Sometimes we feel our elected representatives aren’t listening. Even in his lucid moments, George III often didn’t listen either.
Turn on your computer’s sound and listen to a reading of our national birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence.
Just listen.
Helen Thomas, 1976
White House correspondent Helen Thomas has been around forever. She’s well known as an ultra liberal and was a huge supporter of Obama. Now, however, her attitude seems to be changing. Please take the 4 minutes to watch this You Tube Video of yesterday’s White House Press Conference. CBS’s Chip Reed and Helen Thomas are upset about the controlled nature of the Town Hall meeting Obama has planned, and also about how reporters at even regular press conferences are called the night before and told they will be called on at the events!
In April 2009 Patrick Fitzgerald, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, addressed the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs on the topic of public service and public corruption. I put up a post summarizing some of his comments. I also contacted the Evans School and asked if it would consider making a video of both Mr. Fitzgerald’s comments and the panel discussion available. Today I received an email from the Evans School of Public Affairs letting me know the video has been posted online. Here is a link to the Evans School’s website with the two-part video embedded. (more…)
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