What kind of pervert attacks a mother of five who suffers from breast cancer and MS? Why, an angry dyke whose guilty conscience makes her lash out at real women, that's who.
Don't pay attention to the regime's disavowals, kiddies. They are SOP for these occasions when one of the trolls wriggles out from under the White [Racist.] House drawbridge and publicly spews the vile hatred that fills Benito Hussein Insaner and his ilk.
The Many Careers of Hilary Rosen
Hilary Rosen has had a lot of jobs: a Napster-killing lobbyist, the Huffington Post's political director, Democratic talking head on CNN, and, on Wednesday night, she became conservatives' current Enemy No. 1. Rosen has been Washington-famous for years, having served as the head of the Recording Industry Association of America in the early 2000s, when it was ruining the fun of college students nationwide by shutting down Napster and other file-sharing services. But she became normal-people-famous yesterday for saying that Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life," and doubling-down on Twitter. "Honest question: Who is Hilary Rosen?" tweeted Slate's Dave Weigel Thursday. Allow us to explain.
Rosen is far from the first lobbyist to become a political pundit. There's Lanny Davis, Mark Penn, Tom Ridge, Barry McCaffrey. Here's lobbyist Charlie Black
serving as an "informal adviser" to Mitt Romney, meaning his job is to
give reporters quotes about Romney without giving too much away. But Rosen's
rehabilitation from from lobbyist to pundit is more remarkable, though,
given her fun-killing role at the RIAA. In 2003, Matt Bai described her in Wired as "seen
as the embodiment of a venal corporate culture hurtling toward
obsolescence. It seems she’ll stop at nothing to frighten those who
share music online instead of buying it in a store – hacking into
networks, threatening universities and businesses, sending out subpoenas
to unmask music-swappers."
After leaving the RIAA, she started OurChart.com, described in a press release as "the leading online social networking, entertainment and lifestyle site for lesbians." The site appears defunct, as the url now redirects to Showtime's page for The L Word. In May 2008, she was named
political director and Washington editor at large of the Huffington
Post. She began working as a Democratic analyst for CNN the same year.
On cable news shows, Rosen has been playing the role of "Democratic
strategist" -- more useful for explaining Democratic thinking than for
her persona itself (Here she is arguing with Ann Coulter over Sarah Palin's book. Here she is talking
about Democrats' reaction to Super Tuesday.). But she also advised
Democrats. There's some dispute over whether Rosen currently advises the
Democratic National Committee. Romney's campaign (of course) says yes. The DNC and the Obama campaign say no. But in February, Rosen was noted for giving media training to DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The Wall Street Journal's Monica Langley reported that Rosen -- along with Anita Dunn, who works at the same P.R. firm as Rosen and whom the DNC admits
to working with -- told Wasserman Schultz to "tone it down" and "back
off a smidgen." The congresswoman said of the advice, "I'm glad to get
constructive criticism."
Even if she seemed anti-Internet in her lobbying days, she's clearly web-savvy. It appears she's a vigorous editor of her Wikipedia page, as the user Hilaryrosen
has only edited the Hilary Rosen page, and done so dozens of times
since January 2007. Before that, an anonymous IP address made a rather flattering edit to the page. In January 2006, this sentence was deleted: "However,
many media reports of Rosen's resignation indicated that RIAA member
executives had become increasingly dissatisfied with Rosen's tactics and
her inability to rein in mp3 sharing online." This sentence was added: "Many
say that despite Rosen's publlic loyalty to the industry, much of her
last few years were spent privately encouraging the member companies to
embrace internet distribution. The slow pace resulted in her ultimate
frustration and in the industry being unable to catch up with the
phenomenon of free file sharing." This would indicate that Rosen has media trained herself well enough to weather the current storm. As former chief of staff for Bill Clinton John Podesta told Wired back in 2003, "She can punch you in the face, and you’re still smiling after she does it."
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