David Brock is Keyser Söze.

[geek tragedy]

David Brock is responsible for everything mean ever said about Bernie Sanders.

David Brock directed Batman vs Superman.

David Brock once turned me into a Newt.

David Brock gave John Edwards dating advice.

David Brock broke up the Beatles.

David Brock invented New Coke.

David Brock hired Brownie at FEMA

David Brock was Carolina's QB coach for the Superbowl.

[virtualobserver]

1. it is his job....it is the point of his superpac

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No, but he's a sleazy, corrupt scumbag. That's enough.

[geek tragedy]

3. of course, he's opposing Bernie Sanders, he must be corrupt nt

[Kentonio]

11. He admitted spending years spreading deliberate lies for the GOP

Including defaming and destroying the life of a black sexual abuse victim.

Damn right he's fucking corrupt.

[geek tragedy]

12. you've established that he was corrupt nt

[Kentonio]

19. He's filth. If you can do that to another human being then you are intrinsically corrupted.

[Jarqui]

29. He's admitted it

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/10/news/mn-27466

Hillary's hired him and he's doing similar dishonest crap for her that he was doing for the right

[Punkingal]

18. You are defending the person who helped give us Clarence Thomas.

Are you proud of yourself?

[geek tragedy]

32. no I'm laughing at Sanders supporters who see his hand

behind every bad development for them.



Someone on Twitter said something mean about Bernie?

David Brock!

Someone got blocked from the Hillary Clinton group?

David Brock!

[beam me up scottie]

34. Yeah ha ha he called Anita Hill "slutty" and destroyed her.

He slut shamed the victim of sexual harassment in front of the entire world.

How dare we call him what he is - a lying misogynistic scumbag who will say and do anything for money.

Just because he does your candidate's dirty work doesn't mean he gets a pass for being a pos, at least not from me.

Anyone who defends him isn't much better imo.

[Punkingal]

37. I disagree with that assessment.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

61. He was a sleazebag a long time before that.

He was originally a ratfucker for the GOP and helped perpetrate the slander of Anita Hill. Later he claimed that he'd "seen the light" and didn't want to be a GOP operative any more, but he's still a sleazebag - just working for someone else, doing the same kinds of things.

[geek tragedy]

62. he was good enough when he was defending Kerry and Obama.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

63. Not for me. What he did to Anita Hill was unforgivable.

Just because he's now a ratfucker for Democrats doesn't make him any less of a ratfucker.

[roguevalley]

53. he was scum before bernie. it's his nature

[Dem2]

4. .

"David Brock invented New Coke."

OK, that's it, I hate him now.

[MineralMan]

5. He is the head of the "usual suspects," it seems.

The chief usual suspect, I guess.

[Punkingal]

20. David Brock's vile behavior is something to laugh about, sn't it?

Did you laugh when he lied about Anita Hill?

[MineralMan]

23. There's lots to laugh about in these primary campaigns.

So, I'm perfectly happy to laugh at what's laughable.

At this point, my interest in the primary campaigns is merely observation. Since I'd gladly vote for or campaign for either candidate, I'll just watch and see who gets the nomination and go from there.

Do I like David Brock? No, I do not. Do I think he is the Great Satan? No, I do not.

Your opinion might differ from mine. I'm fine with that. I'm always fine with people holding whatever opinions they have. Other people's opinions have nothing to do with me, really.

Again, I'll be working to get the nominee elected, whoever ze turns out to be. I'm sure you'll be doing the same, given the Republicans who are running.

In the meantime, laughter is often an appropriate reaction to the situation, I think.

[tabasco]

36. I don't laugh when Democrats cozy up to sleazy criminals

like Kissinger, the Bush crime family, and David Fucking Brock.

In fact it makes me sick.

[MineralMan]

43. Everyone is different, eh?

[frylock]

60. It takes all kinds, amirite?

[SHRED]

45. +10

[LexVegas]

6. David Brock makes Susan Sarandon say and do stupid ass shit. nt

[geek tragedy]

7. David Brock was the inspiration for Barry Bostwick's character

in Rocky Horror Picture Show.

[Aerows]

8. David Brock

is probably responsible for the Hillary "Settle for me" tweet.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/hillary-clinton-dont-hold-out-for-the-perfect-settle-for-me-instead/

[TSIAS]

9. David Brock slimed Anita Hill

Oh wait, that one is true.

[geek tragedy]

10. yes that did happen 30 years ago nt

[Armstead]

22. And now he's using similar tactics against an opponent in a Dem primary

Hint: Sanders abuses wife on podium

[beam me up scottie]

35. ^^^THIS^^^

Let's hear it for misogynistic rat fuckers who lie about OUR candidates.

[Bluenorthwest]

40. Clinton Ethics- We get to say anything, then say sorry, then say something worse.

What year were those photos of Bernie at civil rights protests? 1963? Is that more than 30 years? Yes it is. Did Camp Clinton on DU and in the real world make an enormous and mendacious stink claiming that really was not Bernie in those photos of Bernie from 52 years ago? You bet they did. People who were not even born claimed to know the real facts and they 'reported' them all over the media. Fifty Two Years. And that was about a good thing, a righteous action, not about smearing an innocent woman and foisting Clarence Thomas on the country.

[geek tragedy]

41. Clarence Thomas was appointed by George H.W. Bush, for whom Elizabeth Warren voted.

Just like Scalia was appointed by Reagan, for whom Elizabeth Warren voted, twice.

I know you are keenly aware of this, but the great majority of Bernie supporters have decided to let bygones be bygones in that instance.

So while you may have standing to relitigate the 1980s, most do not.

[Bluenorthwest]

50. What's Warren got to do with your downplaying Brock's history? I'm no fan of Senator Warren's

exactly because of her history voting for Reagan and Bush. Do a DU search on it, I've even called out the hypocrisy of calling your candidate a Goldwater Girl while praising Warren a long time Republican.

And you failed to address the fact that your side with your participation spent weeks trying to find scandal in 50 year old photos of Bernie protesting.

No one needs standing to reject established rat fuckers like Brock, confessed and known rat fuckers. All Americans have standing to criticize him. He lied and cheated to stack the court for the Republicans.

You want to downplay his vile history, you can't find any good foothold because you are attempting to defend the indefensible. I'm not the hypocrite, you are. I don't promote Warren, you barf that at me because you have nothing, you proudly stand with the man who smeared Anita Hill....and that's your right as an American.

[geek tragedy]

51. I was actually a Sanders supporter back during that stupid bullshit

about the pictures of him protesting went on.

I don't proudly stand with David Brock, merely stating that he should be criticized for stuff he actually does.

Want to criticize him for the way he and his fellow thugs savaged Anita Hill? Fine by me.

[JackRiddler]

13. Your analogy fails your argument, insofar as

Keyser Söze actually existed in the movie, and did a lot of bad shit. He wasn't responsible for all evil in the universe, he was just an extraordinarily successful gangster who got away with it.

Brock's not that good but he's not bad at his odious job either. All your too-cute obfuscation doesn't really hide that he belongs to and embodies the spirit of Camp Clinton. He's yours to defend, apparently.

[morningfog]

14. Nah, he's just an opportunistic rat fucker.

[Prism]

15. You're defending David Brock?

I mean, I'm not surprised, but LOL.

Also, I liked Batman vs Superman, thanks much.

[Red Oak]

16. Sucks to be David Brock

[Red Oak]

17. Oh - and he has to work with Hillary Clinton

Ewwwww!

[geek tragedy]

28. legally he's not allowed to work with her at all

Mr. Kobayashi is the go-between

[Red Oak]

33. I'm imagining the clandestine meetings

late at night in a parking garage.

Plotting world domination.

Deepthroat II

[Bluenorthwest]

44. Kaye Savage, witness in the Thomas hearings, recalls her meeting with Brock:

"Savage recalled her meeting with Brock in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington in 1994. A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out — and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage met Brock, she says, he let her know he could ruin her. "He knew all this personal stuff," she says. "He wanted me to take back what I had said. I couldn't — it was true — but I was intimidated, and so I faxed him something innocuous. I was scared."
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,167355,00.html

Your right, it's hilarious and Brock is a sweet, innocent lamb!!!!

[kysrsoze]

21. Ummm, no... I'm Keyser Söze.

I've been her all along, but nobody noticed me.

[MineralMan]

24. I though Susan Sarandon was Keyser Söze.

A guy never knows, I guess. Perhaps we are all Keyser Söze.

[geek tragedy]

27. Ha! Thank you for posting in this thread.

Awesome.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Keyser soze had better hair

[geek tragedy]

26. better theme music too nt

[MisterP]

30. "waah SCOTUS!" whines the faction benefiting from CU, that didn't fight FL 2000,

and gave us Clarence Thomas (via Biden as well as Brock)
"waah GE votes!" whines the faction that load-shed 11 Governors, 13 Senators, 69 Reps, 913 state seats, and has contented itself with 21-6% of the electorate
"waah spoilers and purity" whines the faction that endorsed J.Liebs and torpedoed primaries of those they didn't like (even when they were ahead of the Republican)
seems to be a pattern here

also I'd add that you can't really mock people for disliking Brock and the constant gouting fountain of slime emerging from the Clinton campaign and its proxies

[PufPuf23]

31. What a stupid OP eom

[Bluenorthwest]

38. No, just an admitted slime merchant and misogynist- Smearing Anita Hill

Thomas denied Hill's accusations, few witnesses were called to support her (she wasn't the nominee) and the nominee was confirmed, 52 to 48. But that didn't settle the mystery at the heart of those hearings. In front of the whole country and under oath, one of two people had lied. Since one of those people is now a Supreme Court Justice who cast a vote making George W. Bush President, the point is far from moot. And last week the mystery took another turn, thanks to former American Spectator character assassin David Brock, the man designated by the right to destroy Hill's reputation and scrub Thomas'. Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing more than another sin committed on behalf of the vast right-wing conspiracy. But Brock, who has forged a second career as a recovering conservative, makes one admission that implicates Thomas. Brock says he used information that came indirectly from Thomas to force a retraction from a woman named Kaye Savage, who had come forward in support of Hill. Brock threatened to publicize vicious charges made by her ex-husband in a sealed child-custody dispute.

In an interview with TIME last week, Savage recalled her meeting with Brock in the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Washington in 1994. A book titled Strange Justice, by reporters Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, had just come out — and it used on-the-record interviews to argue persuasively that Thomas had indeed subjected a number of women to frequent sexually explicit remarks about porno videos. Savage, a black mid-level aide in the Reagan Administration, told both the authors and the Judiciary Committee (although she wasn't called to testify publicly) that when she went to Thomas' apartment in the early 1980s, the place was littered with graphic photos of nude women. When Savage met Brock, she says, he let her know he could ruin her. "He knew all this personal stuff," she says. "He wanted me to take back what I had said. I couldn't — it was true — but I was intimidated, and so I faxed him something innocuous. I was scared."
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,167355,00.html

So that's what you and yours are making light of.

[geek tragedy]

39. no, I'm making fun of the fact that Bernie fans are treating him like the master

of the universe, behind every fell deed that befalls anyone supporting Bernie

[Bluenorthwest]

42. No, you are making light of the known facts about Brock. It's very valid not to trust a person with

his history. You claim it's not valid. You are defending and excusing the facts, which are very damning.

I notice you said not a word about those facts. About what he did to Anita and to the witnesses. I understand why, but I want to highlight what you are doing, dancing around the truth. Another thread on DU right now jokes about the Kennedy murder to make light of Brock's lack of ethics and undisputed history of rat fucking and dirty, filthy politics. It's disgusting, as is your thread.

[geek tragedy]

46. no, I am pointing out that someone who isn't even affiliated with Clinton's campaign

is at once having every bad thing under the sun attributed to his doing, and then attributed to Hillary Clinton.

He did some very scummy things back in the 1980s. That was 30 years ago.

He is no longer a rightwinger. Humans of all kinds are capable of change.

This is not 1986.

[Bluenorthwest]

48. Sure, whatever you need to tell yourself. I note that you still have not addressed what his actual

history is, nor address the fact that your side stoked up a frenzy about 52 year old photos of a civil rights protest making a barrage of false claims about 52 year old materials in very Brock style fashion, only later to suggest that 30 years is too long ago to mention when it comes to Brock. Double standards and disgusting alliances.

I think what he did to Anita Hill was the very picture of corruption and a person who has admitted to such things should have no standing to ever again deliver testimony about others. His word should be that of a man who framed women, intimidated witnesses and did so to place a conservative sexual harasser on the SCOTS where he still sits years after siding with GW Bush. With Thomas on that court, Brock's actions very much matter.

And you think it's all funny.

[geek tragedy]

49. I've fully acknowledged he did really scummy things back then, it's not even deniable.

the Sanders photo stuff was a bunch of stupidity and a pretty gutterball level of stuff.

That was back when I had GD in my trash can. The good old days.

[Bluenorthwest]

55. You took part in the photos stuff, about 52 year old photos. But for Brock, 30 is just ancient times

Why do you trust any person who would do what he did to Hill? What can you point to that says 'look, he's now super trustworthy and not a slimy merchant?'

Once you snark about 50 year old events you can't say 'but that was 30 years ago' and have any credibility. None of the Hillary folks had any problem with that Capehart rat fucking. And that suggests that Brock style stuff is fine with them too, as do these various threads making light of criticism of Brock the rat fucker.

[ScreamingMeemie]

47. David Brock is a sleazeball ass, and I don't care who you intend to vote for.

To try to paint him otherwise is actually sickening. The man is a scumbag.

I don't participate in "Anything to win" politics. Icky.

[cherokeeprogressive]

52. Wrong. He did call Anita Hill "a little nutty and a bit slutty" though. So there's that.

[BillZBubb]

54. Anything to defend a sleaze merchant I guess--If the sleaze merchant is for Hillary.

[bravenak]

56. Bullshit. All those things are my fault and everybody damn well knows it.

I started this gangster shit, and this is the mf thanks I get?

[noretreatnosurrender]

57. Defend David Brock Day

This is the 2nd thread I've seen tonight defending David Brock. I'm glad I don't have that job.

[frylock]

59. David Brock is the Democrat's version of Turd Blossom.

Be proud!