Arianna Huffington; You are being used

[TheBigotBasher]

The Republicans are now starting to use every trick in the book to get Scott the Homophobic Bigot Brown elected. Often unreported, the most obvious one is of course running a Joe Kennedy in a State steeped in Kennedy family history. Joe Kennedy is no relation at all to the Kennedy family and although he has been described as an "independent" and even as a Liberal, he is the Libertarian Party candidate.

I trust that the voters of Massachusetts are able to pick up the obvious fraud before pulling a lever in the name of Kennedy. This of course is a pure spoiler tactic straight out of the Rove play book.

It should be noted that Rasmussen phrased their Massachusetts poll this way:

“Who do you favor for U.S. Senate? Scott Brown, Martha Coakley, Some other candidate, or Not Sure?”

Now the fake Liberals are appearing. And of course, Huffington Post has fallen for it. Hook line and sinker. Amy Siskind is one such fake Liberal. She writes for the hate site NoQuarter and runs a Women's group that has served to act as a continuous puff piece for Sarah Palin. She is the way in for Sarah Palin for the minds of some Democratic supporters.

The New Agenda is worse than PUMA Lite it is an offshoot of Sarah PAC.

Unfortunately she also writes for the Huff Po.

In an completely dishonest article Siskind calls on Oakley to commit political suicide. Of course she won't. That is the point. The article is a tool to use HuffPo as a way of promoting the Republican candidate.

As we know, unlikely bedfellows are uniting in opposition to Obama’s health care reform. Independent bloggers who oppose health care reform see MA Republican candidate Scott Brown as their best hope to shoot it down. Former Hillary Clinton supporters who were pro-Coakley last month, now are signing up to phone bank for Republican Scott Brown here and here in an effort to defeat health care. Even a lifelong women’s advocate informed me this week that she was backing Brown to shoot down Stupak/Nelson. Strange days indeed.

Which is why Martha Coakley should seize on this moment. Coakley should change her position and run against health care reform. In doing so, not only will she cement a win in Massachusetts, but also establish herself as a modern day Eleanor Roosevelt at a time when women are desperate for leadership.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-siskind/save-us-martha_b_415706.html

Siskind of course does not say how it would help women if a homophobic anti choice bigot elected in Massachusetts.

One of the other tasks that The New Agenda set itself wa to undermine the work of real Women's Rights groups such as NOW. The Anti Race Hate Co-ordinator for Now specifically called out The New Agenda for spreading lies that it was able to effect their elections.

Martha Coakley was successful in her Primary because she had the support of Women's Rights groups.

So who are the three sites she links to? These so called Clinton supporters?

Texas Darlin.
Banned from hate site NoQuarter for using them as a launchpad for the birther movement. All her posts were scrubbed from there because of a complete lack of evidence to support any of her claims.

NoQuarter
Moderated, almost, but in the run up to the Inauguration, Johnson had to very publicly calm his readers down after they started talking about assassinations. They have subsequently run disgustingly racist articles about children, Michelle Obama and of course the President.

HillBuzz.
The most despicable of them all. They have called black people, "paranoid and lazy" and "race voters". This blog has been pushed and promoted by Rush Limbaugh. It is being used as a tool to inspire Republicans, through racism and bigotry to get out and vote. It is then disguised as a Liberal blog so no one calls them out on their racism.


Arianna Huffington should be ashamed that she is allowing HuffPo to promote actual real racists. Arianna, you are being used.

(crossposted)

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[HuckleB]

2. Well, HuffPo is also a bastion of quackery.

It's lost a lot of its lustre, and I really don't like checking in there anymore.

[onehandle]

3. HuffPo is about the t and the a.

And shock headlines.

[graywarrior]

4. Joe Kennedy is a tea party candidate, which he proudly announces on his website

http://joekennedyforsenate.com/

and he has been endorsed by the Boston Tea Party

http://www.bostontea.us/node/759

I my feeling is that he is a John Bircher with connections to the Koch brothers. Just a hunch.

[TheBigotBasher]

6. He was selected for his great wit as well.

And not the name Kennedy.

Spoiler candidates are a very old trick. Not everyone gets a newspaper, goes online or is political.

[debbierlus]

5. Forward this to Coakley's campaign

[TheBigotBasher]

20. Done

Now you need to as well.

[OHdem10]

7. To me there is a more serious message here. A message to the

House. In the face of so much public opposition, is it
wise to continue to push HCIR??

When FDR was pushing his programs he had fights from Republicans
and Southern Democratic Legislators but He Has the AMERICAN PEOPLE
with him every step of the way. The Proof is instead of Democrats
losing seats the next election, he practically doubled the number
of Democrats on the Hill.

I am for HCIR, but there is something wrong when there is such
opposition.

[TheBigotBasher]

8. What kind of health care reform will we have

when there are not enough votes for cloture.

The Republicans know that this is about getting 41 seats. Any hint at any progressive reform is gone if they get this seat.

Huffington Post should not be used to destroy what little hope there is of getting even the most basic of reforms.

As for crap on health care, whether single payer or the Senate bill was being proposed Rethugs would have always twisted it. There is no other time that this could have been done.

[OHdem10]

14. I am saying this Health Care Reform is creating so much

dissension. The Democrats on the Hill never did one thing
to sell it to the public or at least keep the people with
them.

I am saying is it worth passing if the GOP wins the majority
and starts repealing it part by part.

[RoyGBiv]

18. This is highly questionable ...

When FDR was pushing his programs, his support was mixed. In the early years of his first term conditions improved for very few poor. While the so-called patrician class composed primarily of NE liberals continued strong support, he was opposed by conservative interests, and his support among the common individual was so fragile that one of his efforts, the National Recovery Administration (NRA), obtained the sobriquet Never Roosevelt Again.

As Matthew Baum and Samuel Kern observed in their article "Economic Class and Popular Support for Franklin Roosevelt in War and Peace," published in the Summer 2001 edition of Public Opinion Quarterly, "Until Pearl Harbor,partisan and ideological conflict never receded far from the nation's civic life, and whenever it flared up, Roosevelt found himself at the center of controversy. Each policy initiative to deal with the Depression was greeted with derision from demagogues on both the left and right. Every 2 years the national election became a referendumon the president's policies and performance."

We don't have the kind of polling data for Roosevelt's terms of office that we have for most subsequent administrations, which has allowed to be ingrained in the popular mind the idea that everyone loved Roosevelt except "fat cats" and "Wall Street." This is a myth. Those statistical analysts, historians, economists and political scientists who have attempted to undertake a systematic study of Roosevelt's popularity during his administrations, using evidence from his administrations as opposed to common perceptions detailed after his death, have found little evidence to support this. Indeed, Roosevelt was popular with certain financial interests, namely financiers and industrialists who were involved in non-labor intensive industries, that strike directly in the face of the common perceptions that have floated around him in years since. Among the economic lower classes, his popularity was mixed. The white South liked very little about him at the time. The Tennessee Valley Authority was derided as a Communist plot. The rural poor in those early days saw little change in their lives, distrusted government, and considered Washington as continuing to be disconnected from their daily concerns.

As time progressed into the latter part of his first term, positive results for many of these groups did begin to show and opinion moved toward supporting him, but his second election was the most uncertain of all of them going into election day, largely because his popularity had dropped so low immediately after and into the first couple of years of his administration. As Baum and Kern concluded, "Public support appears in all accounts to have been critical to Roosevelt's success" in those early days (Baum and Kern 2001; Brace and Hinckley 1993; Kernell 1978; MacKuen1983; Mueller 1970; Ostrom and Simon 1985; and many others), which calls into question the common myth that everyone loved him and that the current administration should back off proposals without broad public support. The right wing of the 30's pressed the same lie, just as they are today.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Arianna Huffington plays a cartoon bear on The Cleveland Show.

It's the best thing she's ever done.

[RoyGBiv]

10. Excellent piece ...

Thanks for posting.

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[TheBigotBasher]

13. How can any help be given

to the poor or middle class if there are not 60 votes in the Senate?

41 Republican votes means nothing, nothing at all will be done between now and 2012.

[MannyGoldstein]

15. The Republicans Sodomized At Will With < 60 Senate Votes

The Democrats don't want to do the right thing, so 60 means nothing. I'd rather have 51 motivated Democrats than 60 DINOs.

[TheBigotBasher]

16. They never had the need to demand cloture

and generally as every vote was on keeping America scared they could always have got 60 votes, except where it came to selling Social Security to the highest bidder.

I am not a friend of blue dog Senators, I have compared them to blackmailers and terrorists. What would a loss do now though?

Would it really send a message to go more liberal?

[TheBigotBasher]

19. Also tell me

how repeal of DOMA, DADT, any decent housing reform, in fact any thing can be passe with 41 Republican up down arms can be passed?

I am pissed off with blue digs because this is the one time that any even basic reform can be passed and they are not only throwing themselves on the stack they are throwing the Party with it too.

With 41 Republican votes you can kiss goodbye to anything.

[MannyGoldstein]

21. "repeal of DOMA, DADT, any decent housing reform"

Are these about to happen?

As far as I can tell, things can't get worse any faster than they are now - might as well try something new.

[MUAD_DIB]

22. Being from the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts I can assure you that

I would hope that Brown goes down in flames.

We don't need another pretty boy Romney type to fuck us up.


Thank you very much.


Also, isn't the most liberal state in the union Vermont?

[TheBigotBasher]

23. Exactly

There is no need for another Romney type in the Senate.

[Number23]

12. Keep ridin' that PUMA ass, BB! We love you for it

And I'm extending an invitation to you to please come and participate in the African American forum here. You've got alot of friends and admirers in our little group. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=258 :hi:

Kicked and rec'd.

[TheBigotBasher]

17. Cool will do

although I can not think of many PUMA arses I would like to ride ;-)

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[cali]

26. welcome to DU and bye bye honeypie. You're not long for this world.

Larry Johnson is a racist pig and No quarter is full of extreme racism. No subtlety and no question about it. Think independently my ass.

love your name. pizza is what you want? I think your wish will soon come true, dearie.

[JoeyT]

27. Uh huh.

Sure it is.
In her own words: "Would Sarah Palin fight for us?" She then concludes that "Yes, Sarah would fight for us!"
She then cites Sarah's book as her proof that the rape kit story and book banning were false. You know, as if she were citing a peer reviewed journal and she were pointing out incontestable facts, rather than snatching random gibberish out of a book that was written by morons for morons. Or rather it was written on a moron's behalf for other morons, but WOAMBFOM isn't as catchy as BMFM. A book that, within hours of it coming out people had pages filled with the amount of easily disprovable lies it contained.
In the process of trying to twist herself into "Palin is pro-woman!" she also tosses out a half-assed attack on feminism in general.
So she's either terribly dishonest or hopelessly stupid.
Not the sort of person I'd personally choose to try to defend, but to each their own I suppose.


What I'm referring to is: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amy-siskind/is-sarah-palin-a-feminist_b_407040.html

[TheBigotBasher]

29. Larry "whitey tape" Johnson not racist?

TexasDarlin and her BFF "TechDude" not racist?

Hillbuzz?

Whenever we go to the Southside, we hear garbage like this in the black community, too. There are a few restaurants we LOVE in Bronzeville, where we’re the only white people in the place, so we take a back table and just listen for hours. The conversations you hear there are classic Eeyore, tinged with ample amounts of racism. Black people gathered together on the Southside of Chicago have the most vivid and active imaginations you will ever encouter: there is someone plotting against them around every corner, conspiracists working in concert to hold them down around every bend. Apparently, there must be whole skyscrapers full of those laboring day and night to make sure people who only complain about their situations and never work hard to change them never get anywhere in life. “Why should I bother, when “they” just keep on keeping me down?”, is common Eeyorism in the black community...

..We are phone-banking for the next two weeks to elect Hottie McAwesome the next United States Senator from Massachusetts. And we are DEMOCRATS. We are working harder than 90% of Republicans to elect Scott Brown to the Senate, and we are DEMOCRATS.

If calling you bigger Eeyores than the paranoid and lazy black community didn’t motivate you to get off your butts, we hope that does.

Blacks are racist and paranoid? You think that that is not racist?

Wow you complete shit.

[TheBigotBasher]

30. I hardly think it is extreme to call out Siskind for what she is

A Sarah Palin / Michelle Baarfman promoting pretend Liberal whose real purpose is to undermine the work of real groups that fight for women.

http://thebigotbasher.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/does-hate-help-women-and-girls/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6110395

[JoeyT]

28. Undermining groups that support actual

rights for women and progress on women's issues is pretty much Siskind's reason for existing.

Huffington isn't really being used either. She doesn't care what happens at HuffPo as long as it gets her on the TV more.

"Siskind of course does not say how it would help women if a homophobic anti choice bigot elected in Massachusetts. "
It doesn't really matter. The entire reason for things like this is so the right can accuse the left of sexism when we oppose them. It's their way of countering the fact that they actually ARE bigots and get called on it from time to time.
I think my favorite one was when NOW wouldn't support Palin. Clearly sexism in action.