It is so more than ironic that Hillary is doing this as she was the target
in Citizens United directly.
I mean that was a film against her!
Now she stoops to the same old tactics?
This is just too bizarro.
But, thanks as always for these highly informative posts Miriam!
I mean that. I don't have the time to comment on all, but they are
informative and valuable.
Thanks for all you do and, of course thanks to others on this "social
medium" too.
I am aghast at the hypocriteHillary Clinton.
And yet as I've stated in the past I may, and repeat now, may actually vote
for her as the Republican nominee is even worse.
Oh, my what a headache and stomache ache I have at even the thought of
this.....
Regardless, my vote means nothing. What really counts is the money I don't
have.
And I thought prostitution was illegal? I guess not so with the legalized
prostitution for those seeking office....
Oh, my now I digress.....
But not much.
For they are all whores in the most precise use of that term.
By the way in my past I was a sort of whore in this political realm too. I
was a big time fund raiser for John Glen's run for the White House in 1982.
I was a major paid fundraiser in Texas. Actually it was glorified "boiling"
of lists for contributions. I was a glorified telemarketer.
I "boiled" Texas conservative dems, bankers, oil tycoons and the like.
And this was years before citizens united and even before my hero, John Glen
got caught up in the Keating Five fiasco and the beginnings of banking
dregulation that years later led to the major fiscal breakdown of our and
the global economy.
Say, I still have an autograph of John Glenn on my wall and I gave him and
his wife an "It's a girl" cigar when my daughter was born.
Oh my....I feel like Forrest Gump here.
Oh the eighties! Those were some times when I was a process Democrat and a
journalist for business journals....
I'm happy I've come to my senses and gone back to my radical roots.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Vieni" <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2016 6:53 PM
Subject: [blind-democracy] Clinton's Digital Task Force Breaks Barriers To
Defend Her Donors
There's ben a discussion on the BARD Talk list today about how to
participate on social media. This article gives a glimpse of what it's like
if one does. Along with Brock's very aggressive methods, (written about
elsewhere as well), I read on Mondoweiss today that Hillary is holding a
fund raiser in Tel Aviv. Isn't there some rule about foreign donations to
American political campaigns?
Miriam
Published on
Friday, April 22, 2016
by
Shadowproof
Clinton's Digital Task Force Breaks Barriers To Defend Her Donors
by
Kevin Gosztola
Hillary Clinton attends a campaign rally at Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA. 4/6/2016. (Photo by redcti on Flickr)
A super political action committee, Correct The Record, which has direct
ties with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's campaign,
launched a "digital task force" to push out "positive content" and respond
to "negative attacks" and "false narratives" spread within "online
progressive communities." The super PAC also plans to use the "task force"
to "thank" and show support for superdelegates, who the campaign contends
are under attack by supporters of her opponent, Bernie Sanders.
The announcement comes as the Clinton campaign has taken on a much more
strident tone. Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for the Clinton
campaign, contended Sanders "has been destructive and is not productive to
Democrats." After Clinton won the New York primary, a senior Clinton aide
told POLITICO reporter Glenn Thrush, "We kicked his ass tonight," and, "I
hope this convinces Bernie to tone it down. If not, fuck him."
Also, as the campaign rolls out its digital task force, the Associated Press
reports on the many corporations, trade associations, and other groups,
which paid Clinton for speeches between 2013 and 2015 after she left her
position as United States secretary of state.
The AP found "federal records, regulatory filings and correspondence showed
that almost all the 82 corporations, trade associations and other groups
that paid for or sponsored Clinton's speeches have actively sought to sway
the government - lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal
policy and in some cases contacting State Department officials or Clinton
herself during her tenure as secretary of state."
Clinton was paid by corporations or groups with U.S. government interests 94
times. A third profited from government contracts during this same period.
This opens her up to scrutiny that if she is elected president her decisions
would be influenced by these corporations and groups, including those
closely aligned with Wall Street.
The "digital task force" is called "Barrier Breakers 2016." It is the
"brainchild" of well-known Clinton operative, David Brock, who founded
Correct The Record. It will be overseen by the super PAC's president, Brad
Woodhouse, and it also involves "former reporters, bloggers, public affairs
specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who
have led groups similar to those which the task force" plans to organize."
The project celebrates Clinton's ability to break down barriers. This is
another example of the campaign manipulating the language of
intersectionality to win over voters. Yet, on the other hand, it is true:
Clinton is breaking down barriers for corporations to influence governmental
policy.
The task force claims "online engagement" with "Bernie Bros" is necessary
because their "attacks" often make Clinton supporters afraid to voice their
opinions because of the "fear of online harassment." Female supporters of
Clinton "have been subject to intense cyber-bullying and sexist attacks from
swarms of anonymous attackers."
The project also plans to "push out information to Sanders supporters
online, encouraging them to support Hillary Clinton."
Although the super PAC frames the launch of this project as an effort to
"defend" Clinton, it really is an offensive information operation against
the Sanders campaign, the campaign's most passionate supporters, and any
voters, who may question whether Clinton should be the next president of the
United States.
Example graphic from Correct The Record. Source:
http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-correct-the-reco
rd/
Correct The Record has spearheaded some of the most dishonest attacks and
rumors against Sanders so far: Sanders supported Minutemen vigilantes, who
tried to execute undocumented immigrants at the Mexico border, Sanders wants
to "dismantle Obamacare," Sanders planned to commit voter fraud in Iowa,
Sanders opposed bailing out auto workers, and Sanders thinks gun violence is
funny when the state of Vermont is directly responsible for fueling gun
trafficking in New York (which is completely false).
The Clinton campaign and its dark money allies have broken barriers for
money in politics. It has pioneered what Bloomberg described as "the
outsourcing of routine campaign functions to outside groups that are
permitted to raise money in unlimited amounts." In fact, Paul Ryan, a lawyer
at the Campaign Legal Center, considered filing complaints with the Federal
Election Commission and Justice Department challenging Correct The Record's
"novel legal theories." He told Time.com, "[Correct the Record] is creating
new ways to undermine campaign regulation."
Clinton has claimed she supports overturning the infamous Supreme Court
decision, Citizens United, which helped unleash a torrent of unregulated
money into elections. However, "Clinton's own election efforts are largely
immune from her reformist platform. While Clinton rails against
'unaccountable money' that is 'corrupting our political system,'
corporations, unions, and nonprofits bankrolled by unknown donors" pour
"millions of dollars into a network of Clinton-boosting political
organizations," according to the Center for Public Integrity.
What is particularly troubling about the project to combat users on Twitter,
Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram is that users may not realize they are
targets of Correct The Record's information operation. The project
apparently has no plan to announce their membership in this task force. They
will likely select users, who are popular, and go after them until those
users are overwhelmed to a point where their expression of their opinions
are drowned out by the task force's response to their online activity.
Correct The Record may claim this type of project is necessary to defend
against "Bernie Bros," but numerous women, who support Sanders, have come
under attack as if they have betrayed their gender by refusing to support
Clinton. One Clinton supporter told a Sanders supporter to give up her
"woman card" because her support for Sanders showed she "sucked" at being a
woman. When actress and model Emily Ratajkowski expressed her support for
Sanders, she was told to shut up and go back to being a hot woman. She was
even asked to show her tits because that is the "spirit" of socialism.
In other words, while there is plenty of evidence there are anonymous
"Bernie Bros" online who say sexist and repulsive things to women who
support Clinton, there is a tit-for-tat that can be carried out, showing
women who support Sanders have experienced the same kind of abuse online. To
put it even more bluntly, women who express their political opinions online
are cyber-bullied daily, and manipulating those attacks into a means to
cripple an opponent's political campaign is quite devious.
The Clinton campaign, and in particular, Correct The Record, is so filled
with conceit that it thinks, in the middle of the Democratic primary when
there are over a thousand pledged delegates to still be awarded, that they
can target the "attacks" or criticisms of Clinton by Sanders supporters
published on social media and then push campaign propaganda at these same
supporters that will convince them to support Clinton. It is incredibly
vain, and an example of how the Clinton campaign has believed all along that
it is entitled to support from Democratic voters.
There would be no need for a "digital task force" if the Clinton campaign
did not fear that Americans are learning too much about how Clinton is
beholden to corporate and special interests, which will heavily influence
her as president. They are tired of defending her against claims that she is
too much of a corporate Democrat to be a true advocate for social progress
if elected. They also do not want to continue to spend money fighting
Sanders and his supporters so they are pulling out all the stops. Not only
will this undermine campaign finance regulations, but it will effectively
discourage and suppress political speech by numerous Americans.
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Published on
Friday, April 22, 2016
by
Shadowproof
Clinton's Digital Task Force Breaks Barriers To Defend Her Donors
by
Kevin Gosztola
. 7 Comments
.
. Hillary Clinton attends a campaign rally at Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA. 4/6/2016. (Photo by redcti on Flickr)
. A super political action committee, Correct The Record, which has
direct ties with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's
campaign, launched a "digital task force" to push out "positive content" and
respond to "negative attacks" and "false narratives" spread within "online
progressive communities." The super PAC also plans to use the "task force"
to "thank" and show support for superdelegates, who the campaign contends
are under attack by supporters of her opponent, Bernie Sanders.
. The announcement comes as the Clinton campaign has taken on a much
more strident tone. Jennifer Palmieri, communications director for the
Clinton campaign, contended Sanders "has been destructive and is not
productive to Democrats." After Clinton won the New York primary, a senior
Clinton aide told POLITICO reporter Glenn Thrush, "We kicked his ass
tonight," and, "I hope this convinces Bernie to tone it down. If not, fuck
him."
. Also, as the campaign rolls out its digital task force, the
Associated Press reports on the many corporations, trade associations, and
other groups, which paid Clinton for speeches between 2013 and 2015 after
she left her position as United States secretary of state.
. The AP found "federal records, regulatory filings and correspondence
showed that almost all the 82 corporations, trade associations and other
groups that paid for or sponsored Clinton's speeches have actively sought to
sway the government - lobbying, bidding for contracts, commenting on federal
policy and in some cases contacting State Department officials or Clinton
herself during her tenure as secretary of state."
Clinton was paid by corporations or groups with U.S. government interests 94
times. A third profited from government contracts during this same period.
This opens her up to scrutiny that if she is elected president her decisions
would be influenced by these corporations and groups, including those
closely aligned with Wall Street.
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actblue.com/contribute/page/cdspring16-article
The "digital task force" is called "Barrier Breakers 2016." It is the
"brainchild" of well-known Clinton operative, David Brock, who founded
Correct The Record. It will be overseen by the super PAC's president, Brad
Woodhouse, and it also involves "former reporters, bloggers, public affairs
specialists, designers, Ready for Hillary alumni, and Hillary super fans who
have led groups similar to those which the task force" plans to organize."
The project celebrates Clinton's ability to break down barriers. This is
another example of the campaign manipulating the language of
intersectionality to win over voters. Yet, on the other hand, it is true:
Clinton is breaking down barriers for corporations to influence governmental
policy.
The task force claims "online engagement" with "Bernie Bros" is necessary
because their "attacks" often make Clinton supporters afraid to voice their
opinions because of the "fear of online harassment." Female supporters of
Clinton "have been subject to intense cyber-bullying and sexist attacks from
swarms of anonymous attackers."
The project also plans to "push out information to Sanders supporters
online, encouraging them to support Hillary Clinton."
Although the super PAC frames the launch of this project as an effort to
"defend" Clinton, it really is an offensive information operation against
the Sanders campaign, the campaign's most passionate supporters, and any
voters, who may question whether Clinton should be the next president of the
United States.
Example graphic from Correct The Record. Source:
http://correctrecord.org/barrier-breakers-2016-a-project-of-correct-the-reco
rd/
Correct The Record has spearheaded some of the most dishonest attacks and
rumors against Sanders so far: Sanders supported Minutemen vigilantes, who
tried to execute undocumented immigrants at the Mexico border, Sanders wants
to "dismantle Obamacare," Sanders planned to commit voter fraud in Iowa,
Sanders opposed bailing out auto workers, and Sanders thinks gun violence is
funny when the state of Vermont is directly responsible for fueling gun
trafficking in New York (which is completely false).
The Clinton campaign and its dark money allies have broken barriers for
money in politics. It has pioneered what Bloomberg described as "the
outsourcing of routine campaign functions to outside groups that are
permitted to raise money in unlimited amounts." In fact, Paul Ryan, a lawyer
at the Campaign Legal Center, considered filing complaints with the Federal
Election Commission and Justice Department challenging Correct The Record's
"novel legal theories." He told Time.com, "[Correct the Record] is creating
new ways to undermine campaign regulation."
Clinton has claimed she supports overturning the infamous Supreme Court
decision, Citizens United, which helped unleash a torrent of unregulated
money into elections. However, "Clinton's own election efforts are largely
immune from her reformist platform. While Clinton rails against
'unaccountable money' that is 'corrupting our political system,'
corporations, unions, and nonprofits bankrolled by unknown donors" pour
"millions of dollars into a network of Clinton-boosting political
organizations," according to the Center for Public Integrity.
What is particularly troubling about the project to combat users on Twitter,
Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram is that users may not realize they are
targets of Correct The Record's information operation. The project
apparently has no plan to announce their membership in this task force. They
will likely select users, who are popular, and go after them until those
users are overwhelmed to a point where their expression of their opinions
are drowned out by the task force's response to their online activity.
Correct The Record may claim this type of project is necessary to defend
against "Bernie Bros," but numerous women, who support Sanders, have come
under attack as if they have betrayed their gender by refusing to support
Clinton. One Clinton supporter told a Sanders supporter to give up her
"woman card" because her support for Sanders showed she "sucked" at being a
woman. When actress and model Emily Ratajkowski expressed her support for
Sanders, she was told to shut up and go back to being a hot woman. She was
even asked to show her tits because that is the "spirit" of socialism.
In other words, while there is plenty of evidence there are anonymous
"Bernie Bros" online who say sexist and repulsive things to women who
support Clinton, there is a tit-for-tat that can be carried out, showing
women who support Sanders have experienced the same kind of abuse online. To
put it even more bluntly, women who express their political opinions online
are cyber-bullied daily, and manipulating those attacks into a means to
cripple an opponent's political campaign is quite devious.
The Clinton campaign, and in particular, Correct The Record, is so filled
with conceit that it thinks, in the middle of the Democratic primary when
there are over a thousand pledged delegates to still be awarded, that they
can target the "attacks" or criticisms of Clinton by Sanders supporters
published on social media and then push campaign propaganda at these same
supporters that will convince them to support Clinton. It is incredibly
vain, and an example of how the Clinton campaign has believed all along that
it is entitled to support from Democratic voters.
There would be no need for a "digital task force" if the Clinton campaign
did not fear that Americans are learning too much about how Clinton is
beholden to corporate and special interests, which will heavily influence
her as president. They are tired of defending her against claims that she is
too much of a corporate Democrat to be a true advocate for social progress
if elected. They also do not want to continue to spend money fighting
Sanders and his supporters so they are pulling out all the stops. Not only
will this undermine campaign finance regulations, but it will effectively
discourage and suppress political speech by numerous Americans.
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