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Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War"
Ginni Thomas, Allen West, and a crew of conservative activists and journalists have formed a hush-hush coalition to battle progressivesand Karl Rove.
Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washingtonincluding the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examinerhas been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation," according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.
MUCH, MUCH MORE
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/groundswell-rightwing-group-ginni-thomas
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)They just don't get it.
emulatorloo
(44,133 posts)NoMoreWarNow
(1,259 posts)rurallib
(62,431 posts)stevil
(1,537 posts)With the social media we have today combined with the faux internet press people will believe almost anything they read on the net. Throw it against the wall and see if it sticks. A lot of people are too stupid to research sources. Its turned me into a hardcore skeptic lately. They are making headway, sadly.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)These people intent on outflanking progressives AND GOP should have an interesting time of it.
matt819
(10,749 posts)These sorts of actions border on treason.
carolinayellowdog
(3,247 posts)When I read this, I thought about the George Polk award, but found he just won that this year for the 47% story. This reporter is a national treasure.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Let them splinter off into factions and fight among each other.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)The Enemy - "Groundswell" - New David Corn Scoop
by AnnetteK
Mother Jones' David Corn has a scoop - Oh Boy!, and it's a corker.
Inside Groundswell: Read the Memos of the New Right-Wing Strategy Group Planning a "30 Front War"
These people, these are the enemy.................
Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washingtonincluding the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examinerhas been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation," according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.
Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswellincluding aides to congressional Republicanscook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and "clueless" GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks. (For more on Groundswell's "two front war" against Rovea major clash on the rightclick here.)
At the March 27 meeting, Groundswell participants discussed one multipurpose theme they had been deploying for weeks to bash the president on a variety of fronts, including immigration reform and the sequester: Obama places "politics over public safety." In a display of Groundswell's message-syncing, members of the group repeatedly flogged this phrase in public. Frank Gaffney penned a Washington Times op-ed titled "Putting Politics Over Public Safety." Tom Fitton headlined a Judicial Watch weekly update "Politics over Public Safety: More Illegal Alien Criminals Released by Obama Administration." Peter List, editor of LaborUnionReport.com, authored a RedState.com post called "Obama's Machiavellian Sequestration Pain Game: Putting Politics Over Public Safety." Matthew Boyle used the phrase in an immigration-related article for Breitbart. And Dan Bongino promoted Boyle's story on Twitter by tweeting, "Politics over public safety?" In a message to Groundswellers, Ginni Thomas awarded "brownie points" to Fitton, Gaffney, and other members for promoting the "politics over public safety" riff.
In the interests of copyright I won't post any more. It is a long article and I'll be honest, I haven't got through it all yet myself.
Saw enough to want you all to get a chance to see it though.
UPDATE:
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Their ten step evil plan...
- At its weekly meetings, the group aims to strengthen the rights messaging by crafting Twitter hashtags.
- Defeat the nomination of Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez by convincing people that he is is extremely antagonistic toward whites.
- Convince Americans that John Kerry cannot be trusted as Secretary of State because Kerrys son in law is an Iranian American with extensive family still in Iran.
- If we were all gay illegal aliens, the party likes (sic) us.
- Re-brand efforts to restrict access to the polls through voter ID programs and strict scrutiny of minority voters as a Voter Rights campaign.
- Win the hearts and minds of minorities by re-positioning themselves as Fredrick Douglas(sic) Republican(s), instead of tea partiers or conservatives.
- Refer to immigration reform as OBAMAGRATION
- Hype the Fast and the Furious controversy and the Benghazi embassy attack some more.
- A 15 sec internet (YouTube ad) featuring ethnically diverse children on a merry-go-round (soft music)
Nuclear explosion.
- Write articles on (sic) 4th grade level!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/25/1226520/-The-Enemy-Groundswell-New-David-Corn-Scoop
Note:
jazzimov
(1,456 posts)They forgot to add "and don't use Spellcheck!"
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Winning formula .
GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)Will he use Crossfire to push their talking points?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)is reporting huh. Everything on that list per se. Also, as mentioned before, they are infiltrating progressive/liberal sites as well.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)PLEASE!
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,355 posts)I just finished a novel "Christian Nation" by Frederic Rich which is eerily similar. I almost felt like I was reading a non-fiction book instead of fiction.
BumRushDaShow
(129,165 posts)It just boggles the mind how far the loons will go.
calimary
(81,340 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)let the daggers be drawn!
"And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP über-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks."
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