Posted on 07/09/2011 9:24:12 AM PDT by mandaladon
AMHERST, N.H. — Aaron Fielding quietly stalks his prey — Republicans — with his video camera, patiently waiting for a political moment worthy of YouTube. At 27, he is a full-time “tracker” for American Bridge 21st Century, a new Democratic organization that aims to record every handshake, every utterance by Republican candidates in 2011 and 2012, looking for gotcha moments that could derail political ambitions or provide fodder for television advertisements by liberal groups next year.
The organization has hired a dozen professional trackers like Mr. Fielding, outfitted them with the latest high-tech cameras and computers and positioned them in key states where Republican candidates are busy chattering away to voters. If all works as planned, incriminating moments captured by American Bridge will quickly become part of the political bloodstream.
Combined with a team of 20 researchers in a Washington “war room” that has a large rack of computer servers, the effort is part of a push by Democratic groups to bolster their opposition research. Republicans also have trackers, but so far have not assembled the kind of centralized video archive of political caught-on-tape moments that their rivals envision.
“Our obligation here is to get these guys on the record with what they really believe so they can’t walk away from their record,” said Rodell Mollineau, a former aide to Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and the group’s president. “There are many opportunities for us to record Republicans showing their true colors.”
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Prince Philip on the press: “They follow you around waiting to catch you picking your nose.”
If that’s the way they want to waste their time and money, let ‘em.
taser was my first thought too. zap the expense camera.
Thank God for Breitbart who is more than happy to play this game on Dems.
It is what it is. We are in a new age of information gathering and anyone who does not know that anything one says or does at anytime can be instantly and permanently captured on tape is living in the last century.
IF REPUBLICANS STAY TRUE TO CONSERVATISM AND ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN THE IDEOLOGY OF OUR FOUNDERS... THE SAME IDEOLOGY OF REAGAN... YOU WILL NEVER BE CAUGHT SAYING SOMETHING THAT YOU DO NOT MEAN. ONLY LIARS CAN FUEL A TOILET TICK LIKE THIS POS COMMIE SPY.
LLS
An excellent simple truth.
Follow these morons around with cameras. Two can play at this game.
The Republicans don’t really need to so this, the Liberals are what to put their gaffs on the MSM nightly news.
James Keefe wannabes
Begala vs Breitbart
let the games begin
Why aren’t Republicans doing this too...Or are we???
This is another David Brock / George Soros organization.
The danger here is twofold: The edited, out-of-context words and the “media” ready to jump on and make go viral anything that could possibly make a Repub look bad. I’m sure that is the real purpose of this group, but thank you NYT for publicizing it and letting everyone know the Dems dirty tricks.
Surely someone on our side can post a picture of Mr. Aaron Fielding on the internet, can’t they?
I’m sure he’d like us to know what he looks like.
And are Republicans doing the same? Should they? I think so.
Only after the operator...
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