Posted on 06/27/2006 6:44:13 AM PDT by presidio9
After months of fierce attacks against her on the Internet, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is ready to meet her Web enemies head-on - by hiring a political-blog guru who worked on John Kerry's presidential campaign. Clinton tapped Peter Daou, Kerry's director of blog outreach and online rapid response, to rehab her battered image among left-wing Internet surfers.
Clinton has been pummeled in the liberal blogosphere for her centrist stance on the Iraq war, for backing a pro-life Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania and for being the co-sponsor of a GOP measure to ban flag-burning without amending the Constitution.
Daou is a political operative who runs the Daou Report, a Web log that tracks political blogs and news organizations to chronicle the latest Beltway buzz.
His stated goal is to build connections between the party establishment, the media and the blogosphere. He did not respond to an e-mail request for comment from The Post.
On his blog, Daou wrote that he's "joining Senator Clinton's team as a blog adviser to facilitate and expand her relationship with the netroots."
Netroots refers to politically oriented Internet bloggers.
"There are endless possibilities for Clinton-netroots collaborations, from Net Neutrality to the Privacy Bill of Rights to voting reform to so many other critical issues," he added.
Daou is working for Clinton's Senate re-election committee, Friends of Hillary, to help the campaign better "communicate" with supporters on Democratic blogs, said campaign spokeswoman Ann Lewis.
His enlistment comes as the former first lady's support on the Web founders while the stock of likely 2008 Democratic White House rivals Kerry and Sen. Russ Feingold soars for their aggressive anti-war stances.
The announcement of his arrival also comes four days after the DailyKos.com's influential founder, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, reported on his site that Clinton had not "reached out" to
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So she's hired a professional liar? Now she can take 3 sides of an issue.
Oh good we will have a direct line to her lies?
Gives us an opportunity to refute them to her face?
Or will her 'hired gun' filter them?
Question One for pseudo Senator Clinton:
What happened to Vince Foster? The truth please.
Hillary will do anything to become president. Anything.
Shouldn't she have hired Unknown Jerome?
Looks like Hillary will be engaging in Astroturfing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Let's see if the new guy can polish a turd.
This was the type of job that Pied Piper Pitt is after (in favor of Kerry) but because of his central role in Hoaxmas, is doomed to never have.
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