My weekly POLITICO post .......

[Stinky The Clown]

...... People, it is NOT in our best interest to link to Politico stories or to cite them as a news source.

I continue to see so many threads here, where we ought to know better, that start out with a link to Politico.

Politico was a right wing funded propaganda operation that is, at its core, little different from Drudge or Talon News. Better funded and able to mimic an actual news organization, it is, nonetheless a collection of people directed by the money of the Albritton family (Riggs Bank). They are NO DIFFERENT than Ricard Mellon Sciafe or any of the many right wing media bucks people bent on the total destruction of liberals and liberalism.

Yeah, I know ..... this sounds like the rantings of a loon.

Google it up if you doubt me.

If you agree with me, let's keep the pressure on. And maybe if we say this long and loud enough, we can make a difference.

And while you;re at it, drop a line to (at least) Maddow and Olbermann and ask them not to book Politico staff as their guests.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. OK, OK. You got me on board last week.

Who do we beat the shit out of this week?

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Yanno .... I'm not angry with anyone who cites them .......

..... I'm assuming the citations are completely innocent. My goal is simply to make sure everyone who posts here (at least) knows who and what Politico is.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I don't think I cited them. I just didn't know about them.

[Mabus]

7. Glen Greenwald's article "Who funds and runs the Politico?" is a must read.

http://archive.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/04/politico_funding/index.html

Friday May 4, 2007 13:08 EDT
Who funds and runs the Politico?

(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV)

In the middle of an article by The Politico's Mike Allen regarding last night's GOP presidential debate, one finds this paragraph:

She was escorted out of the hall by Frederick J. Ryan Jr., chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation, and president and CEO of The Politico.

So the President and CEO of The Politico, Frederick Ryan, is also the Board Chairman for the Reagan Library. And that makes sense, because Ryan is a long-time, hard-core Reaganite. From a November 1987 Press Release:

Appointment of Frederick J. Ryan, Jr., as Assistant to the President

The article talks about Allbritton, Pinochet, all the dirt.

It has a circulation of approximately 25K, all in the DC area.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. That ought to be required reading for anyone who watches cable news

It was in one of my earlier Politico posts.

[Mabus]

14. I whole-heartedly agree

and I missed your earlier Politico posts. But, right on bro. Keep telling the truth. People will eventually listen or they'll learn the hard way.

[Luminous Animal]

3. Thanks for your efforts...

during the primaries, I regularly begged people to ignore Politico's analyses of the all the Democratic candidates.

[ThomWV]

5. You keep posting it and I'll keep kicking and recommending the posts.

[mopinko]

6. right there with ya on this one, stinky

have you asked the admins to put it on the bad sites list?
perhaps we need a poll to see how people would feel about that.

and ditto about rachel and keith, too.

[tbyg52]

9. At first I thought you meant you were posting comments on Politico....!

Please, keep posting this, for people like me who don't get on every day. Politico is in the tank.

[Senator]

10. Keep Posting n/t

[malaise]

11. They had a full hour on Washington Journal this morning

:puke:

[hiphopnation]

12. i think it's a message that bears repeating

weekly. K&R!!

be careful, too, of trolls who post here linking to it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Is that a promise we can hold you to?

because you've been posting about it being a right wing source at the rate of once every 2 days, for the past 4 weeks:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4899114&mesg_id=4899114
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4917724&mesg_id=4918008
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4977221&mesg_id=4977221
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=4983162&mesg_id=4983162
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5018021&mesg_id=5018237
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5044943&mesg_id=5044943
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5061511&mesg_id=5061511
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5057566&mesg_id=5061489
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5072920&mesg_id=5072976
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5069388&mesg_id=5069388
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8150437&mesg_id=8150564
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8179563&mesg_id=8179642
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=102&topic_id=3748922&mesg_id=3750423

It'd be nice if it went down to just once a week.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. Good research

Do you have a point?

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. That maybe you're obsessing a bit much about it?

The 'research' is just the results of a DU search for 'politico', under your name. But I have noticed you going on about it a lot. That you think it's just 'weekly' may mean you don't realise how much.

[Stinky The Clown]

21. Okay ....

.... I'll ask you for permission next time I mention them .... since you're such a fan and all .....

[lunatica]

15. Thanks for being patient and consistent

This bears reminding since so many DUers see it for the first time every time you post this. Ignorance is dangerous, even when it's completely innocent or lacking in malice



edited for spelling

[philly_bob]

16. See you next week. Politico needs periodic discrediting.

It is one of those rich-guys-with-a-political-agenda media Frankensteins. Like THE BULLETIN here in Philadelphia.

[Jazzgirl]

18. I will not click on a link if I know it belongs to Politico.

I think they are the most right wing, propogandist online site in existence. The bad thing is they try to disguise their true allegiance by using obfuscation. I will not read that site.

[RoyGBiv]

20. Keep it up ...

I've been aware of Politico's problems since I first read an article there and went looking for some insight into just who these people were.

I never link to it except to point out a flaw or pattern in reporting.

So, basically, I'm with ya. I just have other things to rant about myself.