What is the first thing a leftist will say when one of Hillary’s minions is caught with his hand in the cookie jar? “Well, she doesn’t have control over what her people do. Stop trying to assign guilt by association.” Will this mantra continue if she is elected President of the United States?
According to Telegraph.co.uk, Hillary has her very own “Karl Rove” in Mark Penn. He is a pollster who is now Hillary’s chief political strategist, and he also has a public relations firm that has been involved with some endeavors quite contrary to the so-called cause celebre of Hillary and the democratic platform. Aren’t they all for the workers and the unions? Perhaps not.
From Yahoo! News, RJ Eskow writes:
“A lot of negative things have been written in the blogosphere about pollster Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton‘s increasingly-powerful advisor. Penn’s critics have focused on his firm’s union-busting work. They’ve also attacked his insistence on promoting a strategy of so-called “centrism,” even as supposedly “centrist” policy positions – especially regarding Iraq – become increasingly unpopular. And now we learn that the PR firm he runs, Burson-Marsteller, has been hired to repair Blackwater’s reputation.”
Uh-oh, “Hillary’s brain” is involved with union busting? That can’t be a good thing. Add to that the association with Blackwater, which has been branded a group of “out of control mercenaries” by the left, and you’ve got a formula for disaster in her campaign.
Penn claims that his firm, Burson Marsteller, is correcting this and that it was a “temporary assignment”, but even the ultra-left Daily Kos isn’t buying that story. Of course, we will have to wait and see how quickly the Clinton machine can bring Kos around on this, but the article is there. Let them try to retract it.
Finally, from Burson Marsteller’s own website in the “About Us” section:
“Burson-Marsteller is a leading global public relations and public affairs firm whose knowledge, strategic insights and innovative programs help drive strong corporate and brand reputations for its clients.”
Oh boy, so not only is “Hillary’s brain” involved with busting unions and out of control mercenaries, they’re also helping “evil big business”. The question now remains whether Hillary will be able to successfully distance her own platform from that of Penn. Certainly, nothing ever stopped the left from attacking Rove and thereby Bush. Will the main stream media play fair in this instance? We’ll have to see.
Is what’s good for the gander also good for the goose?
-Woody
