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In reply to the discussion: Clinton says she spoke to staffer who accused top adviser of harassment [View all]Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)14. Yeah "serious discipline"
And exchanging vegan recipes...
Inside the former Clinton antagonists operation to destroy the anti-Hillary memes he once unleashed.
PATRICK CALDWELL SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 ISSUE
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/david-brock-hillary-clinton-correct-the-record/
A week after Hillary Clinton released her new memoir, Hard Choices, I met Burns Strider for lunch at the Hotel Monaco in Washington, DC. Just as the book hit the shelves, Striders organization, Correct the Record, had released 11 pages of bullet points swatting down anticipated criticisms from Clintons detractors (Hard Choices is just another way for Hillary to make money hand over fist; Hard Choices is a glossed-over snooze-fest). It was the kind of preemptive spin that Correct the Record was created to churn out. As Clinton prepares for a possible presidential run, Correct the Record keeps constant watch for any conceivable attacks against her, and then aggressively beats them back before they take hold.
As he picked at his beet and greens salad, Strider told me how hed ditched eating animal products in 2010 at the behest of the then-secretary of state. Youve got to think about your two boys, she told Strider, who had worked as her senior adviser on faith outreach during the 2008 campaign. That night he got a call from Bill Clinton, who extolled the virtues of his new animal-free diet: If I can do it, you can. A few days later Strider received a box of herbivore-themed books and handwritten recipes jotted down by the former president.
The contemplative 48-year-old vegan, who manages Correct the Records day-to-day operations, says he has no qualms about his new role in the blood sport of presidential politics. Yet his boss is an even more unlikely figure: David Brock, the former Clinton nemesis and ringleader of the vast right-wing conspiracy that Hillary Clinton decried in 1998.
PATRICK CALDWELL SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2014 ISSUE
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/09/david-brock-hillary-clinton-correct-the-record/
A week after Hillary Clinton released her new memoir, Hard Choices, I met Burns Strider for lunch at the Hotel Monaco in Washington, DC. Just as the book hit the shelves, Striders organization, Correct the Record, had released 11 pages of bullet points swatting down anticipated criticisms from Clintons detractors (Hard Choices is just another way for Hillary to make money hand over fist; Hard Choices is a glossed-over snooze-fest). It was the kind of preemptive spin that Correct the Record was created to churn out. As Clinton prepares for a possible presidential run, Correct the Record keeps constant watch for any conceivable attacks against her, and then aggressively beats them back before they take hold.
As he picked at his beet and greens salad, Strider told me how hed ditched eating animal products in 2010 at the behest of the then-secretary of state. Youve got to think about your two boys, she told Strider, who had worked as her senior adviser on faith outreach during the 2008 campaign. That night he got a call from Bill Clinton, who extolled the virtues of his new animal-free diet: If I can do it, you can. A few days later Strider received a box of herbivore-themed books and handwritten recipes jotted down by the former president.
The contemplative 48-year-old vegan, who manages Correct the Records day-to-day operations, says he has no qualms about his new role in the blood sport of presidential politics. Yet his boss is an even more unlikely figure: David Brock, the former Clinton nemesis and ringleader of the vast right-wing conspiracy that Hillary Clinton decried in 1998.
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Clinton says she spoke to staffer who accused top adviser of harassment [View all]
DonViejo
Jan 2018
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People have been pretending this was never to be heard from again after the 2008 campaign.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#41
I Google'd him. Yes. Your observations are correct. I too, see an obvious double-standard.
NurseJackie
Jan 2018
#168
Why would a serial campaign staff abuser who was protected would be called a "good friend"
ehrnst
Jan 2018
#110
Those were just concerned citizens who happened to hire the "faith" director from 2008
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#84
Actually, Correct the Record was launched in Nov 2013, per a July 2014 article in Slate.
Demit
Jan 2018
#149
According to its Wiki page, Correct the Record was founded in 2015 by David Brock.
lapucelle
Jan 2018
#156
And? She sent the guy to counseling and handled it...Also, he did not work for Clinton
Demsrule86
Jan 2018
#171
You, in post 16, refuse to acknowledge the facts presented in the story.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#30
Then acknowledge the facts presented in the story that he was investigated by the ...
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#45
Regardless of how much you whine about it, I'm not going to accept a non-fact as fact
Major Nikon
Jan 2018
#53
I have the same reaction to friendship with a married perv "faith adviser" Karl Rove clone.
Hassin Bin Sober
Jan 2018
#38
He was sent to counseling...seems like a fair way to handle it to me. But again
Demsrule86
Jan 2018
#167
Well, if you want to claim that contracting organizations are the same as campaign employees
ehrnst
Jan 2018
#132
One has to wonder why maggie haberman and glenn thrush didn't go to directly to
still_one
Jan 2018
#5
No she didn't, but that wasn't the point I was trying to make. Did Habberman and Thrush even try to
still_one
Jan 2018
#46
I need to make a correction. Thrush did not co-author the specific NY Times article, but is will be
still_one
Jan 2018
#60
While it is easy to say that in hindsight, President Obama also had issues with Rev Wright during
still_one
Jan 2018
#35
The target of Rev Wright's incendiary remarks was white power, not white people.
Zen Democrat
Jan 2018
#42
I wasn't blaming President Obama at all, only demonstrating that candidates and nominees spiritual
still_one
Jan 2018
#50
Every situation is different as we should have learned over the past 3-6 months.
lancelyons
Jan 2018
#18
Like the faith advisers who think fucking a porn actress while your wife is pregnant is cool.
onecaliberal
Jan 2018
#51
Small correction: her co-author on the story was Amy Chozick. She's writing a book with Glenn Thrush
Demit
Jan 2018
#49
Actually that isn't a small correction, I really thought he co-authored that article, but when I
still_one
Jan 2018
#52
Trump loves this. Wave a shiny thing while he's at his most vulnerable, Dems pile on each other. n/t
Akoto
Jan 2018
#71
And he misused campaign funds as well as taking credit for female staffers' work
ehrnst
Jan 2018
#121
I'm guessing it's rather tough to deny the enjoyment one may receive gnawing on red meat.
LanternWaste
Jan 2018
#172