Pinkerton, Jim

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James Pinkerton, a policy veteran in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, helped lead a coalition supporting passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. In a phone interview with The Daily Signal, Pinkerton said the Not One Penny campaign could complicate the election strategy of “more moderate, establishment Democrats” who are ambitious to take back the House in November.

“There’s always a tension between ideologues and moderates,” Pinkerton said. “But it’s especially acute this time around with the Democrats.”

The “progressive, ideological base” of the Democratic Party is the motivating factor behind the anti-tax cut campaign, he said.

“Institutional Democrats are in a quandary because the base is demanding an absolute rejection of Trump,” Pinkerton told The Daily Signal, adding:

This puts institutional Democrats, the more moderate, establishment types, in a difficult spot because they have to be careful about trying to destroy something that seems to be working. We are looking at a bit of a replay of the 2016 primary race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

Since the tax cuts went into effect, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip and unemployment has fallen.

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“Self-described moderate Democrats do not want to be associated with the absolute hatred of Trump, like the kind that Robert De Niro:{showed at the Tony Awards:(style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"):}:,” Pinkerton said. “But the ideological base is devoted to the hatred of Trump, and that makes it difficult for Democrats who are actually on the ballot.”

Citing the late Massachusetts Democrat and former House speaker, he added: “Tip O’Neill may have been right that all politics is local and you win district by district, but ideology tends to be national.”

Kevin Mooney has contributed several reports to publications of the Capital Research Center, whose work is cited in this article.

In addition to harassing his female staff, former Fox CEO Roger Ailes reportedly used corporate funds to run smear campaigns against journalists and others. Some of the operatives were familiar on-air names such as Andrea Tantaros and Bo Dietl.

Bill O'Reilly really needs to look more carefully in his own backyard the next time he complains about media "smear merchants."

Today’s reporting from Gabriel Sherman reveals that one of the results of Ailes’ disgraced departure from Fox News is new scrutiny over how he spent corporate funds. During his tenure, Ailes seemingly had a blank check that enabled him to make payouts for sexual harassment claims. But, apparently, Ailes also freely used money for “Black Room” operations:

[…] Ailes was also able to use portions of the Fox budget to hire consultants, political operatives, and private detectives that reported only to him, according to a senior Fox source. Last week, according to the source, Fox News dismissed five consultants whom Ailes had hired to do work that was more about advancing his own agenda than Fox’s. One of the consultants, Bert Solivan, ran negative PR campaigns against Ailes’s personal and political enemies out of Fox News headquarters, a source said. A Fox News spokesperson confirmed: “Solivan was recently informed that his services were no longer needed.” Solivan, who had previously worked for Fox News as a general manager of the channel’s website, did not respond to requests for comment.

According to one highly-placed source, Solivan worked out of what Fox insiders called “the Black Room,” an operation Ailes established around 2011 to conduct PR and surveillance campaigns against people he targeted both inside and outside the company. The “Black Room” was located on the 14th floor of the News Corp building at 1211 Avenue of the Americas, a quiet part of the office that housed Fox News Latino and some marketing and promotions employees. Fox employees Ken LaCorte and Jim Pinkerton, veteran political operatives who’ve worked with Ailes since the 1980s, also worked with Solivan, the source said, adding that Ailes’s personal lawyer, and Fox contributor, Peter Johnson Jr. advised the team. (In an email, Peter Johnson denied any involvement in “Black Room” campaigns, saying, “The only online campaign I’m aware of is yours attempting to create a truth from a fiction with this account.”)

So, in addition to serving as Ailes’ personal lawyer and likely stand-in, as a "legal analyst" and guest host on Fox News, Peter Johnson’s duties appear to include assisting in going after those on Ailes’ enemies list.

You may also recognize the name “Jim Pinkerton”as a long-time Fox guest. He is also the guy reportedly behind Ailes' Fox-shilling blog, The Cable Game. The site went dormant for a while but was revived of late. By coincidence, its most recent post is dated July 10, 2016. That’s shortly after Gretchen Carlson filed her bombshell sexual harassment lawsuit that started Ailes’ downward spiral and shortly before it was reported that it was only a matter of time before Ailes would be fired.

By the way, The Cable Game has attacked us, too. And he or she is still tweeting.

Some of the bigger “Black Room” targets were Gawker staffers; the former editor of the Ailes-owned Putnam County News & Recorder, Joe Lindsley; and Sherman, himself. And here’s where you might recognize some more familiar names. From Sherman’s report, with my emphases:

In April 2011, Lindsley had a falling out with Ailes and quit the paper along with two co-workers. Ailes assigned private investigators to follow Lindsley around Putnam County. He also asked Fox host Andrea Tantaros, whom Ailes had once seated next to Lindsley at a dinner party at Ailes’s home, to contact Lindsley and report back on his whereabouts, two sources said. Meanwhile, Solivan posted negative comments about Lindsley on blogs, a source said.

I was also the target of an operation, a highly-placed source told me: In 2012, while I was researching a biography of Ailes, Fox operatives set up web pages to attack my reputation, and Fox funds paid for Google search ads against my name that linked to the sites. One source also said private investigators employed by Fox contributor Bo Dietl were instructed to follow me and my wife. (Dietl’s firm was used to track Andrea Mackris, the producer who accused Bill O’Reilly of sexual harassment in 2004, the source said). When reached by phone, Dietl said: “I have no real comments. I love Roger Ailes. He built one of the great news channels out of nothing. He’s a very successful guy.”

Investigations into Ailes’ use of Fox’s funds may incriminate other executives not only in these activities but also as having helped to cover up Ailes’ sexual harassments via payments of hush money, e.g.

But for me, it’s the media malpractice, stupid. Sherman tweeted earlier today that Ailes’ smear campaigns are further proof that he "created Fox as an anti-journalism organization.”

That’s a key point, in my opinion. And just as important is the fact that it appears at least four talking heads presented to us as analysts – and in the case of Tantaros and Johnson, sometime hosts – were all in.

Watch O'Reilly warn Hillary Clinton that "we'll have something to say about it" if she doesn't stay away from "smear merchants," from the April 13, 2015 O'Reilly Factor.

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James Pinkerton, a graduate of Stanford University and a contributor to the Fox News Channel, worked in the White House under presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, and also in the 1980, 1984, 1988, and 1992 Republican presidential campaigns. He has been a columnist for Newsday since 1993. He is the author of What Comes Next: The End of Big Government--And the New Paradigm Ahead. His pro change remarks in a USA Today editorial on the Posse Comitatus Act appear contradictory to the title of his book.

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Horton in the 1988 presidential campaign

The first person to mention the Massachusetts furlough program in the 1988 presidential campaign was Al Gore. During a debate at the Felt Forum sponsored by the New York Daily News, Gore took issue with the furlough program. However, he did not specifically mention the Horton incident or even his name, instead asking a general question about the Massachusetts furlough program.^[6]

Republicans picked up the Horton issue after Dukakis clinched the nomination. In June 1988, Republican candidate George H.W. Bush seized on the Horton case, bringing it up repeatedly in campaign speeches.^[6] Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, predicted that "by the time this election is over, Willie Horton will be a household name."^[6][7] Media consultant Roger Ailes remarked "the only question is whether we depict Willie Horton with a knife in his hand or without it."^[8]

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In April 1988, Lee Atwater asked aide Jim Pinkerton for negative research to defeat Dukakis.^[citation ^needed] Pinkerton returned with reams of material that Atwater told him to reduce to a 3×5 index card, telling him, "I'm giving you one thing. You can use both sides of the 3×5 card." Pinkerton discovered the furlough issue by watching the Felt Forum debate. On May 25, 1988, Republican consultants met in Paramus, New Jersey, holding a focus group of Democrats who had voted for Ronald Reagan in 1984. After giving the focus group the material Pinkerton provided on the index card, most of the voters switched from favoring Dukakis to favoring Bush.^[citation ^needed] These focus groups convinced Atwater and the other Republican consultants that they should 'go negative' against Dukakis. Further information regarding the furlough came from aide Andrew Card, a Massachusetts native whom President George W. Bush later named as his Chief of Staff.^[9]

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James "Jim" P. Pinkerton (born March 11, 1958) is a columnist, author, and political analyst.^[1] A graduate of Peter Vanleslie High School and Stanford University (1980), he served on the White House staff under both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush and on each of their presidential campaigns and in January 2008 became a senior adviser to the Mike Huckabee 2008 presidential campaign.^[2]

Since his time in government he has become a columnist for Newsday, a regular panelist on the Fox News program Fox News Watch, and a regular conservative contributor to The Huffington Post. He is also a senior fellow at both the Free Enterprise Fund and the New America Foundation, a lecturer at the Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University, a member of the Board of Advisors at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies, and a contributing editor of The American Conservative and USA Today. He frequently appears on Bloggingheads.tv, often in video discussions with David Corn and other media personalities.

In a discussion with economist, Glenn Loury, Pinkerton described his political ideology as "Hamiltonian". He favors a robust US industrial policy that would stimulate industry and calls himself a "big government libertarian".^[3]

Pinkerton moderated the 2008 Libertarian presidential debate.

On June 7, 2008, he married Elizabeth Dial.

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from James Pinkerton of the New America Foundation,writing in The Politico:

Obviously the “stimulus” was a a dud–and the rate that things are going, the next “stimulus,” too, will be a dud. Deficit spending is valuable only if you get something more valuable in return for that spending. Otherwise, stimulus spending is just a ticket on the Argentina Express.

During the New Deal, we deficit-spent and in return, we got bridges, roads, dams, and entire power systems. And unemployment fell. Today, we are getting the promise of such systems, but not the results–the money is not being spent on tangible things, nothing is being built. Why?

Because the process simply is not designed to go fast, because the environmental-impact-statement-writers and NIMBYs block everything–and the cap-and-traders stand ready to kill off the rest of the energy economy. So of course unemployment is rising. There’s no stimulus, except for Yale Law grads, and, of course, Goldman Sachs.

If President Obama wanted the nationwide economy to recover, he would have had to rethink America’s basic approach to infrastructure and energy, with an eye toward more, not less, sooner, not later. That was the legislation he should have sought back in January; instead, he made the narrow pipeline connecting inputs and outputs even narrower. That’s a formula for slow-motion disaster, as we are seeing every day now.

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