Posted on 04/18/2014 5:16:29 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Newly released Clinton document describes Internet as ‘right wing’ tool of ‘conspiracy commerce’
Posted By Giuseppe Macri On 6:01 PM 04/18/2014 In | No Comments
A previously unreleased White House document among the 7,500 published by the Clinton presidential library Friday warns that the burgeoning Internet of 1995 is being “seized” by the “right wing” and turned into a “communication stream of conspiracy commerce.”
The 1995 report, titled “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce,” describes the Internet as a new method of communication ”employed by the right wing” and used to “convey their fringe stories into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media.”
Among those “fringe stories” were the now-infamous reports and lawsuits alleging extra-martial affairs with the president, including accusations from model and actress Gennifer Flowers, and murmurings about former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones, Mashable reports.
The White House counsel’s office and Democratic National Committee produced the report, which explains how “Republican staffers surf the Internet,” and describes it as “one of the major and most dynamic modes of communication.”
“The Internet can link people, groups and organizations together instantly,” the report reads. “Moreover, it allows an extraordinary amount of unregulated data and information to be located in one area and available to all. The right wing has seized upon the internet as a means of communicating its ideas to people. Moreover, evidence exists that Republican staffers surf the internet, interacting with extremists in order to exchange ideas and information.”
Was that before or after Democratic Underground?
That wording sounds like it could have come directly from a Stasi report, where Commie apparatchiks and informants are explaining to their superiors how the enemy operates. Did the Commies directly train the Democrats, or do they all just naturally talk that way?
Is there any meaningful difference between the Communists of East Germany or the Soviet Union and the Democrat leadership? Not that I can tell...
the right had the lead in 1995 and they let themselves be overtaken by the loony left
I thought this was Free Republic?!!? Did clintoon just accuse me of joining du?!??
Paranoid kooks
I think they are looking at us. There’s probably spy’s all this place. So they own the mainstream media but they don’t own conservative websites yet.
Yeah right,Bill:
www.democraticunderground.com
and
1) CNN: 52
2) The Huffington Post: 393
3) Time: 553
4) NPR: 1,524
5) Slate: 1,569
6) Newsweek: 1,690
7) U.S. News & World Report: 2,408
8) Politico: 2,470
9) Salon: 2,455
10) Indy Media: 3,534
11) The Democratic Underground: 6,992
12) The Atlantic: 8,538
13) The Village Voice: 8,922
14) Daily Kos: 10,385
15) Eschaton: 10,496
16) New Yorker: 12,429
17) The Daily Beast: 12,512
18) Alternet: 15,763
19) Common Dreams: 18,144
20) Crooks and Liars: 19,337
21) Buzzflash: 19,423
22) TPM Cafe: 21,592
23) MoveOn: 21,786
24) Mother Jones: 22,277
25) Amnesty International: 23,807
26) Counterpunch: 23,841
27) The Nation: 24,552
28) Antiwar: 24,799
29) Think Progress: 25,168
30) Raw Story: 26,663
31) The New Republic: 26,867
32) Planned Parenthood: 28,207
33) Information Clearing House: 28,605
34) What Really Happened: 31,583
35) OpEdNews: 31,835
36) Bad Subjects: 33,120
37) Political Wire: 34,698
38) World Socialist Website: 35,122
39) ACLU: 37,195
40) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights: 37,494
41) Media Matters: 37,650
42) Feministing: 38,376
43) Truthout: 38,809
44) Drudge Retort: 41,472
45) The American Prospect: 42,082
46) Harper’s Magazine: 42,659
47) Firedoglake: 42,836
48) TruthDig: 44,389
49) Wonkette: 45,704
50) AmericaBlog: 45,195
Honorable Mentions
51) FiveThirtyEight: 46,521
52) The Washington Monthly: 48,238
53) Michael Moore 48,918
54) Bartcop: 48,109
55) Air America: 54,928
56) Oliver Willis: 55,743
57) MyDD: 57,251
58) Center for American Progress: 58,713
59) The Brookings Institute: 61,302
60) Zmag: 65,741
This will come as a big surprise to tens of thousands of dirty, small-minded petty tyrants writing comments from their parents’ basement on DemocRat Underground.
In 1995 the internet was truly an alternate, uncontrolled media. It took almost 10 years to change that.
It’s affect on the 2000 election was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Bump
unregulated data and information AKA free speech
Once Bill learned he could use the internet to meet women, he did a 180 on the issue.
ROFL!
Post of the Day!
YES< Blame Al Gore.
Always happy to boast that I am a proud Founding Member of Mrs. Bill Clinton’s “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.”
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