oujiQualm
12th April 2008, 19:34
This article is kind of obvious to folks here, but it is good to spread around on other "mainstream" sites. By spending not spreading things onto the big newspaper sites, this allows the corporate vermin to dominate the Public Sphere.
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FROM
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/penn-a12.shtml
Penn played a major role in the transformation of Clinton from near-certain nominee six months ago to an increasingly desperate and visibly demoralized candidate, hoping for a miraculous implosion of the new frontrunner, Senator Barack Obama. He was reportedly a strong advocate of Clinton’s positioning herself on the right of the Democratic field, particularly on the issue of the war in Iraq, and adopting the pose of presumptive nominee.
Forced by the dynamic of the campaign—her two main rivals, Obama and John Edwards, initially made a more overt appeal to social and economic discontent—as well as by the eruption of the US financial crisis, Clinton has been compelled to strike a more populist pose in the course of the primaries.
As a result, on one occasion after another, she has demagogically attacked US corporations and industries that are well-paying clients of her top campaign strategist. The list of companies that have consulted with or hired Penn and Burson Marsteller is a rogues’ gallery of corporate America:
* Blackwater Worldwide, the mercenary contractor that has killed hundreds of Iraqis in the course of its work supplying bodyguards for State Department and other US officials.
* Countrywide Financial, the largest US mortgage lender, which became notorious for awarding eight-figure pay packages to CEO Angelo Mozilo while pushing tens of thousands of subprime borrowers into foreclosure.
* TXU Corp., a giant Texas firm seeking to build power plants burning pulverized coal, while Clinton publicly advocates reduction of greenhouse gases.
* Cintas Corp., a uniform rental company that Penn advised on how to smash a union-organizing drive, while Clinton was collecting the lion’s share of union endorsements.
* The giant drug companies Merck and Pfizer.
* The biggest US tobacco firm, Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris).
* The US Tuna Foundation, which has sought to combat warnings about mercury levels in fish.
* Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s second largest oil company, whose US chief, John Hofmeister, met with Penn in Houston.
Penn is not some corporate gunslinger who was hired by the Clintons for his advertising and polling expertise. He is a longtime political operative who has parlayed his close ties with leading figures in the Democratic Party into a lucrative corporate career.
Penn and his partner Douglas Schoen founded their polling firm in 1977 while working for the election of Edward Koch as mayor of New York. They plunged into Israeli politics as well, working for the reelection campaign of Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1981, where they utilized the Israeli air strike on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq as political propaganda.
Closely associated with the right-wing Democratic Leadership Council, Penn worked on several campaigns for Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Penn managed his disastrous 2004 presidential campaign as well as his Senate reelection campaign in 2006, when Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination to an antiwar candidate but retained his seat by running as an “Independent Democrat” with tacit Republican support.
Penn’s ties to the Clintons go back to the 1996 reelection campaign, when he worked with political adviser Dick Morris to carry out the strategy known as “triangulation,” adopting positions that would conciliate with the Republican right wing, then in control of Congress. He later worked for Hillary Clinton’s US Senate campaign in 2000.
Throughout this period, his polling and marketing business attracted corporate customers as well. In 2001, the world’s second-largest advertising company, WPP Group PLC, bought the Penn Schoen firm. Penn became CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a US subsidiary of WPP Group, in December 2005. He insisted on keeping this corporate role when he signed on as principal strategist of Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
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Operation Mockingbird Spartacus:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
Operation Mockingbird Education Forum
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5142FROM
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/penn-a12.shtml
Penn played a major role in the transformation of Clinton from near-certain nominee six months ago to an increasingly desperate and visibly demoralized candidate, hoping for a miraculous implosion of the new frontrunner, Senator Barack Obama. He was reportedly a strong advocate of Clinton’s positioning herself on the right of the Democratic field, particularly on the issue of the war in Iraq, and adopting the pose of presumptive nominee.
Forced by the dynamic of the campaign—her two main rivals, Obama and John Edwards, initially made a more overt appeal to social and economic discontent—as well as by the eruption of the US financial crisis, Clinton has been compelled to strike a more populist pose in the course of the primaries.
As a result, on one occasion after another, she has demagogically attacked US corporations and industries that are well-paying clients of her top campaign strategist. The list of companies that have consulted with or hired Penn and Burson Marsteller is a rogues’ gallery of corporate America:
* Blackwater Worldwide, the mercenary contractor that has killed hundreds of Iraqis in the course of its work supplying bodyguards for State Department and other US officials.
* Countrywide Financial, the largest US mortgage lender, which became notorious for awarding eight-figure pay packages to CEO Angelo Mozilo while pushing tens of thousands of subprime borrowers into foreclosure.
* TXU Corp., a giant Texas firm seeking to build power plants burning pulverized coal, while Clinton publicly advocates reduction of greenhouse gases.
* Cintas Corp., a uniform rental company that Penn advised on how to smash a union-organizing drive, while Clinton was collecting the lion’s share of union endorsements.
* The giant drug companies Merck and Pfizer.
* The biggest US tobacco firm, Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris).
* The US Tuna Foundation, which has sought to combat warnings about mercury levels in fish.
* Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s second largest oil company, whose US chief, John Hofmeister, met with Penn in Houston.
Penn is not some corporate gunslinger who was hired by the Clintons for his advertising and polling expertise. He is a longtime political operative who has parlayed his close ties with leading figures in the Democratic Party into a lucrative corporate career.
Penn and his partner Douglas Schoen founded their polling firm in 1977 while working for the election of Edward Koch as mayor of New York. They plunged into Israeli politics as well, working for the reelection campaign of Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1981, where they utilized the Israeli air strike on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq as political propaganda.
Closely associated with the right-wing Democratic Leadership Council, Penn worked on several campaigns for Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Penn managed his disastrous 2004 presidential campaign as well as his Senate reelection campaign in 2006, when Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination to an antiwar candidate but retained his seat by running as an “Independent Democrat” with tacit Republican support.
Penn’s ties to the Clintons go back to the 1996 reelection campaign, when he worked with political adviser Dick Morris to carry out the strategy known as “triangulation,” adopting positions that would conciliate with the Republican right wing, then in control of Congress. He later worked for Hillary Clinton’s US Senate campaign in 2000.
Throughout this period, his polling and marketing business attracted corporate customers as well. In 2001, the world’s second-largest advertising company, WPP Group PLC, bought the Penn Schoen firm. Penn became CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a US subsidiary of WPP Group, in December 2005. He insisted on keeping this corporate role when he signed on as principal strategist of Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
_________________
Operation Mockingbird Spartacus:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
Operation Mockingbird Education Forum
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5142
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FROM
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/penn-a12.shtml
Penn played a major role in the transformation of Clinton from near-certain nominee six months ago to an increasingly desperate and visibly demoralized candidate, hoping for a miraculous implosion of the new frontrunner, Senator Barack Obama. He was reportedly a strong advocate of Clinton’s positioning herself on the right of the Democratic field, particularly on the issue of the war in Iraq, and adopting the pose of presumptive nominee.
Forced by the dynamic of the campaign—her two main rivals, Obama and John Edwards, initially made a more overt appeal to social and economic discontent—as well as by the eruption of the US financial crisis, Clinton has been compelled to strike a more populist pose in the course of the primaries.
As a result, on one occasion after another, she has demagogically attacked US corporations and industries that are well-paying clients of her top campaign strategist. The list of companies that have consulted with or hired Penn and Burson Marsteller is a rogues’ gallery of corporate America:
* Blackwater Worldwide, the mercenary contractor that has killed hundreds of Iraqis in the course of its work supplying bodyguards for State Department and other US officials.
* Countrywide Financial, the largest US mortgage lender, which became notorious for awarding eight-figure pay packages to CEO Angelo Mozilo while pushing tens of thousands of subprime borrowers into foreclosure.
* TXU Corp., a giant Texas firm seeking to build power plants burning pulverized coal, while Clinton publicly advocates reduction of greenhouse gases.
* Cintas Corp., a uniform rental company that Penn advised on how to smash a union-organizing drive, while Clinton was collecting the lion’s share of union endorsements.
* The giant drug companies Merck and Pfizer.
* The biggest US tobacco firm, Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris).
* The US Tuna Foundation, which has sought to combat warnings about mercury levels in fish.
* Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s second largest oil company, whose US chief, John Hofmeister, met with Penn in Houston.
Penn is not some corporate gunslinger who was hired by the Clintons for his advertising and polling expertise. He is a longtime political operative who has parlayed his close ties with leading figures in the Democratic Party into a lucrative corporate career.
Penn and his partner Douglas Schoen founded their polling firm in 1977 while working for the election of Edward Koch as mayor of New York. They plunged into Israeli politics as well, working for the reelection campaign of Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1981, where they utilized the Israeli air strike on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq as political propaganda.
Closely associated with the right-wing Democratic Leadership Council, Penn worked on several campaigns for Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Penn managed his disastrous 2004 presidential campaign as well as his Senate reelection campaign in 2006, when Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination to an antiwar candidate but retained his seat by running as an “Independent Democrat” with tacit Republican support.
Penn’s ties to the Clintons go back to the 1996 reelection campaign, when he worked with political adviser Dick Morris to carry out the strategy known as “triangulation,” adopting positions that would conciliate with the Republican right wing, then in control of Congress. He later worked for Hillary Clinton’s US Senate campaign in 2000.
Throughout this period, his polling and marketing business attracted corporate customers as well. In 2001, the world’s second-largest advertising company, WPP Group PLC, bought the Penn Schoen firm. Penn became CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a US subsidiary of WPP Group, in December 2005. He insisted on keeping this corporate role when he signed on as principal strategist of Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
_________________
Operation Mockingbird Spartacus:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
Operation Mockingbird Education Forum
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5142FROM
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/apr2008/penn-a12.shtml
Penn played a major role in the transformation of Clinton from near-certain nominee six months ago to an increasingly desperate and visibly demoralized candidate, hoping for a miraculous implosion of the new frontrunner, Senator Barack Obama. He was reportedly a strong advocate of Clinton’s positioning herself on the right of the Democratic field, particularly on the issue of the war in Iraq, and adopting the pose of presumptive nominee.
Forced by the dynamic of the campaign—her two main rivals, Obama and John Edwards, initially made a more overt appeal to social and economic discontent—as well as by the eruption of the US financial crisis, Clinton has been compelled to strike a more populist pose in the course of the primaries.
As a result, on one occasion after another, she has demagogically attacked US corporations and industries that are well-paying clients of her top campaign strategist. The list of companies that have consulted with or hired Penn and Burson Marsteller is a rogues’ gallery of corporate America:
* Blackwater Worldwide, the mercenary contractor that has killed hundreds of Iraqis in the course of its work supplying bodyguards for State Department and other US officials.
* Countrywide Financial, the largest US mortgage lender, which became notorious for awarding eight-figure pay packages to CEO Angelo Mozilo while pushing tens of thousands of subprime borrowers into foreclosure.
* TXU Corp., a giant Texas firm seeking to build power plants burning pulverized coal, while Clinton publicly advocates reduction of greenhouse gases.
* Cintas Corp., a uniform rental company that Penn advised on how to smash a union-organizing drive, while Clinton was collecting the lion’s share of union endorsements.
* The giant drug companies Merck and Pfizer.
* The biggest US tobacco firm, Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris).
* The US Tuna Foundation, which has sought to combat warnings about mercury levels in fish.
* Royal Dutch Shell, the world’s second largest oil company, whose US chief, John Hofmeister, met with Penn in Houston.
Penn is not some corporate gunslinger who was hired by the Clintons for his advertising and polling expertise. He is a longtime political operative who has parlayed his close ties with leading figures in the Democratic Party into a lucrative corporate career.
Penn and his partner Douglas Schoen founded their polling firm in 1977 while working for the election of Edward Koch as mayor of New York. They plunged into Israeli politics as well, working for the reelection campaign of Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1981, where they utilized the Israeli air strike on the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq as political propaganda.
Closely associated with the right-wing Democratic Leadership Council, Penn worked on several campaigns for Senator Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut. Penn managed his disastrous 2004 presidential campaign as well as his Senate reelection campaign in 2006, when Lieberman lost the Democratic nomination to an antiwar candidate but retained his seat by running as an “Independent Democrat” with tacit Republican support.
Penn’s ties to the Clintons go back to the 1996 reelection campaign, when he worked with political adviser Dick Morris to carry out the strategy known as “triangulation,” adopting positions that would conciliate with the Republican right wing, then in control of Congress. He later worked for Hillary Clinton’s US Senate campaign in 2000.
Throughout this period, his polling and marketing business attracted corporate customers as well. In 2001, the world’s second-largest advertising company, WPP Group PLC, bought the Penn Schoen firm. Penn became CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a US subsidiary of WPP Group, in December 2005. He insisted on keeping this corporate role when he signed on as principal strategist of Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
_________________
Operation Mockingbird Spartacus:
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKmockingbird.htm
Operation Mockingbird Education Forum
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=5142