Married to the Mob: Let's document the Spouses of the GOP. A group project

[ProfessorPlum]

One of the most insidious ways that the GOP/mafia exerts its influence, especially in the media, is the number of "journalists" who have a hidden agenda, including those who are married to a right-wing operative. Unsuspecting citizens see someone on their TVs or in their papers whom they assume are coming at them with just the standard business friendly bent of the average journalist. When you tell them "That person is married to X", their whole perspective changes. It's almost like talking heads not identifying who they are working for as they give their "unbiased" opinions. (I'm lookin' at you, George Will preparing Reagan for his debate, and you, James Carville not identifying yourself as part of the Hillary team).

Anyway, let's document the journalists, talking heads, opinion leaders, etc., who are compromised by their home lives. I'll start:

1. James Carville, married to Cheney defender Mary Matalin

2. Andrea Mitchell, married to Ayn Randian and Reverse Robin Hood Alan Greenspan

3. Campbell Brown, married to former "envoy to Iraq" and Bush stooge Dan Senor

Help me fill out this list!

[Donnachaidh]

1. they always point out the Dem connections

I think turnaround is fair. K&R.

[MADem]

2. Spouses on the national stage, you mean. Not private citizens.

That's fine, if they're in public life. By your associates we shall know ya!!!

[ProfessorPlum]

4. Yes, that's exactly what I mean

Sorry, I meant people that seem to have no obvious connection to the GOP in their public appearance, but are getting right wing pillow talk.

Not private citizen spouses.

[Lars39]

3. The behind-the-scene activities of the Cheney family, Lynn in particular.

[bobthedrummer]

26. Elizabeth Cheney, wasn't she the Cheney "produced" to keep daddy out of the draft?

Elizabeth Cheney must be held accountable for her own crimes. That entire social network is full of people that have enabled and perpetrated crimes against humanity and God knows what else. Daddy War Bucks girl.

[blm]

5. Matt Cooper married to Mandy Grunwald. Gee...why cover up for Rove and WH in 2003 and 2004

when you knew they were lying about outing a CIA agent for 15 months before an election?

Gee...wouldn't a REAL journalist make sure the country KNEW the WH was lying about such a serious issue?

Gee...wouldn't a REAL concerned Democratic consultant make sure the truth about Bush-Rove lies were spread on the street. The MSM certainly uses 'Some say' for lies, how about using 'Some say' to get the FACTS out for a change?

[ProfessorPlum]

7. No Kidding!!!

See, that's why I started this thread - I knew I would learn something. God, the level of omerta going on in the Plame case is just incredible.

"Oh, poor Matt Cooper, standing up for his constitutional rights! Boo hoo!"

I am so not surprised to learn this. Thanks, blm.

[blm]

12. Well, Mandy is part of the Clinton Team.... read on....

recently discovered this info via historian Douglas Brinkley's appearance from APRIL 2004.


http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=13354

Whom does the biographer think his subject will pick as a running mate? Not Hillary Rodham Clinton. "There's really two different Democratic parties right now: there's the Clintons and Terry McAuliffe and the DNC and then there's the Kerry upstarts. John Kerry had one of the great advantages in life by being considered to get the nomination in December. He watched every Democrat in the country flee from him, and the Clintons really stick the knife in his back a bunch of times, so he's able to really see who was loyal to him and who wasn't. That's a very useful thing in life."
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[ProfessorPlum]

20. Yeah, the Clintons are a bit of a special case

They are both very business friendly. Not necessarily a totally bad thing, except in our country currently when businesses are very much a big part of the problem. Which is why Hillary doesn't give me the warm fuzzies. I can't trust her to choose people over corporations.

So I'm not very surprised that one of her folks was close to the corporate media silence on Plame.

[blm]

21. Brinkley was saying this in early 2004 - so the Clinton Team was undermining the 2004 CAMPAIGN

of the Democratic nominee even BEFORE the general election. And we all know now that Carville was feeding crucial election night strategy and data to his wife at the WH.

And we also know that McAuliffe never secured the election process in the 4 years he promised he would through the DNC's Office of Voter Integrity.

No wonder they hate Dean being head of the DNC - his efforts are proving that McAuliffe dropped the ball - and, in my view, Terry Mac was DELIBERATELY negligent.

[ProfessorPlum]

23. when you examine the careers of people like Bob Shrum

it's hard to come to any other conclusion besides deliberate negligence. But then even the candidates themselves must be in on it a bit - why else hire that loser? Mysterious.

[blm]

24. Shrum's a great speechwriter - but, I'd bet anything he was being fed bad info from the

Dem 'pollsters' and consultants who make up that part of the party machine. The ones who run the polls and the focus groups and have for many years.

Campaigns are endless busy days, and if there are crucial functioning parts of the party machine working to undermine the overall goal, then all the more public roles of the campaign will be targeted for blame.

[bobthedrummer]

27. Its much worse-consider Rahm Emanuel as an example. eom

[Joe Chi Minh]

6. No wonder Ted Turner left the thriving enterprise he'd created. A much

less astute person than he, would have seen the writing on the wall. Can you imagine the creators of the Republicans' propaganda machines, aka the MSM, tolerating an alternative MSM organ purveying the truth to the public, in flat contradiction to their lies?

[bobthedrummer]

8. KoKo01 had a thread worth datamining in regards to this thread-check this out

"Arianna Bombshell! Libby's Wife was Dem Lawyer on Senate Judiciary Committee!" archived thread started 2-8-2007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x155950

[ProfessorPlum]

11. Thanks - from that I get

Danielle Crittenden and David "Axis of Evil" Frum.

It also reminded me of Limbaugh and that Steve Aerosmith Tyler- looking talking head on CNN.

[Donnachaidh]

9. perhaps a thread can be started in the RESEARCH forum?

Something that will stay put for reference?

[ProfessorPlum]

10. That's a good idea - I'll post one there tonight or tomorrow morning

Thank you.

[Oilwellian]

13. Kate O'Beirne

Kate O'Beirne's husband James O'Beirne ran the office at the Pentagon that was in charge of selecting candidates for the Coalition Provisional Authority, charged with reconstructing Iraq. According to the Washington Post, "To pass muster with O'Beirne, a political appointee who screens prospective political appointees for Defense Department posts, applicants didn't need to be experts in the Middle East or in post-conflict reconstruction. What seemed most important was loyalty to the Bush administration." <2>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_O'Beirne

[ProfessorPlum]

15. That's correct! Thanks for that one, I knew it but had forgotten N/T

[bobthedrummer]

28. Henry Kissinger's former chief of staff L. Paul Bremer-it is just the new faces

of the old nazi influenced RW "elite".

[bobthedrummer]

14. IChing has a thread started in LBN that is also related to this one

"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Sandbagged Novation LLC Prosecution"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2809066

[ProfessorPlum]

16. Hi Everybody

Thanks very much for the recs. I started a thread on the Research Forum on this topic - I'm still learning just how that goes, but if you'd like to help out, please see

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_oet&address=358x4740

[goclark]

17. When Hillary put James Carville on her team -that did it for me

If she thinks that he is not talking to his pillow she is crazy.
I don't trust James Carville.

[Patsy Stone]

18. Norah O'Donnell

well known for parroting RNC talking points. Her chef husband, Geoff Tracy:

http://washingtonoculus.blogspot.com/2004/07/oenophilia-enjoying-wine-half-off.html

"You can find the Oculus at Chef Geoff's the last Monday of every month. Their wine list, is among the best in the city, and at half-off, it goes without saying that Chef Geoff's the best Monday night special in town. (Their $5 Downtown burger special is great too.) Maybe you'll run into NBC's Norah O'Donnell there, as her husband, Geoff Tracy, is Chef Geoff. The Oculus has also seen Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie there, though he was enjoying a domestic bottle at the bar with an RNC aide."

[ProfessorPlum]

19. That's a tough call. I can't find any evidence that the chef is part of the

GOP machine. Noron seems to be the winger in that couple, or at least there is no obvious connection between Geoff and the GOP.

Is Noron sleeping with the enemy? The way she spews those talking points suggests it, but Geoff seems to be a chef - not Dr. Evil.

[Patsy Stone]

22. It is a bit of a stretch

But it's a gathering place for Republicans, where Norah gets the inside scoop. She's the shill, he's the chef, the venue allows her to absorb the GOP party line.

http://thehill.com/american/still-waiting-for-president-bush-2004-09-09.html

Chef Geoff Tracy, the moving force behind the two restaurants bearing his name, is still waiting for George W. Bush to keep the campaign promise he made while running for president in 2000.

Tracy’s wife, NBC-TV White House correspondent Norah O’Donnell, was covering then-Gov. Bush at the time and told him that Tracy was about to open a restaurant near American University. Bush promised her that if elected, he’d come to dinner.

"Every Christmas we get invited to the White House Christmas party, and she reminds the president of his promise," the 31-year-old Boston native said while waiting for his wife to return from a weeklong trip with the Bush campaign shortly before the Republican National Convention. "And he laughs and says, 'Well, I guess we’ll have to chalk that up as another broken campaign promise.'"

[bobthedrummer]

25. kick n/t