Clinton aide throwing RW attack spam at Obama

[BrainGlutton]

Remember those lying spam e-mails that RW bloggers have been circulating against Obama?

Guess who’s making use of them now.

Story in Huffington Post:

Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining the term “vast right-wing conspiracy” used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton White House where he worked as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now acting as a senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is exploiting that same right-wing network to attack and discredit Barack Obama. And he’s not hesitating to use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.

Almost every day over the past six months, I have been the recipient of an email that attacks Obama’s character, political views, electability, and real or manufactured associations. The original source of many of these hit pieces are virulent and sometimes extreme right-wing websites, bloggers, and publications. But they aren’t being emailed out from some fringe right-wing group that somehow managed to get my email address. Instead, it is Sidney Blumenthal who, on a regular basis, methodically dispatches these email mudballs to an influential list of opinion shapers – including journalists, former Clinton administration officials, academics, policy entrepreneurs, and think tankers – in what is an obvious attempt to create an echo chamber that reverberates among talk shows, columnists, and Democratic Party funders and activists. One of the recipients of the Blumenthal email blast, himself a Clinton supporter, forwards the material to me and perhaps to others.

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But, rather remarkably for such a self-professed liberal operative like Blumenthal, a staggering number of the anti-Obama attacks he circulates derive from highly-ideological and militant right-wing sources such as the misnamed Accuracy in Media (AIM), The Weekly Standard, City Journal, The American Conservative, and The National Review.

To cite just one recent example, Blumenthal circulated an article taken from the fervently hard-right AIM website on February 18 entitled, “Obama’s Communist Mentor” by Cliff Kincaid. Kincaid is a right-wing writer and activist, a longtime critic of the United Nations, whose group, America’s Survival, has been funded by foundations controlled by conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife, the same millionaire who helped fund attacks on the Clintons during their White House years. Scaife also funds AIM, the right-wing media “watchdog” group.

Gonna fire him, Hillary? :dubious:

[Lemur866]

Yeah, it’s kind of funny, all the Clinton supporters claiming that Obama would be eaten alive by Karl Rove’s spin machine in the general election. Karl Rove’s spin machine is in full effect NOW, and Clinton and her team are helping it along.

[Liberal]

Obama is fighting the Hillary-McCain ticket.

[elucidator]

Thats the nub of it, so far as I’m concerned. My problem with the Clintonistas has always been their “triangulation”, their determination to be “business friendly” has made them into a dim reflection, their progressive stances are so cautious they are essentially conservative.

Feh!

[Shayna]

@Lemur866

Yeah, it’s kind of funny, all the Clinton supporters claiming that Obama would be eaten alive by Karl Rove’s spin machine in the general election. Karl Rove’s spin machine is in full effect NOW, and Clinton and her team are helping it along.

And he’s not only not being eaten alive by it, he’s managed to come from way behind her (by as much as 30 points), to surpass her not only for the Democratic nomination, but in polling for the General Election, as well.

[BrainGlutton]

@Lemur866

Karl Rove’s spin machine is in full effect NOW, and Clinton and her team are helping it along.

Actually it seems to be the other way around.

[black_rabbit]

Maybe I’ve missed mention of it (been pretty busy at work, for a Friday), but apparently there’s been some vote-suppressing-looking auto-dialing going on in NC by a group with ties to HRC.

Has anybody actually seen Karl Rove recently? Can they confirm he’s still in Texas?

[burundi]

I heard about that on the radio**, black rabbit**. This group is making illegal robocalls, mostly to African American households, with deliberately confusing information about registering for the primary. They’ve been pulling the same shit in other states. I’d like to think that Clinton herself didn’t sign off on it, but I haven’t heard her come out against it.

[Phlosphr]

@burundi

I heard about that on the radio**, black rabbit**. This group is making illegal robocalls, mostly to African American households, with deliberately confusing information about registering for the primary. They’ve been pulling the same shit in other states. I’d like to think that Clinton herself didn’t sign off on it, but I haven’t heard her come out against it.

Would it really surprise anyone? The QBU* thinks she can do anything in this campaign to beat Obama - can’t wait to see it all backfire !

*Queen Bitch of the Universe

[BrainGlutton]

@black rabbit

Maybe I’ve missed mention of it (been pretty busy at work, for a Friday), but apparently there’s been some vote-suppressing-looking auto-dialing going on in NC by a group with ties to HRC.

And Gloria Steinem is on the Advisory Board.

[Yeticus_Rex]

“Hildebeast”…I like it!

[Tristan]

This more than anything is why I would not vote for Hilary Clinton. She is a cog in the political Machine, much more so than Obama. While he is a cog (by definition, any politician is) he is fairly small. He seems to want to actually change some things, while Hilary is showing more and more that she is just the same as your garden variety politician.

About 3 months ago, I was ambivalent… so count me as one voter that her actions have swayed the other way.

[What_the]

Gee… who would have thought that the Clintons could stoop so low!! :smack:

As one example, maybe all the women who Slick womanized for years and who had to be taken out to preserve his political options.

Maybe every other person who ever crossed them.

[BrainGlutton]

@What the .... ?!?!

As one example, maybe all the women who Slick womanized for years and who had to be taken out . . .

:rolleyes:

[What_the]

@BrainGlutton

:rolleyes:

Thanks, at least you took the time to respond.

… and thanks for not accusing me of hijacking my own thread again.

[Gukumatz]

At least straw is still inexpensive.