Obama Regime Adds Taxpayer Funded Online Propaganda Czar to Support Re-Election Campaign
Hat tip to alert Hillbuzz reader In DC Troll for this remarkable tidbit at Media Bistro:
H/T ThePeoplesCube.com
The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response. According to The Huffington Post, Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama’s online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories.
Yes, you heard right! The most open and transparent American administration in history now has a paid-by-taxpayers staffer whose job it is to “monitor” “new media” outlets–like Hillbuzz, for example–to eliminate online criticism of The Won. Makes sense, when you think about it, since the Lamestream Media is already entirely in the tank for Barak Hussein Obama, who is not a Muslim. The only place you will find criticism accurate reporting about the Obama Regime is online or on talk radio.
This position isn’t funded by the Democrat National Committee or Teh Won’s re-election campaign. It’s an official White House position, a government job, funded by the taxpayers of America, to stifle your First Amendment rights.
Jesse Lee is apparently taking his new position very seriously, if his first tweet is any indication:
White House staffer Jesse Lee's first tweet.
How can this possibly be legal? How can a civil servant be working on a re-election campaign from inside the White House? This may be an excellent question for your Senators and Representative.
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It's called testing the envelope. Young adolescents do it all the time to see how much they can get away with before their parents say, "no".
Contact your congresscritters and say, "no".
It is merely another Marxist/communist tatic. There are four tenets that must be taken over to institute communism – education, politics, religion, and the press. This is the "press" portion. If you can control the press, you can control the content. Since the LameStreamMedia is already in the tank, that leaves the Internet. The first attempt to control the Internet was Net Neutality. The Republicans in Congress are attempting to fight that even though some aspects are already in place. Note that Big Sis (Napalitano) has already either refused or "taken over" some domains currently on the Internet for "security" reasons. Never doubt that this is just another step in the master plan to take over every aspect of life in our country. Remember Barkey said we should all get our news from HuffingtonPost!
We must NOT be intimidated by this. It is going to be very difficult to get rid of all the sites – such as Hillbuzz – without the people who depend upon them to get the REAL story. Make sure you write/call/email your representatives just as was suggested in the article. We must continue to fight for our rights!
Tomayto, tomahto.
Jesse Lee, Josef Goebbels.
Still won't work. Obama stinks. You can't ban smell over them innarwebs.
Found an interesting post, "Convicted fraudster Robert Creamer, husband of Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), has announced that he is opening a nationwide political consulting firm, Democracy Partners. Democracy Partners already “has offices in eight cities including Washington, D.C., Chicago, Minneapolis, Las Vegas, Miami, San Francisco, San Diego, and Portland, Maine”–and, presumably, a budget running into many millions of dollars."
more here http://www.uncoverage.net/2011/05/convicted-felon…
It's the Chicago way…
I have just written to my two senators (one from each party) and congressman regarding this issue and several others regarding areas where our President is violating the Constitution. Please, everyone, join in voicing your opposition to these things. We cannot be silent.
DONE! sent to rep walberg (MI), levin and stabenow!
I am appalled at what our current occupant in the White House is doing! I, as a still free citizen of the US, demand that this be stopped! The new story out is that obama has appointed a new czar for his online presence: The White House has named Jesse Lee to a new position within its communications department titled Director of Progressive Media & Online Response…Lee will essentially be responsible for building up Obama's online presence as he prepares for his reelection bid, and squashing any negative stories. This puts us one step closer to communist China, Mother Russia and every other country who insists on state controlled media! Thank you.
I sent your words to my 3 idiots. nice writing.
Just emailed my 3 guys asking "what can you do to prevent taxpayer funds from being used for this?"
This is a brand new definition of arrogance. When you think you've fully understood the definition, change occurs. We need to light up the switchboards!
This violates just about every campaign finance law imaginable. If anyone had any remaining ambivalence about BO's despotic, tyrannical motives, his appointment of Lee as "Minister of Propaganda," a la Hitler's Paul Joseph Goebbels, should remove all doubt. My emails will go out today about this outrage to my Senators and Representatives, and to Speaker Boehner. Disgusting doesn't even begin to describe this, and the news breaks on the very day that PM Netanyahu gave a brilliant, moving speech before Congress about America and Israel being unwavering allies in freedom.
Here's a brief bio re Jesse Lee. Please note that he received his BA from Trinity College in 2002, which, together with the photo at upper left, would seem to indicate that he's about 31 years of age. Also note that he got his start working for Nancy Pelosi. Where's the depth of experience? Where's the gravitas? Is there no end to the "frat boy" labor pool from whence this administration apparently chooses its employees? http://www.whorunsgov.com/Profiles/Jesse_Lee
What ever happened to the FEC's investigation into Obama's three quarter of a billion in campaign finance, 30% of which could not be traced because of the use of pre-paid credit cards. It was M.U.R. 4162 or matter under review 4162. Obama has all of the lame stream media Hollywood, pop culture and tax paid government workers campaigning for him. Yet he cannot convince the American people that they have good jobs or enough money to afford high gas and food prices. People are hurting. Lets just hope they turn on the Marxist media who deceived them and slanndered Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton.
Check this out. BIG implicatons.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/05…
Quite interesting, thanks for sharing…now I want to see the film!
This cannot be acceptable. The way I look at it is that the man-child is starting a new front to prevent any criticism.
Obama could drop a nuke, his supporters would call it “renewable energy.” It would be funny if it wasn't so scary.
In San Diego, the largest newspaper who also maintains an online presence BANNED ALL CONSERVATIVE bloggers from it's website because they dominated the boards. Owned by Platinum Media, (a bunch of leftist maxists.) This newspaper also ran a quadruple front page spread when Barry got elected with a special Ribbon wrap, it was dreadful. It's truly disgusting all the free press Barry will get from his buddies in the lamestream media.
Preliminary research seems to indicate that BO's appointment of a federal (taxpayer-paid) employee dedicated to work specifically on the online portion of BO's partisan re-election campaign (to build up BO's online campaign presence and squelch negative campaign stories) is in violation of both the Hatch Act and Federal Election Campaign Laws.
Thanks for the call to action! I have contacted Paul Gosar and asked for investigation.
Obama is a Stalinist.
I think we can out-tweet the kid, anyway
Just found out–Drudge, I think–Jesse Lee's wife works for Media Matters; how cute.
Time for a few class action lawsuits.