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THE ‘BULLY PULPIT’ IS NOT
DEAD — IT WAS NEVER ALIVE
HEN WASHINGTON Post
reporter Chris Cillizza
writes, as he did Monday, that the “bully pulpit just ain’t what it used to be,” it
primes me to expect that some exciting news is coming. Specifically,
that somehow, the “bully pulpit”
has been transformed into some
W
incredibly effective tool for moving
opinion. I mean, I can’t point to any
recent examples of that happening,
but I’ve been binge-watching Arrested Development lately, so it’s
possible I may have missed some
huge, dramatic turnaround in the
power of the bully pulpit.
As it turns out, however, the status quo ante seems to be in place.
Cillizza goes on at length to say that
the “bully pulpit is less bully these
President
Barack
Obama
speaks at
the National
Defense
University in
Washington,
D.C., in May.