Clinton warrior David Brock offers an apology - and his allegiance - to Bernie Sanders

[bananas]

Source: Washington Post

David Brock is sorry. The founder of Media Matters and a pair of pro-Clinton super PACs battled hard — really hard — against Sen. Bernie Sanders during the Democratic presidential primary. Now he wants to be Sanders's ally.

“I'm with you in the fight ahead,” Brock wrote Tuesday in an open letter to Sanders (I-Vt.), posted on Medium.

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Brock told me that he hopes to win over Sanders by advocating for causes they both care about, such as combating climate change and the influence of big money in politics.

“I don't expect anyone to accept one Medium post at face value, especially in a cynical town like Washington,” Brock said. “I'll earn the trust over time, as we work together to resist the Trump administration and to preserve and protect progressive accomplishments.”

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/10/clinton-warrior-david-brock-offers-an-apology-and-his-allegiance-to-bernie-sanders/

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FU, Brock.

[pangaia]

1. Bernie,, stay far, far away from this dude.. life.. REALLY. REALLY faaaar.

[mpcamb]

18. Rich-guy DNC types drove the bus over the cliff- Should we keep them at the wheel?

Hmmmmm
It's starting to seem to me that anyone with a pocket fulla money just doesn't get it and should be accorded the back of the bus- NOT the steering wheel.

[temporary311]

2. I wouldn't trust this guy

any farther than I could kick him.

[brooklynite]

7. I know him personally and I do trust him...

...his American Bridge SuperPAC digs deep for dirt to pile on Republicans.

[George II]

3. Might we see a similar apology from Jeff Weaver, Tad Devine, and Jane Sanders?

[Feeling the Bern]

11. For?

[tenorly]

4. Good for him.

Whatever our differences, we'll need to work together whenever and wherever we absolutely can. And if the offer comes from a brilliant political tactician like David Brock, all the better.

[Dreamer3]

5. Here is the link to his 4-page letter to Sen. Sanders

It is a letter intended to be in solidarity with Sen. Sanders.
"Dear Senator Sanders: I'm with you in the fight ahead"

https://medium.com/@DavidBrock/dear-senator-sanders-im-with-you-in-the-fight-ahead-ffd42ae989bb#.c7ycp73qk|

(You might need to copy and paste this one to get it to link you.)

[Still In Wisconsin]

6. Fuck you, sideways, Brock.

I got behind HRC for the general, canvassed, donated, etc... but Bernie was right when he called Brock scum of the earth.

[zentrum]

8. Brock

...has made a career of multiple episodes of "seeing the light".

He moves to where he sees the power shift moving.

But I'm sure Bernie will know how to handle this framer of Anita Hill. Uggh.

[demmiblue]

9. What you said. n/t

[Feeling the Bern]

10. This fucker is, was, and always will be, a flag. The wind blew Republican so he wrote a hit piece

on Anita Hill. The wind blew to the Democrats, so he writes "Blinded By the Right." The wind blows HRC, so he attacks anyone who stands in her way. The wind blows towards Bernie, so now he swings that way.

Fuck this guy. We don't need or want him over here in Bernie-land

[PassingFair]

21. It's heartening to know which way the wind is blowing though...

so there's that!

[QC]

12. As my dad used to say, "He's anybody's dog that'll hunt with him."

I wouldn't turn my back on him for a second.

[Raine]

13. Just go away Brock!

[LovingA2andMI]

14. FU in the Front and Sideways...

Brock. We don't want S**T to do with you -- as in Bernie Supporters or hopefully Bernie Sanders himself.

[melman]

15. This shithead kicked off the impeachment saga

Lest we forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Brock#Troopergate


I could never understand why the Clintons would have anything to do with him.

[aikoaiko]

16. David Brock is the worst kind of establishment political player.

FU, David Brock, and your minions, too.

[SecularMotion]

17. I don't trust anyone who hates on David Brock

He started as a right wing operative against the Clintons. He then saw the error of his ways, wrote a book on it titled "Blinded By The Right", then wrote another book that exposed the entire right wing propaganda operation titled "The Republican Noise Machine." He also created Media Matters which has been a valuable source for exposing the lies and half-truths spread by Fox News and the NRA.

The positive work David Brock has done for Democrats and the left far outweighs any damage caused by his work at American Spectator.

[NWCorona]

19. Brock destroyed Anita Hill and probably caused quite a few women not to come

Forward with sexual abuse complaints in the workplace.

Brock gets no love.

[SecularMotion]

20. Quite the contrary

Hill’s accusations that then Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas sexually harassed her when she worked as his aide cost her greatly. She came away from testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee humiliated, her reputation in tatters, while Thomas was confirmed. But her testimony before the all-male committee galvanized millions of women across America.

One of them was a state lawmaker in Washington who found that Hill’s humiliation was all that women wanted to talk about at an event that evening.

“It was so stark, watching these men grill this woman in these big chairs and looking down at her,” Democratic Senator Patty Murray told me for my book, Broad Influence: How Women Are Changing the Way America Works. “And I just said, I am going run for [U.S.] Senate,” she recalled. “Because they need somebody there who is going to say what I would say if I was there,” which would’ve been to defend Hill and question Thomas instead.

http://time.com/4280829/anita-hill-hbo-drama-clarence-thomas-congress-women/

[Cha]

23. I agree.

[SecularMotion]

24. Scratch the surface of any David Brock hate

You'll find either a butthurt Sanders supporter or a gun nut. Sometimes both.

[JCanete]

22. Unless he gets specific about the ways he created dishonest discourse around Sanders and his

campaign, that's a hollow apology. (and maybe he did in those 4 pages, but I kind of doubt it)

I'm all for people "seeing the light," or being capable of evolving, but there are reasons to seriously doubt that evolution.

[pintobean]

25. POSUCS