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Saturday, November 4, 2017

Late Night Track -- Lines on My Face


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Open Thread -- The Last Words on Donna Brazile (UPDATE: Now with #DonnaBrazileBookExcerpts!)



Meet Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, the new "second" worst former DNC Chair.


I'm giving them to #TheResistance Twitter, because I'm just done. I mean, until she signs on with a 2020 candidate (whom I, by default, will then not support), this is the last time I type the words "Donna Brazile" in a post. Feel free to leave some of your best finds or snark in the comments.














Yup. That's that. *Goes off to find the bleach to wash my eyeballs*

Update: The #DonnaBrazileBookExcerpt hashtag might be Peak Internet:











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OK, That's Enough, Donna





Just... what the fuck? The Washington Post drops more excerpts from Donna Brazile's book, and I have to wonder who greenlit this book, because I think even a fiction publisher would've thrown this manuscript in the circular file.


Former Democratic National Committee head Donna Brazile writes in a new book that she seriously contemplated replacing Hillary Clinton as the party’s 2016 presidential nominee with then-Vice President Biden in the aftermath of Clinton’s fainting spell, in part because Clinton’s campaign was “anemic” and had taken on “the odor of failure.”
In an explosive new memoir, Brazile details widespread dysfunction and dissension throughout the Democratic Party, including secret deliberations over using her powers as interim DNC chair to initiate the removal of Clinton and running mate Sen. Tim Kaine (Va.) from the ticket after Clinton’s Sept. 11, 2016, collapse in New York City.


Huh? On September 10th, WaPo said that Hillary's lead was dropping, but she was still up 5 points among likely voters and 10 among registered voters. 5 points would've been a really nice win. If you're up 5, you don't expect to lose.


What was her "solution?"


Brazile writes that she considered a dozen combinations to replace the nominees and settled on Biden and Sen. Cory Booker (N.J.), the duo she felt most certain would win over enough working-class voters to defeat Republican Donald Trump.


Cory Booker? To win working-class (read: "white") voters? Forgetting for a moment that he's African-American; he has a reputation (earned or unearned, that's not the purpose here) of being one of Wall Street's favorite Democrats. That's how she'd appeal to the working class? Then again, it was a campaign she ran that nominated JOE FUCKING LIEBERMAN onto the 2000 ticket.


 But then, she writes, “I thought of Hillary, and all the women in the country who were so proud of and excited about her. I could not do this to them.”


She's clearly so noble...


Brazile paints a scathing portrait of Clinton as a well-intentioned, historic candidate whose campaign was badly mismanaged, took minority constituencies for granted and made blunders with “stiff” and “stupid” messages. The campaign was so lacking in passion for the candidate, she writes, that its New York headquarters felt like a sterile hospital ward where “someone had died.”


Oh, go fuck yourself, Donna. Were you ever actually in those headquarters? I spent weeks there volunteering; there was so much enthusiasm there that the last few days and nights we had volunteers filling up an extra overflow room and several hallways. And all the pizza! And we were filling up busses every weekend to canvas out of town. But of course, I was just a volunteer. However, another thing I volunteered to do was stick around after the election for a couple of weeks and spend my days cleaning up the offices of the paid staff. It had all been put together really professionally, and it looked like they'd had a lot of fun -- group pictures everywhere, hundreds of bottles of liquor and wine, signs, maps, computer networks, posters, buttons -- all the things you'd expect in a campaign where people were both enjoying themselves and working their asses off.


Brazile alleges that Clinton’s top aides routinely disrespected her and put the DNC on a “starvation diet,” depriving it of funding for voter turnout operations.


SHE FUCKING SAVED THE DNC! The whole reason she signed the joint agreement was because the DNC was going broke! She didn't deprive it of money, she replenished its coffers.


As one of her party’s most prominent black strategists, Brazile also recounts fiery disagreements with Clinton’s staffers — including a conference call in which she told three senior campaign officials, Charlie Baker, Marlon Marshall and Dennis Cheng, that she was being treated like a slave.
“I’m not Patsey the slave,” Brazile recalls telling them, a reference to the character played by Lupita Nyong’o in the film, “12 Years a Slave.” “Y’all keep whipping me and whipping me and you never give me any money or any way to do my damn job. I am not going to be your whipping girl!” 


OK. Who's playing her in the movie that Mark Halperin is currently writing as his big comeback after 30 days in the penalty box?


Brazile’s book, titled “Hacks: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House,” will be released Tuesday by Hachette Books. 


How appropriate, given that she's one of the biggest Democratic hacks I've ever encountered; that's not revisionist. I always grouped her in my mind with the losers -- the Bob Shrums, Juan Williamses, Alan Colmeses... As I wrote Friday night:


She's since held a number of different positions in the party, but also was one of the first Democratic talking heads I became familiar with when I began watching cable news in the early 2000s. She was never very strong on TV, and as I started to identify with the Democratic Party more and more, I always cringed to see her represent the Democratic point of view.


Back to WaPo:


Brazile writes that she was haunted by the still-unsolved murder of DNC data staffer Seth Rich and feared for her own life, shutting the blinds to her office window so snipers could not see her and installing surveillance cameras at her home. She wonders whether Russians had placed a listening device in plants in the DNC executive suite. 


*Blinks about twenty times*. SETH RICH? That's quite the tell. Only Fox News thought that his death had anything to do with his political work.


That fall, Brazile says she tried to persuade her Republican counterparts to agree to a joint statement condemning Russian interference but that they ignored her messages and calls.


Obama and other members of the Democratic leadership did too, and got the same response. This isn't news.


I have something else in the works that's more interesting than this, and I'm sure many better writers will dissect her whining about where she was sat at a debate and whether she got a call from Hillary after the campaign (which she clearly didn't deserve at all if this was how she behaved), so I'm going to just leave you with one more quote:


Brazile writes with particular disdain about Brandon Davis, a Mook protege who worked as a liaison between the DNC and the Clinton campaign. She describes him as a spy, saying he treated her like “a crazy, senile old auntie and couldn’t wait to tell all his friends the nutty things she said.”


Robby Mook didn't need a spy to get those nutty things; she's apparently compiled them all in one handy book!
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Earworm of the Afternoon -- Army Reserve


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Saturday Morning Twitshit



Quiet morning today... does that means something's in the works or nothing's in the works?

Some of the usual praising himself...

I don't even understand this one. And likely, neither does he.

*Shrug*
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Late Night Track -- Doll Parts




I wanna be the girl with the most cake...
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Friday, November 3, 2017

Donna Brazile Backs Down





So, now that she's in a corner, Donna Brazile corrects the record and admits the Democratic primaries weren't fixed:



She had to do it, because it was proven that she was wrong:


The Democratic National Committee struck a deal with Hillary Clinton in 2015 that gave her campaign input on some party hiring and spending decisions, but required they be related only to preparations for the general election, according to a memo obtained by NBC News. It also left the door open for other candidates to make similar arrangements.


 But this is in her book!


I had promised Bernie when I took the helm of the Democratic National Committee after the convention that I would get to the bottom of whether Hillary Clinton’s team had rigged the nomination process, as a cache of emails stolen by Russian hackers and posted online had suggested. I’d had my suspicions from the moment I walked in the door of the DNC a month or so earlier, based on the leaked emails. But who knew if some of them might have been forged? I needed to have solid proof, and so did Bernie.


If she really means it, then she'll have the book edited, and she'll actually apologize. Will she? Remains to be seen.



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Earworm of the Afternoon -- Horse with No Name

I'm a huge America fan (I saw them twice last year)... I love this cover.



Also, season 4 of Bojack was incredible. I need more!
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Friday Morning Twitshit





Doesn't matter if it's true or not, Donald Duck L'Orange is taking advantage of Donna Brazile's idiocy/duplicity. Because of course he is.

















Brazile lies, Trump lies. Trump tweeted a few more times about other things, but I'm too pissed off at Brazile to care.

I'll let Josh have the last word.


If Brazile wants to make these accusations she needs to provide the documents she’s referring to and something concrete about actions the DNC took to rig the primaries against Sanders. The fact that Wasserman-Schultz was a bad chair, the fact that the DNC was poorly run, that not enough money went to state parties – all true. But none of that is what made Brazile’s claims a bombshell. All of that was known. If she can’t back these claims up she owes every Democrat a huge apology. And I have to say that applies to Elizabeth Warren too who jumped on the bandwagon.
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Fuck Donna Brazile



By now, you've likely heard that former interim chair of the DNC Donna Brazile is accusing the Clinton campaign of rigging the 2016 primaries against Bernie Sanders.


This is an insane accusation for reasons I'll let others explain below, but I have never been impressed with Brazile. She ran Al Gore's 2000 campaign, which chose Joe-friggin'-Lieberman as a VP candidate and which ran away from Bill Clinton, who had a 60%+ approval rating. She's since held a number of different positions in the party, but also was one of the first Democratic talking heads I became familiar with when I began watching cable news in the early 2000s. She was never very strong on TV, and as I started to identify with the Democratic Party more and more, I always cringed to see her represent the Democratic point of view. I am a huge Debbie Wasserman-Schultz hater, but didn't think that Brazile was much of an upgrade when Wasserman-Schultz had to resign last year.


So, I'm establishing here that I'm not a fan of hers. At all. And now she's gone from being disappointing to me to being infuriating. Perhaps the reason she's lost pretty much every election she's been involved with is that she doesn't understand how American politics works. The Clinton campaign has done nothing wrong here (though Politico's headline writer -- "Inside Hillary Clinton’s Secret Takeover of the DNC" -- thinks otherwise). On Twitter, journalist Victoria Brownworth has been addressing this all day:



It's worth reading through her entire timeline for today.

Some other important takes...

Kara Calavera:


Robert #Resist Sandy:



GirlPowerDon'tQuit:



Peter Daou:



There's really nothing to this, but I'm worried about it. I went through 2016 thinking that America was too smart to be fooled by idiocy like Russia, e-mails, etc... but I was wrong. But what matters is how the media covers this and how it spreads on social media (Putin must be loving this). They've so far not been falling for the Uranium One crap, but "Democrats in disarray" might be too juicy for them to ignore.

On the other hand, I saw Don Lemon half-dismiss this tonight as "good for book sales," so I guess we'll see. I really don't know why else Brazile would pull shit like this. But shit she is pulling, indeed.

And she's just feeding the fascist in the White House:

So, yeah, fuck you, Donna Brazile.
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