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still_one

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1. Ed Rogers, an opinion writer for the Washington Post, offering commentary from a conservative
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 04:56 AM
Jan 2016

perspective.

It is just so gratifying that some find it necessary to utilize right wing propaganda.

This is an "asshole" who according to his own words worked with some of the republican greats such as Lee Atwater.

You remember Lee Atwater, the guy who Karl Rove used as his mentor, and helped formulate the Southern Strategy.

Oh yeah, good ole Ed Rogers. Using him as a source of opinion is shameful:

"I have been involved in Republican politics since I was a kid in Hoover, Ala., in the 1970s. I have worked with and for some of the great Republican leaders of our time, including, from 1987 to 1991, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu and President H. W. Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater. After that, I could have opened a business called Difficult Personalities, Inc. If you were a challenging personality and needed a young, worried-looking yes-man to follow you around, I was your guy. Instead, I started a lobbying and public relations firm with my friend and another of my former White House bosses, Haley Barbour; it was just the two of us. Now we have grown to be BGR Group. Very smart people work there, and we now have overhead in Washington and London. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-insiders/post/about-ed-rogers/2011/10/20/gIQApAbO4L_blog.html

That some so-called Sanders' supporters think that using a right winger's opinion hit pieces against Hillary help their candidate is quite revealing.

With this kind of BS, if Sanders gets the nomination, do some Sanders' supporters really think they can win a general election without Hillary supporters?

Keep this right wing garbage flowing, and see how that works out

A Lee Atwater hack. Shameful and disgusting. Right from the pages of Karl Rove.


Ed Rogers, an opinion writer for the Washington Post, offering commentary from a conservative still_one Jan 2016 #1
Shocked and outraged, eh??? catnhatnh Jan 2016 #43
Anyone who uses opinions from the Lee Atwater school, speaks volumes. Just a few days ago I saw still_one Jan 2016 #46
Maestro, if you please: Proserpina Jan 2016 #2
Why are you applauding for a Rethug writer who worked for Reagan and Bush? n/t pnwmom Jan 2016 #14
I'm merely acknowledging the obvious Proserpina Jan 2016 #15
Bernie's campaign just asked his supporters to treat Hillary with respect, pnwmom Jan 2016 #17
Truth is not hate. I'm really sorry if you can't handle truth with dignity and grace, Proserpina Jan 2016 #19
The article is full of mudslinging and lies. n/t pnwmom Jan 2016 #22
We will know in 6 weeks or so Proserpina Jan 2016 #23
The election won't prove anything about this article. It's full of Rethug mudslinging, pnwmom Jan 2016 #24
I personally wouldn't waste my breath. Ironically they think this kind of garbage helps their still_one Jan 2016 #47
A more effective argumentation technique would be to point out and refute the lies Fumesucker Jan 2016 #35
why don't we just cut out the middleman bigtree Jan 2016 #36
Along with Stormfront too, yes? Fumesucker Jan 2016 #51
Please stop making up stuff about Senator Sanders. You're embarrassing yourself. merrily Jan 2016 #27
This writer who was mentored by Lee Atwater. Really pathetic still_one Jan 2016 #37
not just mentored, he was Lee Atwater's senior deputy bigtree Jan 2016 #39
Yup, as bad as it gets still_one Jan 2016 #41
HILLARYOUS! CorporatistNation Jan 2016 #34
isn't that Bush's crony? bigtree Jan 2016 #3
The one and the same. riversedge Jan 2016 #5
the post is highlighted on the front page bigtree Jan 2016 #6
And this happens immediately after Sanders' spokesperson asks supporters pnwmom Jan 2016 #11
it's their raison d'être bigtree Jan 2016 #12
Truth hurts, sometimes. And sometimes, even the GOP has a portion of the truth Proserpina Jan 2016 #16
It's just Rethug PR, eagerly lapped up by some Bernie supporters. n/t pnwmom Jan 2016 #18
did you know Rogers was the senior deputy to the master of wedge politics, Lee Atwater? bigtree Jan 2016 #38
reality bigtree Jan 2016 #20
It takes an amazing amount of willful blindness to insist that this man's observations Proserpina Jan 2016 #21
it takes even more gall to bring this right-wing tripe here bigtree Jan 2016 #25
Seems you can't resist trying to make Sanders your assistant poster. merrily Jan 2016 #28
I wish I could say I was surprised at yet another right-wing source posted in order to bash HRC. DanTex Jan 2016 #4
Why not? We get a lot of right wing spin against Sanders...From Democrats Armstead Jan 2016 #42
Ed Rogers is a prominent RETHUG. Why not post Trump's opinion of Hillary's pnwmom Jan 2016 #7
I love the way supporters are still reccing the tripe bigtree Jan 2016 #8
Not one of them is smart enough to read to the bottom of the article pnwmom Jan 2016 #9
the content should have clued them in bigtree Jan 2016 #10
Lol! zappaman Jan 2016 #13
But its ok when right wing commentators trash Bernie Sanders you are the first to congradulate them INdemo Jan 2016 #26
She should have hired a saltpoint Jan 2016 #29
One of the mental blocks on this website is black/white thinking Proserpina Jan 2016 #30
Black and white thinkers are always fighting the previous battle. FlatBaroque Jan 2016 #50
Ed Rogers. LOL... SidDithers Jan 2016 #31
Why do posters attribute an editorial to the paper it's written in and not the person who wrote it? DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2016 #32
The WaPo paid for it, did they not? Proserpina Jan 2016 #33
It is the opinion of Ed Rogers and not the Washington Post. DemocratSinceBirth Jan 2016 #40
The entire group protesting this op-ed catnhatnh Jan 2016 #44
Oh my. Ed Rogers In_The_Wind Jan 2016 #45
Washington Post is busy attacking our candidates--HRC "sinking" and Bernie's plans full of fiction" book_worm Jan 2016 #48
Lordy... one_voice Jan 2016 #49
I doubt it. She wins Iowa and for me, she's probably won the nomination LittleBlue Jan 2016 #52
Lies and propaganda workinclasszero Jan 2016 #53
For the life of me, I can't see what's untrue about this summation... libdem4life Jan 2016 #54
Obamacare is a "calamity" according to the same Republican source saynotoplutocrats Jan 2016 #55
The fact that you tried to piggy-back on WP's reputation, and disguise the fact that DanTex Jan 2016 #56
Note that I made NO COMMENTS pro or con about this article Lorien Jan 2016 #57
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