Posted on 09/07/2017 3:07:53 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Peter Daou, the prickly pro-Clinton operative, has launched a propaganda rag so shameless it would make Kim Jong Un blush.
Who would buy stock in a twice-defeated presidential candidate?
If the candidate under question is Hillary Clinton, that zealous buyer would be Peter Daou, one-time rocker, seasoned political blogger, former campaign adviser to John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, ambitious litigant, propagandist and internet entrepreneur. A couple of days ago, Daou launched his self-funded Verrit.com, a slavishly pro-Clinton site (endorsed by Hillary!) to carry on her failed crusade.
The derision greeting Verrit is so universal it inspires sympathy for Daou, as Gizmodo, the Washington Post, Outline, New Republic, New York, The Ringer and others have broken its back with their snap judgments. “Verrit, a Media Company for Almost Nobody,” read one headline. “No One Asked for Verrit, But Here We Are,” stated another. “What Is Verrit and Why Should I Care? (Unclear; You Shouldn’t.),” said a third. “Peter Daou Continues to Embarrass Hillary Clinton,” asserted the best in show.
People, people! It’s only a website!
Granted, Verrit is a goofy website, as websites go. If you don’t possess the courage to visit it right now, here’s a description: Imagine if Matt Drudge created a Hillary fan site, only instead of listing news stories in a text-heavy fashion, he arranged them on the Web equivalent of 3x5 cards, and in addition to typing headlines onto the cards, he pulled out salient facts and stats from the stories (called “verrits”). Each card carries a unique serial number that you can plug into the Verrit database to prove … well, I don’t know exactly what it proves other than Verrit drew its facts and stats from the news source cited.
As Daou’s Verrit manifesto puts it, the site hopes to become the trusted sourced for the 65.8 million voters who cast their ballots last November for Clinton and who seek verified “facts” they can use to argue politics. In theory, everybody needs a cheat sheet. In practice, the Verrit method is cringe-worthy. The headline to one early Verrit borrows from the literary methods of Kim Jong Un’s North Korea to assert, “Hillary Democrats Are the Heart and Conscience of America.” Does anybody outside of the Daou re-education camp really think this way?
When it comes to criticism, Daou isn’t a just snowflake. He’s a snow squall, equating most criticism of Clinton (or criticism of Daou) with the desire to erase Clinton and Clintonites. Early this year, he telegraphed his irrational partisanship by tweeting that anybody tweeting “Bernie would have won” in his timeline would earn “an instant block” from his account. “Useless and baseless conjecture. Betrays someone unfocused on the challenge ahead,” Daou continued.
His is a reductionist world where evidence of misogyny and sexism can be deduced from almost any political discussion of Madame Secretary. When Verrit launched, it inspired not only a mudslide of negative reviews but an ugly denial-of-service attack on his servers. From this rocky reception, Daou didn’t extract the perennial lesson that politics ain’t beanbag. He didn’t cinch up and concede that political passions will cause folks to overheat. Instead, he flew to Twitter and raged in all caps, “PEOPLE ARE STILL TERRIFIED OF HILLARY. PEOPLE STILL WANT TO DESTROY HILLARY. PEOPLE WANT TO SILENCE ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS HER.”
Terrified? Destroy? Silence? I'd love to see the serial numbers on those “facts.”
As the New Republic’s Sarah Jones pointed out, Verrit’s early shilling for Clinton easily veers into propaganda when it posts headlines like “Sanders and the Mainstream Media Helped Put Trump in the White House.” Such headlines present Clinton as a victim, denying her any agency, and blaming all of her failures on the press and Bernie Sanders. To dwell on this Verrit for just one more beat, is it safe to say that somebody out there is still terrified of Bernie, that somebody out there still wants to destroy Bernie, and that somebody wants to silence anyone who supported him?
Just as you should never review a play during tryouts, it’s a tad unfair to assess a website on the week of its birth. To be generous, Verrit isn’t completely without merit. The card gimmick is interesting even if the serial number is stupid. So give Daou credit for playing with the Web form and for starting something new, especially after finding himself on the losing end of so many campaigns and initiatives. Attaboy, Peter!
As a general rule, I admire the partisan press, appreciating its power to build political cadre and motivate people. But if the goal is to build a center-liberal movement, how sturdy of a foundation is Hillary Clinton? How many of the 65.8 million who voted for Clinton share Daou’s creepy devotion? It’s not like she buried Bernie Sanders in the Democratic campaign. Like Al Gore or John Kerry, Clinton now belongs to the loser’s club. She’s a spent force in Democratic Party politics, good for a speech or a fundraiser maybe, but no more.
Daou’s Clinton worship is beginning to resemble the adoration that New Deal romantics poured onto Eleanor Roosevelt in the 1950s. As any student of pop culture can tell you, an interval of five or 10 years must transpire before the attempted revival of an icon. Verrit is a sad nostalgia act, ahead of its time.
Shouldn’t you have rocked if you are going to call yourself a (even a one-time) rocker????
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vifw4dfLFf8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUiXyLo6cZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2tfT3dPk7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzh5GNsh3Xk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daou
The Daou were a New York-based dance music quintet composed of Peter Daou (keyboards), Vanessa Daou (vocals), Mike Caro (guitar), Leon Dorsey (bass), and former 24-7 Spyz member Anthony Johnson (drums). Their only album Head Music was released in 1992, with its debut single “Surrender Yourself” rising to number one on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play chart, where it remained for 11 weeks.[1][2]
Creative disagreements with record label Columbia would see the Daou negotiate out of their contract and subsequently release Head Music’s next two singles for the independent Tribal Records. The group disbanded before the release of a second project, and Vanessa Daou would reemerge as a solo act with 1994’s Peter Daou-produced Zipless
Shouldn’t play music that people can dance to (more than the cliche “hippie dance” people might do in a park, politely gently twisting the toro, feet firmly planted, waving arms in the air) if you are calling to call it “dance music”???
Just imagine how sick in the head you must be to go to sleep every night thinking you wish Hillary had won the presidency. Then waking up every morning thinking up new ways to lie for her.
That’s some genuine, certifiable mentally ill right there.
>>As Daou’s Verrit manifesto puts it, the site hopes to become the trusted sourced for the 65.8 million voters who cast their ballots last November for Clinton and who seek verified “facts” they can use to argue politics.
Fact-Check.Hillary
Best NOT fact-check Hitlery Rotten Clinton, she has repeatedly lied. Lied about important things like national security and terrorist attacks and inconsequential things like being named after Sir Edmund Hillary (she was not) and always carrying hot sauce in her purse (because she was told it tested well with black folks).
>>he telegraphed his irrational partisanship by tweeting that anybody tweeting “Bernie would have won” in his timeline would earn “an instant block” from his account.
Doesn’t want to hear that the DNC would’ve run if they had run someone who wasn’t even a Democrat...
>>But if the goal is to build a center-liberal movement, how sturdy of a foundation is Hillary Clinton?
CENTER-liberal?!!!
Bwahahaha. Now who’s got Communist type propaganda? Thanks Politico’s SENIOR media writer
It is evident the old skank is never going away. She lost her presidential bid twice and she doesn’t get it. Even Ted Kennedy finally figured it out. We do not want anywhere near the White House
It is evident the old skank is never going away. She lost her presidential bid twice and she doesn’t get it. Even Ted Kennedy finally figured it out. We do not want anywhere near the White House
Hillary is right in the center—of the political views of MSM sociopaths.
Sociopaths view other human beings as objects to be manipulated, gullible fools to be cowed with propaganda, sources of cash to be scammed, and slaves to be crushed.
Their brains cannot process emotion or empathy—all they can do is fake it.
Right in the center....of evil.
“Who would buy stock in a twice-defeated presidential candidate?”..
Just another typical Clinton “scam” to transfer funds from the pockets of the idiots who support her, into her pockets. She never stops?
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