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Gregg: You Can Put Him on a Board, but not in a Box

by: Dean Barker

Wed Apr 22, 2009 at 07:11:44 AM EDT
Whatever you do, don't say Judd Gregg is a conservative Republican:
Senator Gregg is not someone that you can put in a box and say well he is a conservative republican or a he's someone who votes with the democrats, you can say he's an independent thinker, says Jennifer Donahue at The New Hampshire of Politics. She sn't at all shocked to see Senator Gregg go from cabinet appointee to budget enemy number one, though she says his recent p-r blitz against the democrats' budget is a new approach for the 18 year senator, certainly he has had a higher profile in this six to eight months than perhaps he has previous to that.

I say, I say, Jennifer Donahue, former press secretary for Republican US Senator Hank Brown, is currently the Political Director at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics, of which Judd Gregg was "instrumental" in establishing. Senator Gregg also leads NHIOP's Public Advisory Board.
Dean Barker :: Gregg: You Can Put Him on a Board, but not in a Box
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Gregg: You Can Put Him on a Board, but not in a Box | 3 comments
This is a really good example of Republican speak. (4.00 / 2)
1) It focuses on what Gregg is, rather than what he does.

2) The assessment isn't "objective" in the sense of being impartial, since the person making the assessment is beholden to Gregg for her job--i.e. it's got that crony taint.

3) The assessment isn't "objective" in the sense of evaluating Gregg's qualities.  Rather, we're being presented with the perspective of how the "object" of inspection would like to be seen.  In republican speak, the goal of "seeing ourselves as others see us" is to insure that others see us, as we want them to.  This is what accounts for the almost constant diet of spin.  

I think it's also what actors are trained to do.

Yes. (0.00 / 0)
1) It focuses on what Gregg is, rather than what he does.

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Donahue is someone you could put in a box (4.00 / 1)
Most of her interviews don't even pass the Turing Test.


Gregg: You Can Put Him on a Board, but not in a Box | 3 comments
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