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September 21, 2009 10:38 PM UTC

DSCC hires DC firm for Romanoff hit piece? Enquiring minds...

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  • by: wade norris

(originally posted as “A Perfectly Awful story on Romanoff vs Bennet)

Malcolm Glenn just put up an article on Huffington Post that shows a real double standard on Obama’s endorsement for Michael Bennet. It is replete with gems like this one:

But what’s there to love on the left from Romanoff? Idealists make up the base in Denver’s Democratic political circles, but is a career politician really the man the state’s progressives think can be their biggest champion?

I don’t know where to begin, except to say, as I have journeyed around the state to rural Colorado – it has been apparent that Andrew Romanoff’s support does not reside alone in “Denver’s Democratic circles”. Saying that AR owes his strength to idealists in Denver shows a lack of understanding about the Democratic Party of Colorado.

(the rant continues)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

It is a fact that 62 of the 64 county chairs indicated they preferred Romanoff for the Senate appointment. That in itself should show a statewide level of support, outside of my encounters with rural Colorado democrats.

Furthermore, if you are looking to stop the tide of “career politicians” from blocking real “change” from happening in Washington, then why don’t you join the Progressives in Pennsylvania who are supporting Joe Sestak – over Arlen Specter – a true ‘career politician’ who only switched parties after his handlers showed him his polling numbers, and then after he switched kept voting republican until labor started backing Sestak – then he ‘saw the light’ and changed his stance on the PO and EFCA.

Oh, maybe it’s because Obama supports Arlen Specter?

And this:

Isn’t there something to be said about a diversity of experience — the experience of someone who has lived abroad, who showed creative acumen and early leadership by leading his law journal at one of the world’s most prestigious universities? A man who was deeply involved the micro decision-making process in the same small, urban communities that need the most attention when he gets to Washington?

I could just as well be describing President Obama, whose strikingly similar background was a prime talking point for progressives who caucused for him by a two-to-one margin over Hillary Clinton last year.

I know you did not just compare a never elected appointee to Barack Obama – who himself was told to sit down and get out of the way of President Hillary’s inevitabilty?

And Obama served 6 years in the Illinois state senate before becoming a Senator and then President.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I…

Bennet worked for Anschutz and was appointed to DPS.

Romanoff served 8 years in the State House and is now running for Senate.

Which story has more in common with Barack Obama.

finally this

So, considering 40 years of a GOP stranglehold on Colorado presidential picks, things are going well for the state’s Democrats.

FACT: Clinton won this state in 1992.

I am glad to read that we are getting local opinion out there on Huffington Post Denver – too bad it is opinion that leaves a lot to be desired.

hattip to Tyler C. for showing me this on Facebook

Update: courtesy of David Sirota

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

What Glenn does not disclose in his own Huffington Post biography or in his post – and what he should disclose – is that (according to his own LinkedIn profile) he works for a Washington, D.C. polling firm called Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner. As Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner’s website notes (and as anyone in DC Democratic politics knows), one of the firm’s big clients is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – a fundraising operation that has endorsed Bennet and is raising money for him. Put another way, Glenn is employed by a company with a financial interest in Bennet’s campaign.

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      2. What Glenn does not disclose in his own Huffington Post biography or in his post – and what he should disclose – is that (according to his own LinkedIn profile) he works for a Washington, D.C. polling firm called Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner. As Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner’s website notes (and as anyone in DC Democratic politics knows), one of the firm’s big clients is the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee – a fundraising operation that has endorsed Bennet and is raising money for him. Put another way, Glenn is employed by a company with a financial interest in Bennet’s campaign.

        Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/…

        Hey Malcolm,

        thanks for helping the Romanoff campaign!!!!

  2. Even though Malcom is obviously a Denver native and has just as much right as anyone to support his senator, there should have been disclosure on this.

    Of course, leave it to Wade to take it a bridge too far. GQR is a massive firm with a ridiculous number of clients. So to put up a title like, “DSCC hires DC firm for Romanoff hit piece!” with no evidence reflects both ignorance and little respect for the truth that actually blunts the impact of Sirota’s judo chop.

  3. that they always get found out eventually. Joe Trippi just got busted for doing it at Daily Kos (and it’s not the first time he’s been nailed for it, either, which only makes his latest “blunder” even more grievous.)

    Look, my fellow readers, if you are getting a paycheck from a campaign or working for a 527 or a PAC that is supporting a candidate that you are writing about, just disclose it. It will do wonders for your credibility.  

    1. i don’t work for any campaign or 527.

      btw TB – i agree that it is a leap to say just because Glenn works for the company that the DSCC hires for campaigns means that they intended and hired Glenn for the article.

      so i put a question mark in the title.

      but it still doesn’t look good.

      1. Because you just claimed that very thing to EmRosa in another thread less than 20 minutes ago. Feel free to just admit you sort of fucked up here and jumped the gun with your accusations. Talk about getting carried away. You are trying to get Romanoff elected, right? You’re not secretly trying to sabotage and tank his primary campaign, are you? Because with friends like you, who needs friends, Wade?

        1. was too much a stretch to prove that.

          and admitting a mistake is what? bad?

          I like how you are piling on that error, instead of the focus of the story which is Glenns’ lack of disclosure and yes, possible sockpuppetry.

          So why don’t you want to engage in that debate?

          oh… right.

          Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

          1. I’m asking you to calm down and stop doing more harm than good to your candidate. He deserves better than that and frankly he deserves a better supporter who acts like a grownup once in awhile because if this is what you call “admitting a mistake”

            yes i stated that it was too much a stretch to prove that

            then you have a long way to go before you learn what personal responsibility means.  

          2. Who is he supposed to be a sock puppet of, Wade? That kind of accusation, without proof, gets you banned at Daily Kos these days. You willing to make that dumbass statement over there, too?

            1. we have had our disagreements, but you can’t tell me you don’t think it is not possible that this guy is in the tank for Bennet because of where he works?

              the proof has been listed – he is working for a firm whose job is to work for the DSCC – you think he would have disclosed that?

              1. I bet you were quite the slacker in high school, weren’t ya, Wade? 🙂

                A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception within an online community. In its earliest usage, a sockpuppet was a false identity through which a member of an Internet community speaks with or about himself or herself, pretending to be a different person,[1] like a ventriloquist manipulating a hand puppet.

                In current usage, the perception of the term has been extended beyond second identities of people who already post in a forum to include other uses of misleading online identities. For example, a NY Times article claims that “sock-puppeting” is defined as “the act of creating a fake online identity to praise, defend or create the illusion of support for one’s self, allies or company.”[2]

                Since the guy used his real name as well as a goddamn photo of himself, he could hardly be accused of sockpuppetry, now could he?

                A flat out apology for yet another false accusation would be appropriate right about now, Wade.

          3. MotR has no obligation to re-focus on your “message” when you can’t even keep it straight. Don’t blame MotR for your incompetence.

            And there is no “debate.” Unlike the shabby opportunism you’ve demonstrated here and elsewhere, MotR and I both are not denying there’s a perception problem here–just the opposite. So what’s to debate?  

        1. the story morphed as time went on?

          a poster on facebook listed the Glenn article around noon – so i wrote the story on how ridiculous the article was…

          then i got an email to do background on the firm

          and then got another email on Sirota’s story.

          i do admit an error in stating the ‘stretch’ on the story, and I would appreciate it if you actually were commenting on the arguments of this diary, rather than just attacking me… but to quote someone from another diary who schooled me on the merits of sticking to a diary topic –

          By the way, since you obviously don’t want to discuss the topic of this diary, maybe you could stop hijacking the thread.

          twas brillig @ Mon Sep 21, 2009 at 15:27:25 PM MDT

          1. But here you screwed up and got called out for it. It has nothing to do with the “story” “morphing” “over time.”

            And if the HEADLINE of this post is not worthy of discussion in this thread, according to you, then it says more about your shitty headline writing than it does about thread hijacking. What whiner.  

              2. that sounds worked out, out of sorts and kind of pissy like a twelve year old about to throw a tantrum…is you. As to commenting to the original point of the diary, I already did so in my first comment. How many more times would you like me to reiterate my thoughts?

                  1. It’s easy to get impassioned about this stuff. No harm done.

                    Maybe just redo the title altogether to something like “Author of Huffington Post Piece Fails to Disclose Relationship with DSCC,” or something like that?  

  4. I want to throw you a bone here, and concentrate on the “arguments” in the diary, since concentrating on the distortive title to your post is now out of bounds.  

    Well, I read it again.

    I hate to break it to you, Wade, but your diary sucks.  

  5. I’ve been trying to respond to your comment on HP.  Ever since I started asking Malcolm Glenn some of the questions that you and Sirota have been asking Mr. G — like you call Romanoff a ‘career pol’? HP has been deleting my comments.  Both to you and Sirota.

    The cognitive dissonance of Mr. G’s blog was disturbing.

    I expected they’d cut the comment in which I said Mr. G was a poseur and not up to minimum journalism standards.

    Like I said in one of my deleted comments to you, I’ll be following this race on coloradopols.com, not on HP.

    So thanks for your piece on both sites, and the URL referral to Sirota’s piece on HP.

    Mrs. Peel

  6. I tried four times to become your fan on HP, and I was blocked all four times.  This has never happened before. Meanwhile, they have two pending of my comments to you in quarantine.  Odd, all this. HP doesn’t allow ‘promotion’ of one’s own blogs, so don’t be surprised if they kick you.

    IMO, I don’t think Mr. Glenn has enough journalistic integrity to be Sirota’s alternative on HP.

      1. Did you read Mr. G’s new defensive blog in response to DS this morning?  Check it out.

        Your comment was allowed to stand.  My additional two were cut.

        HP still won’t let me sign up as a fan of yours. The immoderate moderation doesn’t surprise me, but blocking someone from being your fan?  Lordy.

        But the important point is the lengthy response to DS’ piece this morning.  Didn’t read it enough in depth to see if there was any reference, however oblique, to you.

        MP

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