All posts tagged "Hilary Rosen"

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Top Democratic strategy firm SKDK told The 19th on Wednesday that it was an “error” to have advised a since-indicted Illinois House speaker on #MeToo claims against his aides as SKDK representatives also worked with one of the women who had levied them.

SKDK was addressing newly released court records that show how in 2018, as the #MeToo movement gathered force, Anita Dunn and her firm, SKDK, advised then-Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan on sexual harassment claims made against his longtime chief of staff, Tim Mapes, and political operative Kevin Quinn. Dunn is one of the most sought-after Democratic strategists and a longtime confidante of President Joe Biden, whom she now advises from within the White House. ...

CNN Crossfire host S.E. Cupp expressed concern on Wednesday over the Democratic Party's prospects for 2016 if former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton does not run for president, dismissing both Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Vice President Joe Biden as plausible contenders.

The wife of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney sounded less like a stay-at-home mother of five and more like a political tactician at an event on Sunday where she said comments made by a Democratic CNN contributor were an "early birthday present."

MSNBC weekend host Chris Hayes chastised cable rival CNN Saturday for their selection of Hilary Rosen representing "the left" in a regular "left vs right" debate.

On "Real Time With Bill Maher" Friday night, Maher and his panel tackled both the GOP's War on Women and its first friendly-fire casualty, former RIAA president-cum-Democratic-strategist Hilary Rosen. Maher first noted that former Governor Mitt Romney (R-MA), the presumptive GOP nominee, is less popular with women in polls than the GOP's last presidential contender, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), but suggested that the media was stupid for falling all over itself to cover Rosengate: "Perhaps America is a society that lives to find stupid, inconsequential, meaningless controversies and this is the new one."

This post is a bit of LGBT inside baseball that has caused a bit of a stir, mostly because it has not been covered much in LGBT media to date - a major figure in the community is handling the crappy PR effort to spread BP's propaganda and spin -- and the question is whether there will be any blowback because of this association.