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Goprox

(78 posts)
Fri Jul 7, 2017, 12:30 AM Jul 2017

The Intercept falsely calls Mark Penn a "Clinton strategist"

Mark Penn hasn't been a Clinton strategist since 2008.

New York Times, April 7, 2008:

Mark Penn, the pollster who has advised Bill and Hillary Clinton since 1996, stepped down under pressure on Sunday as the chief political strategist for Mrs. Clinton’s struggling presidential campaign after his private business arrangements again clashed with her campaign positions.

Mr. Penn, who was widely disliked by Mrs. Clinton’s fiercest loyalists and had bitterly feuded with many of them, sealed his fate last week by meeting with officials from Colombia, which hired him to help secure passage of a bilateral trade treaty with the United States that Mrs. Clinton, a senator from New York, opposes
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/us/politics/07hillary.html

Yet, the website of Clinton hater Putin liver Glenn Greenwald has a big bold Drudge-esque headline that falsely screams:

CLINTON STRATEGIST MARK PENN PUSHES DEMOCRATS TO MOVE TO CENTER — AND QUIETLY PROFITS FROM GOP VICTORIES https://theintercept.com/2017/07/06/mark-penn-centrist-neoliberal-democrats-profits-donald-trump-republicans/


First they out Reality Winner, now they lie in order to make the Clintons look bad. The Intercept and Glenn Greenwald cannot hide their agenda.
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