OBAMA'S WHITE HOUSE CHARACTER ASSASSINATION HIT SQUADS WERE IN
CONSTANT USE
Recent Freedom of Information Act revelations show that when the Monica
Lewinsky scandal happened, The White House put a senior White House
adviser named Sidney Blumenthal on the job as character assassination
lead. He was missioned with defaming Monica.
This is now well documented in the mainstream media and studied in
university social ethics classes. I the White House, Obama's Robert Gibbs
and Jay Carney are now accused of running the modern day equivalent.
While this may seem horrific for the "highest office in the land", it is
more of the rule than the exception.
Some people work in the White House merely to steer hundreds of billions
of dollars of taxpayer money to their friends pockets, or campaign
backer/employers pockets. Campaign backers are, more often than not,
insane ego-maniacal billionaires who think they are untouchable because
they have bought all of the power they want.
These kinds of people ignore the law, morality or ethics and exist purely
to show off to the other insane billionaires in their good ole' boys club.
They will stoop to anything; a character assassination, or even a real
assassination, is not out of the question for them.
The procedure uses an auxiliary unit of the White House press office. The
auxiliary unit never uses official emails. They conduct their work with
personal text messages, personal emails and lunch meetings. They trade
access for a hatchet job article on an enemy. They maintain a direct link
with tabloids, such as the Gawker Media syndicate, in order to machine gun
an opponent with fake blogger comments and hit-job articles. They have
"special project IT Consultants" go into the career databases at Axciom,
Dun and Bradstreet, and all of the other services recruiters use, and put
fake negative comments about the target so they can kill their career.
They have a thousand "trade-craft" tools in their dirty war-chest. Some of
them are ex CIA.
Is it illegal? VERY MUCH SO!
Can you catch them? The answer used to be no...but, now that everybody
knows that every email, restaurant camera, text message and other
communication system since 2001 has been recorded, logged, archived and
analyzed by multiple federal agencies; maybe now you can!
How Obama White House Press Staff and Campaign Billionaires maintain
a team of 'Assassins' to take out U.S. citizens they don't like?
'Wet Work' or murder-for-hire resulting in dead bodies, inside the United
States, is highly frowned upon and constitutional illegal. But what if you
could kill people that bugged you without causing a dead body?
The one way you can kill people, inside the United States, is called
'Character Assassination'.
This process destroys the career, brand, friends, income, savings,
reputation and world of the target
in such a manner that, for all intents and purposes, they are dead.
The suspicious resignations of Robert Gibbs, Jay Carney and a host of
associated West Wing staff have led credence to this theory relative to
timing, revelations and whistle-blower reports from former White House
staff. Campaign billionaires that they answered to, are known to have paid
for some of the attack campaigns.
In addition to the hit stories that are put out, all of the databases (ie:
Axciom), that any hiring manager might ever use to background check you
for a job application, are tainted with false information about you; and
your credit rating is crashed on other databases. 'Honey Traps' are
launched on you, followed by a host of other dirty tricks designed to
maliciously harm you in retribution for being effective at something they
don't want you to be effective at. The Snowden documents go into great
detail about these human destruction techniques.
It is suspected that people that do this are hired blogger/media attackers
such as [For The Obama
Administration] : John Herrman, Adrian Covert, (more about him in a
feature article), Patrick George ,and [for the Bush Administration] Ann
Coulter, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin.
NSA tracking and special investigators have recorded and documented who
did what to whom, now it is just a matter of special prosecutors and
subpoenas.
Tom Ray- LAT
The White House Wades Deeper Into Character
Assassination '
6 Aug 2009 ' The character assassination of average
Americans by the White House, the DNC, Nancy Pelosi saying Americans are
carrying swastikas to '
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Character Assassins Of Public Figures '
OvercomeBullying.org
The Effects of Political Character Assassination on
Public Figures. ' current United States President: Barack Obama, has been
targeted by character assassins for years. ' his birth certificate for
public viewing on the white house. gov web-site.
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The Deadly Art of Character
Assassination ' The Real Truth Magazine
Yet many politicians run for
office (seek to be hired by the voting public) by slinging ' Therefore,
expect character assassination to rear its ugly head during the '
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AP Starts the 2016 Character
Assassination of Rick Perry, Part 2: A '
10 Jul 2013 ' But his White
House run flamed out spectacularly, culminating in a debate in Michigan
where Perry remembered that he'd pledged to shutter '
http://www.newsbusters.org/
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Campaign billionaire backers
put a hit on a 'Green Energy' competitor who isn't in their frat club:
https://boycotttesla.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/killing-mike-chieky-silicon-valley-vcs-want-total-control-of-green-energy-but-only-their-version/
The Assassination of Greg Craig
' The Daily Beast
16 Nov 2009 ' The White House
counsel was done in by a scurrilous leaks campaign. ' Side'' where
insinuation and character assassination were leaked to '
http://www.thedailybeast.com/
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KNIGHT: Foiling the left's
character assassination ' Washington Times
23 Sep 2013 ' KNIGHT: Foiling
the left's character assassination ' that was so much a part of our
country's life and certainly our time in the White House.'.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/
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The Art of Office War ' Tactics
' Character Assassination
Read the The Art of Office War
and learn how to be effective, successful and not only avoid office ' One
Press : The Art of Office War' is published in Polish under the title
Sztuka wojny biurowej'. Character Assassination and the Backstab.
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Character assassination '
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Character assassination is a
deliberate and sustained process that aims to destroy the credibility and
' Agents of character assassinations employ a mix of open and covert
methods to achieve their ' Media spectacles. '. Public relations .
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Romney Calls Disgraceful'
Obama Team's Plan for Character '
9 Aug 2011 ' ' personal assault
' and character assassination on Romney, who it ' a prominent Democratic
strategist close to the White House told Politico.
http://www.foxnews.com/
politics/ 2011/ 08/ 09/
romney-calls-disgraceful-obama-teams-plan-for-character-assassination / '
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Cain blasts critics for
character assassination ' CNN Political Ticker '
30 Nov 2011 ' 'They have been
trying to do a character assassination on me,' Cain told an ' JR White
Bear Lake MN. ' White House transparent? Yes says '
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Turkey: Twitter does character
assassination ' Yahoo News
22 Mar 2014 ' ' in 'systematic
character assassinations' a day after social media users ' A statement
from the Turkish government's Public Diplomacy office '
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Karmapa Office to Indian Press:
'Cease Character Assassination'
5 Feb 2011 ' The Karmapa Office
of Administration appeals to the press to cease its character
assassination of His Holiness the Karmapa, one of the most '
tibetanaltar.blogspot.com/
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Somaliland: 'Kickbacks,
Blackmail & Character Assassination '
10 Apr 2014 ' On account of the
functions & responsibilities bestowed on his office, the ' to tarnish
the personality of the Minister employing media which was '
http://www.somalilandsun.com/
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Character assassination-Jean
Seberg and information control by '
Her personal and professional
life tells an important story about relations between individuals, the
mass media, government repression, civil liberties, and '
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Character Assassins Of Public
Figures ' OvercomeBullying.org
The Effects of Political
Character Assassination on Public Figures. ' Office of the Press Secretary
, The White House: Office of the Press Secretary. (2011).
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Obama immigration request: $615M to fight wildfires '
The Coloradoan
8 Jul 2014 ' At least you are not engaging in character
assassination about Obama like you normally do. ' Obama also asked
Congress to add wildfires to the list of natural ' The bulk of the White
Houses funding request is for shoring up '
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Barack Obama and the Politcs of Character Assassination
' Townhall
8 Nov 2012 ' The president's campaign ads models of
character assassination ' Obama's in the White House for four more years
without a mandate to do '
http://www.townhall.com/ columnists/ donaldlambro/
2012/ 11/ 08/ barack_obama__and_the_politcs_of_character_assassination '
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Secret Kill List' Tests Obama's Principles '
NYTimes.com
29 May 2012 ' The nominations go to the White House,
where by his own '. In Pakistan, Mr. Obama had approved not only
'personality' strikes aimed at '
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Charles Koch Responds To The Character Assassins | The
Lonely '
3 Apr 2014 ' Charles Koch Responds To The Character
Assassins '. 07/18/2014: One Day After MH17, Michelle Obama Hosts Party
in the White House.
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Character assassination ' Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
Character assassination is a deliberate and sustained
process that aims to destroy the credibility and reputation of a person,
institution, social group, or nation.
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Kill Bill: Clinton is targeted for character
assassination ' Americas '
3 Jun 2008 ' Upon her return to Washington, she found
the White House in disarray and discovered that Bill had been escorting
Barbra Streisand around '
http://www.independent.co.uk/ news/ world/ americas/
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Barack Obama's Attempted Character Assassination of
Koch '
23 Aug 2010 ' 'Obama's coordinated character
assassination campaign against anyone ' I wrote about the Obama White
House engaging in the politics of '
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Bill O'Reilly: BillOReilly.com Column ' President Obama
and His '
13 Feb 2014 ' I used to react angrily to the character
assassins. ' relationship' between the president and the White House press
corps no longer exists.
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Character Assassination Without Due Process': Glenn
Beck And Fox '
21 Jul 2010 ' Beck: This administration is into
character assassination without due process. ' Well, it's certainly true
that the Obama White House earned yet '
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50 Years After JFK's Death, GOP Engaging In Character '
23 Nov 2013 ' ' sought to bring grace, history, and
good works to the White House. ' Obama has been dogged by his campaign
promise to close Guantanamo. ' Act be if hearing after hearing in the
House had not pressured regulators to water ' been if character
assassination and ideology hadn't '
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Romney Calls Disgraceful' Obama Team's Plan for
Character '
9 Aug 2011 ' Politico reported Tuesday that the Obama
team is planning a 'ferocious personal assault ' and character
assassination on Romney, who it suspects ' a prominent Democratic
strategist close to the White House told Politico.
http://www.foxnews.com/ politics/ 2011/ 08/ 09/
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The HuffPost Puts Sidney Blumenthal On Trial For Media Sins
posted by Ryan S. Jackson
Is the man who once coined the term 'vast ring wing conspiracy' now an
integral part of the monster he once decried, willingly abetting a yellow
journalism vendetta against Barack Obama?! Peter Drier, of the American
Prospect and the Los Angeles Times (amongst others), brings forth the case
against Clintonista Sidney Blumenthal:
Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely
credited with coining the term 'vast right-wing conspiracy' used by
Hillary Clinton in 1998 to describe the alliance of conservative media,
think tanks, and political operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton
White House where he worked as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now
acting as a senior campaign advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is
exploiting that same right-wing network to attack and discredit Barack
Obama. And he's not hesitating to use the same sort of
guilt-by-association tactics that have been the hallmark of the political
right dating back to the McCarthy era.
Amongst the questionable media narratives Drier accuses Blumenthal of
pushing (there are many, and it is a long and winding piece):
Obama's high school exposure to a Hawaiian Marxist poet, who Obama
mentions briefly in Dreams from My Father and who has since been elevated
to an Obama father-figure by hard-right press critic Cliff Kincaid.
The recent Obama as Radical Black Nationalist' narrative, and his
Chicago connections to Weather Underground member William Ayers.
A National Review article which accuses Obama of being an integral part
of Chicago machine-style politics, which notes: 'Blacks adapted to both
the tribalism and the corrupt patronage politics.'
A plethora of different Tony Rezko stories.
And lest anyone forget, the circa February Obama as Cult Leader'
narrative penned initially by Washington Post columnist Charles
Krauthammer.
Hardball politics or cavorting with the enemy? Read the piece and draw
your own conclusions.
Attack Dog Scumbag Sidney Blumenthal Will Hit Anybody He Is Paid To Hit
Former journalist Sidney Blumenthal has been widely credited with coining
the term "vast right-wing conspiracy" used by Hillary Clinton in 1998 to
describe the alliance of conservative media, think tanks, and political
operatives that sought to destroy the Clinton White House where he worked
as a high-level aide. A decade later, and now acting as a senior campaign
advisor to Senator Clinton, Blumenthal is exploiting that same right-wing
network to attack and discredit Barack Obama. And he's not hesitating to
use the same sort of guilt-by-association tactics that have been the
hallmark of the political right dating back to the McCarthy era.
Almost every day over the past six months, I have been the recipient of an
email that attacks Obama's character, political views, electability, and
real or manufactured associations. The original source of many of these
hit pieces are virulent and sometimes extreme right-wing websites,
bloggers, and publications. But they aren't being emailed out from some
fringe right-wing group that somehow managed to get my email address.
Instead, it is Sidney Blumenthal who, on a regular basis, methodically
dispatches these email mudballs to an influential list of opinion shapers
-- including journalists, former Clinton administration officials,
academics, policy entrepreneurs, and think tankers -- in what is an
obvious attempt to create an echo chamber that reverberates among talk
shows, columnists, and Democratic Party funders and activists. One of the
recipients of the Blumenthal email blast, himself a Clinton supporter,
forwards the material to me and perhaps to others.
These attacks sent out by Blumenthal, long known for his fierce and
combative loyalty to the Clintons, draw on a wide variety of sources to
spread his Obama-bashing. Some of the pieces are culled from the
mainstream media and include some reasoned swipes at Obama's policy and
political positions.
But, rather remarkably for such a self-professed liberal operative like
Blumenthal, a staggering number of the anti-Obama attacks he circulates
derive from highly-ideological and militant right-wing sources such as the
misnamed Accuracy in Media (AIM), The Weekly Standard, City Journal, The
American Conservative, and The National Review.
To cite just one recent example, Blumenthal circulated an article taken
from the fervently hard-right AIM website on February 18 entitled,
"Obama's Communist Mentor" by Cliff Kincaid. Kincaid is a right-wing
writer and activist, a longtime critic of the United Nations, whose group,
America's Survival, has been funded by foundations controlled by
conservative financier Richard Mellon Scaife, the same millionaire who
helped fund attacks on the Clintons during their White House years. Scaife
also funds AIM, the right-wing media "watchdog" group.
The Kincaid article that Blumenthal circulated sought to discredit Obama
by linking him to an African-American poet and writer whom Obama knew
while he was in high school in Hawaii. That writer, Frank Marshall Davis,
was, Kincaid wrote, a member of the Communist Party. Supported by no
tangible evidence, Kincaid claimed that Obama considered his relationship
to Davis to be "almost like a son." In his memoir, Dreams from My Father,
Obama wrote about meeting, during his teenage years, a writer named
"Frank" who "had some modest notoriety once" and with whom he occasionally
discussed poetry and politics. From this snippet, Kincaid weaves an
incredulous tale that turns Davis into Obama's "mentor."
Kincaid's piece had been previously circulating within the right-wing
blogosphere, but Blumenthal sought to inject the story into more
respectable opinion circles by amplifying it in his email blast.
In the same piece, Kincaid, expanding his guilt-by-association tactics,
also wrote that Obama "came into contact with more far-left political
forces," including former Weather Underground member William Ayers. Until
a few weeks ago, Obama's tangential connection with Ayers -- whose 1960s
anti-war terrorism occurred when Obama was in grade school -- was echoing
among right-wing bloggers.
Some Clinton supporters who also knew about Ayers have been discreetly
trying to catapult the story out of the right-wing sandbox into the wider
mainstream media. On April 9, Fox News' Sean Hannity interviewed fellow
right-winger Karl Rove, who raised the Ayers-Obama connection. The next
day, ABC News reporter Jake Tapper wrote about Ayers in his Political
Punch blog. The following week, on his radio show, Hannity suggested to
his guest, George Stephanopoulos, that he ask Obama about his relationship
with Ayers at the upcoming Philadelphia presidential debate.
Stephanopoulos, who was Bill Clinton's press secretary, replied, "Well,
I'm taking notes." The following night during the April 16 nationally
televised Presidential debate, Stephanopoulos dutifully asked Obama about
Ayers, who is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois
at Chicago.
One can only speculate how much influence Blumenthal did or did not have
in elevating the Ayers story into the mainstream media and into the
national political debate. What is certain is that Blumenthal sought to
keep this classic red-baiting controversy alive.
Blumenthal's April 24 email dispatch featured a two-year old article by
Sol Stern, published in City Journal, sponsored by the right-wing
Manhattan Institute. The article, from the journal's Summer 2006 issue,
doesn't mention Obama. Why would Blumenthal resurrect it now? The article,
entitled "The Ed Schools' Latest--and Worst--Humbug," was, instead, a
frontal attack on Ayers' views on educational theory and policy.
Blumenthal obviously wasn't trying to offer enlightenment on educational
policy or Obama's positions on school reform as much as he was presumably
trying to keep Ayers' name, and his controversial past, in the public eye.
As a follow-up punch, Blumenthal again dipped directly into the "vast
right wing conspiracy" by retrieving and circulating an article from the
current issue of National Review -- the staunchly conservative opinion
journal founded by William F. Buckley. The piece, titled "The Obama Way,"
was penned by Fred Siegel who, like Sol Stern, is a former 60s leftist who
has moved to the opposite end of the political spectrum, serving at one
point as a political advisor to Rudy Giuliani. Siegel's piece links Obama
to corrupt Chicago machine politics, observing that "Blacks adapted to
both the tribalism and the corrupt patronage politics" of Chicago's
Democratic Party. In the process, he manages to throw in as many spurious
ad hominem attacks on Obama as he can, calling him a "friend of
race-baiters" and a "man who would lead our efforts against terrorism yet
was friendly with Bill Ayers, the unrepentant 1960s terrorist."
When Blumenthal worked in the White House, a big thorn in Bill Clinton's
side was the Weekly Standard, the right-wing magazine edited by William
Kristol and owned by Rupert Murdoch. But in mid-February, Blumenthal's
email attack featured an article, "Republicans Root for Obama," written by
Weekly Standard executive editor and Fox News talking head Fred Barnes.
That same month, Blumenthal also offered up a piece by Scott McConnell,
titled "Untested Savior," that appeared in The American Conservative (a
magazine founded by Pat Buchanan) claiming that Obama "would probably lead
them [Democrats] to disaster in November."
When Blumenthal isn't relying directly on anti-Obama smears from the
extreme right, he's pumping up more traditionally sourced material, from
the Washington Post, New Republic, and other publications, to question and
damage Obama's character and electability. On several occasions,
Blumenthal has circulated articles from the Chicago Sun Times and the
Chicago Tribune about Obama's ties to developer Tony Rezko, a relationship
Obama has said he regrets. In one email, Blumenthal wrote: "The record on
Obama's fabled 'judgement'? So how would he conduct himself in those
promised summits without preconditions with Ahmadinejad, Kim Jong Il,
Chavez, Castro, and Assad? Let's look at how he did with Tony Rezko."
Earlier this year, one theme pushed by Clinton supporters and buoyed by
Blumenthal's efforts, was that Obama's appeal was similar to that of a
messianic cult leader. Obama's capacity to inspire people was reframed as
a kind of malevolent force, as though his followers would somehow
willingly drink poisoned Kool-Aid if Obama so demanded. In his February 7
Time magazine column, "Inspiration vs. Substance," writer Joe Klein, who,
like Blumenthal, worked on the Boston alternative paper, The Real Paper,
in the 1970s, wrote: "There was something just a wee bit creepy about the
mass messianism -- 'We are the ones we've been waiting for' -- of the
Super Tuesday speech and the recent turn of the Obama campaign." That same
morning, Blumenthal sent the Klein column to his email list. Later that
day, in his Political Punch blog, ABC News reporter Jake Tapper wrote,
"The Holy Season of Lent is upon us. Can Obama worshippers try to give up
their Helter-Skelter cultish qualities for a few weeks?" (Update: In
response to OffTheBus, Tapper is categorical in denying that he in any way
relied upon Blumenthal or was influenced by Blumenthal in the production
or in the writing of this story or his reports on William Ayers or the
Obama "cult")
The following day, in the Los Angeles Times, columnist Joel Stein wrote:
"Obamaphilia has gotten creepy. What the Cult of Obama doesn't realize is
that he is a politician."
After this idea had bounced around the media echo chamber for a few days,
the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America, run by David Brock,
posted a summary on February 8 of the sudden outbreak of "cult" references
about Obama. It was headlined: "Media figures call Obama supporters'
behavior 'creepy,' compare them to Hare Krishna and Manson followers." The
next day, Blumenthal sent the Media Matters piece to his email list. A few
days later, the New York Times' Paul Krugman, a Clinton supporter, weighed
in with a column, "Hate Springs Eternal," in which he wrote, "I'm not the
first to point out that the Obama campaign seems dangerously close to a
cult of personality." Nor would he be the last. Four days later,
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer, an arch conservative,
penned a column entitled, "The Audacity of Selling Hope" in which he
simply quoted Klein, Tapper, Stein, and Krugman.
One of Blumenthal's associates scoffs at the notion that there's anything
vaguely conspiratorial about these emails and that a number of the people
on the list-serve are also the authors of the pieces he sends out.
"They're just Sid's friends," he told me. This is, in fact, the very
definition of an echo chamber. People in the opinion-shaping business also
seek to influence other opinion-makers, who then bounce their ideas
through their overlapping outlets -- newspapers, magazines, talk shows,
websites, blogs, and social and political fundraising circles. The
connections are so incestuous that it's hard to untangle where the
"feedback loop" begins and ends.
Among those whose names show up as recipients of Blumenthal's emails are
writers and journalists Craig Unger, Edward Jay Epstein, Thomas Edsall
(Politics Editor of the Huffington Post), Joe Conason, Gene Lyons
(Arkansas Democrat-Gazette columnist and author of The Hunting of the
President: The Ten Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton),
John Judis, Eric Alterman, Christine Ockrent, David Brock, Reza Aslan,
Harold Evans, and Josh Marshall; academics and think tankers Todd Gitlin
(Columbia U sociologist), Karen Greenberg (NYU law school), Sean Wilentz
(Princeton historian), Michael Lind, William M. Drozdiak, and Richard
Parker; and former Clinton administration officials John Ritch, James
Rubin, Derek Shearer, and Joe Wilson.
Not all of Blumenthal's recipients, or those who, like me, receive the
emails second-hand, are Clinton supporters.
Before and after his service in the Clinton White House, Blumenthal wrote
for the New Yorker, New Republic, Washington Post, the Guardian, and
Salon, where he was often accused of engaging in partisan journalism.
In the Clinton administration, Blumenthal was primarily a
behind-the-scenes strategist, but often found himself speaking in front of
the cameras and on the record. In both roles, he was known as a committed
Clintonista who played hardball. He's demonstrated those same traits since
joining Hillary's campaign as a senior advisor last November.
Presidential politics can get down and dirty, and Blumenthal is a master
at the game. Some Obama supporters might even wish that his campaign would
resort to similar tactics. If it did, there would be no shortage of
anti-Hillary screeds by the "vast right-wing conspiracy" activists and
writers, such as surfacing the photo of Rev. Jeremiah Wright with Bill
Clinton at a prayer breakfast at the White House in 1998, invited by the
president in the midst of his Lewinsky scandal. Indeed, the right-wingers
probably hate Hillary more than they dislike Obama.
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More Character Assassination: "Gentle ... With the aid of the Washington
Post, I have just participated in a smear .... to grandmother's house --
was accosted by a typically white racist cop and ...
Police accused of 'character assassination' - Video on
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Aug 15, 2014 ... Chris Hayes speaks with Brown family
attorney Anthony Gray and St. Louis ... Michael Brown's family condemns
what they call character assassination after the Ferguson police ... The
'WhiteHouse jumper' story gets scarier.
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With the Assassination of Lincoln, the Presidency fell
upon an old-fashioned ... After Lincoln's death, President Johnson
proceeded to reconstruct the former ...
50 Years After JFK's Death, GOP Engaging In Character
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Nov 23, 2013 ... During NBC's tick-tock march through
those terrible Friday hours 50 years ... sought to bring grace, history,
and good works to the White House.
Democrats turn on Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
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Sep 17, 2014 ... Democratic National Committee
Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is in a behind-the-scenes struggle
with the White House, ...