David Brock, a Clinton enemy from the '90s, is now integral to Hillary's run

[n2doc]

Among the familiar figures from Bill Clinton's White House days now reemerging to help propel his wife’s campaign, one stands out not for his record of trusted counsel or unyielding loyalty, but for salacious reporting on Clinton's sex life that nearly undid his presidency.

Although Hillary Rodham Clinton tries to run a highly disciplined campaign, the outsized role that David Brock plays is a reminder that this is, after all, still a Clinton operation, with all the psychodramas that implies. Brock is the once-ruthless right-wing reporter who nudged Paula Jones into public view with her accusations of sexual misconduct by the former president, who once suggested Hillary Clinton had an affair with a White House advisor who took his own life, who was a key architect of what she once dubbed the “vast right-wing conspiracy” to bring down the Clintons.

Brock apologized long ago for his role as a Clinton attacker and dramatically shifted sides. Now, he is central to Clinton's run for the White House as a linchpin of her shadow campaign.

"What kind of a movement would we be if we rejected converts?” said Paul Begala, a veteran of the Clinton White House who now collaborates with Brock. “He saw the permanent intellectual and ideological infrastructure they have on the right and brought it to the left.”

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http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-clinton-david-brock-20150707-story.html#page=1

[sabrina 1]

1. Great, so we are using the despicable negative dirty politics of the right to the left?

No thanks, that is the problem right there, and Begala is boasting about it?

How sad ... and to think I thought that we on the left were above all that.

[OKNancy]

4. He doesn't use "dirty politics"

What he does do is deal with facts. He defends Hillary with factual statements and research about her real record and accomplishments.

[tularetom]

6. You obviously have not visited "correcttherecord.org"

or you couldn't post that with a straight face.

It's so amateurish and sycophantic, it's hilarious.

[OKNancy]

8. I use it all the time... it states facts

Facts you may not like, but it is complete with links that prove the facts are correct.

How many times have you or DUers used MediaMatters? Brock was the founder of MediaMatters.

[Laser102]

9. Yes he was. I visit the web site all the time.

When you have a convert you also have someone who knows where the bodies are buried in the repug. operation. I love his loyalty to the Clinton's. Good for him!

[Divernan]

2. Wow! Talk about evolving!

[OKNancy]

3. This is common knowledge to anyone who follows politics n/t

[tularetom]

5. That last sentence is a little troubling….

“He saw the permanent intellectual and ideological infrastructure they have on the right and brought it to the left.”

First of all, he doesn't work for the "left" he works for the Clinton campaign, which is not above crapping on the left when it suits them to do so.

But more importantly, it seems to be an admission that the type of lying and smear tactics used by the "right" is a good thing and therefore worthy of imitation. And that Clinton and her associates have no problem lying and smearing her opponents.

Mr Beluga has a long history of implanting his foot in his mouth. He fucked up the old Crossfire show and got it canceled and it appears he hasn't learned anything in the years since then.

[dsc]

7. really he got it cancelled all by his lonesome

typical of many posters here you blame a progressive when you could blame a conservative, fancy that.

[OnyxCollie]

10. Authoritarians on the "left" are just fine with lying and smears.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1107&pid=11064

[azmom]

11. WTF. The key architect of the right wing conspiracy

To bring down the clintons is now a central figure in the Hillary campaign?

Why?