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</div><div>cjr</div><div>...LATE ONE AFTERNOON IN JULY, I met with Matthew Continetti, editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon, in a pizzeria on the ground floor of the Watergate—the DC office complex that stands today as a concrete brutalist monument to the most iconic journalistic triumph of the 20th century. Continetti is not a bomb-thrower by nature. He is polite and cerebral and meticulous about his diction—often pausing for several seconds to consider his words before answering a question. On the day we met, he had just come from George Washington University, where he teaches a class on the history of the intellectual conservative movement.<div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Continetti grew up in the middle-class suburbs of northern Virginia with parents whom he describes as not “particularly political.” His conversion to conservatism came at Columbia University, while studying Plato’s Republic during an undergrad class on political philosophy. It was around this same time that he decided to pursue journalism, writing articles for the student newspaper as well as for a conservative national magazine called Campus. Aspiring journalists who lean to the right often face a choice as they prepare to enter the industry: try to carve out a career in the mainstream press, or follow the well-trod path into conservative media? Continetti opted for the latter—working as an intern at National Review while he was attending Columbia, and becoming a star writer at The Weekly Standard after graduating. (In 2012, he married Anne Kristol, the daughter of Bill Kristol, the magazine’s founder.)</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The site Continetti edits today contains a fair amount of trolling—a running series of Kate Upton clickbait; winking headlines like “Greatest Living President Is Also Fantastic Painter”—but it has also earned a reputation for real-deal journalism. Its reporters run down leads, work their sources, call for comment, and issue corrections when necessary. If a partisan press really is the future, we could do worse than the Free Beacon.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I hoped Continetti might have a more optimistic outlook on the world after the mainstream media’s demise. But as we spoke, he was unremittingly bearish on the prospect that any 21st-century outlet could win the trust of a broad, diverse cross-section of news consumers. “One of the reasons there’s no common denominator in media is there’s really no common denominator in American life,” he told me. “As a general rule, we are a divided society. We have very real disagreements about values, about what’s important.”[ --> choice of "facts"]</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I couldn’t help but interject: Shouldn’t facts be the common denominator? I asked, painfully aware that I was exhibiting the kind of journalistic sanctimony that the Free Beacon regularly ridicules.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Continetti exhaled, patiently, and shook his head. “I think the problem you describe is unsolvable,” he told me. “People are going to believe what they want. It’s not my job to tell them what to believe. It’s my job to edit a site that provides new information and adds value every day. Certainly, there are many people, like Howard Dean, who say it’s ‘fake news.’ But OK, I’m not going to control what Howard Dean thinks. He has every right.” A smirk appeared on Continetti’s face. “And I don’t believe a word he says, either.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IN MANY WAYS, Donald Trump was the perfect candidate to channel the conservative media—the talk radio id personified and plopped onto a debate stage. As someone whose status as a perpetually aggrieved media critic long predated his conversion to conservatism, Trump quickly discovered that rank-and-file Republican voters were an enthusiastic audience for his gripes about the press.[recycled newt debate riposte?]  And as Trump worked to reinvent himself as a Republican political celebrity, he naturally took his cues from the popular right-wing media. His first major foray into conservative politics was as the world’s most famous “birther,” championing a conspiracy theory that was gaining steam on talk radio and right-wing blogs. Later, as a candidate, he punctuated his stump speeches with stories he’d read on Breitbart and parroted the talking points he’d picked up watching Fox & Friends.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump did face real opposition in the primaries from the conservative intelligentsia. Kristol and New York Times op-ed columnist Ross Douthat were early and outspoken critics, while National Review published an entire anti-Trump issue in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses. But those with the loudest megaphones—people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity—saw Trump’s affection for them and their tribe, and rewarded it by providing the kind of boosterism that Mitt Romney would have sold one of his sons for.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And so, when Trump won in 2016, it wasn’t just a victory for him and his campaign. It was a coup for the conservative media, whose destructionist attitude toward the mainstream press can now be found at virtually every level—from the hosts of Fox News, to the ascendant internet personalities of the alt-right. “Nothing is grander, nothing is more glorious, nothing is more satisfying, nothing is sweeter, nothing is more validating, nothing is better for America than the death of the mainstream media’s political power,” John Nolte crowed in the Daily Wire the day after the election.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Gateway Pundit flatly declared, “The mainstream media is your enemy.” And Infowars captured the sentiment by featuring an editorial cartoon depicting right-wing media figures as asteroids hurtling toward earth where news-network dinosaurs await their “extinction.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a decidedly dystopian spin on service journalism, some in the conservative media have begun providing their audiences with how-to guides for finishing off the journalistic establishment. Limbaugh told his listeners they should stop consuming news from the mainstream press altogether. “I’ll let you know what they’re up to,” he assured them. “And as a bonus, I’ll nuke it!” Hannity urged his viewers to start targeting individual journalists—and their bosses—on social media. And the alt-right blogger Roosh Valizadeh has called for a coordinated campaign of bullying aimed at reporters. “Make them appear as ‘uncool’ salarymen in the eyes of the public,” he wrote. “Mock their appearance, their mannerisms, and their weaknesses.”</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It would be easy to dismiss all this as performative, and ultimately harmless, trolling. But if the Trump era has taught us anything, it should be that these elements of the conservative media are not to be underestimated. In 2016, they conquered the Republican Party. Now they’re coming for the press.</div><div times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><div class="article-auth" style="margin-top: 20px;"><div class="auth-byline" style="display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"> <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/steve_peoples/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Steve Peoples</a> & <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/zeke_miller/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Zeke Miller</a>
October 28, 2017</div></div><div class="clear" style="width: 647.422px; height: 2px; margin: 5px 0px; display: inline-block;"></div><div class="article-body-text" style="clear: both; line-height: 1.9em; padding: 0px 5px 10px 0px; margin-top: -30px;">NEW YORK (AP) — A conservative website with strong ties to the Republican establishment triggered the investigation into Donald Trump’s past that ultimately produced the dossier that alleged a compromised relationship between the president and the Kremlin.The Washington Free Beacon on Friday confirmed it originally retained the political research firm Fusion GPS to scour then-candidate Trump’s background for negative information, a common practice known as “opposition research” in politics. Leaders from the Free Beacon, which is funded largely by Republican billionaire Paul Singer, insisted none of the early material it collected appeared in the dossier released later in the year detailing explosive allegations, many uncorroborated, about Trump compiled by a former British spy.<div class="ad_wrapper_box" style="width: auto; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: left; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“During the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary, just as we retained other firms to assist in our research into Hillary Clinton,” wrote the site’s editor-in-chief, Matthew Continetti, and chairman Michael Goldfarb. They continued: “The Free Beacon had no knowledge of or connection to the Steele dossier, did not pay for the dossier, and never had contact with, knowledge of, or provided payment for any work performed by Christopher Steele.”Earlier in the week, reports revealed that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee continued funding Fusion’s work after the original GOP source lost interest.Trump this week called it a “disgrace” that Democrats had helped pay for research that produced the document. But the original source of the research remained a secret.<div class="ad_wrapper_box" style="width: auto; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: left; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The president himself hinted that he knew the Republican source earlier in the week, but he refused to share it. The White House had no immediate comment Friday night about the Free Beacon’s involvement.The Washington Free Beacon was initially founded as a project of the conservative nonprofit group Center for American Freedom, as an alternative to liberal news sites run by progressive nonprofits. The Center for American Freedom was organized as a 501(c)4 and did not reveal its donors, but Singer was the sole funder of the site as recently as 2014, according to a Republican political veteran familiar with the site. The veteran spoke on condition of anonymity to detail the newspaper’s financial background.The Free Beacon first retained Fusion to investigate Trump in the fall of 2015 and ended its relationship after Trump secured the Republican presidential nomination in late spring of 2016, according to a person close to Goldfarb, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share private discussions.The website and its leaders have strong ties throughout the Republican establishment. Goldfarb was deputy communications director on John McCain’s presidential campaign. Singer was backing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid at the time of the Free Beacon’s involvement. And one of Singer’s closest associates, Republican operative Dan Senor, served as Speaker Ryan’s chief adviser during the 2012 president campaign.<div class="ad_wrapper_box" style="width: auto; padding: 0px; display: inline; float: left; position: relative; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A representative to Singer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Rubio denied any knowledge of the Fusion research or the dossier this week.“As far as whether it was my campaign, it wasn’t and I’ll tell you why,” he told CNN. “I was running for president. I was trying to win. If I had anything against Donald Trump that was relevant and credible and politically damaging, I would’ve used it. I didn’t have it.”The document, compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele, emerged this year as a political flashpoint in the broader debate over Trump’s ties to Russia.A person close to Singer said the billionaire was not aware of Steele’s involvement or the dossier until earlier this year when it was published. The person was not authorized to share internal discussions.Law enforcement officials have worked to corroborate the dossier’s claims. James Comey, FBI director at the time, advised Trump about the existence of the allegations, and Steele has been questioned as part of an ongoing probe into possible coordination between Russia and the Trump camp.The U.S. intelligence community has determined that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election. Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating the Russian interference and whether it was tied to Trump’s campaign.The House Intelligence Committee will help verify whether the Free Beacon had any involvement with Steele or his dossier, according to Jack Langer, a spokesman for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes.“The Beacon has agreed to cooperate with the House Intelligence Committee to help the Committee verify this assertion,” Langer said.Miller reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Chad Day, Mary Clare Jalonick, Stephen Braun and Tom LoBianco in Washington contributed to this report.<div id="author-bio"><div id="author-bio"><div class="clear" style="width: 647.422px; height: 2px; margin: 5px 0px; display: inline-block;"></div><div id="related-footer" style="margin: 0px 0px 30px;">Related Topics: <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/stream/?topic=fusion_gps" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fusion GPS</a>, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/stream/?topic=media" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Media</a>, <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/stream/?topic=donald_trump" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a></div></div><div>
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</div><div>=</div><div>1119 devin nunes in opening of impeach raise dems use of steele doss</div><div>=<a href="https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/washington-free-beacon-private">https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/washington-free-beacon-private</a>2014 page 6 w/ loly]Washington Free Beacon, which has operated under the auspices of the Center for American Freedom since its inception in 2012, announced Monday that it’s breaking from the conservative think tank and “taking its talents to the free market.”In a post that was accompanied by a gif of a bikini-clad Kate Upton licking a popsicle, Free Beacon founder Michael Goldfarb and editor-in-chief Matthew Continetti <a href="http://freebeacon.com/blog/privatizing-combat-journalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0);">laid out their lofty vision for the site.</a><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 6px solid rgb(195, 195, 195); margin: 32px 16px; padding: 0px 16px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since its launch in February 2012, the Free Beacon has been a project of the Center for American Freedom, a nonprofit that has graciously supported our reporters, editors, and contributors. But we have large ambitions. And in order for the Free Beacon to grow, for it to take its rightful place alongside the New York Times and the Washington Post, it must become a newspaper like any other—online in our case, but making its way in the private sector, funded by investors, sustained by advertisers, and seeking out elusive Mexican oligarchs.Goldfarb and Continetti also wrote that the Center for American Freedom “has been renamed and reconfigured as the Center for American Opportunity” and will be ushering in the new era with the launch of Opportunity Lives, which they described as “a news platform devoted to highlighting stories of success, entrepreneurship, and problem-solving across the United States.”</blockquote>Since its founding more than two years ago, the Free Beacon has relished its subversive role on the right, embracing a concept referred to as “combat journalism.”Continetti described the idea in <a href="http://freebeacon.com/columns/combat-journalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0);">a 2012 dictum</a> that heralded the site’s launch.<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; border-left: 6px solid rgb(195, 195, 195); margin: 32px 16px; padding: 0px 16px; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What would happen, though, if a website covered the left in the same way that the left covers the right? What picture of the world would one have in mind if the morning paper read like the New York Times—but with the subjects of the stories and the assumptions built into the text changed to reflect a conservative, not liberal, worldview? What would happen if the media wolf pack suddenly had to worry about an aerial hunting operation?You are about to find out. The Washington Free Beacon is here to enter the arena of combat journalism. Our talented staff will add to the chorus of enterprising conservative reporters, publishing original stories, seeking out scoops, and focusing on the myriad connections between money and power in the progressive movement and Obama’s Washington. Our research and war room divisions will supplement that reporting with context, additional materials, and breaking video. At the Beacon, you will find the other half of the story, the half that the elite media have taken such pains to ignore: the inside deals, cronyism cloaked in the public interest, and far-out nostrums of contemporary progressivism and the Democratic Party. At the Beacon, all friends of freedom will find an alternative to the hackneyed spin, routine misstatements, paranoid hyperbole, and insipid folderol of Democratic officials and the liberal gasbags on MSNBC and talk radio. At the Beacon, we follow only one commandment: Do unto them.</blockquote>In a 2013 interview with the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/us/politics/michael-goldfarb-gleeful-provocateur-at-intersection-of-many-worlds.html?pagewanted=all" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0);">New York Times,</a> Goldfarb acknowledged the Free Beacon’s cheeky side.“We’re true believers, but we’re also troublemakers, and if you look at the work we do, a lot of it has a sense of humor,” Goldfarb said. Though he said The Beacon had made a serious investment in its journalism, nonetheless, “We get up every day and say, how do we cause trouble?”<div>=</div></div></div>spock cares only for himslf? http://freebeacon.com/columns/i-dont-love-spock/vs ayn rand?never trumper?=Here are three Bush-era neocons who liberals and progressives often find themselves commiserating with during the Trump years.1. Bill KristolNative New Yorker Bill Kristol is the son of the late Irving Kristol—who has been called the Godfather of Neoconservatism—and the founder of the Weekly Standard. Irving Kristol was a Trotskyist during his youth but later abandoned communism, became a right-wing Republican and championed an extremely interventionist foreign policy. And Bill Kristol was greatly influenced by his father, whose neoconservative ideology went way beyond believing in a strong military and peace through strength—neocons believe in nation-building, unlike libertarians such as Ron Paul and Gary Johnson or paleoconservatives like Patrick Buchanan (whose isolationist and protectionist views were a <a href="https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/donald-trumps-presidency-has-helped-buchananism-achieve-prominence-gop-politics" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">major influence</a> on President Trump).The neocon obsession with nation-building was very much at work when, after 9/11, Bill Kristol was encouraging the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of dictator Saddam Hussein. The Iraq War turned out to be one of the worst foreign policy disasters in U.S. history, and many liberal and progressive critics of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney’s foreign policy found common ground with anti-interventionist right-wingers ranging from Buchanan to Paul to Justin Raimondo (the libertarian/paleoconservative known for serving as editorial director of Antiwar.com and suffering a landslide defeat of 72% when he ran for a House of Representatives seat against Rep. Nancy Pelosi in 1996).<interaction data-token="5b96855f8198b4e625350260" data-context="true" data-tags="" data-fallback="true" />But in 2018, the liberals, progressives and centrists at MSNBC often find themselves bonding with Kristol in opposition to Trump’s presidency. Kristol hasn’t moved to the left politically; he is as right-wing as ever, but he views Trump as a foreign-policy disaster—and MSNBC’s hosts, from liberal Rachel Maddow to centrist Chris Matthews—agree. Whenever Trump attacks the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Kristol is happy to appear on MSNBC and defend NATO. And Kristol is so fiercely anti-Trump that his nonprofit Defending Democracy Together is seeking a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/14/bill-kristol-prepares-2020-primary-juggernaut-to-take-on-trump.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">Republican candidate</a> to challenge Trump in a GOP presidential primary in 2020. 5 Fast Facts You Need to KnowBy Paul FarrellUpdated Oct 27, 2017 at 9:06pmMatthew ContinettiScreengrab via C-SPANThe editor of conservative news outlet the Washington Free Beacon has admitted that they were behind funding the infamous Trump dossier. In editorial on the Free Beacon’s website, editor Matthew Continetti said, “During the 2016 election cycle we retained Fusion GPS to provide research on multiple candidates in the Republican presidential primary.” Continetti goes on to say that “none of the work product that the Free Beacon received appears in the Steele dossier.” The Steele dossier refers to former British secret service agent Christopher Steele. His dossier included the allegation that Donald Trump observed to Russian prostitutes engaging in a golden shower sex act inside of a hotel room in Moscow. That hotel room had been used by President Obama a few months previous. The Free Beacon’s role in the dossier was first brought to light thanks to reporting by the Washington Examiner.
Here’s what you need to know about the editor of the Free Beacon:
1. Continetti Is Married to the Daughter of Conservative Icon Bill KristolBill Kristol, Bill Kristol Meet the Press, Bill Kristol third partyScreengrab via NBC
Continetti married Anne Kristol in February 2012, according to their New York Times wedding announcement. Her father is conservative icon and editor of the Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol. The pair were married at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington D.C.
According to Continetti’s LinkedIn page, he attended Columbia University in New York City. In July 2003, he went to work for Bill Kristol’s Weekly Standard, remaining there until December 2011. In 2012, the Washington Free Beacon began operating with Continetti as editor-in-chief.
2. Continetti Says: ‘Kate Upton Stands for Everything Good About America’Kate Upton runway shotIn an interview with ABC News, Continetti was asked about the Free Beacon becoming a private website. The site used a gif of model Kate Upton to help get the word out. The interviewer said that the gif “isn’t something the Weekly Standard, for example, would do.” To which Continetti responded, “Kate Upton stands for everything good about America. I can’t imagine an approach to conservatism that excludes her. Indeed, I would say Kate Upton is American freedom personified. What better way to announce that the Free Beacon is now for-profit? It got your attention.
3. Continetti Is a Big Fan of Sarah PalinContinetti literally wrote the book on Sarah Palin. It was titled, Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star. In October 2010, Continetti wrote in the Washington Post about the myths surrounding Palin. Continetti contends that Palin didn’t cost Senator McCain the election, that Palin could mount a 2012 election challenge and that Palin was a uniting force within the Tea Party and GOP.
4. Continetti Really Dislikes, President Obama, Glenn Beck & Dr. SpockLeonard Nimoy, StarTrek50, Star Trek anniversary, Live Long and ProsperA major part of Continetti’s fawning over Sarah Palin comes from his dislike for President Obama. Continetti specifically believed that President Obama’s Syria policy demonstrated American weakness and that the American media was blindly allegiant to the Obama White House.In August 2016, Continetti told NPR that he believed Trump’s comments after the riots in Charlottesville were “unpresidential.” He added, “[General.]Kelly sees his job as managing the staff not the president. And it seems like no one can manage the president of the United States.”
5. The Free Beacon’s Admission Comes as the First Charges Have Been Laid Out by Robert MuellerAs news of the Free Beacon’s role in the dossier becomes more public, CNN reported that the first charges in the investigation into Russia’s involvement in the 2016 election have been laid. The network says that those in question could be taken into custody on October 30.
=confusing conscience? mystery sorta solved, Mr Bellow:married the boss's dtrhttp://observer.com/2006/04/the-rightwing-scion-king/ObserverThe Right-Wing Scion KingBy Sheelah Kolhatkar • 04/10/06 12:00amThe Right Wing Scion KingIn two weeks, Doubleday will ship copies of The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine, a book about Republican corruption and the Jack Abramoff scandal. Doubleday editor-at-large Adam Bellow came up with the idea shortly after the Presidential election in 2004. After selling his boss—William Thomas, the editor in chief of Doubleday/Broadway—on the concept, he needed to find someone to write it. So he did what any media-savvy individual in search of fresh, right-leaning blood would do: He telephoned The Weekly Standard’s editor, Bill Kristol.Mr. Kristol suggested one of his own reporters, Matthew Continetti, 25, for the gig. “I won’t say [the book] was my idea, but I might have urged [Matthew] to follow this subject,” said Mr. Kristol. “Maybe it was me or someone else who said, ‘Maybe there’s a book there.’”Mr. Bellow, who in the past has edited such conservative writers as Dinesh D’Souza and Wendy Shalit, helped his lucky new scribe hammer out a proposal, which Mr. Kristol and others reviewed. In early 2005, author and editor signed a deal for a relatively modest advance in the mid-five figures. A robust publicity tour has been planned, including appearances on many cable-TV news programs, but Mr. Continetti was forbidden by his publisher from speaking to the press until after his book goes on sale on April 18.His editor, however, was happy to discuss the book. “I had a sentiment that things were not going to go so well in the second term, for either Bush as a President or for the Congressional Republicans,” said Mr. Bellow over a seafood lunch on March 30. He said The K Street Gang became more focused on Mr. Abramoff after the indictments began, but the book was originally intended to cover the scandals about payments for favorable press too. “I was really eager to blow the cover off that whole thing,” Mr. Bellow said, “and I wanted it to be us that did it. I didn’t want to read that in The Nation. Heh, heh.”Before Mr. Continetti found himself completing his first book, he was treading a path through a system that connects such ideologically aligned dots as Mr. Bellow, Mr. Kristol and himself. And his now-exemplary résumé—magazine-staff position, nonfiction contract, TV appearances—provides a glimpse into the way that the conservative media machine enlists its young foot soldiers and transforms them into wonder-boy pundits.Mr. Continetti graduated in 2003 from Columbia University, where he wrote for the campus’ mainstream9yup tony kushner, kerpuac, _] newspaper, the Columbia Spectator. He was awarded a 2002 summer internship at the National Review through the Collegiate Network, a division of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute that was founded by Irving Kristol and William Simon Sr. in 1979, which directs money into American colleges to fight what it characterizes as liberal bias on campuses. The Collegiate Network has an operating budget of approximately $1 million and gives $3,000 grants to right-wing college newspapers across the country (around $200,000 in total.) The organization just launched an online wire service in conjunction with the National Review, The Weekly Standard, The American Spectator and The American Conservative, which allows students to download articles from the magazines for use in their campus papers, and vice versa.The network also funds yearlong fellowships, of which Mr. Continetti was a recipient upon graduation. He spent his year at The Weekly Standard as a fellow under Fred Barnes and received a stipend of approximately $28,000 from the network; when it was over, the magazine hired him full time.And now there’s the book deal. Mr. Bellow said that he was taught a “whole generational theory of publishing” by his mentor at the Free Press, Erwin Glikes, who had hired him based on a recommendation from Irving Kristol (who was an acquaintance of his father, Saul Bellow). The theory consisted of finding the best of the younger generation and giving them book contracts.“And for some reason, there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of bright young people,” Mr. Bellow said. “I don’t know where they come from, but they show up in your office. And they have ideas that never occurred to you.”
THERE’S A PERCEPTION IN SOME CIRCLES that the right is much better at reaching out to young people and drawing them into the fold: A progressive-minded college student is lucky to find a job licking envelopes for Greenpeace, but a conservative one might be given his own talk show.“I think that over the last two generations, the right has just been really well organized,” said Mark Gerson, the C.E.O. of the Gerson Lehrman Group, who signed a book contract with Mr. Bellow for In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School that Works in 1995, when he was 23. “The conservatives really do a terrific job in cultivating young conservatives—I mean, 18- and 19-year-olds.”Mr. Gerson recalled that when he was working on his senior thesis in college (which became a book called The Neoconservative Vision: From the Cold War to the Culture Wars), he wrote to William Kristol and asked to interview him for the project. Mr. Kristol agreed, and it led to a summer working at The Weekly Standard.“College newspapers received funding; there was the Madison Center. I had an internship at the Heritage Foundation in 1992,” Mr. Gerson said. “It was just much more institutionalized. I don’t know why [the left] didn’t do the same thing. It wouldn’t have been that hard to copy.”David Brock, who renounced his role as a Republican media star in the late 1990’s and is now the president of Media Matters for America, said that he got a job out of college at The Washington Times, and a fellowship through the Heritage Foundation to fund the writing of a book. John Podhoretz, who was then his newspaper editor, sent him to two conservative literary agents, Glen Hartley and Lynn Chu of Writers Representatives (who are also Mr. Continetti’s agents). It led to the publication of The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story, a takedown of Ms. Hill that became a best-seller.“It seems as if, regardless of the quality of the book, there’s an infinite amount of conservative radio available to promote them,” Mr. Brock said. “That just isn’t in place on the liberal side. And you can walk right onto Fox with your conservative book, and that doesn’t exist either. Everything the conservatives have built is related to one another; they’re all parts of one machine.”The New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he’d caught the attention of William F. Buckley Jr. when he was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. However, Mr. Brooks added, he’d always thought that Charles Peters, the founding editor of the liberal Washington Monthly, “was the god of this. If you look around—Michael Kinsley, James Bennett,” he said, listing Washington Monthly alumni.
Mr. Brooks finds his own younglings, including his former assistant Reihan Salam (who now works as a producer for the Chris Matthews show and is also working on a book for Mr. Bellow with The Atlantic’s Ross Douthat), by “calling around.” When asked if his assistants had to be conservative-minded, Mr. Brooks said no, but “I guess I’d prefer them not to hate me.”
Similarly, Andrew Sullivan listed Marty Peretz at The New Republic as a nurturer of liberal talent. Mr. Sullivan has encouraged several younger writers himself, including Mr. Salam, Mr. Douthat and Julian Sanchez from Reason, by giving them jobs helping out on his blog.
“I’ve found that young minds are often sharpest and more fearless,” Mr. Sullivan said by e-mail. “They have yet to become afraid of social pressure and write more freely.”
SOMETIMES, HANDING TO MUCH RESPONSIBILITY to someone inexperienced can backfire. The Washington Post learned this when it discovered that Ben Domenech, the 24-year-old “social conservative” they’d appointed to write a blog called Red America on The Post’s Web site, had been accused of plagiarizing articles in his past life.At a journalism conference at N.Y.U. on March 25, James Brady, the executive editor of Washingtonpost.com said, “We did a fairly extensive background check, or so we thought.” He said that most of the bloggers on the Web site are Post reporters, but that none of them were writing to the “social conservative” part of the political spectrum, which led them to hire Mr. Domenech based on his own blog, Redstate.org.When asked whether the standards were somehow different for hiring a conservative writer from those for non-conservative bloggers or columnists, Mr. Brady said: “The short version is that we played with fire and we got burned. We wanted someone that we knew would be provocative. When you’re looking for somebody to be especially provocative, you’re already starting right on the edge.”
They had eight or 10 people of varying ages on their short list, he said, and they checked references and had them write sample posts for a couple of weeks before choosing. “We were expecting him to fire up a lot of people,” Mr. Brady continued, “and in the two days he was writing, that’s what he was doing. People were going bananas on the site.”
(Mr. Domenech said by e-mail, “As for mentoring from fellow conservatives, I had none, at least nothing significant, until I was about 21—and even then it was only learning by example. The last instance of plagiarism I was accused of was when I was 19, so you can draw some conclusion from that if you like.”)
But Mr. Kristol, who’s teaching at Harvard this semester, didn’t seem ready to acknowledge that conservatives have a more robust system for molding conservative boys into men. Even so, he did admit that he sometimes goes out of his way to help people.
“I do it because there’s a real risk when you get older, and you become slightly well-known and established, that you could just talk to yourself and your friends and end up in a closed circle and become intellectually stale,” said Mr. Kristol. “[Young people] often rebel and challenge their elders. Now I think it’s important, since there is more of a conservative establishment, to resist the temptation to behave like an establishment.”
Mr. Kristol added: “It’s encouraging to find bright young people, and even more encouraging to find bright young people who mostly agree with you.”no more mr nice blogAnne Elizabeth Kristol, a daughter of Susan S. Kristol and William Kristol of McLean, Va., is to be married Sunday evening to Matthew Joseph Continetti, a son of Cathy Continetti and Joseph F. Continetti of Springfield, Va. Rabbi David Kalender is to officiate at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington.

The bride, 26, who will be taking her husband's name, is studying for a master's in secondary education at George Washington University. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis.

Her father is the editor of The Weekly Standard, the political journal, in Washington. The bride is a granddaughter of Gertrude Himmelfarb, the historian and author, and the late Irving Kristol, the political commentator and author.

The bridegroom, 30, is the editor of The Washington Free Beacon, a political Web site, and works in Washington. He is also a contributing editor for The Weekly Standard. He is the author of ... "The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star." ... Yup -- there's going to be another generation of wingnut purebreds in the Kristol dynasty. Bill Kristol and the rest of his family and friends have had their eye on young Mr. Continetti for quite a while, as you learn when you go back to read <a href="http://www.observer.com/2006/04/the-rightwing-scion-king/" style="text-decoration: none; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, " palatino="Palatino" linotype="Linotype" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height">this 2006 New York Observer article,</a> which I've quoted here a few times: ... Doubleday editor-at-large Adam Bellow came up with the idea [for Continetti's first book] shortly after the Presidential election in 2004. ... he needed to find someone to write it. So he did what any media-savvy individual in search of fresh, right-leaning blood would do: He telephoned The Weekly Standard's editor, Bill Kristol.

Mr. Kristol suggested one of his own reporters, Matthew Continetti, 25, for the gig....

Mr. Bellow, who in the past has edited such conservative writers as Dinesh D'Souza and Wendy Shalit, helped his lucky new scribe hammer out a proposal, which Mr. Kristol and others reviewed....

Before Mr. Continetti found himself completing his first book, he was treading a path through a system that connects such ideologically aligned dots as Mr. Bellow, Mr. Kristol and himself....

Mr. Continetti ...was awarded a 2002 summer internship at theNational Review through the Collegiate Network, a division of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute that was founded by Irving Kristol and William Simon Sr. in 1979, which directs money into American colleges to fight what it characterizes as liberal bias on campuses....

The network also funds yearlong fellowships, of which Mr. Continetti was a recipient upon graduation. He spent his year at The Weekly Standard as a fellow under Fred Barnes and received a stipend of approximately $28,000 from the network; when it was over, the magazine hired him full time....

And now there's the book deal. Mr. Bellow said that he was taught a "whole generational theory of publishing" by his mentor at the Free Press, Erwin Glikes, who had hired him based on a recommendation from Irving Kristol (who was an acquaintance of his father,, Saul Bellow). The theory consisted of finding the best of the younger generation and giving them book contracts.... You read this and you really start to think Continetti was chosen and groomed for breeding purposes. (And yes, I don't blame you if you read about Continetti and ask yourself, "This guy was best in show?")==

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It's not on the brink anymore. As Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay dominate the political headlines, Continetti has written a hastily assembled but timely account of GOP corruption -- instigated, he writes, by "K Street Conservatives" who have shed their movement's libertarian heritage and become enthralled with power and the pursuit of personal wealth. The K Street Gang carries additional weight because its charges come not from a liberal author or even a nonpartisan reporter but from a card-carrying conservative. The book is arguably the most detailed chronicle to date of how some of Continetti's erstwhile allies made a wrong turn in the past decade.

The fiasco began, he argues, when Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was elected House majority whip in December 1994, just one month after the GOP won control of both houses of Congress. DeLay was interested not in promoting small-government conservatism but in tightening his party's grip on power. He flung open the doors of the Capitol, working with lobbyists to raise money to reinforce his majority while giving big business its cut. Republican lawmakers inserted pet provisions into bills, and the size of government actually expanded -- flying, Continetti notes, in the face of the GOP's traditional Reaganite agenda.

Enter Jack Abramoff, an ex-Hollywood producer who financed B-movie flops before joining the law firm Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds in late 1994. DeLay was about to create golden opportunities for men like Abramoff -- and the tycoon-turned-lobbyist took full advantage.

According to Continetti, Abramoff's stock in trade was wrapping his clients' causes in anti-government-meddling rhetoric. Abramoff saw the Northern Mariana Islands as "a free-market utopia" (in Continetti's phrase) and arranged junkets there for DeLay and other conservative lawmakers, many of whom relaxed at the Hyatt Regency and played golf. DeLay called the Marianas "a perfect Petri dish of capitalism" and insisted that they should not be subjected to federal labor laws.

Abramoff had plenty of unsavory companions on K Street. When the conservative activist Grover Norquist wanted to raise funds in 1999 for his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, he asked Abramoff (a friend from their days as College Republicans) to plug a "$75K hole in my budget"; Abramoff leaned on his Indian clients to donate money to Norquist's organization.

The hypocrisy was rampant. Continetti writes that the principles of former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed "appear to be no match for his profit margins." Faced with legislation in Louisiana that would have reduced the proceeds to one of Abramoff's Indian gaming clients, Reed deployed what he described as "pro-family forces" to defeat the bill.

Some of DeLay's former aides -- most notably Michael Scanlon, a DeLay press secretary turned lobbyist -- made bundles working with Abramoff. Adopting a scheme called "Gimme Five," Scanlon signed contracts with Abramoff's clients and kicked back proceeds to Abramoff -- without telling their clients that the two men were working together. At one point, Abramoff e-mailed Scanlon to ask whether he could "smell the money?!?!?!" The question had to have been rhetorical: Scanlon at one point was spending $17,000 per month to rent an apartment at Washington's Ritz-Carlton and using a helicopter to visit his $4.7 million mansion in Rehoboth Beach, Del. All told, Abramoff and Scanlon made more than $66 million over three years while doing what Continetti calls shoddy work for their Indian tribe gaming clients -- and while Abramoff was referring to them in e-mails as "troglodytes" and "monkeys."

Unfortunately, Continetti's account feels unfinished: These scandals are still unfolding, after all. Some of his terms are also confusing, his biographical sketches of his antiheroes are too cursory to put the scandals into their proper context, and his narrative jumps inconsistently from one scandal-laden episode to the next. Moreover, according to Continetti's endnotes, his book is based almost entirely on e-mails previously released by the Senate's Indian Affairs Committee, criminal complaints against Abramoff and others, and newspaper and magazine articles chronicling the Abramoff saga, including the groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize-winning pieces by The Washington Post's Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith.

Still, Continetti's book is useful because it suggests that conservatives are now more ensnared than ever: DeLay's GOP remained in power in part because he so successfully figured out how to work with K Street to keep it there. Now that DeLay has announced his resignation from Congress and Abramoff and other "K Street Conservatives" have entered guilty pleas in federal courts, the right's struggle to regain its credibility will remain one of the outstanding questions of American politics for years to come. Can conservatives repair the damage done by the K Street scandals? Continetti suggests that they have their work cut out for them.

Reviewed by Matthew Dallek

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Matthew Joseph Continetti<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-nyt1-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> (born June 24, 1981) is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">conservative</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">journalist</a> and editor-in-chief of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Free_Beacon" title="The Washington Free Beacon" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Washington Free Beacon</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-Beacon-2" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[2]</a>

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Continetti was born in Alexandria, Virginia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[3]</a> He is the son of Cathy (née Finn) and Joseph F. Continetti.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-nyt1-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a> Continetti graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Columbia University</a> in 2003.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-isi-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a>While in college he wrote for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Spectator" class="mw-redirect" title="Columbia Spectator" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Columbia Spectator</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercollegiate_Studies_Institute" title="Intercollegiate Studies Institute" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Intercollegiate Studies Institute</a>'s magazine, CAMPUS.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-isi-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a> In summer 2002 he did a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collegiate_Network" title="Collegiate Network" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Collegiate Network</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internship" title="Internship" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">internship</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Review" title="National Review" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">National Review</a>, where he worked as a research assistant for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Lowry" title="Rich Lowry" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Rich Lowry</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-isi-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[5]</a> He joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard" title="The Weekly Standard" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Weekly Standard</a> as an editorial assistant, and later became associate editor.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-isi-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[4]</a>

His articles and reviews have also appeared in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The New York Times</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal" title="The Wall Street Journal" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Washington Post</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Los_Angeles_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Los Angeles Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Los Angeles Times</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Financial_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="The Financial Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Financial Times</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-weekly-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[6]</a> He has also been an on-camera contributor to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloggingheads.tv" title="Bloggingheads.tv" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Bloggingheads.tv</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[7]</a> He has criticized <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Glenn Beck</a> as "nonsense."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[8]</a> He has argued the American media turned on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin" title="Sarah Palin" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Sarah Palin</a> during the 2008 campaign because they had blind allegiance to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Barack Obama</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[9]</a> He has criticized American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academia" title="Academia" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">academia</a> as uniformly <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_politics" title="Left-wing politics" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">left wing</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[10]</a>

Continetti lives in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington,_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="Arlington, Virginia" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Arlington, Virginia</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-weekly-6" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[6]</a> He is married to Anne Elizabeth Kristol, the daughter of neo-conservative writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol" title="William Kristol" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">William Kristol</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[11]</a> Continetti <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_to_Judaism" title="Conversion to Judaism" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">converted</a> to Judaism in 2011.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">[12]</a>

In March, 2015, Continetti penned a column that was highly critical of the fictitious character, Mr. Spock, from the Star Trek television and movie series, as a response to President Barack Obama's kind words for the character of the late actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy" title="Leonard Nimoy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Leonard Nimoy</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[13]</a>

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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The K Street Gang: The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" title="Doubleday (publisher)" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Doubleday</a> (2006)</li>

<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star (2009)</li>

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<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Chapter 4 The Scandal Launderers p. 78

WFB orig kristol Ctr Am Freedom (mirror CAP progress) beacon split off to be for profit co; ed is kristol son in law matt continetti but run by Michael Goldfarb koch provocateur 88 (paid oppo on BC)

<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Breitbart ed at large Ben Shapiro wrote that Chuck Hagel <span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> candidate for sec of def (a Gop?) took money form<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Friends of Hamas<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> (Slate's dave weigel traced path) redstate --> nat rev --> hugh h -->fox (huckabee), WT. origin NY Daily news fishing (also Jr League of Hezbollah"?) 91  shapiro after: "The  story Breitbart News ran originally was accurate and clearly caveated" accused the reporter of lying about being source.

<span style="font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">WFB hired GOP oppo shop to go thru clinton papers in Ark

=crooks and l <p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I have never before encountered a more evil force in American politics than the Kochs and their ilk. Never.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Since March 2009 I have been researching the funding patterns of the right wing and their activity with regard to the tea party movements, how they move money through Republican establishment organizations, and the impact of their investment in organizations and publications intended to legitimize ideas that work against the interests of 99% of the citizens of this country. I'm not alone. Many others are also digging deep. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Alternet+koch#sclient=psy&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=site%3Aalternet.org+Alternet+koch&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=Alternet+koch&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=458807b23e14c95f" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">AlterNet</a>. <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Alternet+koch#sclient=psy&hl=en&newwindow=1&q=koch+site:thinkprogress.org&aq=f&aqi=&aql=f&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=458807b23e14c95f" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">Think Progress.</a><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">My reasons for searching and paying attention go beyond ideology. Regardless of what their views are, emergency sirens sound when I consider exactly how much control two people and one corporation have over right-wing politics. It transcends ideology. It's <a href="http://blogs.alternet.org/rmontero/2010/09/11/koch-and-anarcho-totalitarianism/" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">anti-democracy</a>. In my travels I've found the same information that many others have found but which always seems to languish in the shadows of the Internet.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Influence is held in the hands of the very few, and right now the Koch brothers hold the reins. Consider <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20060505144531/www.mediatransparency.org/kochaggregate.php" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">this list, created in 2004</a>. It lists every organization that has received funding from the Koch Family Foundations. Then it was $120 million. Fast forward to 2010, where they spent millions we know about, and more millions we don't. For 2012, they've pledged $49 million toward a <a href="http://slinkingtowardretirement.com/?p=25437" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">goal of $88 million</a>.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All of this to say one thing: The Koch threat isn't just to liberal politics. It is a threat to the very democracy we treasure in this country. And like <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/03/27/koch/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">Glenn Greenwald</a>, I view them as the most dangerous type of ideologue: the True Believer. True Believers are dangerous because they don't have any goal other than to make all of us True Believers. They proselytize free markets the way evangelicals preach Jesus. And when those same free markets fail? They facepalm and admit shock that <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96070766" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">perhaps there is a flaw in their flawless philosophy</a>, then go right back to <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/king-economic-zombies-returns-alan-gree" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">preaching and selling the free market gospel</a> like it's God's word in the flesh.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">News flash for the Koch devotees: Markets are not people. Not yet. They don't breathe, eat, cry, love, hate. They do, however, determine the future of people who are at their mercy. It's one thing to control markets like Koch and a few others do. It's entirely another to be at their mercy.I would still have a job that I adored, but for capricious markets and their puppetmasters. Which is why when I read nonsense like this <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/articles/paranoid-style-liberal-politics_555525.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">Weekly Standard Koch Brothers Rehab Piece</a> by Matthew Continetti, I get angry. Really angry. And when I read self-pitying, whinging comments like the one I'm about to quote from a man who wouldn't know what it's like to have your livelihood and your self-respect ripped away in ten minutes' time, I get angrier.
<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/paranoid-style-liberal-politics/article/555525">http://www.weeklystandard.com/paranoid-style-liberal-politics/article/555525</a>
<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Forget the facts, folks. Charles and David Koch are just bewildered and overwhelmed rich men who cannot for the life of them understand how the left can be so oblivious to the good free markets can do for the world and every individual in the United States who has a set of bootstraps and a pair of arms to use to yank on them.<blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 19px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The left’s inability to understand where the Kochs were coming from puzzled Charles and David. Wasn’t it obvious that small government and free markets resulted in a better world? “Why don’t we teach in schools things that make society more prosperous, and more peaceful, and people will respect each other more? It’s a strange thing, isn’t it?” said Charles. “It’s unbelievable how they distort what your message is!” said David. The Kochs thought their aim was to increase the standard of living for everyone. The way to do this, they believed, was by applying to society the same methods that had grown their company.</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Small governments and free markets resulted in a better world? Really? Was it big government that allowed Wall Street to run amok and gamble away people's retirement savings in markets they knew were doomed to fail? What society does David Koch mean when he says "teach in schools things that make society more prosperous"? Surely he doesn't mean this one, because the facts speak otherwise. This society is NOT more prosperous, though Mr. Koch certainly has prospered. What the Kochs do is <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/150106/how_koch_industries_makes_billions_corrupting_government" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">corrupt government</a>, then blame it for screwing the rest of us.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This world is not better because <a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/335273/get_the_facts_on_uber-polluting_koch_industries/" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">Koch pollutes it</a> while denying there might be even an iota of truth in climate change science.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This world is not better because our children's educations are being raped and sold to the "free markets" so we can create yet another "market" which will put "prosperity" ahead of education.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This world is not better because Koch Industries put millions into propaganda campaigns to convince people to act against their own interests in order to further Charles and David's "prosperity".<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This world is not better because the faith in "free markets" brought the entire world economy to the brink of ruin.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This world is not better because David and Charles Koch think it's better for people to die after losing everything because they were unfortunate enough to be uninsured and sick at the same time.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">So what "better world" is it that Mr. Koch sees? I want to see that world too. Instead what I see are people like me, who are educated, motivated, intelligent and have a strong work ethic unable to find work. Why can't we find work? Well, the 'markets' are flooded right now with lots of young people looking for work, and when the markets write the rules, they're written to maximize profits. That means people like me won't find a job until the "market" has eaten its fill of the younger generation.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Commentary like this makes my head explode:<blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 19px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The raw emotions and mindless smears left employees of Koch Industries hurt and befuddled. They kept searching for an answer. It was as if the universe had turned upside down. “All of us are given something, some more than others, and it’s up to us to build on it,” said Koch Minerals executive Steve Tatum. “Charles and David did. They built on what they inherited from their family. Hopefully, I have too. And I inherited nothing but a little help with college.“What doesn’t seem right is when a person works to get through college, gets a degree, works for 25 years to become successful—and now you’re the bad guy,” Tatum said. “And I think, that’s the American dream, isn’t it?”</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I'll leave you all to parse the first part about Charles and David building on their inherited money. But that second comment? The one about it not being right when a person works their way through college, gets a degree, yadayada? Yeah. Well, here's my counter-question: What doesn't seem right is when a person works to get through college, build a business, is a faithful employee for years and years, has a strong work ethic, pays their taxes, tries to raise their family and gets kicked in the teeth by those "free markets." That doesn't seem quite right either.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune and now a blogger at Vanity Fair, made a documentary in 2006 about the differences between the very wealthy and the rest of us called <a href="http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">The One Percent</a>. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. You won't necessarily come away knowing more than you did before you watched it, but it's the attitude of that 1% -- the utter separation from the reality the rest of us live in -- that stands out. The resistance of his family and the financial advisers behind them is almost comical, but the attitudes are simply out of touch with what it's like for everyone else. One of the finest moments is when Milton Friedman rises up and calls the young heir to the Johnson and Johnson fortune a socialist who's afraid to admit it.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's easy to point to bootstraps when yours were inherited, after all.<blockquote style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 20px 0px 19px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To Charles, the call for bigger government was egalitarianism run amok. Liberals, he thought, fetishized equality of condition at the expense of personal liberty. “They cannot stand that some people are better off than others,” Charles said. “I think part of it fits Mencken’s definition of a Puritan: someone that’s miserable because he knows that someone, somewhere, is enjoying himself. He cannot stand that. And I think they all slept through Economics 101.”</blockquote><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He has this so wrong. Let me clear it up. I don't care that some have more than others. I care that some have more than others because they took it out of my bank account and my hard work. That's what I care about. I care about Wall Street moguls taking home big fat bonuses while the Dow Industrial-Military Complex sits on trillions and leaves people without work, without prospects, without hope, and without self-respect.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here's a proposal for Charles and David. How about if they live for a year without their billions, just like the rest of us? How about they find out what it's like to be told over and over and over again that you're not hired even though you know you were as qualified as the guy who got the job? How about if they subject themselves to the whim of the markets, the uncertainty of not knowing whether they'll have a home tomorrow or food to eat? Perhaps they should try scratching out a living without any government in a world with no regulation where the food they dig out of the dumpster might be contaminated with chemical pollutants because the industrial customer who used that dumpster last didn't care to be careful about how they disposed of toxins. Perhaps they should try it before they condemn liberals as people who are miserable because someone else is enjoying themselves.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perhaps Charles and David should put their grandchildren in public schools (along with the little DeVos children) and see how teachers struggle with no budget, no supplies, larger class sizes, more children with problems, and a test looming at the end of each year that stresses children to their breaking point while proving nothing other than that there's a market for test writers and scantron forms.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Until they've done these things, until they've shed their silver spoons and ideological turtle shells, Continetti can write apologetics all day long and it won't change a thing. They are an evil force in today's politics, feeding evil men with evil ambitions, and they should be called evil every single chance we get until they figure out how ignorant and out of touch they are. Which will be about the time hell freezes over and the cows come home, I'm sure.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Make no mistake. The Kochs are not the only billionaires who perpetrate this evil. Back in Clinton's day, it was Scaife and the Tobacco Puppets. They're all part of the same group, but the Kochs have chosen to put themselves at the front as the evangelists of the New Free Market Ayn Rand/John Birch Society. By that choice, they receive the bulk of my criticism, but no one is exempt. If you don't know how the <a href="http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=2908" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">other 99% lives</a>, don't bother trying to tell us what's wrong with our thinking.<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Now that I've ranted, one question lingers. How do we counter their message and their money before it's too late?<p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 19.6px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2011<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/12/11/the-persecution-of-sarah-palin-teflon-in-conven/158069">http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/12/11/the-persecution-of-sarah-palin-teflon-in-conven/158069</a>mma krepelContinetti is so wrapped up in Palin's purported victimhood that he takes her side on everything and attempts to shoot down any and all critical and contradictory information. And he's not averse to occasionally fudging things to make reality fit his narrative.<div class="item-summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 30px 15px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(204, 204, 204); clear: both; line-height: 18.5714px;"><div class="item-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 18.5714px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Weekly Standard associate editor Matthew Continetti's book The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star lives up to its name -- the author does indeed paint his subject as the victim of persecution by the "feral beast" of a mainstream media taking their cues from "the partisan and vitriolic blogosphere." They "malign[ed] facts" about Palin and tried to "undermine Palin's accomplishments," he writes.Continetti, however, is so wrapped up in Palin's purported victimhood that he takes her side on everything and attempts to shoot down any and all critical and contradictory information. And he's not averse to occasionally fudging things to make reality fit his narrative.For instance, Continetti writes that New York Times reporter Elisabeth Bumiller "simply asserted that Palin had been a member" of the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party, adding, "None of this was true. It did turn out that Todd Palin had briefly been a member of the AIP; that may have been the basis for Bumiller's mistaken claim that Sarah Palin was a member 'for two years.' Who knows?"Continetti should have known. The same day Bumiller's article appeared, a Times <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/alaska-party-official-says-palin-was-not-a-member/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">blog post</a> stated that "[t]he information in the Times article was based on a statement issued Monday night by Lynette Clark, the party's chairwoman, who said that Ms. Palin joined the party in 1994 and in 1996 changed her registration to Republican." According to the Times, Clark later stated she could find no documentation that Sarah Palin was a member. The Times then issued a correction to Bumiller's article, which Continetti doesn't acknowledge.Continetti also insisted Palin's claim that she told Congress, "Thanks, but no thanks," on the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere" is "literally true" because, although she "expressed her support for the bridge" while running for governor in 2006, she cut state money appropriated for the bridge and, in September 2007, "she directed the Alaska Department of Transportation to find a less expensive alternative."But as Media Matters for America has <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/11/15/before-rogue-sarah-palins-top-10-past-falsehood/157036#2" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">detailed</a>, Palin was never in a position to reject the bridge. After authorizing funds to be spent specifically on the bridge project in August 2005, in an appropriations bill in November 2005, Congress earmarked the money for Alaska, but specified that it did not have to be spent on the bridge. Further, Palin did not refuse the funds or reimburse the federal government; as The Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083102017.html" title="blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083102017.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">noted</a>, "Palin's decision resulted in no savings for the federal government. The bridge money is being spent on other highway projects in Alaska." Moreover, when Palin "directed the Alaska Department of Transportation to find a less expensive alternative" to the bridge, her <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2008/08/29/wsj-reported-that-palin-highlighted-her-opposit/144690" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">stated rationale</a> was not that she thought it was a waste of money but, rather, that Congress was unwilling to appropriate more money to build it.Much of the book plays the equivalence game, offering up a series of "yes, but" claims to work around legitimate criticism or to excuse any Palin behavior he couldn't otherwise explain away:<ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">Yes, Palin had no foreign policy experience, but neither did Obama. Besides, Palin herself said leadership is more about vision than experience, and the Constitution doesn't require it anyway. Oh, and she had the same amount of executive experience as Calvin Coolidge and Teddy Roosevelt.</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">Yes, her criticism of earmarks during the campaign ran counter to her own hiring of a lobbyist to obtain them as mayor of Wasilla, but VP candidates are supposed to reflect the head of the ticket, and, "Besides, a politician can always change her mind."</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">Yes, Palin botched her interview with Katie Couric, but Couric had a "hostility toward conservatives" and "[t]he bias in her questions was clear."</li></ul><ul type="disc" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 5px;">Yes, the $150,000 clothes-buying spree looked bad, but it "said absolutely nothing about her and a lot about the bizarre priorities of her handlers."</li></ul>As the subtitle of his book indicates, Continetti regularly plays the "elitism" card in order to attack the alleged anti-provincialism of not just the media but any Palin critic. While Continetti concedes that "a gulf of ignorance, misunderstanding, and invective separates the Americans who live in urban areas from the Americans who live in distant provinces and rural places like you'd find in Alaska," he too often bashes the former and revels in the latter.Continetti's response to movie critic Roger Ebert's complaint that Palin had spent almost no time outside the United States was to mock the idea of traveling abroad: "Two weeks with a backpack and a Eurail pass, or a semester spent partying -- sorry, 'studying abroad' -- in Santiago de Chile on your parents' nickel are not the only ways to express 'curiosity' and nonprovinciality."Continetti touts Palin's accomplishments as mayor of Wasilla and how she "presided over the town's transition from rural backwater to thriving suburb," but he also makes sure to note that Obama is "a product of Columbia and Harvard, a professor at the University of Chicago law school, a United States senator who as president would take his wife on 'date nights' to New York City."But elitism is only one part of Continetti's Obama-bashing; there's also much complaining that Obama wasn't held to the same standards as Palin. Continetti expresses annoyance that reporters dared to ask about Palin's Pentecostal upbringing and her current evangelical Christian faith -- even quoting Southern Baptist Convention official Richard Land calling such queries "beyond the pale" -- but declares that Obama's "anti-American, anti-Semitic, racist reverend" didn't get sufficient coverage.And Continetti did not like Tina Fey's Palin impersonation on Saturday Night Live one bit, calling her portrayal that of "a happy-go-lucky idiot," insisting that in <a href="http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/palin-hillary-open/656281/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">one skit</a> "the superficiality of Fey's Palin was juxtaposed with the substance of [Amy] Poehler's [Hillary] Clinton." (Where did he find the "substance" in Poehler's portrayal of Hillary as a tense, bitter harpy?) Continetti then bashes Fey, along with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, as "anti-Palins" who "used comedy to assert superiority over the upstart from Alaska whose prominence and success challenged their core beliefs."Continetti also claims that Palin and Fey "could not be more dissimilar," because while Palin "comes from the I-can-do-it-all school," Fey is, er, "also pretty, married, and has a daughter" as well as the star, chief writer, and executive producer of a network TV program. Where's the dissimilarity Continetti cites? He continues: "[T]he characters she portrays in films like Mean Girls and Baby Mama, and in <a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2009/10/26/palin-book-feminists-jealous-of-sarahs-rise.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">television shows</a> like 30 Rock, are hard-pressed eggheads who give up personal fulfillment -- e.g., marriage and motherhood -- in the pursuit of professional success." Regarding Fey's 30 Rock character, he adds, one "would be hard pressed to name a more unhappy person on American television."That's right -- despite claiming that Palin and Fey "could not be more dissimilar," Continetti's comparison actually refers to the characters played by Fey.Continetti also lashes out at Joe Biden, calling him a "national embarrassment" and stating that his "foot is in his mouth so often it's a wonder the rest of us can make out what he's saying (and saying and saying)." Biden "committed gaffe after gaffe" during his debate with Palin, Continetti writes, while Palin "was collected, attractive, down to earth, and confident. She made no big slips." Yet, he added, "the unanimous decision of the political press corps was that Biden won the vice presidential debate." Continetti blamed this on -- surprise! -- elitism; Biden "has held a prominent position in our meritocratic society for more than thirty years," while Palin "was an interloper in meritocratic circles."Unmentioned by Continetti: <a href="http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/early_snap_polls_biden_won_han.php" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: 700; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: transparent;">Snap polls</a> conducted immediately after the debate declared Biden the winner as well. (And no mention either, of course, of Jason Sudeikis' garrulous, buffoonish SNL impersonation of Biden, which would seem to run counter to Continetti's narrative.)Continetti even finds a way to excuse Palin's resignation as Alaska governor. "The problem wasn't so much Palin as it was Alaska," he writes, citing the rise of environmental consultants, land managers, and other new residents of the state who are "not the sort of folks who vote Republican." Palin also couldn't capitalize on new newfound fame in the lower 48, Continetti adds, because "Alaska tied Palin down in multiple ways." He also wholeheartedly agrees with Palin's assertion that she doesn't "need a title to effect change."Continetti played the equivalence game here, too -- albeit a false one -- complaining that "[a]fter the 2008 election, every time Palin traveled outside Alaska, her enemies inside the state pilloried her for neglecting her job" while noting that Obama and George W. Bush faced no such criticism for campaigning for president while holding elective office. Of course, there's a difference between campaigning and making political appearances after a campaign.The Persecution of Sarah Palin is less a documentation of persecution than it is an apologia for Palin's actions: Everything she does is right, and even if she's wrong, it's not really her fault. It's little more than a book-length coating of Teflon for Palin's image.</div>=crooks and l
Matthew Continetti Is A Chip Off The Ol' Bloody Bill BlockBy LeftOfCenter6/06/15 
Crooks & LiarsThe Washington Free Beacon, in case you've never heard of it, is an online blog site with an unpleasant neocon slant. Its editor-in-chief, Matthew Continetti married Ann Kristol in 2012 which ensures that his daddy-in-law's brand of hawkish idiocy will continue for at least another generation. Most notably, Continetti has a rampant case of Hillary Derangement Syndrome which stems from the threat she poses to all the konservative klown kar Republicans.In addition to managing the site that has a Kate Upton stalker problem, Matthew has his very own 'accomplishments.' He is a contributing editor for daddy-in-law's The Weekly Standard. He is the author of “The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star.” The fact that he penned a 'book' praising the 'virtues' of Sarah Palin is as much of a credibility dis-qualifier as the selection of the brawling family matriarch as a running mate was for John McCain.In the past year, he has written scores of articles bashing Hillary Clinton. Even the birth of her granddaughter evoked bitter scorn."Clinton’s flaunting of her grandchild is one of the most transparently cynical and sentimental acts of a major American politician that I can recall."Really? Because she tweeted #GrandmothersKnowBest in support of vaccinations for children, she's cynical?
Friday's hit piece, The Good Soldier Clinton delighted his pop-in-law and he gleefully tweeted a lame excerpt."Hillary Clinton has supported the president at every point in his failing campaign against the Islamic State."http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-good-soldier-clinton/ …...As I write, President Obama is losing a war, and there is no reason to believe he is going to change
The relationship between Bill Kristol and Matthew is reminiscent of Liz Cheney, always seeking to impress daddy Dick with her evil ideas. He is upset that Hillary isn't committed to entangling the United States in another conflict in the Middle East, and criticizes her evolution on the idea of occupying countries which stems from our disastrous record thus far. He also falsely promulgates the myth that she is not answering questions, even though she is."Mostly what you hear from Clinton is nothing, a pronounced and unnerving silence—a refusal to weigh in on those many public questions that she and her army of consultants haven’t already poll tested, focus-grouped, picked clean of controversy and novelty and interest. On a paramount matter of national security, she does nothing but parrot the Obama line. “You can’t very well put American or Western troops in,” she said in February".The fact is, America is war-weary and hesitant to entangle ourselves in a conflict in a region where the lines of good and evil are very blurred. Iran is in the fight because of its geographical proximity and that troubles hawks like Continetti and Kristol. It is no secret the right wing adores Israeli PM Netanyahu and would love nothing more than a full scale war to take out Iran. Cooler heads have prevailed and the only way these lunatics would be allowed to start a war with Iran is if a Republican wins the White House (dog forbid). The entire premise of the article, that Hillary supports a losing war-strategy is false. We are not at war.Gawker accurately assessed The Free Beacon as a tabloidy blog site for millennial Beltway righties who hate liberals but love craft beer.It will continue to exist as a testament to the failed hawkish ideas of his dad-in-law. In the words of a rather sagacious progressive, Kristol has been constantly rewarded by the media while,
1) Being completely f*cking wrong about everything for +30 years, and 2) Being lying, pants-burning-like-a-tire-fire hypocrites who ferociously oppose things under the Kenyan Usurper [BO]which they either never gave a shit about or ferociously supported under the Bush Regime.Continetti is also spectacularly full of it, and his smug, false assessments of Hillary Clinton will have as much impact as Bloody Bill has had in presidential politics. And that is a very good thing.http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/matthew-continetti-a-chip-off-the===

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