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mhatrw

(10,786 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 08:33 AM Feb 2016

Pro-Clinton PAC desperate to make Sanders look bad

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by one_voice (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

Source: New York Post

Team Clinton launched a harsh attack Thursday on what it called Bernie Sanders’ “troubling history of campaign shenanigans” — but the supposed offenses were so minor that any dirty trickster would find them laughable.

One charge leveled by Correct the Record, a super PAC headed by Hillary Clinton’s longtime crony David Brock, found something nefarious about the clothing seniors were pictured wearing in the Vermont senator’s campaign literature. “Bernie Sanders’ campaign distributed mailers in Iowa that included a photo of AARP members wearing shirts with the slogan of the group’s Social Security campaign,” the PAC said in a news release, suggesting Sanders was falsely implying the AARP had endorsed him.

The PAC also accused Sanders of shady campaigning — a decade ago. “Sanders was accused of ‘running so-called “push polls,” a tactic considered deceptive in which a partisan caller, masquerading as an independent pollster, asks a potential voter leading questions with the intention of spreading negative information about an opponent,’?” the release said, quoting a US News & World Report article from Tuesday.

Push polls are a common tactic used by many campaigns — including Clinton’s in Nevada this month.

Read more: http://nypost.com/2016/02/19/pro-clinton-pac-is-desperately-trying-to-pick-on-sanders/



LOL. Brock and the NY Post deserve each other!
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Pro-Clinton PAC desperate to make Sanders look bad (Original Post) mhatrw Feb 2016 OP
ha ha. the NY post!! This is NOT LBN riversedge Feb 2016 #1
Brought to you by Karl Rove noamnety Feb 2016 #2
I found this page on Hillary's campaign staff trillion Feb 2016 #21
From the linked article ... left-of-center2012 Feb 2016 #3
Brock and Clintons...dirty politics of the desperate. SoapBox Feb 2016 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2016 #5
Its because there are no "left wing" sources to go to. mikehiggins Feb 2016 #9
welcome to DU azurnoir Feb 2016 #15
Well DUH! Uben Feb 2016 #6
They are also desperate to make Hillary look good. dchill Feb 2016 #7
Can't we get this crap out of LBN? leftynyc Feb 2016 #8
Pathetic dpatbrown Feb 2016 #10
Wherever this OP belongs - there is nothing that can be said about Bernie that can make me stomach djean111 Feb 2016 #11
AARP members Puppyjive Feb 2016 #12
Do they understand fredamae Feb 2016 #13
Not LBN. Please take this to GD-P. yardwork Feb 2016 #14
Pro Clinton Pac JGug1 Feb 2016 #16
I bet he killed billions of bacteria with antibiotics! Helen Borg Feb 2016 #17
If HRC is throwing "everything" at him, what's left for the GOP? Arazi Feb 2016 #18
I quit listening Faux pas Feb 2016 #19
you know it's bad when the Post looks at the campaign and goes, "Yick" MisterP Feb 2016 #20
Locking... one_voice Feb 2016 #22

riversedge

(70,475 posts)
1. ha ha. the NY post!! This is NOT LBN
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 08:39 AM
Feb 2016
 

noamnety

(20,234 posts)
2. Brought to you by Karl Rove
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 08:45 AM
Feb 2016

Attack their Strengths!

(the Clinton campaign strategy, not the OP's post)

 

trillion

(1,859 posts)
21. I found this page on Hillary's campaign staff
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:46 PM
Feb 2016
http://www.p2016.org/clinton/clintonorg.html

I don't know who compiled it. Looks like she had her operation going months before she announced she was even running.

" Thus the campaign started off as a very sizable operation, exceeding staff of all the Republican campaigns and pre-campaigns combined. ..
"

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
3. From the linked article ...
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:05 AM
Feb 2016

"One charge leveled by Correct the Record, a super PAC headed by Hillary Clinton’s longtime crony David Brock, found something nefarious about the clothing seniors were pictured wearing in the Vermont senator’s campaign literature."

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
4. Brock and Clintons...dirty politics of the desperate.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:05 AM
Feb 2016

Issues? Issues?

Guess not because the Clintons and their ilk are so bad.

And it's pathetic how they can't figure out that all their slime is easily dispensed with these days because of social media and the Net.

Pathetic.

Response to mhatrw (Original post)

mikehiggins

(5,614 posts)
9. Its because there are no "left wing" sources to go to.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:54 AM
Feb 2016

The "Liberal" media is the biggest laugh around. Maybe back when FDR, Truman and Eisenhower were in power there might have been a "liberal" bias to the news. Those days are gone, along with the Fairness Doctrine and family owned newspapers.

All MSM news is controlled by a handful of corporations, or right wingers like Edelson. Going to those sources is usually an excercise in futility. Not always, of course, and not in all cases but you are more likely to find articles by John Capehart than by a pro-Bernie OR neutral source.

But I guess you didn't notice that. I'm an old guy from NYC. I pay attention.

Don't trust leaders and watch the parking meters.

azurnoir

(45,850 posts)
15. welcome to DU
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:03 AM
Feb 2016

seems you're pretty knowledgeable for 9 posts kudo's it's prolly 'cause you're long time lurker, right?

Uben

(7,719 posts)
6. Well DUH!
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:14 AM
Feb 2016

Do you believe anyone in either campaign would spend money to make their opponent look good? Not gonna happen. It's like people are just grabbing at straws to make their opponent look bad. It's what they do. IT'S ALL THEY DO!

dchill

(38,633 posts)
7. They are also desperate to make Hillary look good.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:41 AM
Feb 2016

Two impossible jobs.

 

leftynyc

(26,060 posts)
8. Can't we get this crap out of LBN?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:50 AM
Feb 2016

First it's not breaking news and I already had to trash the GD-P forum to get rid of the sewer smell coming from the repulsive infighting.

 

dpatbrown

(368 posts)
10. Pathetic
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 09:56 AM
Feb 2016

What's left for the Clinton campaign. More and more voters are flocking to Sanders, Clinton is losing voters, and they have no answer for it. Her campaign is in trouble, big trouble.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
11. Wherever this OP belongs - there is nothing that can be said about Bernie that can make me stomach
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:01 AM
Feb 2016

Hillary's penchant for war, cluster bombs, the TPP, fracking, increased H-1B visas - things like that. Nothing at all can make me disregard the issues that affect all Americans, and the world, really.

Puppyjive

(509 posts)
12. AARP members
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:18 AM
Feb 2016

I know many AARP members who are voting for Bernie. Endorsements by big corporations or celebrities don't really mean a lot too me or them When it comes to elections, people vote for the candidate who can bring their issues to the stage. Bernie is talking to 99% of them. He wants to shore up social security because for most of them, social security is all they will get.

fredamae

(4,458 posts)
13. Do they understand
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:50 AM
Feb 2016

that it is entirely possible that voters, en-masse' are no longer listening to and reading "them"?

yardwork

(61,813 posts)
14. Not LBN. Please take this to GD-P.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 10:51 AM
Feb 2016

JGug1

(320 posts)
16. Pro Clinton Pac
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:05 AM
Feb 2016

Pro Clinton blog desperate to make Hillary look bad.

Helen Borg

(3,963 posts)
17. I bet he killed billions of bacteria with antibiotics!
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:08 AM
Feb 2016

Despicable!

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
18. If HRC is throwing "everything" at him, what's left for the GOP?
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:18 AM
Feb 2016

I keep hearing the GOP is going to "destroy" him

But if the best attack dogs in the business can't take him out now, why is it common wisdom the GOP will do better?

Faux pas

(14,717 posts)
19. I quit listening
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 11:55 AM
Feb 2016

to hrc et al back in 2008.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
20. you know it's bad when the Post looks at the campaign and goes, "Yick"
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 12:34 PM
Feb 2016

one_voice

(20,043 posts)
22. Locking...
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 01:54 PM
Feb 2016

Doesn't meet SoP for LBN. Better suited for GDP. Re-post there.

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