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Obama White House Veterans Tackle The Trump Era With New Political Media Site
The Huffington Post ^ | January 9, 2017 | Michael Calderone, senior media reporter

Posted on 01/09/2017 2:16:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Because Trump “has Breitbart and Twitter and he’ll just swamp you.”

If Hillary Clinton had won, Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett would have kept their day jobs.

The three friends, all in their mid-30s and veterans of the Obama White House, had gone to the West Coast, where two started a consulting firm and the third wrote screenplays. Last year they dipped back into the campaign fray through an election-focused podcast, “Keepin’ It 1600.” The trio of political junkies got their fix with the part-time initiative, mixing it up with political operatives and Washington journalists.

Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama, told The Huffington Post that they’d probably have continued doing the same thing if “everyone wasn’t so horrifically wrong” about the presidential election. After Nov. 8, the same thing no longer felt like enough.

The “Keepin’ It 1600” crew was admittedly among the “horrifically wrong.” They confidently predicted that Clinton would win and, like others, went through a period of post-election self-flagellation.

Now they’re not only kicking off a new twice-weekly podcast, “Pod Save America,” on Monday, but launching a company aimed at challenging Donald Trump’s vision for America. They say that the company, Crooked Media, will also offer a politics website and later branch out with additional podcast series, videos and livestreamed events ― all with an emphasis on organizing listeners around issues and progressive causes....

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: democrats; hillary; obama; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hopefully, and he takes over his “boudoir” and makes him his play toy boy.


21 posted on 01/09/2017 2:37:37 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Good! More liberal dollars down the toilet.


22 posted on 01/09/2017 2:44:52 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Is it just me, or does this sound like what Al Gore and the ousted Clinton crowd did in 2001-and failed miserably...


23 posted on 01/09/2017 2:54:36 PM PST by Texan5 (`"You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to drive a hard line"...)
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They just never learn do they? They really do think trying another way to spread their ‘message’ will work.

They don’t understand, we know their ‘message’ and we don’t like it a bit.


24 posted on 01/09/2017 3:01:35 PM PST by ColdOne (( I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Trump should get a Russian Wolfhound for first pet in WH.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A podcast?

Really?


25 posted on 01/09/2017 3:11:17 PM PST by Principled (OMG I'm so tired of all this winning....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I hope there’s a comment section. My handle’s gonna be...

“Dudethatwasliketwoyearsago”.


26 posted on 01/09/2017 3:21:06 PM PST by moovova
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If Hillary had won, Tommy Vietor, Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett would have kept their day jobs.

Quick get EMS.......I feel ill.

27 posted on 01/09/2017 3:38:48 PM PST by Liz
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To: M Kehoe; BenLurkin

Dollars to donuts these three morons are cashing multiple US govt checks.....

.....probably no-shows on several payrolls of obscure govt agencies.

It’s an old bureaucratic trick......hand-picking people and putting them on govt payrolls...

...telling taxpayers they’ve left govt.


28 posted on 01/09/2017 3:43:14 PM PST by Liz
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