Pence meeting secretly with right-wing media personalities

[IcyPeas]

(sorry, it's rawstory... ads, ads, ads, but interesting article)

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/pence-secretly-right-wing-media-personalities-to-pitch-how-to-talk-about-trumps-virus-crisis-report/

the vice president hosted an informal briefing on COVID-19 and the administration’s latest efforts, with several right-leaning personalities with large followings on Twitter and other social media platforms, according to a source with direct knowledge of the gathering,” the Beast reports, adding, “The following Wednesday, Pence hosted another closed-door meeting with conservative ‘influencers,’

Among those Vice President Pence has been reaching out to are “Fox New fixture and prolific MAGA tweeter Dan Bongino; former Trump adviser and current “War Room: 2020” podcast host Jason Miller; Newsmax TV host and Trump’s former press secretary Sean Spicer; former White House official and Sinclair ‘must-run’ commentator Boris Epshteyn; Sinclair anchor and ex-Fox News host Eric Bolling; and former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), a Trump surrogate.”

***Question***: Do the Democrats have influencers on Twitter and/or other social media? We need to do this too!!

[GusBob]

1. Influencers lol

Propagandists is the proper term

[hibbing]

2. A cacophony of caca n/t

[Ex Lurker]

3. If he can get them on board with treating this seriously

It's a good thing.

[IcyPeas]

5. more to clean up their public relations problem...

The report notes that the outreach illustrates that White House knows it has a public relations problem of epic proportions on its hands and needs all Trump-supporting hands on deck, who are being used to praise the president while at the same time lashing out the media for their coverage of the administration’s failures.

[rockfordfile]

10. That pos is meeting with russians

[Hekate]

4. Was Pence lookin' all presidential?

[spanone]

6. Propaganda mongers....

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Don't do it Sam Elliot! Don't walk with the devil!

Kelsey Grammer, Stay Blue Beast
Vince Vaughn, Smart man to stay on the sidelines.
Clint Eastwood, you're dead to me.
Jon Voight, too bad the Anaconda shat you out.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Don't do it. It's never too late to be cool.
Scott Baio, who cares?
Stephen Baldwin, I hope they pick him. HIM! HIM! Oh, how we will laugh.

[Blue Owl]

12. No doubt mother approved that list

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Ah, that's why Fox changed it's tune so abruptly giving tRumpanzees whiplash. . . . nt

[Windy City Charlie]

9. I can hear Sean Hannity now...

"It's absolutely shameful the Dems were more worried about impeaching our president and treated this pandemic as a hoax. Thank goodness our president took unprecedented action with it from the very beginning."

[NewJeffCT]

11. Most of the Democratic ones are more rational

there are a few big accounts - Tea Pain, Scott Dworkin, Jon Cooper - I'd consider them more bigger "fan" accounts

Progressives like Seth Abramson, RVA Wonk/Caroline Orr

And, some good legitimate media people
Never Trumpers like Rick Wilson, George Conway, Cheri Jacobus, Anna Navarro, and a few I'm missing

Kyle Griffin, Maddow, Maddow Blog, Chris Hayes, Lawrence O'Donnell,

Celebs: Rob Reiner, Rosie, the Arquette Sisters, Alyssa Milano, Mark Hamill

Legal Analysts like Laurence Tribe, Asha Rangappa, Glenn Kirschner, Joyce Vance, Barb McQuade, Mimi Rocah, Harry Littman, Ryan Goodman