Hilary Rosen banked millions destroying Napster, was crisis management consultant to BP

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Yes, yes...I know the source on these is The Daily Caller, and that's going to piss some people off, but the reason I'm posting is that Chris Hayes just mentioned both of them on his MSNBC show...so you can consider him to be the source, if you'd like.



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Prior to her recent assault on Ann Romney, Hilary Rosen led the war on Napster in 2002, The Daily Caller has learned.

Publicly available tax documents from 2002, obtained by TheDC, reveal that Rosen received a total compensation package of $2.8 million during her final year as CEO and President of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Rosen earned a salary of $2.65 million dollars for 40 hours of work per week to head the Washington lobby group. In addition, she received $141,512 in contributions to her benefits package from the RIAA that year as well.

Rosen led the Washington lobby group when it sued music file-sharing service Napster in 1999 – 2001 for its facilitation of music copyright infringement. She left the RIAA in 2003.

http://news.yahoo.com/hilary-rosen-banked-millions-destroying-napster-132401930.html

BP, the British oil and gas company, is among the companies with ties to Democratic operative Hilary Rosen, who came under fire this week for comments about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s wife.

As head of the Brunswick Group, Rosen served in 2010 as a crisis management consultant to BP in the aftermath of the Gulf Oil spill.

http://dailycaller.com/2012/04/13/embattled-democratic-consultant-hilary-rosen-has-ties-to-bp/

[dballance]

1. Yep, So she destroyed an illegal music pirating organization? How's that wrong or relevant?

I fail to see how this has any relevance to the Ann Romney issue.

So Ms. Rosen worked for the RIAA, an organization I loathe, and she went after Napster, an organization freely and illegally distributing people's copyrighted works. Explain to me the part where I'm supposed to be outraged or upset.

As for the BP consulting I find it distasteful. But I'm still trying to figure out how that is relevant to the Ann Romney issue.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. +1

Exactly what I was thinking. O.k., so she's no progressive's "best friend" but just because she's gotten herself ensnared in this Faux melodrama regarding Ann Romney doesn't suddenly mean that it should be "open season" on her. We support what she said- however inartfully worded- about Ann Romney, don't we? Or at least, why do we need to "pile on" and add more fuel to the fire and get everybody attacking her? The right-wing media and now the Catholic League is after her. Why she does she need progressives going after her too? I understand why the Obama campaign felt like they had to distance themselves (politically) from her remarks- because it seemed a little too personal- but what Rosen said was technically accurate. I think the whole controversy is overblown. If the Romney campaign is going to put her out there as a surrogate and as somebody they claim is "representative" of most women in this country, there's nothing wrong IMHO with somebody pointing out the ways in which she is not, in fact, representative of most women, which is what Rosen was trying to do but it backfired because she didn't word it right the first time and it got twisted into an attack on stay-at-home moms, which always fires up the right.

[dballance]

11. I certainly support what Ms. Rosen said - Controversy is about GOP War on Women deflection.

The whole thing is a trumped up issue the GOP is using to try to deflect the "War on Women" issue they have.

[Raine]

13. Agree nt

[bluestate10]

2. Napster was stealing. It was started by a douchebag as shown in the Zuckerberg movie accounts.

May Napster rest in hell. Rosen gets my cheers for destroying Napster. High profile lawyers represent many companies, nothing new here.

[stlsaxman]

12. +1!

[JHB]

3. "assault on Ann Romney"?

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One mildly-pointed comment is an assault?

[baldguy]

4. Republicans are notoriously thin-skinned.

[Scuba]

5. No, no, no. She's an Obama spokesperson. A winger told me just yesterday.

[Robb]

7. You've convinced me. Romney 2012!

Do I need a sarcasm smilie?






... Probably.

[jenniferl1]

8. A weasel triumvirate

Hilary Rosen was also in charge of the Suze Orman prepaid debit scam that attempted to ruin the economy, plunder the poor, and move people out of the banking system and onto their little purple card to go into their multi-millionaire pockets, using Tavis Smiley, who has publicly trashed President Obama. http://www.amodernquest.com/suzeorman.html

[ellisonz]

9. You can tell in the smile...

...hidden guilt.

[saras]

10. Fighting the sharing of knowledge is like fighting the wheel. BIG-time loss for short-term profits

RIAA. BP.

Regardless of party affiliation, this person is my political enemy, not an ally in any significant way.

Which is why she stooped so low that she actually has to apologize in public to Ann Romney.

Now THERE'S a bit of political theater that will do the Democrats a hell of a lot of good in the coming election. Thanks for doing your little stunts again. It's curious that one of the common remarks I see in discussions is "She is a PR professional. She should know better." It sort of makes me think that she is a PR professional that knows what she's doing.