The news reporters who were privately greased and paid to publish Russian-fueled smears against Donald Trump and likely do other dirty work for the Hillary Clinton campaign are not new names when it comes to partisan political hackery posing as unbiased journalism.
Fusion GPS, the embattled ‘research’ company bankrolled by Clinton campaign and DNC lawyers, did also maintain a stable of paid presstitutes. There is no doubt at this point that Fusion GPS privately paid reporters to spread propaganda and lies. In recent federal court documents, Fusion GPS acknowledged it pays/paid news reporters and subsequently it refuses to name names of the media elite.
Wonder why?
Paid by either cash, VIP access to D.C. elite, or other favors, there is little doubt the folks we watch on television and read on the web are being rewarded beyond their paychecks to espouse talking points. And many of those talking points simply involve trashing Trump; both before the election and certainly now after he captured the White House.
This is shaping up into a major scandal. Try this on for size.
Hillary and DNC and its law firms pay Fusion GPS untold millions.
Fusion GPS is likely only ONE of many such corporate surrogates. Consider that.
Fusion GPS gets marching orders from the mother ship so to speak: who to smear, what propaganda to spread, who to harass.
Fusion GPS pays media reporters, law firms and investigators to assist in the operation du jour.
To think that this does not happen at this point is simply silly.
These nefarious politicians are bankrolling private hit squad to carry out whatever operation they deem necessary to get elected.
So who is on the take? By journalistic ethical standards, there are dozens of reporters and media executives on the Clinton payroll, paid by cash or favors. What’s the difference. Compromised is compromised.
Why guess when the Hillary campaign has already compiled its own insider’s list of who the campaign leaks stories to.
Consider this smoking-gun memo gleamed from Hillary’s campaign by The Intercept:
As these internal documents demonstrate, a central component of the Clinton campaign strategy is ensuring that journalists they believe are favorable to Clinton are tasked to report the stories the campaign wants circulated.
At times, Clinton’s campaign staff not only internally drafted the stories they wanted published but even specified what should be quoted “on background” and what should be described as “on the record.”
One strategy document — designed to plant stories on Clinton’s decision-making process about whether to run for president — singled out reporter Maggie Haberman, then of Politico, now covering the election for the New York Times, as a “friendly journalist” who has “teed up” stories for them in the past and “never disappointed” them. Nick Merrill, the campaign press secretary, produced the memo, according to the document metadata.
Other documents listed those whom the campaign regarded as their most reliable “surrogates” — such as CNN’s Hilary Rosen and Donna Brazile (who was with CNN at the time), as well as Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden — but then also listed operatives whom they believed were either good “progressive helpers” or more potentially friendly media figures who might be worth targeting with messaging. The metadata of the surrogate document shows the file was authored by Jennifer Palmieri, the communications director of the campaign. As The Intercept previously reported, pundits regularly featured on cable news programs were paid by the Clinton campaign without any disclosure when they appeared
HERE IS THE FULL LIST of the Clinton Cartel’s go-to journalists, politicians and media executives. Who needs Fusion GPS’ bank records to connect the dots? Not you: