime
marquee participant in shilling for Newsmax’s money-making schemes. Like
Palin, Morris is a Fox News contributor, making her at least the third Fox News
employee to team up with Newsmax; the other is Bill O’Reilly, who did an
interview featured in an informercial for yet another financial
product (though Fox News denied that it knew O’Reilly would be used in that way).
Palin has also previously touted Newsmax as one of the news sources she reads.
It wouldn’t be Newsmax, though, if
it wasn’t using people like Palin to try and sell you something.
If you sign up for this webcast, you
are directed to a web page (PDF) that gives you the opportunity to upgrade your Palin experience --
for a price, of course. You can continue to pay nothing and receive only “Brief
Clips of the Exclusive Interviews With Governor Palin, Dick Morris, Mike
Reagan, and the Entire Lineup of Important Guests” and “Limited Access to the
‘Make America Great Again’ Attendee Website.” Or you could pay $9.95 to be a
“VIP Member” and receive “Unlimited Access to the Make America Great Again
Campaign, PLUS” a copy of Palin’s forthcoming book.
You also get trial subscriptions to Newsmax’s magazine and one of its financial
reports, which has the usual caveat that you must cancel before the trial
period ends to avoid being automatically charged for a year’s subscription to
them.
Or you can pay Newsmax an extra $20 not
to send you the magazine and newsletter; a $29.95 “Book Subscription” gives you
“all of the benefits of VIP access as noted above, as well as Sarah Palin’s
upcoming new book, but you will NOT receive free trial subscriptions to Newsmax
magazine and The Franklin Prosperity Report.” Seeking payment for not doing
something is an interesting money-making strategy, and it’s a big clue as to
how much the profitability of Newsmax’s promotion depends on people forgetting to
cancel their trial subscriptions.
The web page also gives previews of
the webcast series, which looks like it will be mostly about attacking Obama, reinforcing right-wing talking points,
and encouraging conservatives to vote in November. It also sycophantically
calls Morris “the top political strategist and the man Time magazine referred to as ‘the most
influential private citizen in America’
” – which, as we’ve previously noted,
it did just before Morris resigned in disgrace from Bill Clinton's 1996 re-election
campaign.
Newsmax may not be selling financial
schemes for once, but it sure has a connection with Fox News that it has no
problem exploiting.
I read Foust’s take on the report of the Afghanistan Study Group and came away somewhat . . . puzzled. I haven’t read him before, and don’t had a sense of his perspective, which is part of that, I suppose. Most of his remarks amount to hairsplitting or know-better-ism. He just doesn’t seem to like those who put out the report, for reasons he doesn’t make clear. I’d have been far happier with him simply saying, “Here is a better plan, in contrast to x, y, and z in the report.” [This is not a criticism of the link to his blog post btw.]
I think Foust must know that the function of a report of this kind is not in its analysis but in its locus in policy debate. That is, it’s not the content but the audience. Despite that, Foust wants to parse minituae in analysis which he feels he has better command of than the authors. (And perhaps he does given that what he does say strikes me as sound in its disagreements.) The function of this report by the ASG is to give ’substantive cover’ to those who want to at least build down a US presence/committment in Afghanistan. It doesn’t seem (to the authors) politically possible either to meaningfully negotiate or leave, so they come up with a Third Way. I’m not endorsing that Third Way; there are definitely problems with it. And I suspect that I’d agree with Foust on most of his (undeveloped here) objections with that policy brief. The important thing, to me, is that there is an effort to shift policy away from Up the Surge. —And curiously Foust doesn’t even engage with that aspect. . . . Which seems to me the point of his remarks, somehow. I get the sense he thinks nation-building can be done there, just not at gunpoint. To which I would say, “And not by an occupying power in any way, shape, or form.”
The US occupation of Aghanistan is a straight-forward imperialist punitive action of prerogative. It never had any other stratetic objective than to punish distant indigenees which those in power here didn’t like, nor does it have any now. ‘Nation-building’ was not, is not, and won’t be on any substantive agenda _ever_; what has been done there amounts to Potemkin clinics to give foreign media shills photo-ops and talking points. I could say more in that vein, but I’ll spare all today. —But it’s all gone south(west). It is of vast significance, for example, that a substantial _Uzbek_ insurgency has flared up against the US occupation. This is touched on by Foust, and has been ‘kinda-sorta’ mentioned in the US and UK press without really being pursued. Because this is an imperialist venture, it is not presently conceivable that the US will be willing to _substantively_ negotiate with the insurgency; just too humiliating to actually discuss terms with ‘those brown people.’ And just leaving would look, too, too . . . Russian; too humiliating. So that’s not on anytime soon. That would leave, in effect, a policy direction very nearly like what is proposed in the ASG report, a snuff-and-puff overwatch while pulling most of the boots out; sort of like Iraq presently, with 50k+ US troops in ’select in-country bases.’ Sort of like the US policy to Haiti between the World Wars; own you and kill you when we feel like it, but wouldn’t live in a shithole like that. Sort of.
The illusion to me in this policy suggestion is that it will be _the US_ who will dictate the shape of the outcome, that outcome or any other. The success of the insurgency in Afghanistan, and it is an increasing success, has huge implications for Pakistan. Which potentiality/probability makes any plan for Afghanistan likely worth less than the pixels its postulated with. The most realistic ‘realist’ assessment of prospects in this region is, to me, a containment strategy. We’d get a better deal if we’d eat enough crow to actually negotiate, but I don’t think we’re that smart. Or for that matter that interested in putative success. Our only real goal has been to show ‘those brown people’ we can kill them if we feel like it, and we can keep doing that whether we’re on the ground, winning anywhere, or not. We won’t get a better outcome until we change our attitude, over here. And even defeat is unlikely to do that for us. Unless it’s a massive defeat on a scale we are rather unlikely to experience in our AfPak adventure as presently constituted.
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