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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJane Mayer Exposes Right Wing Plot Against Biden Appointees
https://crooksandliars.com/2022/04/jane-mayer-exposes-right-wing-plot-againstOn Monday night's The Rachel Maddow Show, New Yorker columnist Jane Mayer promoted her latest piece "The Slime Machine Targeting Dozens of Biden Nominees." Here she exposes the "conservative dark-money group that was created in 2020: the American Accountability Foundation. An explicit purpose of the A.A.F.a politically active, tax-exempt nonprofit charity that doesnt disclose its backersis to prevent the approval of all Biden Administration nominees."
This so-called "American Accountability Foundation," Mayer told Rachel Maddow, "does sort of phony research, basically, and pretty sloppy job if you really look into it. Most of the mud that it slung has dissolved when you take a close look, but the problem is for a lot of the lesser-known nominees, people are not really looking very carefully."
"...Of course it turned out that a lot of the senators were getting their research from this group," said Mayer.
There's more at The New Yorker article, worth the click:
Rather than attack a single candidate or nominee, the A.A.F. aims to thwart the entire Biden slate. The obstructionism, like the Republican blockade of Bidens legislative agenda in Congress, is the end in itself. The group hosts a Web site, bidennoms.com, that displays the photographs of Administration nominees it has targeted, as though they were hunting trophies. And the A.A.F. hasnt just undermined nominees for Cabinet and Court seatsthe kinds of prominent people whose records are usually well known and well defended. Its also gone after relatively obscure, sub-Cabinet-level political appointees, whose public profiles can be easily distorted and who have little entrenched support. The A.A.F., which is run by conservative white men, has particularly focused on blocking women and people of color. As of last month, more than a third of the twenty-nine candidates it had publicly attacked were people of color, and nearly sixty percent were women.
This so-called "American Accountability Foundation," Mayer told Rachel Maddow, "does sort of phony research, basically, and pretty sloppy job if you really look into it. Most of the mud that it slung has dissolved when you take a close look, but the problem is for a lot of the lesser-known nominees, people are not really looking very carefully."
"...Of course it turned out that a lot of the senators were getting their research from this group," said Mayer.
There's more at The New Yorker article, worth the click:
Rather than attack a single candidate or nominee, the A.A.F. aims to thwart the entire Biden slate. The obstructionism, like the Republican blockade of Bidens legislative agenda in Congress, is the end in itself. The group hosts a Web site, bidennoms.com, that displays the photographs of Administration nominees it has targeted, as though they were hunting trophies. And the A.A.F. hasnt just undermined nominees for Cabinet and Court seatsthe kinds of prominent people whose records are usually well known and well defended. Its also gone after relatively obscure, sub-Cabinet-level political appointees, whose public profiles can be easily distorted and who have little entrenched support. The A.A.F., which is run by conservative white men, has particularly focused on blocking women and people of color. As of last month, more than a third of the twenty-nine candidates it had publicly attacked were people of color, and nearly sixty percent were women.
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Jane Mayer Exposes Right Wing Plot Against Biden Appointees (Original Post)
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Apr 2022
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Walleye
(31,062 posts)1. With this kind of entrenched opposition. It's pretty amazing that Joe has gotten a lot of stuff done
gab13by13
(21,408 posts)2. The funding of A.A.F. came from Trump's Super Pac.
No way to know who put the money in the Super Pac.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,619 posts)3. How Putin's Pedophile Smears Made Their Way Into U.S. Mainstream
Rachel was amazing last night
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https://crooksandliars.com/2022/04/maddow-how-putin-used-pedophile-smear
Rachel Maddow looks at how false accusations of pedophilia have become a common tactic by Vladimir Putin to eliminate politically problematic opponents, with such eliminationist rhetoric being a hallmark of fascists.
And now, under the Qanon banner, it's become a significant strand of U.S. politics in the Trump era.
Rhiannon12866
(206,089 posts)4. Here's the video from Rachel's show for those who missed it:
Republican Smear Operation Exposed In New Report - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017729696
Jane Mayer, chief Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, talks with Rachel Maddow about her reporting on The American Accountability Foundation, a Republican group dedicated to using smear tactics and "phony research" to block every nominee President Biden puts forward for any position. Aired on 04/18/2022.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017729696
Jane Mayer, chief Washington correspondent for the New Yorker, talks with Rachel Maddow about her reporting on The American Accountability Foundation, a Republican group dedicated to using smear tactics and "phony research" to block every nominee President Biden puts forward for any position. Aired on 04/18/2022.