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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 5:28 PM

Since this is a blog on lobbying, I thought readers might be interested in a posting today defending K Street by author Andrew Keen in the publication The Daily Beast.

"The inconvenient truth is that lobbies are purely a mirror of our own interests," says Keen, a writer from Berkeley, Calif. who authored a book called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. "So when Americans say they hate lobbyists, what they are really saying is they hate themselves."

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                                                                                                                    -- Bara Vaida

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Mike Jones

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The inconvenient truth is that lobbies are purely a mirror of our own interests," says Keen, a writer from Berkeley, Calif. who authored a book called The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy. "So when Americans say they hate lobbyists, what they are really saying is they hate themselves. Mike @ excessive sweating and how to stop excessive sweating

Jake Bllam

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Since this is a blog on lobbying, I thought readers might be interested in a posting remove google virus today defending K Street by author Andrew Keen in the publication The Daily Beast.

LB

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

BS.... lobbyist are driving this country in the ground.  They represent the minority, not the majority.  I am fed up with them buying off our elected officials.  Get a job.... not one that is costing me!!!!!!

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