"This Town" Author Mark Leibovich on Shaming D.C.'s Elite
"People now come here to get rich," explains Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and author of the DC-centered book This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral - plus plenty of valet parking! - in America's Gilded Capital. "Twenty years ago, theoretically, this was a city built on public service."
From the ugly networking at Tim Russert's funeral to the incestuous relationship between media and politicians to the naked desire to cash out on one's "public service" by becoming a lobbyist, Leibovich's horrifying peek at life within Washington's elite has something to offend every American.
"What I try to do is give voice to the entire carnival here," Leibovich tells Reason's Nick Gillespie. "[I wanted] to give readers outside of Washington...a fuller sense of what the full movie looks like."
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the interviewer should have let Leibovich talk. He bizarrely uses Leibovich as a prop to cue his own stories.
Kudos for the shout out to my senator.
There's hundreds of senators & congressmen that can affect legislation, and local elections affect this. The guy at the top doesn't call all the shots, and there's plenty that can be done to get real change in policies regardless of the president.
You can't,"Shame" people who are absolutely Shameless...
"This town needs an enema!" Jack Nicholson as The Joker. I think he was talking about DC.
its was never a town for public service. It was built as a town of political power at it center! it was always a center of power and money. if just get worst every day!!
No problem. It's in the book “Presidential Perks Gone Royal” Keith Gray or you can Google it. Several publications have covered it.
You missed my point, atlas. What I'm saying is that our politicians may as well be living in a different country if they are not subject to our laws. It is misguided to refer to them as our "Representatives" since they are completely alien to our way of life. The political landscape of Washington D.C. may as well be a foreign land.
An alligator will grow to the size in proportion to his environment.
I think he was talking about Gotham. But that it also applies to Washington DC.
Agreed, LibertyDownUnder. (great comment, btw) It's certainly time to see some of that.
I understood your point, i just disagree with premise that they are different from most Americans, they personify everything modern America stands for from the way they skirt the law to the fact they look for an easy way to get someone else's money, your looking at them and saying they are different just because what they get away with is bigger crimes, and that's how most people think about it, it's okay if it's just a little crime, but every little cancer grows in to a big politician.
Yea but not to the extent it is today. It keeps getting worse & worse & worse & worse.
he did say theoretically, which would lead me to believe that he didn't believe that to be the truth of it. I;m not sure the US gov was ever self-less personally, but his comments don't make me wanna go rage lol.
I'm disgusted too, but could you provide a source? Statistics can say anything you know. How the figures were calculated means a lot.
Tucker Max called it a Hollywood for ugly people....lol
Hmmmm.... do I want a blueberry bagel or a cranberry bagel. Either way, I'm picking a bagel. It's the illusion of choice. "None of the above" would win many elections if that meant a new election with a completely different set of candidates.
Who are the big status players in the District of Criminals? Fuck if I care.
No criticism of VOTER APATHY in all that? A bit lacking, I say.
There are only two times when Obama is not lying. 1) When his lips are not moving 2) When the Microphone is turned off.
what the hell is your point?
So the people in Washington have made special laws for themselves, as any one who believes they are entitled to be treated differently then someone else will, so i guess you don't think people support laws that make you special if you are of a certain race/gender/income/profession?, but those are the only laws people support so why wouldn't the one's making them make the most for themselves it's only logical, you just sound jealous of them you didn't actually say benefits are wrong.