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I Work Inside a Metaphorical Factory
Time’s Michael Scherer has a piece titled “Inside Obama’s Ideas Factory” which is all about how we here at CAP are super-awesome. Scherer writes that “it is difficult to overstate the influence in Obamaland of CAP.” So keep in mind when you read this blog that everything I write is incredibly influential.
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November 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
We really ought to dispense with the confusing habit of giving names to people. Rather, you are Number 9.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Oh grate. Now we’ll awl have too speel like this.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
This joke is getting old.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Influential?
Who is this Matt Yglesias you keep talking about?
November 26th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Influential, ehh. Persuaded me that maybe some of my aversion to urban planning was misguided? Yes.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Clearly we should all abandon our own blogs, and post comments here instead to piggyback on Matt’s incredible influence.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Actually, it’s the comments that are influential. Matt is a mere conduit, a gathering place.
November 26th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
We have blogs? Jesus, I need to get to work. I haven’t updated since the turn of the century.
I’ll never be influential at this rate!
November 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Yes, you are influential, which is why your anti-Agent Zero propaganda campaign must be stopped at all costs. So it is with great glee that I point out that another of your pajama incubated lies has been proven false:
November 26th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Hi , my name is Matt , I have a wife and three kids and I work in an idea factory.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Meanwhile, the intellectually honest and curious might want to try to figure out why – well before the spate of CAP-boosting articles – I put them on my list of reasons to oppose BHO.
If MattY wants to be honest with his readers for a change, perhaps he can discuss the massive strawman he linked to a few days ago. For instance, he could do his darnedest to present a logical argument claiming that CAP doesn’t want to bring back something that would have the impact of shutting down what ThinkProgress calls “hate radio”, i.e., Rush et al.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
I also like to pretend this is my blog, and Matt is just a commentator. To help, after posting I turn my laptop upside down.
How does that help?
November 26th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Matt once responded to a question I had about water rights. My question influenced his decision to answer it. I am therefore the 10th most influential person in politics.
November 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Since CAP is clearly the key recruiting station for future Democratic leaders, perhaps you can figure out a way to recruit beyond the ivies? A Democratic establishment that doesn’t recruit from kids with diverse backgrounds is pretty useless.
November 26th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I thought Scherer’s article was hilarious. I particularly liked this part:
“It is difficult to overstate the influence in Obamaland of CAP, a group with roughly $25 million in annual funding from mostly anonymous individuals, corporations and unions.”
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I guess that’s how Scherer daintily tiptoes around the issue of how Herb Sandler buttfucked Wachovia for $25 Billion with a bunch of mortgages whose value has not ..er..been quite what the Wachovia CEO (correction: former CEO) estimated. And, in a bit of Robin Hood roleplaying, ole Herb used a small part of the Wachovia loot to fund CAP.
Which may explain the ..uh..subdued tone CAP and Obamaland seems to be taking to this whole subprime/derivatives business. Hercule Periot evidently has nothing to worry about insofar as the investigation biz goes. Nobody in Washington DC has a clue.
I think they should play the Pink Panther Theme at the inauguration party.
November 26th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Don Williams: could you put a longer, sourced version of your comment on a permanent page somewhere?
November 26th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
I also liked the part where Scherer claims CAP briefed the guys at Saturday Night Live.
Maybe ole Herb and Soros should ask Podesta who came up with that Saturday Night Live satire that prominently featured Herb and Soros:
http://www.citizensugar.com/2319088
November 26th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
Also, my browser must have a bug because I did a text search on Scherer’s article and got zero hits for “Yglesias”.
November 26th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
See also
http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/stories/2008/04/22/Wachovia_AnnualMeeting.html ,
November 26th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Re 24’s request for sourcing:
see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_Sandler ,
November 26th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Since CAP is clearly the key recruiting station for future Democratic leaders, perhaps you can figure out a way to recruit beyond the ivies? A Democratic establishment that doesn’t recruit from kids with diverse backgrounds is pretty useless.
Well I did pluck Ezra Klein out of the obscurity of UC Santa Cruz and put him on the path to success. But presumably John Podesta (Knox University, Georgetown Law) and my boss Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri (American University) know some non-Ivy people as well. Or maybe this should be the responsibility of our CampusProgress.org team run by Rob Anderson (Georgetown), Kay Steiger (University of Minnesota), and Jesse Singal (University of Michigan).
November 26th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Re the birth of CAP, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandler_Family_Supporting_Foundation
November 26th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Matt: “everything I write is incredibly influential.”
And incredibly ignorant, conceited, and lame.
The US is doomed if Obama listens to clowns like you.
Which, of course, he actually doesn’t. Especially you.
Anybody heard anything about Matt’s book lately – aside from the lame ad at the top of the blog?
Thought not.
How many copies sold, Matt? Outside of Pyongyang, North Korea, that is… (Old joke)
November 26th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Matt, if Barack adopts some sensible ideas about transportation and rail travel then I will call you influential.
November 26th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I don’t get it. Openly Left people have told me that Obama is not progressive so the CAP can’t be influential. Unless YOU’RE NOT PROGRESSIVE EITHER!!!!!
November 26th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
CAP: Centrists for American Progress.
I love it.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:41 am
Re Richard’s comment “How many copies sold, Matt? Outside of Pyongyang, North Korea, that is… (Old joke)”
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You’re an evil little fucker, Richard. Got a mean streak a mile wide.
I like that in a person.
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