Gergen and Kennedy's Seat

http://www.futureofcapitalism.com/2010/01/gergen-and-kennedys-seat

It's an under-appreciated fact that, in the episode in which the Republican candidate for Senate in Massachusetts, Scott Brown, is seen explaining "it's not the Kennedys' seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat," the person he is disputing is not so much the Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, but the debate moderator, David Gergen, a Yale graduate with a Harvard law degree who served in the Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton administrations and who now is a professor at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. It was Mr. Gergen who had used the "Teddy Kennedy's seat" formulation, and, to judge by the YouTube video, it wasn't exactly his finest hour, though, who knows, it might propel Mr. Brown to the Senate in part on the sheer strength of populist reaction against what comes off as the arrogance of the elites.

by Editor  |  Jan 12, 2010 at 9:20 pm Related Topics:  Non-Profits, Press receive the latest by email: subscribe to the free futureofcapitalism.com mailing list