ITEM 2 - Peter will be on FOX with Eric Shawn on Sunday at 11:20am Eastern for a 10-minute segment.
ITEM 3 - On Monday morning, I'll be on with Mancow in Chicago at 4:05am Pacific (7:05am Eastern). On Monday evening, I'll be on with Lori Ross from Seattle at 7:30pm Pacific. She will have me on for at least an hour and perhaps two hours to tell the story and take calls.
ITEM 4 - the film had an ad on Drudge yesterday. A download to computers of the 1-hour film is available on Monday morning. DVD sales will begin shortly.
ITEM 5 - I'll finally get to an after-action report of the whirlwind tour of the East Coast screenings. I'm still exhausted from that, and we were in the studio editing until 10pm last night.
ITEM 6 - Hillary's attorneys have been busy. The Equal Justice site has been warned that it will lose its non-profit status if it sells the "political lobbbying" film. They already warned the Heritage Foundation. EJFA is accepting donations to support the legal battle. Those who donate, get the DVD. There you go, Hillary.
Thanks to all of you who have given your encouragement and support to this project. Apologies to those on whom I jumped who said "nothing will ever happen to her." You are free to say that. Keep in mind, however, that it is up to you if anything ever happens to her. You can sit back and complain, or you join the effort to inform the voters about a coverup and obstruction of justice that eclipses Watergate. I have said often that she is above the law and will never wear an orange jumpsuit, as lovely a picture as that may be. What we hope is that the film and Paul v Clinton will alert voters sufficiently that her negatives get up to about 57%. Because of expected massive voter fraud, we need negatives that high to have a chance.
Most of the mainstream media either loves Hillary or fears her. They have not wanted to talk about the case since the acquittal of David Rosen two years ago. With your help, we will bring them to the party kicking and screaming and dragging their feet. Maybe B. Hussein Obama and the Breck Girl will stop hiding behind their wives skirts and actually go after Hillary. They have this information.
Okay, Hillary. The battle is on. It is time to at least pay a political price for your criminal activity. You can't fool half the voters forever.
BTTT
Got your back man !
Just keep doing it Doug. From the numbers theres lots of us behind you. Once again, politicians will realize that it is the grassroots movement that is the strongest force. It comes down to the people themselves. And you are a great example of what one person can do to start the ball rolling. God bless you.
Almost two whole people? I know you didn't mean that.
Google has removed the the Hillary! Uncensored trailer from both its top 10 and top 100 lists.
Overlooked by Google's political censors: a second version of the trailer posted in two parts. Although those videos have far fewer views than the main one, they are currently listed at #7 and #24.
The complete trailer was at #1 on both top lists yesterday, and it continues to be Google's most-watched video by a wide margin. This is a clear-cut act of political censorship on the part of Google. Please pass the word to the blogs.
Bang Up job Doug.
Sir, I am in awe! Surprises keep the future looking brighter. Thanks for your hard work!
Have you thought of using Dish DOC ch. 197 to reach people that are not on the net?
The Documentary Channel searches for quality documentary programming in several ways: attending film festivals and markets, via distributors and studios, and through independent submissions.
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MANCOW SHOW Monday, 4:05am Pacific - http://www.mancow.com/
If you hadn’t heard, Peter was on with Mancow a little over a week ago. Mancow said he was going to push this story. Over that weekend, he received a death threat to he and his family.
GO DOUG GO!!!!
“The Equal Justice site has been warned that it will lose its non-profit status if it sells the “political lobbbying” film.”
“Warned” by whom?
The IRS?
Hillary’s campaign?
guess we need to keep this one bumped!!!!
I'm not a lawyer but this sounds like complete crockola to me. First of all, the film does not constitute lobbying. Lobbying is an attempt to influence legislation. Although it isn't relevant here, a 501(c)(3) group can in fact engage in a significant amount of lobbying. The law was changed to allow this around 1975.
You can argue that the film is political activity. But what a nonprofit can't do is advocate for a specific candidate. Does the film do that? No. You could even say that it is not an advocacy against Hillary's candidacy but merely an expose of this particular incident. To cite another example, there are nonprofit groups putting out anti-Romney videos (Log Cabin Republicans) and anti-Rudy videos (NY firefighters group). They are not breaking the law because they are not endorsing a specific candidate.
I think you should get this from a lawyer, then file a complaint with the state bar about this creep trying to intimidate you.
Unfortunately, evidence had been withheld by a US Attorney's office. The evidence was a 5-minute video of a taped conversation in which Hillary is directly participating in the solicitation of an illegal hard money, in-kind contribution of approximately $1.6 million. Sorry for the sound quality, but this tells the story. HILLARY FELONIES CAUGHT ON TAPE. There are two other tapes the FBI took under subpoena. They claim to not have them. This coverup far eclipses Watergate. The would have all been exposed by now if Woodward and Bernstein were still alive. (yes, I know)
The video was withheld while the FEC investigated, through the David Rosen trial, and when the Senate Ethics Committee took a look. Hillary was cleared because evidence was hidden. People committed perjury during the Rosen trial. The witnesses with the most direct knowledge were never called. Peter was never called because the Clinton-appointed federal judge called him a conman and thoroughly discredited individual before a word of evidence was hear. Hmmmm, why am I thinking 1919 Black Sox?
http://sweetness-light.com/archive/her-way-on-hillary-crew-and-media-matters
Hillarys Involvement In Media Matters, CREW
From Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton, by Jeff Gerth and Don van Natta, Jr., pp 265-70, which touches upon Mrs. Bill Clintons involvement with the George Soros groups CREW and Media Matters:
The War Room
The first decision Hillary faced as she took over the [Senate Democratic Steering and Outreach Committee] committee in early 2003 was whether to keep the staff director, Jodi Sakol. Sakol, in her early thirties, was already a communications veteran, having worked the beat for Al Gore when he was vice president and during his 2000 presidential campaign
Once she became a member of Hillaryland, Sakol was amazed to discover the loyalty and devotion of Hillarys extended political family
Some of the committees best ideas came from Hillary
HILLARY HAD PAID close attention to how the right wing had shaped the public image of Al Gore, and she knew that there was a need to utilize the newly emerging media on the Internet to fight back against her political enemies. Not surprisingly, there was a more receptive climate for these ideas among liberal activists.
By 2003, John Podestas Center for American Progress was preparing a daily news summary promoting the organizations left-leaning agenda. Every morning, officials from the center would apprise Sakol of their daily message. With the help of outside advisers and Daschles aides, she would then prepare the rapid-response message of the day for Senate Democrats. Sakol found it odd almost backwardsthat outsiders, many of whom were loyal Clintonites, were quietly framing the messages on issues for all the Democrats in the Senate. Hillary had no such reservations, for obvious reasons.
Concurrently, and on her own time, Sakol was involved in discussions about the formation of another nonprofit, left-leaning group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which focused on government corruption. It was Hillarys proactive efforts in this area and her desire to beat the GOP at their own game that prompted CREWs founder, Melanie Sloan, a former prosecutor, to invite Sakol to the initial brainstorming sessions in 2003 where CREW was born. CREW was organized as a tax-exempt nonpartisan group, and on occasion, it has taken on Democratic targets. But since the Congress and the executive branch were in Republican hands at the time of its founding, its investigations were bound to focus on Republicans.
Sakol alerted Hillary and her staff about the newly forming group and its need for Democratic progressive money. The hope was that CREW would prove to be a perfect counterbalance to Judicial Watch, the corruption watchdog that had tormented the Clintons with lawsuits and press conferences throughout the 1990s. Hillarys pollster and strategist Mark Penn became a director and vice president of CREW. CREW could do things the senators couldnt do, Sakol said. And once CREWs charges were out in the press, Sakol noted, other people could cite the findings of the group, which was usually portrayed as nonpartisan in news accounts. CREW played a significant role in unearthing several congressional scandals, including helping a retiring Democratic congressman from Texas to file a complaint against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.
Hillarys other priority upon assuming control of the steering committee had been to improve the communication and message capabilities of Senate Democrats
Soon after taking over the committee, she told Sakol, I want to create a war room in the Senate. Clintons idea was to develop a one-stop shop for communications for the senators that did not exist before.
The 2004 elections, in which the Republican message machine demonstrated its communications prowess, finally woke up Senate Democrats. Among those Democrats losing their seats was Daschle, and his successor, Harry Reid, considered Hillarys idea to be a nobrainer. A few weeks after the election, Reid publicly announced the formation of a war room, allocating the staff and resources that Hillary had unsuccessfully sought. Reid would come to frequently rely on Hillarys advice in figuring out how to respond to urgent issues or craft a daily message.
One of the attendees at the meetings that led to CREWs creation was David Brock, a former enemy turned ally of Hillarys who was starting his own nonprofit group about the same time. Hillary and Brock had forged a seemingly strange alliance. Brocks nonprofit, a Washington-based media-monitoring venture called Media Matters for America, found a temporary home in early 2004 at the Center for American Progress. Already providing its daily news summary to Hillary, the center helped Sakol get the daily media analysis prepared by Media Matters in order to help shape the Senate war-room activities.
Although it was independent, Media Matters had among its earliest supporters and advisers long-standing allies of Hillary and the Democratic Party. One of them, Kelly Craighead, who planned Hillarys trips for eight years when she was First Lady, advised Media Matters on all aspects of its launch. And the new group wasted no time becoming an aggressive protector of Hillarys reputation and boasting about its role as truth police, forcefully going after journalists for what the group deems to be leaving out key information or cherry-picking material. In three years, the group has cited more than seven thousand examples of conservative misinformation, Brock said.
Hillary, though not a close friend of Brocks, advised him and quietly nurtured his nonprofit empire. The watchdogs at Media Matters often rushed to Hillarys defense
In mid-2006, Hillary hired Peter Daou, who in 2004 had directed blog outreach and online rapid response for the Kerry presidential campaign and later worked for Media Matters. Daou, who was raised in Lebanon before eventually settling in Manhattan, viewed the mainstream press as cowardly and sycophantic.
Several weeks before he joined Hillarys campaign, Daou wrote in his blog about the media establishment bending over backwards to accommodate this White House and to regurgitate pro-GOP and anti-Dem spin.
Daou agreed to work for Hillary as a blog adviser because he thought it represented a unique opportunity to put his words into action to facilitate and expand her relationship with the netroots, and to apply what he had learned at Media Matters about the ability of conservative misinformation to become part of the mainstream press. (Long before she hired Daou, Hillary had told an aide that blogs were going to be opinion leaders.)
Daou first became a consultant to her campaign committee and to her political PAC A few weeks later, Daou became a full-fledged member of Hillaryland, assuming the title of Internet director for Hillarys newly launched presidential campaign in 2007
Daou believed that the candidate who makes smart use of the Internet in 2008 will have a decided edge. His boss agreed, but she also made it clear that though she had gone high-tech, she certainly hadnt gone soft. At Hillarys first official presidential campaign stop, she told Democratic activists in Iowa, When you are attacked, you have to deck your opponents. It wasnt just a strategy it turned out to be a prediction too.
And from a little later in the book, pp 313-14:
Just as 1992s election inspired conservatives like Scaife to get involved, the 2000 election was a wake-up call to some wealthy liberals about the reach and influence of the other sides information infrastructure. One of those who responded was Herb Sandler, who, in concert with his wife, Marion, is an enthusiastic supporter of left-leaning causes. At the time, the Sandlers ran World Savings, one of the nations leading savings and loans. Sandler was determined to create an ideological counterweight to conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation. From their base in Oakland, California, the couple tried to apply tough-minded business-management techniques to progressive philanthropy.
Meanwhile, John Podesta, the last chief of staff to President Clinton, had coauthored a memo exploring the need for a liberal think tank. The memo found its way to Sandler, and the two men met in Washington. Podesta, a gaunt marathon runner in his fifties, had long worked the trenches of Washingtons public-policy wars. Sandler, a lanky California businessman with big ideas, was a generation older. Both men were trained as lawyers and knew how to negotiate. Podesta agreed to head up the new entity, and Sandler became the organizations largest donor. Another billionaire supporter of leftist causes, George Soros, also kicked in financial support.
The new tax-exempt group opened its doors in downtown Washington in 2003 as the Center for American Progress. Hillary played a “formative” role in the discussions that preceded the centers launch. She realized that the right had “created an infrastructure that has come to dominate political discourse” and greeted the center as a “welcome effort to fill that void” and create “some new intellectual capital” for her side.
Once its roots were established, the center broadened its financial base by seeking donations from a group of left-leaning donors that came together in 2005 under the umbrella of an organization called the Democracy Alliance. Some alliance members are close to Hillary; by 2007, the alliance was run by Kelly Craighead, a longtime member of Hillaryland. The alliance has some firm rules: Members must donate at least $250,000 per year to approved causes, and the groups seeking their backing must submit proposals to the alliance for screening and agree to keep secret the source of their donations.
The center, though ostensibly nonpartisan, attracted several veterans of the Clinton administration, and conservatives soon regarded it as an important piece of the Clinton empire
But the foundations critics are correct that Podesta has strong links to Hillary. In 1993, as staff secretary to President Clinton, Podesta had prepared a report on the travel office affair that mentioned Hillary, but his investigation and final report ignored or downplayed parts of Hillarys role in the affair. Podesta also served on the secret task force in 2006 that advised Hillary on energy issues.
Soon after the Center for American Progress opened, it began collaborating with Hillary and her staff, prompting one former Hillary aide to describe the relationship between Hillary and the center as “very close.” A key adviser to Hillary, Neera Tanden, has been a center employee in between jobs at Hillarys Senate office and on her campaign committee. After Tanden was hired by Hillarys presidential campaign in early 2007, she was joined by Judd Legum, the centers research director.
Podesta and his center achieved the goal of their backers; the groups studies and officials are frequently cited by both the mainstream media and the increasingly active blogosphere. Podesta is a regular guest on network talk shows. When asked on one of them in late 2006, a few weeks before she had announced her intentions, whether he was ready to support Hillary for president, he enthusiastically endorsed her.
Mind you, this account is from the very leftwing duo of the New York Times reporters, Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta.
For a refresher course on the names and groups involved, check out their entries in Discover The Networks, including John Podesta, the Center for American Progress, CREW, and Media Matters.
Of course it doesnt take a flowchart to see that all of these people are in bed with Hillary, George Soros and the DNC.
Despite each and every one of these groups being granted taxpayer support as non-profit, non-partisan 501c3 “charities.”
You will see in the film that Disney brass flew into NY the day before the July 2001 airing of 20/20 piece by Brian Ross. Every mention of David Rosen was edited out of the piece. During the Rosen trial, his counsel used the fact that Rosen was not mentioned in the piece as part of his defense.
BUMP