Hillary Clinton’s Hit Men Target Bernie Sanders at ‘Blue Nation Review’

[Uncle Joe]

Is a propaganda arm of Hillary Clinton’s presidential juggernaut masquerading as an independent news and opinion site?

That, anyhow, is the charge being leveled by the campaign of Clinton rival Bernie Sanders. They may have a point.

Back in the summer of 2014—when Blue Nation Review was a fledgling blog dedicated to creating “a place where progressives can debate where we want to be as a movement,” per the web site’s mission statement—it treated Sanders as a liberal hero.

(snip)

Even before Sunday night’s CNN-sponsored Democratic debate had ended, BNR’s lead story was accusing Sanders of rudeness and sexism under the headline “Women React to Bernie Sanders Telling Hillary ‘I’m Talking’.”

(snip)

As with an increasing number of political whodunits during this election cycle, the fingerprints of Hillary hitman David Brock are all over the crime scene.

Brock, who didn’t respond to a request for comment, is the famed Clinton antagonist-turned-acolyte, an ardent convert from right-wing attack journalism, who founded the liberal-leaning media watchdog organization, Media Matters for America.


(snip)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/hillary-clinton-s-hit-men-target-bernie-sanders-at-blue-nation-review.html

This is a good article.

[Uncle Joe]

1. This of course would be the same David Brock that trashed Anita Hill.

In March 1992, The American Spectator published a 17,000-word article in which Brock challenged the claims of Anita Hill, who had accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment. Shortly thereafter Brock became a full-time staff member at that publication. In 1993, Brock expanded his article into a book, The Real Anita Hill. Brock's description of Hill in the book as “a bit nutty and a bit slutty” was widely quoted.[6]

The book became a best-seller. It was later attacked in a book review in The New Yorker by Jane Mayer, a reporter for The New Yorker, and Jill Abramson, who was at that time a reporter for The Wall Street Journal. The two later expanded their article into the book Strange Justice, which cast Anita Hill in a much more sympathetic light. It, too, was a best-seller. Brock replied to their book with a book review of his own in The American Spectator.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock

[dchill]

2. Not just BNR and Media Matters, but The Daily Beast...

Not to mention MSNBC and CNN, for that matter.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Well this is a Daily Beast Article and its defending Bernie?

I agree with the rest of your post.

[JonLeibowitz]

8. Peter Daou is a Brock mouthpiece and often posts at the daily beast

so I understand where the poster is coming from.

[dchill]

10. And Chelsea Clinton is on the board of The Daily Beast.

[senz]

20. Yes. It was a very recent OP.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511420593

[dchill]

9. Where's the actual defense?

They're just drawing attention to the sexism meme. And rudeness? He said, "Excuse me."

[Uncle Joe]

12. Did you read the article? Here is more of it.

Is a propaganda arm of Hillary Clinton’s presidential juggernaut masquerading as an independent news and opinion site?

That, anyhow, is the charge being leveled by the campaign of Clinton rival Bernie Sanders. They may have a point.

(snip)

BNR is “the pond scum of American politics,” said Democratic political consultant Tad Devine, a top strategist for Sanders’s campaign against the Democratic frontrunner. “I’m sure they’re going to do whatever it takes to throw mud at Bernie and discredit him and lie about him, and deceive people. And that’s their business. That’s what they do for a living.”

(snip)

Subsequent BNR stories, as Sanders ramped up his seemingly quixotic White House quest, carried headlines such as “5 Awesome Things Bernie Sanders is Doing With His Campaign,” “Bernie Sanders Wants to Bring the Fight to the GOP,” “Bernie Sanders rolls through Virginia riding high,” “Over 110,000 Bernie Backers Pledge to Attend Grassroots Event,” and—on Oct. 29 of last year—“While the GOP Were Embarrassing Themselves at the Debate, Bernie Sanders Was Doing This.”

This last story—a dying burst of positive Sanders coverage—reported: “With most of the political world’s eyes trained on the CNBC GOP Presidential Debate on Wednesday night, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders held a rally at George Mason University.
“As the Republicans dodged questions about their own divisive rhetoric, Sanders decried Islamophobia and the hate that often follows it.

“BNR BOTTOM LINE: We think Robert F. Kennedy…would be proud.”

After early November came a two-month-long hiatus in which Sanders was barely mentioned—and certainly never again compared to a martyred liberal icon.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/03/07/hillary-clinton-s-hit-men-target-bernie-sanders-at-blue-nation-review.html

The author is exposing Hillary's henchmen at work in flipping BNR's once noble purpose.

[dchill]

13. I don't disagree. My estimation of The Daily Beast stands, however.

[Uncle Joe]

14. I don't disagree with you on that, this is probably just an exception to the rule and I'm

not getting my hopes up that more favorable coverage of Bernie will follow from them.

Peace to you, dchill.

[dchill]

17. Right on.

[AzDar]

3. K & R

[ebayfool]

5. Yup. Nice to see other media finally acknowledging that well-known little secret! Rec'd!

Brock is constantly linked here as though his outlets are true news sources, never mind he was funded by Clinton and readily admits to being a paid partisan. The groupies he has here are astounding! His tripe is posted here just as fast as he can spew it.

SMH

[Samantha]

6. You know, Uncle Joe, the funny part of these "hit-men" tricks is that they are just so

juvenile in nature. And they are paid BIG bucks for this. I have never pulled a political dirty trick on anyone, but if I were being paid to do so, I am pretty sure I could cough up better ones than these two guys. Really, as soon as one lands, you immediately think of one or the other. What ever happened to "leave no fingerprints"?

I am thinking if you put your mind to it, you too could come up with a better played dirty trick -- many of us here could.

Thanks for the thread,

Sam

[Uncle Joe]

7. I agree, Samantha and Brock hasn't changed one bit, still using gender to divide the people,

he just flipped genders because of who is cutting his paycheck.

Peace to you,

Joe

[Lorien]

11. Blue Nation Review was purchased by a huge Clinton donor

and Chelsea Clinton is on the board of directors for the Daily Beast.

[madfloridian]

16. Yes, David Brock...

[jfern]

15. David Brock was more than rude to Anita Hill

[Uncle Joe]

18. Brock was misogynist, slanderous, libelous and downright nasty to Anita

and I don't believe he's changed in any substantial way, only the team he's playing for..and maybe not even that if one considers that oligarchs, mega-corporations and unlimited sums of money have dominated both parties in government.

[Matariki]

19. Manufactured outrage

At the 3:45 mark:

[Uncle Joe]

21. Thanks for the addition, Matariki, there was a lot of interrupting going on there.

[senz]

22. Watching that, I'm glad all over again that Obama won.

She is trying to twist Obama's words in the ugliest of ways.


I am sure he could not then, nor cannot now, stand Hillary.

[senz]

23. It is horrifying that David Brock turned Blue Nation Review into a sleazy rag

full of hit pieces on Bernie.

Everything she touches turns to corruption.

Moldfinger...

[dreamnightwind]

24. Wow, thanks for this

Today Brock, a talented organizer and prolific fundraiser, controls a network of pro-Hillary PACs and non-profits, including Correct the Record (which polices media criticism of Brock’s favorite candidate and deploys rapid responses), as well as the richly funded pro-Clinton super PAC, American Bridge 21st Century.

In early November, Brock formed a separate Delaware corporation, True Blue Media, LLC, in order to purchase an 80 percent controlling interest in BNR from Moko Social Media, a content creator aimed at high school and college students.

Man, what Bernie is up against runs deep. Here's to sunlight, and lots of it.

[bigtree]

25. you mean like The Nation is in the bag for Sanders?

Hilarious that this is a Beast article. Isn't that supposed to be Chelsea Clinton's news source, according to the latest poor bernie memo??

[Broward]

26. IOW, a right-wing source.

[GreatGazoo]

27. it certainly fits with their identity politics bandwagon strategy

HRC does best when she is under attack because it makes her seem like an underdog.

But it has worn thin now. With Sanders attacking only her policies and her donors, Clinton has to reach further and further to claim a foul and she needs friendly sources to help sing the tune.

I really believe that Team Clinton is looking at the polls and is still panicked. They see her sinking steadily and don't know how to get her back up...so they try to bring Sanders down and they try to brow beat certain groups to stay on her bandwagon.

There is another campaign using bandwagon this year and I would mention it here but some might not like the comparison.

[Skwmom]

28. Follow the money. Where does the financial report come from? n/t

[WillyT]

29. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!