Rachel Is Going On About Manafort Getting Yanukovych Elected But Neglects To Mention Devine

[Me.]

“Those who heard Devine’s interviews and watched his Sanders TV ads therefore may be surprised to know that, in the years and months leading up to the Sanders presidential campaign, Devine was making gobs of money to secure the election of one of the world’s most corrupt political figures and then his allies.

Thanks to Robert S. Mueller III’s prosecution of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman and sometime business associate of Devine, we now have an unusual glimpse into the role the Democratic ad man had in electing and preserving the power of Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych, a crooked pro-Putin autocrat. Though American political consultants routinely rake in cash from foreign leaders — even shady ones — Devine’s seamless pivot from advocate for antidemocratic thug to champion of a principled democratic reformer shows extraordinary flexibility.”

https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/opinion/columns/2018/08/03/dana-milbank-tad-devine-bernie/10585382007/

[Cha]

1. Mahalo for a Fuller picture, Me..

[Me.]

3. Aloha Cha

I don't understand why the former always, rightly, gets mentioned, but the latter never.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Not having much engaged in the Sanders Wars here in DU, I'd forgotten ol' Tad . . . . .

. . . . thanks for the reminder.

[Me.]

4. He Also Made Gobs Of Money Off The Sanders Campaign

I think it was 10 mil

[Marcus IM]

5. Check out the documentary Our Brand is Crisis with Carville and Devine

NOT the movie with Sandra Bullock.

The campaign corporations do not hold fealty to any ideology in their professional setting.

Carville and Devine ran the disgusting smear campaign against Evo Morales when they were managing the rightwing candidacy of Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (Goli) campaign in the 2002 Bolivian presidential campaign.

Our Brand Is Crisis
2005
Unrated
1h 27m
A documentary on American political campaign marketing tactics and their consequences.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492714/

[Me.]

6. So True

The truth of this is out there if you look...though I would draw the line at working for Putin's pal.

Thank you

[betsuni]

7. "But Devine was the guy molding the Sanders campaign as a righteous, everyman's insurgency

against the wealthy establishment."

Steven Stoft:

"Tad Devine: The One-Percenter Strategist. ... He repackaged Yanukovych and helped reelect him in 2010 by recommending an advertising campaign consisting of 75 percent attack ads -- his speciality. Devine quit in 2012 ... and built a $100-million mansion complete with a zoo and a replica galleon on an artificial lake. ... But four months after 'quitting' Devine wrote a strategy memo for Manafort saying, 'The number of people who admit they are having difficulty feeding their family throughout Ukraine today is stunning.' ... The progressive magazine Mother Jones reported in 2014 that Devine's consulting firm won a national political-consultant prize for creating 'one of the most brutal attack ads you'll ever see.'"

[Me.]

8. Nailed It

and Rachel should've told the entire story

[betsuni]

9. I can't see her doing that. A lot of people have a populist blind spot.