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McCain hires Weekly Standard staffer
Politico ^ | 6/2/08 | Johnathan Martian

Posted on 06/02/2008 1:20:38 PM PDT by Dawnsblood

Michael Goldfarb, online guru at the Weekly Standard, has taken a leave of absence from his post at the magazine to become deputy communications director for McCain.

Standard chief Bill Kristol announced the move on their blog.

In his new role, Goldfarb will use his grasp of the rightosphere to help drive the McCain message online and will also lend a hand in writing campaign materials. He'll focus especially on the rapid response element of a campaign that is already being fought hour by hour.

A source at the magazine said that when Goldfarb announced his move at a staff meeting, Kristol joked that the conservative writer was being "detailed" to the McCain campaign.

VRWC, indeed.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; election; goldfarb; kristol; mccain; rino; weeklystandard

1 posted on 06/02/2008 1:20:39 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: Dawnsblood
More on Mike
2 posted on 06/02/2008 1:38:08 PM PDT by realdifferent1 (I hope the 'War on Terror' goes better than the 'War on Poverty'.)
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To: realdifferent1
Michael Goldfarb was the London bureau chief for National Public Radio until February 1999.

Is Michael that all but extinct species, a conservative on NPR or is this just McCain reaching out from Teddy Kennedy's lap to a fellow liberal?

3 posted on 06/02/2008 1:42:14 PM PDT by RJL
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To: RJL

My opinion: the latter.


4 posted on 06/02/2008 1:51:02 PM PDT by realdifferent1 (I hope the 'War on Terror' goes better than the 'War on Poverty'.)
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To: realdifferent1
In his new role, Goldfarb will use his grasp of the rightosphere to help drive the McCain message online and will also lend a hand in writing campaign materials.

Given that Goldfarb is Bill Kristol's lick-spittle, he won't know squat about the real rightosphere.

5 posted on 06/02/2008 2:44:42 PM PDT by E. Cartman (Better to have your enemy before you than beside you or behind you.)
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To: Dawnsblood

This is WONDERFUL! Maybe he will fix the “Contact us” link on the McCain web site, so we can send our words of encouragement (and occasional policy disagreements and questions) to the attention of the campaign, so they can keep in touch with their base. After all, the “Contribute” link works just fine, so I know they want our money. Unfortunately for the McCain campaign, I don’t contribute to tin-eared, tone-deaf politicians who ignore their friends EXCEPT to ask for money, but cozy up to their enemies and ignore the needs of their Country.


6 posted on 06/02/2008 2:54:21 PM PDT by MainFrame65 (The US Senate: World's greatest PREVARICATIVE body!)
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Goldfarb will use his grasp of the rightosphere to help drive the McCain message online

Yeah, good luck with that... He's gonna need it.

7 posted on 06/02/2008 3:08:09 PM PDT by retr0 (He who argues with a fool is an even greater fool.)
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To: realdifferent1
"VRWC, indeed."

Oh, yeah, if only McCain & Kristol WOULD join in with the VRWC...... don't expect to see that in many lifetimes. I don't know much about Goldfarb, but he was very good at smoking out that liberal twit fraud, Scott Beauchamp, the guy writing fake "dispatches" from the war zone.....

IIRC Goldfarb did a lot of the investigative work on tracking down that latest fraud at The New Republic. That much is a good sign (aggressive, thorough, good on op research, etc.) but I have not idea what his actual ideas may be, and of course he'll be working for McCain.....
8 posted on 06/02/2008 3:29:34 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Dawnsblood

A wasted move. The weak-ly standard has ALWAYS supported McCain anyway. Why pay for something you will get free?


9 posted on 06/02/2008 3:34:07 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: realdifferent1

That’s a different Michael Goldfarb, for sure!! [I tracked that guy to a post on the unmentionable, unlinkable Puffington Post where he made a point of saying he is not the same Michael Goldfarb as the one who works for The Weekly Standard]


10 posted on 06/02/2008 3:38:01 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Dawnsblood

“...the McCain message online...”

Vote for me, I’m not Obama?

Conservatives suck, vote McCain?

Forget all those things I DID, listen to what I’m SAYING NOW!

McCains’ message?


11 posted on 06/02/2008 5:40:57 PM PDT by Grunthor (The GOP would be better off LOSING then electing McCain. - MNJohnnie)
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To: Enchante

Wrong. Same guy. I followed that incident closely. Goldfarb is good. Too good for McCain, IMHO. I am not voting for McCain. But, I think this was a good move.


12 posted on 06/02/2008 7:00:12 PM PDT by davidtalker (David Gold - goldtalk.com)
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To: davidtalker

?? Did you go to the link at #2?

That Michael Goldfarb, who works for NPR and writes for the Huffington Post, is NOT the same Michael Goldfarb who has been working for The Weekly Standard and is now moving over to the McCain campaign.


13 posted on 06/02/2008 7:12:24 PM PDT by Enchante (Barack Chamberlain: My 1930s Appeasement Policy Goes Well With My 1960s Socialist Policies!)
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To: Enchante

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/2010/01/100113_health_of_a_nation_pt1.shtml

Did you see the latest from the Huffington Post Goldfarb. A liberal I know is pushing this as fresh insight into healthcare. But it is just a hit piece on Republicans.


14 posted on 01/14/2010 10:57:48 AM PST by rileyObo (rileyobo)
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