Meet Kurt Bardella. He and others like him have a role in shaping public opinion. Even if you would like to pretend that your very own thoughtful analysis is not in any way related to "public opinion," which you perfectly well know is complete bull shit, he at least helps to shape the opinion of others. In a city in which being a pandering sycophant is a viable career track, people like Kurt Bardella and his boss, Darrell Issa, help to guide the narratives that determine what gets done and what does not. How to Win in Washington "But an economic and information boom in recent years has transformed the city in ways that go well beyond the standard profile of dysfunction. To say that today’s Washington is too partisan and out of touch is to miss a much more important truth — that rather than being hopelessly divided, it is hopelessly interconnected. It misses the degree to which New Media has both democratized the political conversation and accentuated Washington’s myopic, self-loving tendencies. And it misses, most of all, how an operator like Kurt Bardella can land in a culture of beautifully busy people and, by trading on all the self-interest and egomania that knows no political affiliation, rewrite the story of his own life." nytimes/2013/07/07/magazine/how-to-win-in-washington.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Posted on: Mon, 08 Jul 2013 13:15:37 +0000
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