Progressive ideas have been getting a metric fck ton of increased media coverage due in a large part to the efforts of PCCC, DFA, and Dkos to get the word out on the courageous work of Senator Elizabeth Warren.
Swiftboating Warren Finally Here?
Meteor Blades has a story on the FP just now about a Politico industry hit piece on EW.
Democracy for Americais also critical of the Politico smear:
Matthew Yglesias called the Politico story "baffling and nonsensical":
She worked to help the government try to beat back an ISDS claim, and now she wants to make new ISDS claims impossible. It's the very model of consistency.
He's right. In fact, that story shows that Elizabeth Warren knows what she's talking about when she criticizes ISDS. She has defended our democracy against it for years. Now she's taking the lead in the fight against the big corporations whose lobbyists wrote the TPP. That has made a lot of people angry at her, and now they want to undermine her.
We knew this crap was coming. That's how the Kochist press rolls, and worse, the way
dark money we never get a full accounting of does as well.
But DFA fundraising email this morning says there's an even more distasteful fail article on her husband.
Democracy for America email
https://secure.actblue.com/...
The second story is even more disgusting. It's a personal attack on Warren and her husband involving her home equity line of credit. This too is a ridiculous story, as Senator Warren has followed all the rules properly and correctly in how she handled reporting this part of her personal finances.
What's even more disturbing is that someone had to research obscure property records to find this out. Someone is being paid to dig up dirt on Elizabeth Warren and feed it to the press.
I shouldn't be surprised. When you take on the rich and the powerful, they tend to fight back -- especially when you're as effective as Elizabeth Warren. The establishment likes to use unfair attacks like this. They've done it to Howard Dean, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton. Do you remember John Kerry and the "swiftboat" story?
Now, in the middle of the TPP battle, they're coming after Elizabeth Warren with smears and personal attacks. The stakes couldn't be higher.
Stop the swiftboating of Elizabeth Warren: Stand with her against the TPP.
Was disappointed that DFA did not include the link for the second article but did find Boston rag doing just as they described:
http://www.bostonherald.com/... . Its been gleefully passed around by numerous blogs and what not.
Warning: if you read the comment section on the Boston Herald, you may require some brain bleach or at the least a beer to wash the disgusting taste out of your mouth. But, sadly, you will also see the Kochpuppet comments that are swiftboating at its finest (fckest).
Elizabeth Warren Walks the Talk for Progressives, Deserves Of Support
Recently Hillary Clinton came out in support of Elizabeth Warren's work in a major way.
http://www.cnn.com/...
CNN)Hillary Clinton used Times Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list to pay tribute to Elizabeth Warren, a lawmaker some liberals hope will challenge the former secretary of state for the 2016 Democratic nomination.
In the short piece, Clinton touts Warren as a champion for the middle class and nods to the duos interesting relationship when she writes that Warren "never hesitates to hold powerful people's feet to the fire: bankers, lobbyists, senior government officials and, yes, even presidential aspirants."
"Elizabeth Warren's journey from janitor's daughter to Harvard professor to public watchdog to U.S. Senator has been driven by an unflagging determination to level the playing field for hardworking American families like the one she grew up with in Oklahoma," Clinton writes. "She fights so hard for others to share in the American Dream because she lived it herself."
Was glad to get the heads up on this from Democracy from America and support their work for progressives like Elizabeth Warren.
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