An email from Blue Nation Review.

[Eric J in MN]

The website Blue Nation Review is owned by David Brock. Brock said in January about Sanders' "America" ad, "From this ad it seems black lives don't matter much to Bernie Sanders."

For the past year, Blue Nation Review has been smearing Bernie Sanders and his supporters as racist and sexist.

I recently got an email from BNR which says:

Friend,

I know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from us. There’s a good reason. BNR has a new editorial team and we’ve been working hard to create the media platform Democrats trust.

...

Peter Daou, CEO
BNR

I'm not friends with Peter Dao, and the idea of trusting Blue Nation Review made me laugh.

[MisterP]

1. Daou got kicked off DU repeatedly

hilariously, Daou then wrote *this*

My fundamental disagreement with Drum is where to place the blame. From my perspective, it falls squarely with the Democratic establishment, not the broad liberal community.

Here’s why. Imagine a scenario where Democrats, instead of marginalizing the netroots, treated them with the same awe and respect the tea Party engenders on the GOP side. Imagine an Obama presidency where the health care debate started with a fierce fight for single-payer; where Gitmo had been closed; where gay rights were unequivocally supported; where Bush and Cheney were investigated for sanctioning torture; where climate change was a top priority; where Bush’s civil liberties violations were prosecuted rather than reinforced; where the Bush tax cuts expired; where the stimulus was much bigger; where programs for the poor, for research, jobs, infrastructure, science, education, were enhanced at the expense of war and profits for the wealthy; where the Republican assault on women’s rights was met with furious resistance. I could go on and on.

As I said previously, faced with a public that holds opposing views, politicians can either change their positions to match the public’s views or change the public’s views to match their positions. Only when Democrats decide to do the latter will America’s rightward shift be halted or reversed.

If the White House and Democratic leadership were in sync with the activist left rather than insulting them at every opportunity, the media would follow and the triangle would form. Look at Obama and Bush’s big swings in approval – the American public is far more malleable than Democrats acknowledge. In a nation where anxiety abounds, strong, principled, powerful, determined voices will change minds. Republicans know that and they have a system to take advantage of it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1651666

[winter is coming]

2. Principled? I nearly did a spit-take. n/t

[MisterP]

3. someone described Lanny Davis as adopting any opinion and defending it to the death as his own

as though he himself had conceived of it--it's this sort of "conviction" and "loyalty" that Clinton surrounds herself with (Davis on Honduras, Blumenthal on Libya)

[Eric J in MN]

5. What did Daou get kicked off DU for? NT

NT

[MisterP]

8. constant bullying? reeking hypocrisy? militant duplicity?

remember this was back before those things got you an amnesty (for those earning 12 hides in a few months) and your opponents banned

[Hissyspit]

6. He's getting paid now.

[tex-wyo-dem]

4. Screw Brock and BNR...

They made their bed.

Now if I can ever get past Clinton lying and corruption it will be a miracle.

[PDittie]

7. Are Susie Madrak and Melissa McEwan still

writing there?

That might be a real of change of pace if they aren't.