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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:37 PM Mar 2016

Do we know who David Brock is really working for?

He was a died in the wool Republican until he hooked up with the Clintons to start defending them.

All the "apparent" errors being made in the Clinton campaign's political tricks are driving voters to Bernie. Especially young voters and young women. She is losing ground in all categories.

So......maybe Brock is really still a Republican, pushing this tainted candidate on Democrats in a way that will split the party if she is the nominee.

Heck, DWS was a Republican too, wasn't she? IIRC.

And..............well.............

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revbones

(3,660 posts)
1. He is a vile human being and an admitted liar
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:41 PM
Mar 2016

The "admitted liar" is because he admitted in interviews about lying about Anita Hill and the Clintons.

Now he runs Correct the Record, a Hillary super-PAC dedicated to obfuscating the record which now owns Blue Nation Review previously a progressive media site. BNR fired previous staff and serves as the Pravda-style propaganda arm for Goebbel's style propaganda by Brock and Peter Daou.

Nixon thought it was ok if the president did it. Hillary followers seem to think it's ok as long as it's Hillary and her campaign...

NWCorona

(8,541 posts)
5. But he was so effective at defending Kerry from being swiftboated... Not!
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:48 PM
Mar 2016

This guy gets no pass. He single handedly stopped an untold amount of women from coming forward with abuse complaints. He destroyed a strong black woman who had a promising career. All to get Clarence Thomas in and afterwards he was like, yeah I was lying.

But now he's riding with Clinton so it's all good!

peacebird

(14,195 posts)
2. Corporate Rs and DLC/ThirdWay dems are basically the same beast. They support the status quo.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:42 PM
Mar 2016

They support corporations over the people, they believe the rich are better than the rest of us. They work to support policy that helps the wealthy at the expense of the middle class and the environment. They all support endless war.

Vote for Bernie

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
7. Nah, just shitty ol' conservatives like the ones who stole the 2000 election.
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:49 PM
Mar 2016

But you can call them Illuminati if you want.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
15. You don't know his history? Seriously? From the NY Times:
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:58 PM
Mar 2016

Book Author Says He Lied in His Attacks on Anita Hill in Bid to Aid Justice Thomas
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI and WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: June 27, 2001

The author of a best-selling book that attacked the credibility of Anita F. Hill has disavowed its premise, and now says that he lied in print to protect the reputation of Justice Clarence Thomas.

David Brock, the author of the book, ''The Real Anita Hill'' (Free Press, 1993), has also suggested, in a magazine article to be published this week, that Justice Thomas used an intermediary to provide Mr. Brock with damaging information about a woman who had come forward to provide support for Ms. Hill's accusations of harassment by Justice Thomas. Ms. Hill's accusations became the focus of Senate hearings into Justice Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1991.

Mr. Brock reported that he then used the information to force the woman to retract her statements about Justice Thomas.
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/27/us/book-author-says-he-lied-his-attacks-anita-hill-bid-aid-justice-thomas.html

You should read the entire thing and understand who it is you are defending and what he did to Anita Hill.

 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
4. "How a super PAC plans to coordinate directly with Hillary Clinton’s campaign"
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:46 PM
Mar 2016
Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to work in tight conjunction with an independent rapid-response group financed by unlimited donations, another novel form of political outsourcing that has emerged as a dominant practice in the 2016 presidential race.

On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The group’s move was first reported by the New York Times.

That befuddled many campaign finance experts, who noted that super PACs, by definition, are political committees that solely do independent expenditures, which cannot be coordinated with a candidate or political party. Several said the relationship between the campaign and the super PAC would test the legal limits.

But Correct the Record believes it can avoid the coordination ban by relying on a 2006 Federal Election Commission regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as blogs, is off limits from regulation. The “Internet exemption” said that such free postings do not constitute campaign expenditures, allowing independent groups to consult with candidates about the content they post on their sites. By adopting the measure, the FEC limited its online jurisdiction to regulating paid political ads.

-snip-

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/
 

senz

(11,945 posts)
12. I dunno, but she sure stands with them on payday lenders...
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:54 PM
Mar 2016
“President Obama was right when he condemned predatory payday lenders for ‘trapping hard-working Americans into a vicious cycle of debt’ with interest rates of 300 percent,” a narrator says. “But now Debbie Wasserman Schultz is joining Republicans in standing up for payday lenders after she received over $68,000 in campaign cash from them.
 

melman

(7,681 posts)
11. It's amazing that they are involved with him
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:53 PM
Mar 2016

when you consider it was his Troopergate article that started the impeachment saga.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
13. and all her inner-circle types all represent one foreign agent or another and have pipelined
Wed Mar 30, 2016, 03:56 PM
Mar 2016

massaged "intel" to her, which she trusts because they're on Her Side and the critics aren't

Davis and Blumenthal LITERALLY TURNED TWO COUNTRIES INTO WARZONES by lobbying alone; who knows what big spenders Brock, Penn, and Morris will bring in to make the US start wars for?

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