The Six Million Dollar Penn --->>>

[Stephanie]

$5.8M and she doesn't even get the guy full-time? He's got time to flog his book on the side?





http://www.observer.com/2008/penn-strand

Mark Penn, the top strategist for Hillary Clinton’s campaign, will be giving a reading
from his book Microtrends at 7 p.m. tonight at the Strand.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/06/mark-penns-firm-paid-4_n_85192.html

Even if his candidate fails to secure the Democratic nomination, Mark Penn, the chief strategist for Sen. Hillary Clinton, has profited quite handsomely.

Through the course of the primary, Penn's consulting firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, has been paid more than $4.3 million by the Clinton campaign, according to a review of campaign finance filings.

That total, compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, includes receipts for tasks ranging from polling and consulting to mail expenses and even photography. It does not include the $1.5 million the Clinton campaign is in debt to the firm.

http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/36580/

Hillary Pollster’s Pro-Lefty Theory
Mark Penn writes a book, focus-groups it, too.
By Geoffrey Gray Published Aug 27, 2007

Mark Penn serves as the chief strategist to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, runs global PR megafirm Burson-Marsteller, and is recognized as a high priest of that Washington religion, the poll. So he wasn’t going to let the publisher of his upcoming book, Microtrends, slap an image of a snowball on the cover just because they liked the way it looked. He put together a focus group of about 200 book buyers to choose a cover image for him, and the snowball “really died in the testing,” Penn says. “A dud.” Now there’s a magnifying glass on there instead. Another dud: Minitrends, a potential title. The 425-page book took him only about five months to write—“Most of it was in my head”—and Penn claims his most startling discovery was finding out that there are a lot more left-handed people around today than in Victorian times. In the book, he ventures that being a southpaw “could mean more executive greatness,” and notes that, Dubya aside, every president since Jimmy Carter has been left-handed. So did he know Obama was a lefty? “No, but we’ve had a lot of candidates that are.” Hillary, on the other hand, is a righty.

[Unsane]

1. There is nothing good behind the jowls and flop sweat.

only pure evil

[Samantha]

2. She should ask for a refund

He's given her some really bad advice ... really, really bad.

Sam

[lurky]

3. Funny, I was there today at lunchtime,

and I felt a palpable sense of doom in the air. Now I know why... :evilgrin:

[Stephanie]

4. if i had only known i certainly would have attended this event

I'd like to see the $6M Man in person. Is he bionic?

[EFerrari]

7. In college, I sat for a kid who heard that as "the six dollar man".

lol

[lurky]

9. I used to be the six dollar man,

then I bought a bag of chips. Now I am the five dollar and 25 cent man.

[lurky]

8. It would have been fun just to go see him sweat.

You know he can't be happy about how the race is turning out. He was supposed to be the wonder boy.

[David Zephyr]

5. Mark Penn was one of the key reasons I chose Obama in January after waiting out all of 2007.

I simply can not square modern progressive democracy and reform with this sleeze bag.

[EFerrari]

6. Who needs a focus group to pick a tie.

Agreed.

[Cooley Hurd]

15. Me too - union-busting, Blackwater-defending...

He's the antithesis of everything I stand for. When all is said and done, he'll probably STILL vote for a republican this November.:thumbsdown:

[Yael]

10. K&R

[Stephanie]

12. ty!

:hi:

[madrchsod]

11. micro trends

is one of the biggest bunch of bullshit ever to be placed between two covers...why anyone would pay this idiot a dime is beyond me...

[C_U_L8R]

14. that's exactly the problem...

they seem to be totally missing the macro trends
(or rather in non-hyped wording™ - the bigger picture)

i love it when consultants get consumed by their own bullshit,
they become such easy prey : - ))))

[crikkett]

13. Oh, keep donating to the Clintons so this man can continue to collect buckets of cash

[H2O Man]

16. Mark Penn = Karl Rove.

He is cut from the same cloth.

[Stephanie]

17. There you go

And it seems people have wised up to Rovian ploys and they just don't work any more.

[antigop]

18. well, he used Rovian tactics,didn't he-- attacking Obama as the "establishment candidate"?

typical Rovian ploy -- attack your opponent's strength.

[H2O Man]

23. I thought his

repeated attempt to smear Senator Obama on the MSNBC program Hardball was as repulsive as anything Rove did. It's sad that he is a hero to some.

[eridani]

25. Really silly, as both candidates are as establishment as it gets n/t

[blogslut]

19. Interesting choice of photo

Think he licked his finger to see which way the BS blows?

[Stephanie]

21. I'd be really curious to know if anyone showed up to the Strand to hear him

Besides Code Pink!

[blogslut]

20. Interesting choice of photo

Think he licked his finger to trend which way the BS blows?

[mod mom]

22. Stephanie, PLS post a warning before showing a photo of that vile creature!

About Penn's polling (from 2004):

In August, exit polling figured in a bitter fight in Venezuela over what amounted to competing landslides for and against a recall of the sitting president, Hugo Chávez, a socialist with ties to Fidel Castro.

The recall's proponents sponsored an exit poll, supervised by Penn, Schoen & Berland, an American firm whose clients have included Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg. Sometime before the polls closed on Aug. 15, Penn, Schoen reported that 59 percent of Venezuelan voters had said yes to throwing the president out of office.

A few hours later, the official count, by an election commission under Mr. Chávez's control, declared him the winner, with 58 percent of the total. Both the Organization of American States and the Carter Center, the Atlanta-based human rights organization founded by Jimmy Carter, said that their observers had seen no irregularities at the polls. In response to the exit poll, they called for a random audit at selected polling stations and again found nothing suspicious.

Mr. Schoen acknowledged in an interview that the poll's field workers were recruited by a group that helped organize the recall, but he said the volunteers had been trained to conduct the poll professionally, and that his firm would have no reason to put its reputation at risk by participating in a fraudulent poll. The recall's supporters continue to believe the election was stolen.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/weekinreview/17plis.html?_r=1&fta=y&oref=slogin

I GUESS SOMETHING MUST HAVE GOTTEN LOST IN TRANSLATION :eyes:

[intaglio]

24. Six million dollar Penn?

Whose his Teller?


I'll get me coat