When I look at Obama, I see a man who is trying very hard to do right by the people

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148. it is louder. it is a coordinated repeated message from the think tanks reaching 50 mil a week

obama has it while he's talking and a maybe a short time after. he reaches the mainstream as is and people looking for it. much of america hears the RW analysis and overmessaging. delivered by blowhards who can say anything they want because call screeners prevent them from being challenged. prompted and reinforced and stroked by paid callers from those same think tanks.

the talk radio monopoly can create a buzz that madison avenue would kill for. it can turn a molehill into a mountain in a day.

if obama or any dem or any event makes headway the PR pros at the think tanks will come up with a campaign to message over it and feed it first through the radio to make it acceptable and ubiquitous. the GOP politicians and media operatives will repeat on other media knowing team limbaugh is already pounding the same thing into tens of millions of earholes who live in areas where there are no free alternatives for political talk while driving or working.

OWS is one of the few that has been louder than RW talk radio- for now.

obama and liberals have to rely on common sense and truth and for 20 years 1000 coordinated radio stations have been able to use unchallenged volume and repetition to short circuit the normal feedback mechanisms democracies depend on.

the GOP politicians don't have to listen to 'the people' because they have that talk radio made-to-order base at their back.

when the left finally challenges talk radio the modern GOP will finally die and much of the obstruction will fall apart.