Under The Influence: In Defense Of The K Street Lobbyist http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1 en Copyright 2011 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:28:00 GMT http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification In Defense Of The K Street Lobbyist 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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]]> http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1 http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:28:00 GMT Mike Jones responded on January 19, 11 03:31 AM <div class="ad" style="float:right;margin: 0px, 0, 10, 10;"> <h6>Advertisement</h6> <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=under_the_influence;series=lobbying;medium=rss;sz=300x250,336x280;ord=019033154?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=under_the_influence;series=lobbying;medium=rss;sz=300x250,336x280;ord=019033154?" border="0" alt=""></a> </div> 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

...]]> http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1#1860817 http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1#1860817 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:31:54 GMT Jake Bllam responded on November 23, 10 02:58 PM <div class="ad" style="float:right;margin: 0px, 0, 10, 10;"> <h6>Advertisement</h6> <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=under_the_influence;series=lobbying;medium=rss;sz=300x250,336x280;ord=019033154?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=under_the_influence;series=lobbying;medium=rss;sz=300x250,336x280;ord=019033154?" border="0" alt=""></a> </div> 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.

...]]> http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1#1795844 http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2008/12/in-defense-of-the-k-street-lob.php?rss=1#1795844 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:58:27 GMT LB responded on July 7, 10 09:13 PM <div class="ad" style="float:right;margin: 0px, 0, 10, 10;"> <h6>Advertisement</h6> <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=under_the_influence;series=lobbying;medium=rss;sz=300x250,336x280;ord=019033154?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/nationaljournalgroup/njonline;feature=under_the_influence;series=lobbying;medium=rss;sz=300x250,336x280;ord=019033154?" border="0" alt=""></a> </div> 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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