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WH Hires "Negative Story" Squasher
Townhall ^
| May 23, 2011
| Katie Pavlich
Posted on 05/24/2011 5:57:48 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Welcome to the latest use of taxpayer dollars to shove Obama propaganda down your throat, on your dime. The White House has moved a staffer from the White House New Media Department into a position of "rapid media response," with a goal of squashing, or cleaning up negative stories about President Obama on the internet.
The Obama administration has created and staffed a new position tucked inside their communications shop for helping coordinate rapid response to unfavorable stories and fostering and improving relations with the progressive online community.
"This week, Jesse Lee will move from the new media department into a role in the communications department as Director of Progressive Media & Online Response," read an internal memo from Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, provided to The Huffington Post. "For the last two years, Jesse has often worn two hats working in new media and serving as the White House's liaison with the progressive media and online community. Starting this week, Jesse will take on the second role full time working on outreach, strategy and response."
The post is a new one for this White House. Rapid response has been the purview of the Democratic National Committee (and will continue to be). Lee's hire, however, suggests that a portion of it will now be handled from within the administration. It also signals that the White House will be adopting a more aggressive engagement in the online world in the months ahead.
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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: commieganda; czaroflies; enemedia; fascism; fascism101; goebbels; hires; jesselee; leftganda; marxistcoup; may2011; ministryoftruth; negativestory; obamaganda; pmor; progressivemedia; propagandaministry; publicenlightenment; squasher; whitehouse
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More transparency at work.
Just a warning that the original story referenced is from the dreaded HP, so you may not want to click on the internal link.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Isn’t this what Josef Goebbels was hired to do?
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posted on
05/24/2011 5:58:51 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(If Sarah Palin really was unelectable, state-run media would be begging the GOP to nominate her.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
And behold the official Memory Hole.
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:01:37 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(Marking time on the government's dime...)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
WH Hires “Truth” Squasher
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:01:52 AM PDT
by
SumProVita
(Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Boehner is content with his condition of impotence and wanting to be loved = bad news for the Republic.
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:06:45 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
At HP, many comments about how this is ANTI-propaganda, a valiant effort to get the Truth out in the face of almost overwhelming lies. Pretty funny.
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:07:18 AM PDT
by
DBrow
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Boy are CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBCNYTWAPOLAT gonna be pissed!
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:07:46 AM PDT
by
Dahoser
(Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Calypso Louie???.............
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Note. He's to handle unfavorable stories, not necessarily inaccurate stories. It's all about perception, lol.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
What next? An enemies list?
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:14:23 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
It is only a small step from vigorous online policing of politically embarrassing opinions, to unmarked vans of armed hoodlums “protecting the president's honor” in the larger scheme of things. Big things generally start small.
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:14:41 AM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Fight back. Create ‘blog poster cells’ and spread totally bogus stories about Obama around the Internet and force the ‘Squasher’ into overwork.
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:19:57 AM PDT
by
AU72
To: rightwingintelligentsia
There has never been, in my memory, an Administration whose political operation was so thoroughly dominant a force within the White House. They have essentially removed the line between the office of the President (the Chief Executive) and the Democrat Party.
This does not normally happen in constitutional republics, or even democracies. It does however, routinely characterize governments dominated by a centralized cult of personality.
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:22:42 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: andy58-in-nh
His Jimmy Carter economically and Foregin Policy.
He is Nixon on dirty tricks.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Maybe if we vote out the Negative Story Generator this wouldn’t be necessary...
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:26:25 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 852 of our national holiday from reality. - OBL Dead? The TSA can go away!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Does this mean the Troll and Obot count will increase here?
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:26:52 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: scooby321
He is Nixon on dirty tricks. Maybe much worse IMHO. The Baraqqis have brought the "Chicago way" to the WH.
To: Dahoser
Boy are CBSNBCABCCNNMSNBCNYTWAPOLAT gonna be pissed!Only because they thought that was their job...
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:28:20 AM PDT
by
null and void
(We are now in day 852 of our national holiday from reality. - OBL Dead? The TSA can go away!)
To: andy58-in-nh
They have essentially removed the line between the office of the President (the Chief Executive) and the Democrat Party. And not one Democrat congressperson or senator will speak out or vote against ANYTHING he does or says -- NOT ONE! Sometimes I think the government has been taken over by outside hostile forces and the people in congress and the media are powerless to do anything about it. It's all just surreal. Doesn't feel like America any more.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
What’s his screen name here on FR?
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posted on
05/24/2011 6:29:10 AM PDT
by
caver
(Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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