Posted on 03/30/2017 12:12:29 PM PDT by drewh
Hillary Clinton's former press secretary admitted Wednesday that the campaign was caught off guard by what he called the "Breitbart effect" during the 2016 election.
Fallon made the comments during an appearance at Yale University on Wednesday. Fallon spoke of the organized, pro-Trump counter-narratives that seemed to dominate the news cycle, which often ended up putting the Clinton campaign on the defensive.
Fallon said the so-called Breitbart effect cultivated a "standalone ecosystem in conservative media that very aggressively and successfully promoted certain stories and narratives we had a blind-spot for during the campaign.”
Indeed, as the election stretched on and the Clinton campaign and its surrogates sought to capitalize on Trump's frequent missteps, Clinton often had to address unflattering headlines targeting the Clinton Foundation her corporate speeches, her health, and her record as the former US secretary of state.
That narrative included her use of a private email server that became the subject of a yearlong FBI investigation.
The investigation sent the Clinton campaign reeling in at least two pivotal points during the campaign — less than two weeks before Election Day, when FBI director James Comey announced the bureau was looking into new emails related to the Clinton inquiry, and again two days before the election, when he announced the agency found nothing.
The cumulative effect was seen as having done irreparable damage to Clinton's already battered second bid for the White House and the Clinton camp later blamed Comey himself for their loss to Donald Trump.
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Oh now it’s Breitbart’s fault...
She is a total POS, she should have been flushed when her mother went to the restroom and saved America all the crap that POS has dealt on this Nation!!!
LOCK HER THE HELL UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So are they giving up on the Russians did it?
Besides, I thought the Russians were at fault.
The Democrats sure are good at producing excuses.
Excuse #137
Still blaming anyone but herself.
They were so used to enjoying total support from the legacy media they became arrogant, thinking new media was impotent to stop them
Bad campaign trying to put a crooked woman into office as President.
No Breightbart effect. Video of Hillary collapsing, cheating with questions on debates and crooked foundations and emails sunk her.
But it was my turn!!!
Or as we call it “The Truth Effect”.
Hillary was what we expected: Dirty. Corrupt. Arrogant. Sick. Old.
Which Russian hackers planted her shoe at the spot where she collapsed into her ambulance/limo?
Yeah it is Breitbart’s fault. Breitbart didn’t lie and didn’t use false polling data and they didn’t pump out Fake News 24/7 like all the other media whores did.
/s
If only Breitbart had been in the tank like all the other news agencies.
The Russians did it theme has played out.
They had to come up with a new story.
Yeah, sure. The problem is that NOT EVERY SINGLE news organization was in her pocket.
over here!
They won’t admit that the country was sick and tired of her... she has been campaigning for TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long!
AND-she’s too toxic
So one news source threw thistle leaves on the path the rest of the MSM had strewn with rose petals? Yeah, that was the problem.
It’s actually an important comment. They went into this thinking that their control over the mainstream media would allow them to control the messages people were receiving about Clinton, but because of the new media landscape, they weren’t able to do so. They wanted that not to be the case so much that they failed to plan for that fact that is in fact the case.
If you watch the video again, you can see Putin hiding out in the bushes.
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