Glenn Greenwald's anti-Hillary vendetta continues unabated:

[Blue_Tires]

https://twitter.com/MicheleBachmann/status/659983045823479809


I don't think he's aware that there are any other candidates in this race at all...

[questionseverything]

1. article explains why the msm supports hc...she won't cut off their gravy train

CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, is represented on Capitol Hill by Steve Elmendorf, an adviser to Clinton during her 2008 campaign, who is also known as “one of Washington’s top lobbyists.” He’s lobbied on a number of issues important for media companies like CNN, including direct-to-consumer advertising policy.

Elmendorf, according to disclosures, has raised at least $141,815 for Clinton’s 2016 bid for the presidency.

Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal, which includes cable networks NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC, has a number of lobbyists on retainer who are working to raise cash for the Clinton campaign, including Justin Gray, Alfred Mottur, Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino.

Much of the $5 billion expected to be spent over the course of the 2016 presidential election cycle will be on cable and network news advertisements. The election-related spending bonanza is singularly boosting the profit margins of many media companies, as we’ve reported.

“Super PACs may be bad for America, but they’re very good for CBS,” Les Moonves, president and chief executive of CBS, memorably said.

[Blue_Tires]

3. My point is Glenn was anti-Hillary long before she even declared

and *every* Intercept "story" about the race has been an anti-Hillary piece

[questionseverything]

5. more from your article...

Association of Broadcasters, have crushed such attempts, and cable news networks rarely if ever discuss the reforms on air.

The National Association of Broadcasters and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, two media lobby groups that employ fundraisers for the presidential candidates, have also lobbied in recent years against legislation to disclose the source of funding for so-called dark money groups.

Tony Podesta, the brother of Clinton’s campaign chairman and a lobbyist who has raised at least $55,600 for the Clinton campaign, is registered to lobby on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters. In 2010, his firm helped defeat dark money disclosure legislation on behalf of his corporate media clients.

Another arguable political media bias is in favor of the status quo. Critics have complained that corporate news networks have promoted establishment candidates at the expense of outsiders. FAIR, a media watchdog group, reported in June that “Meet the Press,” NBC’s marquee political program, mentioned Clinton 16 times in the first 17 episodes of the year while failing to invite or discuss Bernie Sanders once. Sanders has no lobbyist bundlers and no Super PAC supporting his campaign.

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so hc's lobbyists are keeping dark money in campaigns secret,while i am not surprised i did not know the names before of exactly who was doing it on hc's behalf ...again great article

[m-lekktor]

12. And that, to those of us who cannot stand Hillary Clinton, is a GOOD thing!

Long Live GLenn Greenwald!!

(even though Greenwald didn't write the article in the link via Bachman twitter post)

[MADem]

2. Holy shit--Michelle Bachmann reads THE INTERCEPT! That gives one a perspective on their material!

The article writer isn't Greenwald, though--it's some guy named Fang.

[ljm2002]

17. "it's some guy named Fang"

I applaud your honesty in pointing out that Glenn Greenwald is NOT the author of the article in question, making the OP's headline deceptive to say the least.

But "some guy named Fang"? You've really never heard of him? Here, maybe this will help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Fang

Lee Fang is a liberal American journalist. He is currently an investigative reporter at The Intercept, an online publication created and funded by Pierre Omidyar. Previously, he was a reporting fellow at The Nation Institute and a contributing writer at The Nation. Fang was also a writer at progressive outlet the Republic Report. He started his career as an investigative blogger for ThinkProgress.

Here is The Nation's page for him (although apparently he was, not is, a reporting fellow there now... ?):

http://www.thenation.com/authors/lee-fang/

Lee Fang is a reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute. He covers money in politics, conservative movements and lobbying. Lee’s work has resulted in multiple calls for hearings in Congress and the Federal Election Commission. He is author of The Machine: A Field Guide to the Resurgent Right, a recently published book on how the right-wing political infrastructure was rebuilt after President Obama's 2008 election. More on the book can be found at www.themachinebook.com.

[MADem]

18. Sorry--I haven't been seeing this "some guy named Fang" on TV talk shows, on Real Time, on

any of the major radio discussion shows...he is a blogger who had talent and became a journalist-writer. And he's not well known, even if he has written for a few visible publications. I've never heard of his book, published a couple of years ago, and I'm reasonably aware of the resonating publications. It looks like it might do well on a POLISCI class's reading list. I'm sure he's a good writer, he's got five stars on Amazon--but only 17 reviewers. That's not a best-seller.

I'll bet you or I could hit him on our bikes and not recognize him if we were picking him up off the pavement and apologizing to him profusely for ten minutes. Why? He's NOT well-known. His name creates no facial association in my mind. He's not a David Corn or an Andrew Sullivan or a Glen Greenwald or a Matt Taibi. His face and name are just not at that tier. I'm not saying that to "diss" him, but he's simply not a first-ranked player.

And if he's working for Omidyar, he'll be less well known the longer he hews to that path, though well-compensated.

Sorry.

[ljm2002]

19. Well, now you've heard of him...

...maybe you'll notice his byline next time you run across it.

Always good to keep an eye on the up-and-comers. He really is good.

[MADem]

20. I don't disagree with you that he has talent.

He's just not first ranked. He needs to get on TV and start talking to be a real influencer.

He'd probably better not work for Omidyar for too long--that could be a bad choice for him over the long arc of time. Omidyar has some sketchy associations that could impact Fang's 'brand' as it were.

[think]

4. Do any other candidates have major television news network lobbyists bundling donations for them?

Comcast, the parent company of NBC Universal, which includes cable networks NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC, has a number of lobbyists on retainer who are working to raise cash for the Clinton campaign, including Justin Gray, Alfred Mottur, Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino.

Tony Podesta, the brother of Clinton’s campaign chairman and a lobbyist who has raised at least $55,600 for the Clinton campaign, is registered to lobby on behalf of the National Association of Broadcasters. In 2010, his firm helped defeat dark money disclosure legislation on behalf of his corporate media clients.

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/29/media-fundraisers-presidential/

[moobu2]

14. They donated to the Clinton campaign becasue

they know she's going to win. Would you waste your money donating to Bernie Sanders? Or someone else? No.

[think]

15. Sanders doesn't sell out to corporate lobbyists. Most people understand lobbyists sole purpose

is to gain support for their company & their own financial interests.

Sanders campaign is financed by over 750,000 individual Americans so far and he represents their issues & values. Sanders appeals to people not corporations.

Hillary on the other hand has outstanding appeal with CORPORATE LOBBYISTS. Apparently she represents their issues and values very well....

[Capt. Obvious]

23. Rubio

from the article.

[MineralMan]

6. Why not link directly to the Intercept?

Why should we click through to Michele Bachmann's twitter feed? I want nothing whatever to do with that woman's thinking at all.

All you had to do is click on that tweet and copy and paste the resulting URL.

Linking to anything connected to Bachmann should be done only if that is the only source available, and rarely, even then, I think.

[whatchamacallit]

9. I agree MM

but you can't do ye ol' smear by association that way.

[leveymg]

16. For a change, agree with you on that.

[MADem]

21. I've seen a lot of this going on, lately.

It's detailed to good effect in this NYT article from a while back:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/us/politics/the-right-aims-at-democrats-on-social-media-to-hit-clinton.html?_r=0


It's imperative for people to consider the source. Unfortuately, many here do not.

[demmiblue]

7. Unrec for source. n/t

[whatchamacallit]

8. Awesome, thanks for bringing this excellent Intercept piece to our attention!

[Mnpaul]

10. It was posted here a few days ago

you must have missed it

[whatchamacallit]

11. I know

I just wanted to thank the OP for helping get the word out

[Mnpaul]

13. I won't thank the OP until they fix their bogus title

I'm guessing their victim game won't work with the actual author in the title.

[Blue_Tires]

22. Yep...Just another day at the Intercept:

https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/662349033499992064