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mcar

(42,480 posts) Thu May 23, 2019, 04:58 PM May 2019

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Pierce: Elizabeth Warren Has Clouds and Shadows Around Her Campaign. We've Seen This Movie Before.

Elizabeth Warren Has Clouds and Shadows Around Her Campaign. We've Seen This Movie Before.
When you've learned nothing from 2016. Or the decades before.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
MAY 23, 2019

...While another storeroom at Manafort House of Felonies was being pried open, the Post also revealed that Senator Professor Warren was so good at her job, and knew so much about the kind of law she teaches, that people hired her as an expert to help them in actual legal cases. I, for one, am puzzled as to why this is news, especially since it comes from SPW's own disclosure forms. But I have a suspicion that shadows soon will be following this story, and clouds will begin to obscure it. Questions will arise. I know how this stuff works by now.

Warren’s presidential campaign released a list of 56 cases on her website Wednesday night, revealing a far higher number of cases than Warren (D-Mass.) had previously disclosed and lending detail to an aspect of her career that she rarely discusses in public. The Washington Post had requested a detailed accounting of her outside work and was conducting a review of her work from public records.

First of all, at least with regard to the asbestos case, she discussed it all throughout her first Senate campaign because Scott Brown never shut up about it, even though he clearly didn't understand the details of the work she'd done. Second, notice how the bold-faced elements of the story produce the clouds and shadows. That's what they're supposed to do. This is how elite newspapers get into bed with ratfckers like Peter Schweitzer and Clinton Cash....

Bullshit. Pure, unadulterated, stupid bullshit that's been flung at every wealthy candidate who ever tried to rejigger the economy so that most people get a better deal out of it. Both Roosevelts, all of the Kennedys. It's aged-in-the-wood nonsense....

Oh, for the love of god, Marty Baron, this is cheap. You couldn't verify the Dow Corning settlement fund numbers, but you feel safe in saying SPW was cast as X,Y, and Z? And for the cherry on top?

Warren has released only her last 10 years of tax returns, and much of her legal consulting work is not reflected in those documents.

Here's a pro tip: a lot of people, especially women people, watched what happened with the coverage of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her campaign in 2016 and they've grown wise in the ways of clouds and shadows. This kind of thing is going to get called out from now on, and the people writing it should get used to that fact. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on...you don't get fooled again. A president said that once.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a27572664/elizabeth-warren-outside-legal-advice-asbestos/

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Pierce: Elizabeth Warren Has Clouds and Shadows Around Her Campaign. We've Seen This Movie Before. (Original Post) mcar May 2019 OP

Spot f***ing on! Nt Ninga May 2019 #1

"clouds and shadows"?! sheshe2 May 2019 #2

Working successfully in two different areas simultaneously dragonlady May 2019 #33

Love Charles Pierce. Hekate May 2019 #3

red herrings. she connects better than hillary ever did. pansypoo53219 May 2019 #4

She connected fine with those who didn't spit Hortensis May 2019 #35

Thanks to Charles Pierce BlueMTexpat May 2019 #5

You said it well. demigoddess May 2019 #16

+1 grantcart May 2019 #32

hem AllaN01Bear May 2019 #6

Ms. Warren BigOleDummy May 2019 #7

100% with you & most everyone on this thread. k&r, nt appal_jack May 2019 #31

women people?? question everything May 2019 #8

Entwives. paleotn May 2019 #14

Thanks, Mcar. "Elizabeth served as a consultant to ensure adequate compensation Hortensis May 2019 #9

I NEVER thought we would actually have a president dumber than Shrub... Moostache May 2019 #10

She "only" released 10 years of her tax returns? She led the way. How many years pnwmom May 2019 #11

beware posts that bold text that's not bolded in the original source w/out owning up to it nt msongs May 2019 #12

Except the only bolded text I see is the article title ms liberty May 2019 #19

Are you referring to me? mcar May 2019 #22

Might be time to take your monitor to the Geek Squad kcr May 2019 #34

Like I said somehwere else NYMinute May 2019 #13

Why on earth would I care about someone's consulting work over 10 years ago? Honeycombe8 May 2019 #15

Just another Wapo hit piece against a woman candidate mcar May 2019 #23

Bring on the smoke and shadows. warmfeet May 2019 #17

K&R Kurt V. May 2019 #18

The corrupt-corporate-Dems smear is so worn out it has holes in its shoes. betsuni May 2019 #20

I am too mcar May 2019 #24

It's a Problem if a Woman Earns Money? Seriously? dlk May 2019 #21

That seemed to be the thrust of the WaPo piece mcar May 2019 #25

Good Grief, it's 2019-The US is so Backward Sometimes dlk May 2019 #28

Yep mcar May 2019 #29

K&R for visibility. nt tblue37 May 2019 #26

K&R n/t ariadne0614 May 2019 #27

Wado...................Thank you............ Charlie Pierce.........for telling like it is.......... turbinetree May 2019 #30

Someone to the left of Sen. Warren NYMinute May 2019 #36

Not this time mcar May 2019 #37

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1. Spot f***ing on! Nt