Laptop-side Chats

Hullaballoo is always an embarrassment of riches, and if one is at all sentient, one should be reading it daily, but this particular piece got my attention.  (And then I followed a link on somebody's Live Journal and hello porny! but that's another story.  Heh.)

Ahem.  Anyway.  The succinct summation:

There's an underlying reason for this particular kvetching, however. Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the nation weekly during the depression and it helped him keep the country on his side as the administration tried everything it could think of to bring the country back from the brink. I think it's pretty clear that the last thing the elites want is for Obama to maintain the kind of connection to the people that could undermine their control of the political dialog. It can only hurt their ball team.