{"id":3053,"date":"2008-04-07T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2008-04-07T11:53:41","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T17:53:41","slug":"mark-penn-and-senator-clinton-its-a-matter-of-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3053","title":{"rendered":"Mark Penn and Senator Clinton: It&#8217;s a Matter of Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BUZZFLASH EDITOR&#8217;S BLOG<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/articles\/editorblog\/077\">Mark Karlin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Consider this April 4th <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/04\/clinton-camp-plays-down-penns-outside-work\/?scp=1-b&amp;sq=mark+penn+and+apology+and+blog&amp;st=nyt\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton campaign statement &#8220;inoperative&#8221; now<\/a>: &#8220;Today, the Clinton campaign was asked about the [Colombian] meeting, and a spokesman, Mo Elleithee, said that Mr. Penn\u2019s work had nothing to do with the campaign and that he did not see any conflict or perception problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BuzzFlash has a homework assignment for our readers. Examine the following excerpts from articles this past week about what was clearly a Clinton campaign overture to Colombia to get involved in the U.S. primaries by denouncing Obama. But there\u2019s more to it than that. Despite all the ongoing Mark Penn apologies, he\u2019s the poster boy for the corporate lobbyist destructive infestation of our government \u2013 and he is Clinton\u2019s lead strategist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzflash.com\/articles\/editorblog\/077\">Read more<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>BuzzFlash Update at 7 EST April 6:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/04\/06\/penn_out_as_clintons_top_strat.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_top\">The Clinton Campaign Must be Reading the BuzzFlash Editor&#8217;s Blog.  Senator Clinton Finally Gives Mark Penn the Heave-Ho After He Gets Caught  Talking with the Colombians Who Just Happen to Then Attack Obama, While Penn is  Also Getting Paid to Promote a Free Trade Pact with a Country in Which Union  Members and Leaders are Being Murdered by the Dozens.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUZZFLASH EDITOR&#8217;S BLOG Mark Karlin Consider this April 4th Clinton campaign statement &#8220;inoperative&#8221; now: &#8220;Today, the Clinton campaign was asked about the [Colombian] meeting, and a spokesman, Mo Elleithee, said that Mr. Penn\u2019s work had nothing to do with the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Nf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}