Jim Hightower on Texas Progressivism

Bill Sher from Campaign for America's Future took the opportunity at this weekend's Netroots Nation convention in Austin to interview Jim Hightower. Questions: 1) Is blogging changing Texas politics? 2) What impact is the Obama campaign having on Texas politics? 3) Is Obama Progressive?

As someone who has lived in Texas for 62 years I'd say that Jim Hightower throughly understands the politics of this state. Here's the interview.



Side note: There are some good video interviews coming from Netroots Nation, especially on Talking Points Memo. It looks like video reports is going to be the next big wave in progressive political blogging.

People have figured out how to actually record the interview and put it up on the Internet. My guess is that the next advance is going to be packaging the videos so that people know where to find them. Crooks and Liars has long been a good place to go for videos, but you never know what to expect to find there. Talking Points Memo is now using its main site to drive traffic to its videos, and it has set up a special category for videos like it has TPM Muckraker and TPM Cafe. There is a possibility of a big synergy there.

Campaign for America's Future has not gotten there yet. Each video there is a one - off. The website doesn't have the unity of direction that Josh Marshall has given Talking Points Memo.