From The New York Times: The Right Baits the Left to Turn Against Hillary Clinton
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A Twitter post recently caught the eye of Bill McKibben, the environmental advocate and godfather of the Keystone XL pipeline protests. It included an image from The Simpsons showing Homer and his family basking in mountains of cash in their living room, followed by a report on Hillary Rodham Clintons appearing at a fund-raiser with a lobbyist from the Keystone fight.
Mr. McKibbens environmental organization, 350.org, has been trying to raise awareness about the ties it sees between lobbyists for the oil pipeline and former aides to Mrs. Clinton. He promptly shared the post with his 150,000 Twitter followers, and the reaction was immediate.
You expect different from a Clinton? one person responded on Twitter. And from another: Did you need another reason not to vote for Hillary Clinton? Lost in the response was the source of the offending tweet. It was not another environmental organization or even a liberal challenger to Mrs. Clinton. Instead, it was a conservative group called America Rising PAC, which is trying, with laserlike focus, to weaken the woman who almost everyone believes will be the Democratic Partys candidate for president in 2016.
Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)are running infiltrating the left in order to wreck a candidate.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Of course the NYT wants the establishment's candidate left alone. Suggestions for the candidate to avoid this problem:
1. Answer questions, or at least stake out positions, on issues that matter (TTP and all of its corollaries, fracking, ANWR drilling, minimum wage, offshoring, etc.)
2. Place yourself on the left of some of these issues. Otherwise, why in the world would you expect not to get complaints?
3. If these are really false flags from one of Rove's tentacles, following steps 1 and 2 will bring them to halt.