Democrats are going after Joe Lieberman's wife now
By Taskr36
@Taskr36 (13963)
United States
December 14, 2009 9:27am CST
This shouldn't really surprise anyone since Democrats have shown a clear willingness to attack the families of their opponents, but it still disgusts me. As most of you know, Joe Lieberman votes with Democrats 75-80% of the time. However, he opposes a public option and also opposes extending medicare to cover individuals under 55.
As Democrats have failed to remove him from the senate, they've decided to pick on an easier, more vulnerable target, his wife. His wife is a spokeswoman for the largest non-profit breast cancer association, The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Now democrats are gathering celebrities signing petitions to demand she be fired because in the past she has worked for pharmaceutical companies.
Frankly, this reminds me of the old mafia tactics of "do what we say or we'll go after your family." It's truly disgusting that they find it easier to attack a senator's wife than to actually deal with the issue of this healthcare bill directly.
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
14 Dec 09
Anything with "celebrities" in it has my head spinning these days.
I figured they'd be busy with another "Save Roman" petition or another "We Pledge Loyalty to Barack" video or even one more "I'll Donate 1% of my Yearly Earnings to a Charity of my Choice and then Demand Government Take Your Money to do the Same" publicity tour.
Slow year in Hollywood?
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
14 Dec 09
More generalizations from Taskr. A handful of "Hollywood" celebrities, many of them has-beens or never-really-weres, defend Roman Polanski so let's lump the entire entertainment industry into the category of "child rapist defenders". Yet, heaven forbid if a liberal does the same thing with the conservatives and/or Republicans!
Annie
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@matersfish (6306)
• United States
14 Dec 09
Yes. Lump Hollywood together! 
Even if they aren't signing the petition, they surely aren't speaking out against those that do. Celebs that truly go against the fray like Jon Voight are outcasted and made fools of by others (both in the establishment and on places like myLot) simply for not subscribing. So it's kinda hard not to lump them in together.
Maybe some mainstream celebs do speak out, but I don't suspect most mainstream news organizations and/or venues would give them a platorm to be heard.
So, until Hollywood shows that it's not affiliated with progressive liberalism as a whole, I think people are going to make those generalizations and lump everyone together. It's a cultural thing at this point.
Even if they aren't signing the petition, they surely aren't speaking out against those that do. Celebs that truly go against the fray like Jon Voight are outcasted and made fools of by others (both in the establishment and on places like myLot) simply for not subscribing. So it's kinda hard not to lump them in together.
Maybe some mainstream celebs do speak out, but I don't suspect most mainstream news organizations and/or venues would give them a platorm to be heard.
So, until Hollywood shows that it's not affiliated with progressive liberalism as a whole, I think people are going to make those generalizations and lump everyone together. It's a cultural thing at this point.2 people like this
@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
14 Dec 09
"A handful of "Hollywood" celebrities, many of them has-beens or never-really-weres"
Annie, there was no shortage of A-Listers signing that petition. Sure about half the names were puds just trying to get some attention, but where were the Hollywood elite that SUPPORTED Roman Polanski being arrested for his crimes?
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@Taskr36 (13963)
• United States
15 Dec 09
Hillary Clinton was attacked based on her policies, not simply because she was Bill Clinton's wife and it was never even remotely similar to the "we'll get your wife fired if you don't do what we say" crap that's going on now. Don't forget, she was more than a first lady, Bill Clinton appointed her as chairwoman of the Task Force on National Health Care Reform.
Seriously, you're comparing apples and oranges.
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@Rollo1 (16676)
• Boston, Massachusetts
14 Dec 09
I had heard about this and I must say that it's not surprising. It should be astounding that this level of pettiness, bitterness and rancor exists over political differences, but sadly, it's not.
In the good old days of the studio system, actors weren't required to think and in fact, encouraged not to voice strong opinions. At some point actors decided they were just as important as their salaries told them they were and now they all think that the public can benefit from their political guidance. The public should react by boycotting films and shows that feature these self-important, petty people.
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
14 Dec 09
I do that, Rollo. Until everyone gets it that every time they go see one of these people's films, buy that CD, attend those groups' concerts, buy the action figures, et al, then we'll have to continue to listen to these shoe-sized IQs blather on. The lot of them disgust me. You'd have to pay me to buy anything they produce!
Maggiepie
"Be stewards of the Earth."
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@Maggiepie (7816)
• United States
14 Dec 09
I say let them have plenty of rope to hang themselves. The more & louder they lie & threaten, the more people are getting fed up with their Mafioso tactics. The..."main stream media"...(Oh. Har. De. Har.) are no longer in supremacy, & the alternative media are going gangbusters getting the truth out.
Of course, that's why they're trying desperately to shut us up!
Maggiepie
"Be stewards of the Earth."
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@lilwonders456 (8214)
• United States
14 Dec 09
Who are they to DEMAND she be fired? So she worked for a pharmecutiecal company. So what.
Are going to next want all people working for pharmeceutical companies fired too?
They are trying to bully him into doing what they want. It is disgusting. I hope not only that it does not work but they get called out for their dirty tricks.
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@jmowreader (83)
• United States
15 Dec 09
Democrats are going after Joe Lieberman's wife because Hadassah Lieberman is a paid consultant to Pfizer and ALCO--two companies with a highly vested interest in seeing healthcare reform scrapped. Turn off Fox News, taskr, it's bad for you.
@jmowreader (83)
• United States
15 Dec 09
Okay, was. She was also (until the 2008 election, when the Liebermans decided her employment would cause him problems on the campaign trail) senior counsel at Hill & Knowlton's healthcare and pharmaceutical consultancy. She is a serious inside-the-Beltway player, not just the innocent housewife a lot of Republicans are casting her as.
@jmowreader (83)
• United States
15 Dec 09
Well....she WAS a paid consultant for the healthcare industry. Certainly you don't think that when you get that high up in the Beltway food chain, the people you were working with just forget who you are.
A little about her last employer: Hill & Knowton was the company who devised the "Kuwaiti incubator" story--the one where the evil Iraqi troops were sent to a Kuwaiti hospital to steal all the incubators out of the nursery. According to the tale, they broke into the hospital, put the babies on the floor to die and took the incubators to Baghdad. Turned out to be a complete lie, but that's who this woman was working for. They are, for lack of a better word, pure evil.
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@danishcanadian (28954)
• Canada
15 Dec 09
I think that politicians, regardless of whose side they are on, need to leave eachother's families alone. I don't care if the party I support is doing the snipping, or the party I support is getting snipled. Families, and spouses, need to be LEFT ALONE!! If you have a problem, deal with the politician, and leave their families in peace.
@irishidid (8687)
• United States
15 Dec 09
The foundation has already stated they have no intentions of getting rid of her and that she's a great asset to the organization.
@poingly (605)
• United States
15 Dec 09
The problem is that we are not just taking about the family member of a public offical; she is also a spokesperson for an organization that influences political policy on health care. The last time I checked, it was a spokesperson's job to, you know, speak about things (and answer for things) related to what they do.
@Destiny007 (5805)
• United States
19 Dec 09
Since I consider the Democrat Party to be a criminal organization, I agree with your comment about the mafia tactics being used here.
This is just good old Chicago Politics in action.
