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NRaleighLiberal

(59,940 posts)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:16 PM Jul 2012

Busted: Now We Get It; CNN Top Political Analyst was on Bain Payroll!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/16/1110413/-Busted-Now-We-Get-It-CNN-Top-Political-Analyst-was-on-Bain-Payroll

Remember last week when CNN's John King was on an all-out defense of Bain Capital? He claimed to have access to key insiders who absolutely guaranteed that Romney left the company in February 1999. Well...today, David Gergen is up with a similar piece entitled: Facts don't support Obama's charges against Romney Hmmm,

1. What is Gergen's evidence and why is CNN working so hard to free Romney from this assault?
2. Why are the insiders talking to CNN and why are they reporting their spin as fact?

Wait, hold on...let me read a little further...bammm! Here it is from David Gergen himself:

"Let me acknowledge upfront what I have said several times on CNN: I have a past relationship with the top partners at Bain that is both personal and financial. I have worked with them in support of nonprofit organizations such as City Year. I have given a couple of paid speeches for Bain dinners, as I have for many other groups. I was on the board of a for-profit child care company, Bright Horizons, that was purchased by Bain Capital. It was a transaction with financial benefits for all board members and shareholders, including me. So, yes, I have a bias."

snip......

anyone surprised? Not me!
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Busted: Now We Get It; CNN Top Political Analyst was on Bain Payroll!! (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jul 2012 OP
So no, Mr Gerge, you should't be within MILES of covering this story! rocktivity Jul 2012 #1
Bain owns Clear Channel Blanks Jul 2012 #2
One news source--just like the USSR! nt valerief Jul 2012 #4
More like Italy nxylas Jul 2012 #8
without the womanizing? Jessy169 Jul 2012 #14
Do you have any actual evidence that Romney is a polygamist? nxylas Jul 2012 #20
Forgot that. proverbialwisdom Jul 2012 #6
It does explain why... Blanks Jul 2012 #11
Actually, I remember caseymoz Jul 2012 #15
It would appear to give him some credibility. Blanks Jul 2012 #16
Here it is... Blanks Jul 2012 #18
Silence from Rush, Hannity, Glen Beck = bad news for Romney, IMO Jessy169 Jul 2012 #17
The base and talk show hosts are growing creeksneakers2 Jul 2012 #33
THE BEST ARTICLE ON BAIN AND CLEAR CHANNEL Harley Jacobson Jul 2012 #40
So, Rushbo sings for his supper, then!!!! MADem Jul 2012 #42
Your synopsis pretty much hits the nail on the head. n/t AllyCat Jul 2012 #41
I used to like Gergen when he was on McNeil-Lehrer. FourScore Jul 2012 #3
drip, drip ... GeorgeGist Jul 2012 #5
Fuck David Gergen no one watches CNN anymore DainBramaged Jul 2012 #7
CNN has become a complete joke with their green screen crap Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #24
Don't forget KKKandy KKKrowley Joe Bacon Jul 2012 #35
Malloy has relayed some real, behind the scenes stuff about her. Spitfire of ATJ Jul 2012 #38
I'm unfortunately stuck with it being overseas davidpdx Jul 2012 #44
Shitty Mitt!! coldbeer Jul 2012 #9
Because so much of the MSM "news" is propaganda, why would anyone watch it anymore? AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2012 #10
CNN is Pox News The Wizard Jul 2012 #12
FOX has at least five former CNN personalities. julian09 Jul 2012 #25
"I know what you are. Now, we're just haggling over the price." nt DCKit Jul 2012 #13
That should be headlines? Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2012 #19
Yet another reason I don't watch CNN progressoid Jul 2012 #21
I see Canuckistanian Jul 2012 #22
clarification: Gergen isn't a journalist grasswire Jul 2012 #30
Thanks for posting, and here's the Occupy version of this tale: freshwest Jul 2012 #23
of course we can trust CNN, didn't they tell us the individual mandate for the aca went down? And still_one Jul 2012 #26
k&r nt steve2470 Jul 2012 #27
Fuck CNN and Gergen Whisp Jul 2012 #28
CNN=chicken noodle news Citizen Worker Jul 2012 #29
CNN = Conservative News Network Joe Bacon Jul 2012 #37
CNN = Conjectural News Network.... n/t xocet Jul 2012 #47
I listen to CNN all the time! I wondered why they were starting to sound like Fox Kteachums Jul 2012 #31
K&R Tarheel_Dem Jul 2012 #32
Makes sense. By working for Bain he has a fiduciary responsibility raouldukelives Jul 2012 #34
K&R. Hope all the others come forward too. Overseas Jul 2012 #36
I saw both of them recently on Anderson Cooper----just unbelievable young_at_heart Jul 2012 #39
John King is the Fox in CNN's house of chickens Gabby Hayes Jul 2012 #43
Truly disgusting about Gergen! KoKo Jul 2012 #45
John King belongs on Fox "News". mwb970 Jul 2012 #46
Best corruption money can buy harun Jul 2012 #48

rocktivity

(44,555 posts)
1. So no, Mr Gerge, you should't be within MILES of covering this story!
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:28 PM
Jul 2012

Journalism 100, Chapter One, Page One: AVOID EVEN THE APPEARANCE OF BIAS!!!

1. Is Gergen CNN's source?
2. Does Gergen;'s relationships with Bain cover the years Mitt allegedly wasn't there?
3. Why should we believe his sources are telling the truth?
4. WHAT'S THE POINT OF THE SOURCES REMAINING ANONYMOUS?


rocktivity


Blanks

(4,835 posts)
2. Bain owns Clear Channel
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:32 PM
Jul 2012

Used to be we had 'News Outlets' that were friendly to campaigns.

Now the candidate just owns some of the news outlets.

After all; why dick around with sucking up to the press? Own them; then they'll suck up to you.

Jessy169

(602 posts)
14. without the womanizing?
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:53 PM
Jul 2012

On an unrelated topic, just curious. If a guy has more than one wife and he gets to play with them all, does that count as "womanizing". Or is it only when a guy plays with a woman who is not his wife (or one of his group of wives) that it count's as womanizing? The reason I ask is because we don't know if Romney has just one, do we. We know the official, on-the-record answer, but as is always true with Romney, there are shadows lurking just under the surface of the spit-shined exterior. Minor point, I'm sure.

nxylas

(6,440 posts)
20. Do you have any actual evidence that Romney is a polygamist?
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 04:46 PM
Jul 2012

"He's a Mormon and Mormons used to practice polygamy" doesn't count as evidence, and just saying that we don't know for sure that he isn't a polygamist is the same sort of "logic" that birtherism is founded on.

proverbialwisdom

(4,959 posts)
6. Forgot that.
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:02 PM
Jul 2012

May help explain why every damn day I hear the aside that the presidential race is 'tied, too close to call, statistically in a dead heat.' I don't buy it for a second.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
11. It does explain why...
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:32 PM
Jul 2012

We haven't heard anything negative about Romney from Rush, Hannity, Glen Beck etc.

I'm kind of surprised more hasn't been made of this.

caseymoz

(5,763 posts)
15. Actually, I remember
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:54 PM
Jul 2012

. . . before Romney became de facto nominee, Rush was hard on him. I don't know about Beck or Hannity. That ceased now that Mittster is the only one left standing.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
16. It would appear to give him some credibility.
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:57 PM
Jul 2012

I'm just not sure who 'him' is in this case.

Do you know of anything specific that Rush said?

Jessy169

(602 posts)
17. Silence from Rush, Hannity, Glen Beck = bad news for Romney, IMO
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:59 PM
Jul 2012

Those three freaks closely coordinate with the Republican machine. I posted here a couple of days ago, asking "which side" Rush would come out on, and got some great responses. My own opinion then, and now, is that silence from Rush and the other two liars means that just behind the curtain, the Republicans are in turmoil and haven't decided how to deal with it yet. I don't personally think that Mitt refusing to turn over his tax returns is the main issue. I do think the conflicting filings and statements with SEC, FEC and IRS are the BIG issue they are having to deal with. Just one point of view...

creeksneakers2

(7,468 posts)
33. The base and talk show hosts are growing
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:01 PM
Jul 2012

impatient with Romney. They believe that if Romney attacked Obama more, he'd be ahead 3 to 1. Of course, Romney has done nothing but attack Obama. But the right wingers believe the stuff that excites them, Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers and similar stories are key to a Romney victory. There are lots of caller complaints about Romney too.

If Romney doesn't take a substantial lead soon, the anger from the base will grow worse, and there will be pressure on Romney to run the kinds of losing campaign the base thinks would work. The right wingers have convinced themselves that there was no news coverage of Reverend Wright and Bill Ayers in 2008.

 

Harley Jacobson

(88 posts)
40. THE BEST ARTICLE ON BAIN AND CLEAR CHANNEL
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 12:38 AM
Jul 2012

This is a must read. Pass this around.

Bain owns Clear Channel. Bain has its board members on the board of Clear Channel - millions of dollars are being funneled to Romney through Clear Channel.

CLEAR CHANNEL SYNDICATES RUSH LIMBAUGH. SEAN HANNITY, GLENN BECK AND MICHAEL SAVAGE.

It's a Romney propaganda machine:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/05/26/1095014/-Bain-Capital-and-Mitt-Romney-s-Best-Kept-Secret-Clear-Channel-Radio

MADem

(135,425 posts)
42. So, Rushbo sings for his supper, then!!!!
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 03:46 AM
Jul 2012

Sing, Rushbo, SING!!!!!



Dance, Rushbo, DANCE!!!!

He certainly got his orders this week, didn't he?

FourScore

(9,704 posts)
3. I used to like Gergen when he was on McNeil-Lehrer.
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 01:57 PM
Jul 2012

But that was a loooong time ago, before he sold his soul.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
24. CNN has become a complete joke with their green screen crap
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 05:58 PM
Jul 2012

Election Night is all about digital sets and beaming people in.

And don't even get me started on Blitzer with his pro-war fear mongering.

I've heard people on the Right claim CNN is Liberal and I remind them that Glenn Beck was on CNN and so was a medley of other clowns at the only source they trust.

Joe Bacon

(5,163 posts)
35. Don't forget KKKandy KKKrowley
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:24 PM
Jul 2012

The world's oldest Chatty Cathy doll. The Koch Brothers pull the string in her back and she recites every Frank Luntz approved talking point for the GOP.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
38. Malloy has relayed some real, behind the scenes stuff about her.
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:32 PM
Jul 2012

And I'm not just talking about the race to the donuts either.

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
44. I'm unfortunately stuck with it being overseas
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 08:53 AM
Jul 2012

it is the only station I can get other than BBC (though I'm not sure if we even get that anymore because they keep changing our cable package and lost Discovery Channel).

I have noticed CNN has become much more right wing lately and it drives me nuts.

 

AnotherMcIntosh

(11,064 posts)
10. Because so much of the MSM "news" is propaganda, why would anyone watch it anymore?
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:29 PM
Jul 2012

It may be worthwhile to Google Operation Mockingbird.

They say that it was discontinued.

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
22. I see
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 05:17 PM
Jul 2012

A "journalist" who has a PERSONAL, FINANCIAL interest in a company once owned by a presidential candidate... is allowed to write an opinion piece about the Baingate situation?

Aha.

The journalistic profession is on it's last shaky legs.

grasswire

(50,130 posts)
30. clarification: Gergen isn't a journalist
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 09:24 PM
Jul 2012

He's a pundit, an analyst, and commentator. He's paid for his opinion.

Obviously, this trend of hiring analysts who have conflicts of interest with the truth has sure been bad for America.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
23. Thanks for posting, and here's the Occupy version of this tale:
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 05:56 PM
Jul 2012


Media ownership by the Reichwing is destroying this country.

still_one

(91,937 posts)
26. of course we can trust CNN, didn't they tell us the individual mandate for the aca went down? And
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 06:33 PM
Jul 2012

Weren't they jumping in along with faux telling us tha Gifford "died"

Of corse they were also part of the chorus telling us Iraq had wmds

A flip of the coin is more reliable then they are

Kteachums

(331 posts)
31. I listen to CNN all the time! I wondered why they were starting to sound like Fox
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 09:32 PM
Jul 2012

Today I went to their Facebook page and unloaded on them. I am sick of hearing their reporters refer to the President as Mr. Obama and I told them I'm tired of it. I have heard it several times. He is our President. He deserves to be called President Obama or Mr. President but, never Mr. Obama. Why would they do that?

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
34. Makes sense. By working for Bain he has a fiduciary responsibility
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:19 PM
Jul 2012

to not report things that could be harmful to them or even to stretch the truth as it were. Since CNN is corporate owned they by extension also bear that responsibility. Its not that they don't want to report the truth. Its just good business.

young_at_heart

(3,758 posts)
39. I saw both of them recently on Anderson Cooper----just unbelievable
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 10:37 PM
Jul 2012

I finally had to turn it off after hearing how "innocent" Romney was and how "nasty" Obama was. What's maddening is they got away with saying all that stuff!

Gabby Hayes

(289 posts)
43. John King is the Fox in CNN's house of chickens
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 04:10 AM
Jul 2012

Good hands, good catch, NRaleighLiberal. King should have been sent back to public access after his stupefying "reporting" on President Clinton. The likes of King, Suzanne Malveaux and Candy Crowley have really lowered the bar at CNN. I haven't been able to even look at Crowley since her public wet dreams about Dubya during the 2000 election.

KoKo

(84,711 posts)
45. Truly disgusting about Gergen!
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 10:52 AM
Jul 2012

I knew something went wrong with him after his NPR days. But, even then he might have been "on the take."

He should be fired from CNN along with their Military Analysts who were also paid for their opinions.

And, that he serves as (FROM CNN) "...a senior political analyst for CNN and has been an adviser to four presidents. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government," is a reflection of how far the corruption has gone into many of our leading universities.

mwb970

(11,298 posts)
46. John King belongs on Fox "News".
Tue Jul 17, 2012, 11:15 AM
Jul 2012

He has always struck me as a right-wing gasbag, and those people tend to end up on the republican propaganda channel.

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