Boldprogressives.org fundraising by lying that "Pelosi called AOC, Tlaib and Pressley irrelevant"

[ehrnst]

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That's fraud. That was Maureen Dowd's quote, not Pelosi's.



Interesting that Progressive Change Campaign Committee doesn't want to use their own name? Astroturf, anyone?

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. Wtf?

O crap.

[ehrnst]

3. Yep.

[Cha]

13. Good one, ehrnst!

Whatever the fuck?!

[George II]

4. Pelosi NEVER called them irrelevant. Even if she thought that (she doesn't) she wouldn't say it....

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And now they're fundraising off that fake claim? Why not just put a big red bow around dozens of House seats and hand them to the republicans?

[NYMinute]

5. Just like Trump, AOC is also being sued for blocking critics on Twitter

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48948891

[ehrnst]

9. You don't get to have it both ways. If Trump can't block, then neither can any other politician,(nt)

[Vegas Roller]

6. Some of these "progressives"

are anti Democratic party and working to destroy it.

[Me.]

7. They Will Become So

If they continue the way they are...challenging Nancy, calling fellow Dems names, acting as if they are the end all and be all. They're in a grown-up world and thus are expected to behave accordingly.

And I keep asking...if they are so concerned about the children at the border, why was their recent trip their first one? Did they make one I'm unaware of and didn't hold a presser?

[ehrnst]

10. Things that make you go hmmmm. (nt)

[mcar]

8. Progressives using Pelosi the boogeywoman to fundraise?

Seems familiar.

[lapucelle]

11. Fundraising off a misattributed word doesn't sound very progressive.

It sounds Trumpian. We're better than this.

A search the NYT piece turns up one instance of the use of the word "irrelevant", and it's Maureen Dowd who uses it :

Pelosi feels that the four made themselves irrelevant to the process by voting against “our bill,” as she put it, which she felt was the strongest one she could get

This looks a lot like MoDo editorializing about what she perceives to be Speaker Pelosi's "feelings".

MoDo has long been known to spin at liberty and stir division. Remember when she used to refer to President Obama as the "Diffident Debutante"?

[ehrnst]

12. When one has to lie to make one's point, perhaps the point isn't valid to begin with.

"If it brings in the $$$$$, and gets you into office, then it's justified." - Karl Rove in his graduate thesis.

[Cha]

14. There's a vast difference between

the exact quote and what "Progressive Change Campaign" is fundraising off.

And, we all know how Modo operates.

Thank You, lapcelle!

Link to tweet

[Me.]

19. A World Of Difference

and look how they all cry baby when they think something (usually not) has been misquoted.

[Cha]

20. It's a hot mess.. and

guess who started it?

Nancy wants to Win The House Again.. and those tweeting about other Dems aren't helping.

Hoaaloha!

[Me.]

29. No Hoa For Them Hoa

[sheshe2]

15. How can this be left to stand?

It is untrue. This is not a good look for AOC and her friends.

[ehrnst]

18. There are those who will not correct any mistakes or falsehoods benefit them.

The means justifies the ends....

Especially if they know that their audience is eager for confirmation bias, and won't do any fact checking.

Pelosi feels that the four made themselves irrelevant to the process by voting against “our bill,” as she put it, which she felt was the strongest one she could ge.t

[True Blue American]

32. Donna Edwards

Ex Democratic Congress woman just said,” there is a learning curve when you are new in Congress. She also said she has heard the 4 well prepared in hearings.

I have also heard that but when you have to lie to fund raise you are dead wrong. Republicans love this.

My suggestion to newbies? Keep your head down, stay off Twitter, shut up, do your homework. Then you will gain respect. Not until then.

[sheshe2]

16. This thread is strangely silent. nt

[betsuni]

17. K&R

[Skidmore]

21. This is utterly

shameful. A lie is a lie no matter who tells it.

[brer cat]

22. K&R

[Princetonian]

23. Who funds this group? Russian operatives?

This is just the sort of divide-and-conquer play they did all through 2016.

[NBachers]

24. Where have I seen this shit before?

[DesertRat]

26. k&r

[Thekaspervote]

27. I have never had a good feeling about aoc. For me it started when she and sanders went to KS

To campaign against Sherice Davids. There’s a reason bernie is going down in the polls, she should think twice about following in his path

[melman]

28. New sig

Thanks!

[Cha]

31. Yeah, we know.. you stand with that.

[melman]

34. "that"

What a lovely way to refer to a young congresswoman.


Oh wait..it's not. It's actually really terrible.

[Cha]

35. You stand for what she stands for..

"that".. and apparently what her COS tweets.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[melman]

38. "You stand for what she stands for"

Yes. Yes I do.


But my sig - which is what you were referencing - simply says "I stand with AOC"


Nothing about tweets or anything else. It says "I stand with AOC" and that is all it says.

[Cha]

39. Her cos is out of control.. she

needs to rein him in.. and he needs to apologize for the shitstorm and hurt he caused with this tweet.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[George II]

43. So you stand for her personnel choices too, I presume.....

Even the one who idolizes a Nazi collaborator and organized Indians to fight alongside Nazi Germany and Japanese Empire against the British during WWII?

[betsuni]

36. Oh, melman.

[melman]

37. lol betsuni

lol

[betsuni]

42. "A mountain of grated cheese

Is seen standing in the middle of the plain,
A kettle has been brought to its summit ....
A river of milk gushes forth from a cave
And goes flowing through the town
Its embankments are made of ricotta ...
The king of the place is called Bugalosso,
They have made him king because he is the laziest,
Like a haystack he is big and fat ...
And from his arse manna comes forth
And when he spits, out come marzipans,
Instead of lice, he has fish in his head."

[RandiFan1290]

40. Me too

Thanks!

[melman]

41. Excellent!

[True Blue American]

30. Thank you for that!:)

My post was for ehrnst

[JI7]

33. FUNDRAISING

that was the point all along.