davidm
September 29, 2016, 10:07pm
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The title of this thread is the headline of the article in Mother Jones. It was published today but it’s actually old news. The headline is the funniest part of the article so I couldn’t resist posting it.
At one point in 2008, while Hillary Clinton was first running for president, Stone was sitting in a bar conducting an informal focus group about the former first lady and hatched a toxic and offensive idea for thwarting her. He filed some paperwork with the IRS and created an independent political group called Citizens United Not Timid—also known as CUNT. He recruited a DJ-bartender from Miami who went by the name of Noodles to serve as its chairman. Stone’s group set up a couple of websites, including WhatIsHillary.com , which featured a logo designed to look like a woman’s crotch. Its main mission was to sell T-shirts with this image and the words, “To educate the public about what Hillary Clinton really is.”
Not long after its unveiling, the organization heard from another anti-Clinton outfit that might normally be an ally: Citizens United, the conservative advocacy group that was then run by Bossie. The group was annoyed that Stone’s organization had copied the name of the long-established organization. While Citizens United had spent years attacking Hillary, often hitting similarly misogynistic notes, Stone’s work apparently crossed the line.
Someone once commented that Roger Stone (the aforementioned Trump adviser) is the media equivalent of Trump’s food taster. If Stone says something, and it doesn’t poison him, Trump starts saying it.
davidm
October 1, 2016, 12:46am
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Note the mention of T-shirts. I think a lot of these “political” groups exist for the purpose of selling merchandise.
E-DUB
October 1, 2016, 2:00am
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Libel as a cottage industry. Is this a great country or what?