October 9, 2008 / by emptywheel

 

Meet the Bloggers: Pitchforks and Congressional Hearings

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I just finished taping tomorrow’s edition of Meet the Bloggers, which shows at 1PM ET. John Cusack was on to talk about the DVD release of his movie, War Inc. We talked some about Congressional hearings–both regarding war profiteering and regarding finance companies who use their bailout money to send executives on a boondoggle.

Which got me thinking … There’s been some righteous anger directed at all the fat-cats on Wall Street since the bailout, though less so directed at the folks getting rich off our war of choice in Iraq. 

How do we capitalize and focus that righteous anger?

Now that people are so fed up, how do we channel it into a positive application of pitchforks and prevent it from becoming really ugly?

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