2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton’s Iowa Closing Argument Ad Is Also Mighty White
With the Iowa caucuses looming on the near horizon, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are not just duking it out with cannonfire about gun control, health care, and slavery reparations, theyre also submitting their closing arguments in the form of a couple of new ads that will run in Iowa in the coming weeks. Sanders opening bid is a Simon and Garfunkel-fueled bit of goosebumpery thats been criticized by David Brock for being too white:
David Brock, a longtime Clinton supporter who founded the super PAC backing her, told The Associated Press on Thursday that the advertising presented a bizarre image of America focused on white voters. Mr. Brock also said the ad was a significant slight to the Democratic base, according to the news agency.
From this ad it seems black lives dont matter much to Bernie Sanders, Mr. Brock told The Associated Press.
Lets have a look, shall we?
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http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clintons-iowa-closing-argument-ad-is-also-mighty-white/
arcane1
(38,613 posts)What a shame.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Dretownblues
(253 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)emulatorloo
(44,164 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)(It had to be said).
emulatorloo
(44,164 posts)TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)Response to cali (Original post)
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Armstead
(47,803 posts)and of course she never showed him her ad, which has fewer faces of POC than Bernie's
azmom
(5,208 posts)Nanjeanne
(4,973 posts)That proves black lives matter to Hillary, doesn't it David?
Honestly, there are legitimate things her campaign could be discussing - focusing on her positives (at least as far as they see them). Dusting off her playbook from 2008 when that didn't work out too well for her is kind of stupid isn't it?
hootinholler
(26,449 posts)How about who founded A super pac, I'm pretty sure a lil birdy mentioned there are more than one.
ebayfool
(3,411 posts)The Clinton campaign itself is Correct the Records single biggest contributor, giving more than $275,000 to the super PAC.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/05/12/how-a-super-pac-plans-to-coordinate-directly-with-hillary-clintons-campaign/
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Hillary Clintons campaign plans to work in tight conjunction with an independent rapid-response group financed by unlimited donations, another novel form of political outsourcing that has emerged as a dominant practice in the 2016 presidential race.
On Tuesday, Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton rapid-response operation, announced it was splitting off from its parent American Bridge and will work in coordination with the Clinton campaign as a stand-alone super PAC. The groups move was first reported by the New York Times.
That befuddled many campaign finance experts, who noted that super PACs, by definition, are political committees that solely do independent expenditures, which cannot be coordinated with a candidate or political party. Several said the relationship between the campaign and the super PAC would test the legal limits.
But Correct the Record believes it can avoid the coordination ban by relying on a 2006 Federal Election Commission regulation that declared that content posted online for free, such as blogs, is off limits from regulation. The Internet exemption said that such free postings do not constitute campaign expenditures, allowing independent groups to consult with candidates about the content they post on their sites. By adopting the measure, the FEC limited its online jurisdiction to regulating paid political ads.