Clinton's chief strategist now working for Chinese date rape toy manufacturer

[geek tragedy]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/11/hillary-and-aqu.html

Oh dear.

[jefferson_dem]

1. Sickening.

Can we please be done with the Bushes and the Clintons and their corrupt cronies?

“It is not enough just to change parties in the White House if we have the same kind of politics...”

[MethuenProgressive]

4. Obama's from Illinois. There are Nazis in Illinois. Obama and Nazis are from the same place!!

For the record, Obama has never denied this connection to Nazis.
Why has he been silent on this issue??














:sarcasm:

[jefferson_dem]

8. Idiotic. Penn is the worlwide CEO. Do you care? I guess it's ok if you can laugh it off...

and deflect from any potential damage to Hillary, the ends justifies the means.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Penn

[sandnsea]

18. Big Red Flags

all over the place. It's like watching a woman walk right into an abusive relationship and knowing there isn't a damn thing you can do to stop it.

[redqueen]

29. Yeah, except in this case...

we all have to live with the abuse.

[blm]

30. Penn works to promote FASCISM and has for decades. Clintons shouldn't pretend

otherwis.

But...But, if they stopped pretending then how would they do their job and bring the Democratic faithful along with the fascist agenda as Bushes have done over the years with their faithful Republican flocks?

[MethuenProgressive]

2. Yeah, but did he leave a tip?

What a waste of bandwidth the OP is...

[Lucinda]

3. "...Mark has never had any contact with this client...."

"A Burson official tells me that "Mark has never had any contact with this client. We have thousands of clients around the world and this is one of them."

[MethuenProgressive]

5. that was below the attack headline, the "usuals" never read that far down.

:shrug:

[Lucinda]

31. Yep. Tiny article.

Hard for anyone to actually miss it. How they choose to read it is a different matter entirely. :eyes:

[geek tragedy]

6. What does Mark Penn do then? n/t

[jefferson_dem]

7. He's the fucking worldwide Chief Executive!

Do you also excuse Chimpy and Cheney for the corruption, scandals, malfeasants, and generally decrepit behaviors of their underlings?

Clinton Pollster Takes Helm of Global Firm
By Judy Sarasohn

Thursday, December 8, 2005; Page A31

Mark Penn , pollster extraordinaire to President Bill Clinton, is crunching some new numbers. He has been named the new worldwide chief executive of Burson-Marsteller , a major global public relations company.

Penn is a founding partner of the opinion research firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates (PSB), which was acquired by WPP Group PLC , Burson's parent company, four years ago. Burson, which earns more than $200 million in revenue, announced yesterday that Penn succeeds Thomas R. Nides , who left to be Morgan Stanley's chief administrative officer.

Although Penn, 51, is best known in Washington for his political work, he and Howard Paster , WPP executive vice president for public relations, note that the vast bulk of Penn's work is corporate, for clients such as Microsoft, Verizon, BP and Ford.

But Penn said in an interview that he will continue to work for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), as well as do corporate work for other clients. PSB will be a division of Burson, and Penn will remain its president; partner Mike Berland becomes chief executive of PSB

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/07/AR2005120702326.html

[MethuenProgressive]

12. :boring:

There really should be a minus rec button.

[MADem]

19. I am undecided, but your LINKAGE is as pathetic as trying to link Obama to child molesters.

Here is how you hook them up.

Oprah Winfrey is an Obama supporter.

Oprah Winfrey started a school where young girls were sexually abused.

Ergo, Obama is a crony of someone who is associated with KNOWN child molesters!!

How DOES that shoe fit on that other foot---eh?????

I mean, really. PLEASE. This whole thread is just cheesy and disgraceful. It has NOTHING to do with the candidates or the issues, and when this kind of thing gets going, it reflects poorly on the judgment and comprehension skills of anyone who would think that someone who did POLLING for a candidate is somehow GUILTY of anything because they represent a firm that is affiliated with a product safety problem.

[MethuenProgressive]

27. "Obama is a crony of someone who is associated with KNOWN child molesters!!"

:wow:
It must be true! I read it on DU!!

[MADem]

32. Ain't it something?

And people actually get offended when ya wanna hoist the "Wooo woooo" flag.

It's idiotic when the wingnuts try to insist that nefarious conspiracy theories are somehow plausible, and it's idiotic when people who are supposedly on the same general team, even if they may have differences in their preferred primary candidates, try to attach insidious import to transparent business/political relationships.

The big difference here is, I wouldn't start a cretinous thread that said Obama linked to Known Child Molesters. And the reason I wouldn't do it is because it's bogus linkage, just as the linkage on this thread about Sen. Clinton is. It's also a pisspoor, shitty, drag-down-and-false way to treat a fellow Democrat.

I happen to think credibility is important. I guess that's not a universal trait, eh?

[wndycty]

9. I actually think that is unnecessary. . .

. . .trying to tar Hillary with this is BS.

[William769]

10. Tipgate didn't go anywhere, now this.

I guess if you shoot at something a thousand times, your bound to hit something. But then again some people just can't hit nothing no matter how hard they try.

[waiting for hope]

20. You do have to look at this -

But the truth here is Penn is not a PR firm when he is her strategist! who will follow her into the white house if God Forbid she wins!

That's something she will have to contend with.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

11. OMG I'm

FAUX outraged just like you.

[geek tragedy]

13. Did I express outrage? n/t

[jgraz]

14. K&R -- more Hillarite scrambling spin, please

:rofl:

[SIMPLYB1980]

21. And more hate form the hatters.

You spin so fast you spawn tornadoes.

[jgraz]

22. How DARE you call me a hatter! You fucking cobbler.

:P

[geek tragedy]

23. What a peach. n/t

[SIMPLYB1980]

26. Right back at ya! Fart Snaffler.

:freak:

[goodgd_yall]

15. Oh, geez, please stop the smearing n/t

[geek tragedy]

17. I thought I was piling on. n/t

[incapsulated]

16. You could do a daily update on Penn's firm

I think we all know they are like the guy from "Thank You For Smoking", lol.

Meh, if I could hire the Devil as my campaign strategist, I would in a heartbeat.

[gorekerrydreamticket]

24. Kind of a big stretch there, don't ya think? n/m

[MNDemNY]

25. What a fuckin bunch of shit.

[cuke]

28. Another day, another smear

means all is well in Hillaryland

[rinsd]

33. GT, credit where credit is due for making such an inflammatory subject line