I'm just sayin'...
Posted on 04/10/2008 9:49:37 AM PDT by The_Republican
Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.
The move comes after the groups that had been expected to spearhead attacks on McCain – the Fund for America and Progressive Media USA's previous incarnation, the Campaign to Defend America – failed to raise the money needed to dent McCain's armor.
"We're a little behind where we need to be," he said.
But after a dinner Tuesday night at the Manhattan apartment of liberal megadonor George Soros, at which Brock and the consultant Paul Begala laid out the group's plans, Brock said his group now has commitments worth $7.5 million – almost twice what the Fund for America is expected to report raising in the first quarter of this year. He said the group would begin running ads before it meets its $40 million goal.
Brock suggested that the group could do the work of a press corps that, he says, has "fallen down on the job" when it comes to McCain.
Brock's remarkable emergence as a leader of the Democratic party's shadow campaign efforts marks a milestone in a long personal journey that began in the early 1990s with the notoriety he gained from magazine stories written for The American Spectator, a conservative monthly. Among his controversial articles was one alleging that Bill Clinton had used Arkansas state troopers to facilitate his philandering, a piece that set the wheels in motion for Paula Jones to file suit against Clinton for sexual harassment. In 1993, Brock authored The Real Anita Hill, a critical book about the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
Brock later apologized to Clinton in a public letter and broke publicly with the conservative movement. He wrote about his disillusionment in his 2002 memoir Blinded by the Right, and Hillary Clinton later helped him establish Media Matters, which criticizes reporters for alleged right-wing "misinformation."
Brock is now seen in political circles as closer to Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign than to Senator Barack Obama's, but Brock said he has already met with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close Obama ally.
Revved up like a douche in the middle of the night?
We told you so...
Yeah. But if George Soros, Begala and Brock hate McCain so much.......isn’t it time to reevaluate the Conservative hatred for him? Why would they hate their fellow liberal so much(as True Conservatives allege)?
Does this mean the honeymoon is over....?
Hopefully someone here is old enough to get the Springsteen/Manfred Mann reference, even if it’s a dumb one.
I didn’t....go ahead and explain. Thanks in advance!
LOL!!!
Close but no cigar;
"Cut loose like a deuce
another runner in the night."
On a scale of 1 to 10, with a 1 being most liberal and 10 being most conservative, McCain would be in the center at 5. Soros et al would be a 1 or 2. Conservatives would be a 10. Get it? McCain is still too liberal for the true conservatives.
Here's the lyrics.
Ah, okay, thanks. Next time I’ll check the lyrics BEFORE posting. :O)
In Brock's case, because he's not gay?
ROTFLMAO! Thanks!
Now that the media has annointed McCain as their chosen opponent, they will now begin to trash him into oblivion. The problem is that the GOP won't have the financial capability to fight back this time, and McCain hasn't got the backbone to fight dirty.
After spending five and half years in the Hanoi Hilton, I doubt there is anything ANYONE can say or do to John McCain that would “rattle his cage.”
I'm just sayin'...
I do. It’s one of my favorite songs.
Even if I can’t make out most of the lyrics....
So now McCain’s allies are going to turn on him....LOL. I hope they rip him a new one!
Bruce Springsteen wrote “Blinded” back when he actually was listenable.
I had it on vinyl. It was hard to find on CD back in the early 90s, which is when I first heard it. I prefer Manfred Mann’s version, FWIW.
The article glosses over the “out of the closet” alternative lifestyle nature of his conversion.
McCain is only reaping what he has sown.
Pro-Amnesty
anti-fence
anti-federal marriage amendment
anti-tax votes
squishy on second amendment
AND
he has to go on the public dole to get money.
My favorite Springsteen song is either “Rosalita” or “The River” (the version which appeared on the ‘86 box set).
I thought it was a pretty good take on the lyrics.
Would Jim-Rob admonish us if we added the word “bag” after, ahem, “douche?” Would fit the beat pattern.
Revved up like a douche in the middle of the night?
Bravissimo!
You mean the admitted liar David Brock... or the flaming homosexual David Brock... or the greedy propagandist David Brock... or the born-again Marxist David Brock? I’m confused.
No rejoicing. But completely expected. They have alot of material to work with.
Madman drummers bummers,
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin’ kinda older,
I tripped the merry-go-round
Okay, so Springsteen was the AUTHOR of “Blinded?” I thought he covered it. Oh man, I owe my significant other a top shelf cocktail....
Thanks, Petronski. :O)
That’s what the left does. They destroy. They have nothing. They are nothing. They stand for nothing.
LOL! Only McCain and a few McCainiacs think the whole campaign was going to be civil and respectable. We all know McCain can get shi*ty, he just needs a Vulcan mind meld to rearrange the fat cells in his head to pretend he is going after his GOP colleagues.
Soros is known for hedging his bets whether it’s horses or politicians, makes no difference.
Thanks for the lyrics....I ALWAYS wanted to know what they were saying!!!!
One hopes our brilliant and resident lyric parody genius can take this song and run with it. (So brilliant, apparently, that I have forgotten his name).
[hangs head in shame.............]
Springsteen supposedly wrote it to describe some of the of bizarre individuals he met when he was younger and living in n New Jersey.
Well, I reckon he’ll be reasonably happy with all the choices this time out.
Yes
I hope it's a paper origami disposable.
Yes. You knew it was coming.
LOL
the problem is the GOP is a weak leaderless committee.
McCain has Melman as a campaign aid/manager? Melman was useless as a GOP leader in 2006.
The GOP does not fight.
Look how we have to have operation chaos because the GOP is WEAK AND SPINELESS.
This Brock hit will work because you have to DO SOMETHING fight it.
Who knows how many Moles are in the McCain camp already.
If only James Brown were alive for the inaugural party...Say It Loud, I’m Not A Typical White Person And I’m Proud.
They think if they dump enough money in to this project, they can accomplish the same thing in 2008 against McCain. I think they'll end up spending the 40M, and they'll look foolish as people decide to side with McCain and against their dirty tricks. I don't care for him, won't be voting for him, but people think he's a Hero and Soros can't dump enough money to make them think otherwise.
I read an article a while back that explains why the lefties have such a hard time getting think tanks to work. They come up with an idea, and try to create a think-tank that will flesh it out. That's bass-ackwards, like naming a plan, then brainstorming in order to come up with the plan.
Why....I just can't believe it. I thought the tone had been set. I am ashamed of the Demonrats for straying away from the civil tone McCain has set down for this race.
big ole /sarc here.
I guess the airport bathrooms and highway rest stops are all booked....
Homosexuals are like flies...whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.
The lyrics are the only information of value on this thread :))
Let’s sing:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=C6AFCJ1dLdg
(I prefer the Manfred Mann version)
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I dated a few of them.
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