September 27, 2006
A Sliver of Light
Arianna Huffington, of the Huffington Post has a new project/book/meme in the making, Becoming Fearless. In an campaign to launch her neomeme, she's hitting all the circuits with style, including an appearance on The Colbert Report.
As you know, Arianna began her career as a conservative, and switched. An "On Point" caller asked her about her tipping point -- what inspired her to change her political stance from right to left, and she replied , "my understanding of the role of government.... I began to see that our efforts to deal with our social problems were not ever really going to materialize at a substantive enough level, of a great enough magnitude, to make a difference -- and that, therefore, we did need an activist government and the power of government appropriations to deal with all those social problems." She's right, but what is going to tip the rest of them?
From the ranks of the fearless, the eloquent Dan Froomkin, a consistant voice of clarity at the Washington Post, tells us:
And let's not forget: It was only a few weeks ago that Ron Suskind revealed in his book, "The One Percent Doctrine," just how cavalierly President Bush responded to being briefed on the al Qaeda threat, just a month before the attack. From Barton Gellman 's review in The Washington Post: "The book's opening anecdote tells of an unnamed CIA briefer who flew to Bush's Texas ranch during the scary summer of 2001, amid a flurry of reports of a pending al-Qaeda attack, to call the president's attention personally to the now-famous Aug. 6, 2001, memo titled 'Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US.' Bush reportedly heard the briefer out and replied: 'All right. You've covered your ass, now.'"
Richard Ben-Veniste, of the 9/11 commission, is looking pretty fearless these days.
And Jon Stewart is always fearless, but that's because he's just kidding.
All of us here at Dakota are working on it.
Photo note: Just a hole in the fence with light behind it.
Posted by Dakota at September 27, 2006 06:23 AM