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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (5513)	8/20/2003 11:45:57 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793581

THE NOTE Jacob Schlesinger writes in the Wall Street Journal that George Shultz is once again "attempting to throw his cloak of respectability around" a political candidate who may be perceived as a policy lightweight. The former Secretary of State helped beef up the credentials of Ronald Reagan for his 1980 run for the White House and did much the same for George W. Bush in advance of his 2000 campaign. In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Rush Limbaugh calls California "a liberal proving-ground run amok" and says Schwarzenegger is no Ronald Reagan. He laments what he sees as an attitude by conservatives that California is so messed up that it can't be fixed with conservative principles ? so they turned to Schwarzenegger. "Their thinking has led them to support Arnold Schwarzenegger, who, to my knowledge, has yet to embrace any conservative positions, though he has embraced Warren Buffett. Hasta la vista, whatever."

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (5513)	8/20/2003 7:56:15 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793581

So I guess the only question is, to what extent does Moyers control the Schumann Foundation? We can probably discover that through a little googling.... Go right ahead and I'll be interested in your results but the point of the Moyers comment you made earlier, I suppose, was to indict the American Prospect as something to the left of the DLC. If that was the point, I now think you are correct and I was sort of wrong. I had actually forgotten about that magazine when you made your original post, so I checked that website link I sent you which had no mention of Moyers on it, and signed off the converstion. However, your next post on Schumann and Moyers intrigued me a bit. I looked for a bit. Found nothing particularly interesting but in the course of it wound up back at the American Prospect. So I checked it out a bit. It's definitely not DLC. Something else, though like good, serious political magazines, it's a bit hard to tell without reading it for a while. So if you point you wished to make is that the American Prospect was not DLC, I agree with that. If the point you wish to make is that Moyers has a great deal to do with it's agenda, I don't know and am not terribly interested. If the point you wish to make is that Moyers politics are not acceptable, then I disagree, and strongly. Hard to know where we are but there's where I am.