PELOSI ACCOMPANIED BY DALY, PICTURED ON HER RIGHT
BRENDAN DALY, FORMER COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR NANCY PELOSI ......AND A POLITICAL APPOINTEE OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION....... IS A REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT WHO PROVIDED THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTYS PREMIER STATE-RUN MEDIA OUTLET CHINA CENTRAL TELEVISION NETWORK WITH STRATEGIC COUNSEL AS IT EXPANDED INTO THE UNITED STATES, THE NATIONAL PULSE CAN REVEAL.
During his tenure as Executive Vice President at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, Daly secured a contract between the lobbying behemoth and China Central Television Network (CCTV). Specifically, the firm helped the state-run propaganda outfit CCTV expand into American homes by providing strategic counsel, identify relevant parties to communications activities, and media relations to support the launch of CCTV America.
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide will work with CCTV America to communicate to the American public that CCTV America will provide compelling, comprehensive, and balanced news programming from an Asian perspective that is relevant to a global audience, the 2012 filing in accordance with the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) noted. Per CCTVs FARA registration, however, the outlet is supervised, owned, directed, controlled, financed, and subsidized entirely by the Chinese Communist Party.
Email correspondence from Daly identifies him as taking the lead on the account, as he spoke with CCTVs American representative on the phone. He also provided the outlet with a memo detailing Ogilvys strategy on the count, detailing how to best bridge the gap between American homes and Chinese Communist Party propaganda:
The memo, sent from Daly, outlines how Ogilvy would provide CCTV with comprehensive support, including influencer and media relations support, to achieve the overall message that CCTV Americas is the source for business news in and with China, with credentialed, experienced and trusted journalists doing in-depth stories and reporting. We are excited about the prospect of working with you to help establish CCTV Americas as the program to watch to succeed in an interconnected global economy, the email concludes.
CCTV has been identified by Freedom House think tank as a long-standing weapon in Beijings arsenal of repression whose mission is to attack designated enemies of the Communist Party, chiefly the U.S.--snip--
NOTE Former US Senator Chris Dodd is Biden's best friend.......and is especially well-connected. After serving in the Senate Swamp, in 2011 Dodd then went to Hollywood to become the Motion Picture Association of America chairman Hollywood's top lobbyist representing the six major studios.
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How Joe Biden won friends in Hollywood by helping studios get their movies into China
By EVAN HALPER, LA TIMES STAFF WRITER , JULY 18, 2019
Xi Jinping, then the vice president of China, speaks with then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then governor of California, watches a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center in 2012. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians and to then-Vice President Joe Biden to lobby Xi for access to the Chinese market. Xi Jinping, then the vice president of China, speaks with then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa while Jerry Brown, then governor of California, watches a game between the Lakers and the Suns at Staples Center in 2012. At top right is Jeffrey Katzenberg, then-CEO of DreamWorks Animation, who used his ties to California politicians and to then-Vice President Joe Biden to lobby Xi for access to the Chinese market.(Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times) Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options
WASHINGTON When then-Vice President Joe Biden hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a five-day diplomatic blitz in 2012, a Hollywood Democratic mega-donor kept popping up with them. There was Jeffrey Katzenberg, then the head of DreamWorks Animation, dining alongside Xi, the then-vice president of China, at a State Department welcome lunch in Washington. And there he was again, standing just behind Xi, then-Gov.
Jerry Brown and then-Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at a Lakers game in Los Angeles. And there was Katzenberg hanging out in a nearby hallway with Disney CEO Robert Iger to provide last-minute counsel as Biden closed a deal in which China committed to considerably expand its market for American films.
On the final day of Xis visit, Dreamworks announced Xi had signed off on the companys own deal the launching of Oriental DreamWorks, a $330-million joint venture with Chinese companies to develop and distribute animated films in China.
Several of the candidates vying for the Democratic presidential nomination have significant support in Hollywood Katzenberg, for example, has kicked in $2,800 each to 14 of them already but none has as long a history of delivering for the industry as Biden. His deep ties to studio executives and decades-long advocacy for their agenda has helped cement Bidens support even as it may also open him to criticism for too cozy a relationship with big donors.
Biden is returning to Hollywood this week for another round of fundraisers, including the second Biden event co-hosted by Katzenberg and leaders of several major studios. Bidens first Southern California fundraiser, which Katzenberg co-hosted in May, netted more than $700,000 in one night. Joe was our champion inside the White House, said former Sen. Christopher Dodd, who led the Motion Picture Assn. of America for much of the Obama era.
There is no question about it. Even before Joe Biden decided to run, I would get calls and have conversation with the major studio figures, with them saying, You tell Vice President Biden 100% we want him to run. This wasnt waiting around to see who would do well in polls. cont......CCTV falls under the supervision of the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television which is in turn subordinate to the State Council of the Peoples Republic Of China, the FARA registration noted, placing Daly on the payroll of the Chinese Communist Party.
Daly served as Communications Director to Pelosi for nearly a decade, from 2002 to 2011. He bills himself as instrumental in orchestrating Pelosis rise from House Minority Whip to House Minority Leader, noting he worked closely with external coalitions on communications activities and events to advance Democratic agenda and earned the trust and respect of the Speaker and entire House leadership.
He even donated $1,000 to the Pelosi campaign in 2001, as one of his FARA forms reveals. Now, Daly appears to be exploiting these Pelosi-procured connections to bolster the reach and quality of Chinese communist media operations.
Daly also served in the Bill Clinton White House as Assistant to the U.S. Trade Office Representative for Public Affairs, where he led communications efforts with government relations team and external organizations to generate positive press in targeted Congressional districts so Congress would pass Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with China.
And after his Ogilvy tenure, Daly went back to the federal government as a political appointee of former President Barack Obama to serve as Director of Public Affairs for the Department of Energy and Spokesperson for Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz.
He is now the Chief Communications Officer for the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents many top record labels such as Warner Music Group, which Tencent, a Chinese Communist Party linked tech company whose platform WeChat is set to be banned by the Trump administration, recently acquired a $200 million stake in.
This unearthed connection follows Pelosis insistence that she is the most unliked American in China a far cry from reality in light of the revolving door between her staffers and the Chinese Communist Party. Michael Hacker, a former senior adviser to Pelosi, has also joined TikToks lobbying crusade to fight against President Trumps decision to ban the app for being a Chinese government proxy.