Team Obama: OWS Smear Plan Is Already Being Used Against Elizabeth Warren

[Galraedia]

Source: Politicusa

Obama campaign adviser Anita Dunn reacted to John Boehner’s lobbyist plan to smear Occupy Wall Street by pointing out that they are already doing this to Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts.

When Chris Hayes asked Anita Dunn to react to the memo outlining the John Boehner’s lobbyists’ plans to smear Occupy Wall Street, she answered, “I thought there was a story on the front page of The New York Times this morning that actually provides a kind of nice compliment to it, which is the story about the Wall Street donors rallying behind Scott Brown against Elizabeth Warren, and the extraordinary support that they’re showing him, and they actually used in the headline the phrase vilifying his opponent, which I think is true. And I think if you actually look at what is going on in that Massachusetts Senate race, you’ll see some of the tactics that the memo that you’ve been discussing this morning talked about in terms of Occupy Wall Street being used. Crossroads GPS, which is of course, the large Karl Rove backed so called Super PAC has been running ads up there using a lot of those themes in terms of vilifying Occupy Wall Street, Elizabeth Warren. It’s a threat to American democracy.”

The New York Times story that Dunn referred to reported, “Of the 20 companies that accounted for the most campaign donations to Mr. Brown, about half were prominent investment or securities firms like Morgan Stanley, Fidelity Investments and Bain Capital. His donors include such blue-chip names as Gary Cohn, the president of Goldman Sachs, and the hedge fund kings John Paulson and Kenneth Griffin.”

The plan that the lobbyists floated to John Boehner is already being used against Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts. If there is one 2012 candidate at any level who embodies the values of Occupy Wall Street, it is Elizabeth Warren. The candidate herself said, “I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. I support what they do.” Language like that coming from a candidate is usually bluster, but not in the case of Elizabeth Warren.



Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/en/warren-ows-smear

[rox63]

1. We are seeing the hate ads against Elizabeth Warren here in MA

She also has her own ads running, explaining who she is and what she stands for. I hope those are the ones that stick in people's memory, and not the attack ads.

[onehandle]

2. I'm just going to have to send her more money.

'The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.'

[ClarkUSA]

3. It's clear whose side Team Obama is on, isn't it? OWS & Elizabeth Warren's!

[Desertrose]

4. Team Obama is on Team Obama's side....

...and that depends on what's going on in the news at that current moment...

Wish it wasn't that way, but... :shrug:

[ClarkUSA]

5. Team Obama hired Elizabeth Warren; she wouldn't be where she is now w/o their support.

As for OWS, Team Obama presaged their views and earned Wall Street's emnity for it:

"Obama Slams 'Fat Cat Bankers'" (Dec. 14. 2009)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126073152465089651.html

You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts.

[newblewtoo]

6. Well at least they both still have Harvard Yard

Elizabeth Warren won’t sign off on Occupy Harvard
By Hillary Chabot
Thursday, November 17, 2011 - Added 2 days ago

U.S. Senate hopeful and Harvard Law prof Elizabeth Warren, who has claimed she laid the “intellectual foundation” for the Occupy Wall Street movement, is jilting the anti-corporate proteges in her own Ivy League yard, refusing to sign a petition in support of Occupy Harvard

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But Brian Walsh, spokesman for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, snarked, “It sounds like Elizabeth Warren is all for her acolytes in the Occupy movement tying up traffic and police resources in cities around the country, but just as long as they’re not in her own backyard at Harvard.”

Steve Henrick, 24, a former student of Warren’s who visited Occupy Harvard yesterday, said he believes that Warren simply has provided inspiration.

“She never told us to set up tents, but she said consumers are being treated unfairly,” said Henrick, who is not occupying Harvard

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1381558

Are they truly the best and brightest or just elitists?