The Intercept breaks open Democratic squabbles as midterm elections approach

[IronLionZion]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/04/30/daily-202-the-intercept-breaks-open-democratic-squabbles-as-midterm-elections-approach/5ae7055330fb043711926919/?utm_term=.9b08efc93307

THE BIG IDEA: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has broken its own fundraising records, stacked more cash than its Republican rival and expanded its 2018 target map as Republican incumbents filed for retirement.

But there’s nothing it can do about the Intercept. The four-year-old website, which was launched by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar with stories based on Edward Snowden’s NSA document haul, has become a weekly Democratic nightmare.

The website’s series of scoops on intra-Democratic arguments started with a sprawling and buzzy January story on how the DCCC was “throwing its weight behind candidates who are out of step with the national mood.”

The publication's exposure of the family feud is playing into a narrative that Democrats' biggest risk to their goal of capturing the House majority in this year's midterm elections — with President Trump hanging around the GOP's neck — is themselves. That is, the progressive anti-Trump energy driving the party is leading to a plethora of messy Democratic primaries and some serious differences over how to approach them.

Just last week, the Intercept reported on a secret recording of House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.) urging a progressive primary candidate to drop out in Colorado; a voicemail purportedly from a DCCC-backed candidate threatening to go negative against another Democrat in a top-tier California candidate; and Facebook musings about abortion from a candidate the DCCC recruited in a race where a liberal contender had already locked up local support.

I don't know what to believe anymore. Just this Saturday I got a call from the DCCC's fundraisers saying any amount I donate will be matched 10 to 1 by fabulously wealthy donors.

[SHRED]

1. Glenn Greenwald hates the Democratic Party

He's a cancer.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

4. Indeed. nt

[thucythucy]

2. During the election I had a friend

who kept forwarding Intercept posts to me. Every single one was anti-Hillary, anti-Democratic Party. I remember one called for "progressives" to "disrupt" the Democratic National Convention. The sub text was always--the Democrats are no better than the KGOP, and Trump no worse than Hillary.

So I now take all of this shit stirring from the Intercept with very many grains of salt.

[peggysue2]

3. There are some things that are . . .

crystal clear at this point, so when you write:

I don't know what to believe anymore.

I would say:

That's the whole point.

Spreading confusion and doubt is what worked in 2016. Disrupters like Greenwald are at it again as the November elections approach. There are people inside and outside the country whose main aim is to pull us apart as Democrats because a united front spells disaster for them.

Eyes on the prize. That's the one thing to remember. And the fact that Greenwald is an anti-American shill. Has been for a long time now.

[SHRED]

5. Well said

[maxrandb]

6. "Inter-What???"

Never heard of it...all out of fucks to give about it...

Maybe, DU is not a place for anything from Inter-What

[brooklynite]

7. I'm having dinner with DCCC leadership tonight; I'll see what they say.

[IronLionZion]

14. Sometimes the less traveled path sucks

Republicans seem to have traveled on good paths to victory somehow. Dems could explore some of those paths outside of Brooklyn.

[Demsrule86]

8. The intercept is shit...Greenwald hates Democrats...

Any Democrat with a brain realizes Greenwald and the intercept are firstly a Russian asset and secondly irrelevant to our party...

[manor321]

9. Why are you posting that shit here? n/t

[Atman]

12. It ABOUT The Intercept, not BY it.

It’s an article from WaPo, not really a conservative bastion. I don’t think there anything wrong with keeping a heads-up on the evil-doers.

[bigtree]

10. they wish this was interesting

...it's not very interesting.

I very much doubt many Dems are spending their time doing this. Besides, navel-gazing isn't really a good group activity.

[IronLionZion]

11. It's good to be aware of how our enemies are trying to divide us

so as not to fall for it or let Dem voters fall for it.

[Gothmog]

13. Who cares what Greenwald thinks?