I'm just sayin'...
Posted on 04/10/2008 9:49:37 AM PDT by The_Republican
Wealthy Democrats are preparing a four-month, $40 million media campaign centered on attacks on Senator John McCain. And it will be led by David Brock, the former investigative reporter who first gained fame in the 1990s as a right-wing, anti-Clinton journalist.
The planned campaign is the product of a shakeup in the top ranks of the struggling independent Democratic groups. Brock, now best known as the ex-conservative founder of the liberal group Media Matters, last month quietly assumed the chairmanship of what's expected to be the main vehicle for independent Democratic attacks on McCain, now called Progressive Media USA.
The move comes after the groups that had been expected to spearhead attacks on McCain – the Fund for America and Progressive Media USA's previous incarnation, the Campaign to Defend America – failed to raise the money needed to dent McCain's armor.
"We're a little behind where we need to be," he said.
But after a dinner Tuesday night at the Manhattan apartment of liberal megadonor George Soros, at which Brock and the consultant Paul Begala laid out the group's plans, Brock said his group now has commitments worth $7.5 million – almost twice what the Fund for America is expected to report raising in the first quarter of this year. He said the group would begin running ads before it meets its $40 million goal.
Brock suggested that the group could do the work of a press corps that, he says, has "fallen down on the job" when it comes to McCain.
Brock's remarkable emergence as a leader of the Democratic party's shadow campaign efforts marks a milestone in a long personal journey that began in the early 1990s with the notoriety he gained from magazine stories written for The American Spectator, a conservative monthly. Among his controversial articles was one alleging that Bill Clinton had used Arkansas state troopers to facilitate his philandering, a piece that set the wheels in motion for Paula Jones to file suit against Clinton for sexual harassment. In 1993, Brock authored The Real Anita Hill, a critical book about the woman who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.
Brock later apologized to Clinton in a public letter and broke publicly with the conservative movement. He wrote about his disillusionment in his 2002 memoir Blinded by the Right, and Hillary Clinton later helped him establish Media Matters, which criticizes reporters for alleged right-wing "misinformation."
Brock is now seen in political circles as closer to Senator Hillary Clinton's campaign than to Senator Barack Obama's, but Brock said he has already met with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, a close Obama ally.
Revved up like a douche in the middle of the night?
We told you so...
Yeah. But if George Soros, Begala and Brock hate McCain so much.......isn’t it time to reevaluate the Conservative hatred for him? Why would they hate their fellow liberal so much(as True Conservatives allege)?
Does this mean the honeymoon is over....?
Hopefully someone here is old enough to get the Springsteen/Manfred Mann reference, even if it’s a dumb one.
I didn’t....go ahead and explain. Thanks in advance!
LOL!!!
Close but no cigar;
"Cut loose like a deuce
another runner in the night."
On a scale of 1 to 10, with a 1 being most liberal and 10 being most conservative, McCain would be in the center at 5. Soros et al would be a 1 or 2. Conservatives would be a 10. Get it? McCain is still too liberal for the true conservatives.
Here's the lyrics.
Ah, okay, thanks. Next time I’ll check the lyrics BEFORE posting. :O)
In Brock's case, because he's not gay?
ROTFLMAO! Thanks!
Now that the media has annointed McCain as their chosen opponent, they will now begin to trash him into oblivion. The problem is that the GOP won't have the financial capability to fight back this time, and McCain hasn't got the backbone to fight dirty.
After spending five and half years in the Hanoi Hilton, I doubt there is anything ANYONE can say or do to John McCain that would “rattle his cage.”
I'm just sayin'...
I do. It’s one of my favorite songs.
Even if I can’t make out most of the lyrics....
So now McCain’s allies are going to turn on him....LOL. I hope they rip him a new one!
Bruce Springsteen wrote “Blinded” back when he actually was listenable.
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