Targeting Lieberman’s Wife: ‘Hollywood Jane’ Hamsher and Her New McCarthyites
by Larry O'ConnorLast week under mounting pressure from protesters, the Iranian Government promised a new and deadly crackdown. “From now on, we will show no mercy” to protesters or their families, the government’s chief prosecutor, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, said Tuesday. It is par for the course in a totalitarian regime to not only threaten protesters, but to also target their families for punishment. This acts as a cruel yet effective means of intimidation in silencing dissent.
Which brings me to Hollywood Producer Jane Hamsher.
‘Hollywood Jane’ Hamsher
After cutting her teeth in the business by producing what many feel is the most offensive and degrading main-stream film of the past twenty years (and, some would say, screwing Quentin Tarantino in the process) Hamsher seems to have finally found her calling as a more abrasive, and dangerous version of Arianna Huffington. With her oddly named blog FireDogLake (named after her three favorite things, sitting by the fire with her dog watching Lakers games) she has created a left-wing haven for bloggers not merely content with attacking their opponents with words, but with some serious action.
Hamsher’s latest foray into the realm of on-line coercion is her latest call to arms is against Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I, CT). Mrs. Lieberman’s crime? She is the wife of a Senator who has proclaimed his opposition to Obama Care. Hamsher is targeting Susan G. Komen for the cure, a breast cancer charity that Mrs. Lieberman serves as Global Ambassador for.
Donations to find a cure for cancer should not be used to pay the salary of former insurance and drug lobbyist Hadassah Lieberman, wife of Senator Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who is pledging to kill health care reform while millions go untreated. We’re calling on Susan G. Komen for the cure and celebrity donors like Ellen DeGeneres and Christie Brinkley to be mindful of where their money is going.
This attack by association is a common tactic used many in the totalitarian left and is reason #1 why so many conservatives in the entertainment business choose to conceal any non-conformity in their political thinking. Often, we are not the only targets, but our spouses, our children and our friends are attacked for “associating with the enemy.”
Ms. Hamsher’s days in Hollywood clearly influenced her tactics.
This is hardly Ms. Hamsher’s first attack against Sen. Lieberman. In fact, the two go way back. It was Hamsher who was at the forefront of Ned Lamont’s successful bid to wrestle the Democratic nomination from Lieberman back in 2006. That triumph turned to a humiliating defeat when she took her personal vendetta against the Senator a step too far (as so many undisciplined Internet writers often do) and posted a photo of Lieberman in full minstrel-era black face. This uproar actually ended up helping the Lieberman campaign in the long run and showed Lamont’s supporters to be the extremists that they were.
Meanwhile, Hamsher’s activities on the Internet are not just confined to brazen race-baiting from the comfort of FDL or the Huffington Post. She has mobilized her corner of the left-o-sphere into a whole network of activist (and capitalist) opportunities.
Embedded directly within her FDL website is a political action committee called FDL Action. There you can learn more about specific issues (mostly health care) and you can take action by signing petitions, anbnoying your friends with canned e-mail alerts, oh, and you can also donate money… up to $2,400 (or, “If you prefer, you can make a recurring contribution.”… MC and Visa only)
And then there’s Public Option Please. A web site dedicated to raising a ruckus (and a lot of money) for pushing the Public Option through the congressional Health Care bills. Jane Hamsher is listed as one of the three members of the Board of Directors (must meet at a booth at Denny’s). There is also a really cool “Contribute” button on that site and depending on how much you give you will get some awesome art work designed by either Shephard Fairey, or Justin Kemerling. (By the way, Kemerling was on the NEA Conference Call exposed by Patrick Courrielche here at Big Hollywood. I wonder if he created this artwork before or after the Obama Administration asked him to)
But, Hamsher is kept busy jousting with other windmills too. She also runs Blue America (dedicated to a single-payer health care system) and Accountability NOW (Dedicated to primaries for selecting candidates) and yes, those sites also have really snazzy donation pages. (There’s a lot of money in all of this charity).
Finally to round out Hamsher’s little empire she runs a service called Common Sense Media. According to their homepage:
Our stable of trusted blogs and news sites attracts a combined audience of more than 22 million loyal readers each month –making CommonSense Media a highly-effective and efficient means of reaching progressive thought-leaders, journalists, educators, activists, politicos, and others hungry for news and opinion written from a progressive point-of-view. Whether you’re launching a new campaign, marketing a new book or film, fundraising, or building your mailing list, let CommonSense Media help you connect with an audience that’s not afraid to take action. And definitely not afraid to share their opinions.
In other words, through her blog and her tangled web of PACs and non-profits she foments rage and builds momentum and loyalty from extremists who read her pages and then targets those readers on behalf of candidates and authors/film makers who are looking to sell to that demographic.
Wow, for a “Progressive” she really has figured out multiple ways to collect money from her readers. And the more outrageous her stories, the more traffic she commands. So this whole “Get attention by targeting the wife of a Senator so thousands of articles will mention it because it is so beyond the pale” strategy makes a whole lot of sense now.
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Is Jane Hamsher another capitalist PIG dressed up as a socialist fake?
Now I really hate the Lakers….
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Who does Hamster expect will find and produce a cure for cancer, if not the pharmaceutical companies? Christie Brinkley?
and he was right!
Gee, I wonder if she's Pro Life? Pro Traditional Marriage? Pro Capitalist?
How many little Leni Riefenstahls are we supposed to stomach?
Gee, another Hollywood liberal who produces violent movies and spreads her venom using her money and connections.
The left using Fascist tactics? How shocking.
What rocks do these commies hatch and crawl out from under? We need to find those rocks and scoop them up with a very large and heave frontloader. They need to be defeated for good.
Hear, hear!
Snip "you can make a recurring contribution.”… MC and Visa only" … hmmm, bet ACORN can help her out, I mean they have all those Visa account numbers the collected just sitting around doing nothing.
Attacking a mans wife because you disagree with him? Whats next? Attacking a woman's family because she isn't liberal? Attacking a man because of his middle name? I wish I could say "stay classy, liberals" but the truth is class left politics a long, long time ago.
They are always classy. They're our intellectual betters.
"Whats next? Attacking a woman's family because she isn't liberal?"
Sarah Palin?
I always thought liberals were non-conformists? Yet they are conforming lockstep. They told us to question authority, now they embrace it. Punks.
Liberals are such a tolerant open minded lot aren't they…….
I cannot count the number of times in just presenting my opinion I have had to listen to a liberal lecture me on being open minded and to think independently and consider others views.
Yet they will be the first to defend the actions of people like this.
Unfortunately she's just another Hollywood crank in a long line of misdirected, spoiled, talentless, amoral leftists.
NEXT!
No, another Hollywood croak.
Jane Hamster is an immoral, intolerant, drug-addled little Ms. Roundheels. Her politics mirror her lifestyle.
generalmalaise……does your friend have something against doing it with members of his own species?
Hamsher or Hamster? I plan on letting Komen know that if they go after Lieberman's wife, there will never be a pink ribbon or pink anything I will support….These people are desperate losers. And even more important, hypocrites.
Yanno… I head Andrew on sirius radio tonight and he said something that makes perfect sense and fits with your story well.
He said, and I paraphrase, that we (conservatives) have been too polite. We allowed the left to take over because we thought it was the polite thing to do… "you think you (the left) have a better idea then have at it and we'll give it a try."
Big mistake that we are now paying for.
Obviously, after reading about this woman and then looking at the DailyKos and HP, we just don't fight dirty enough. They know guerrilla warfare better than we do.
We've gotta learn fast and catch up.
Actually, it sounds like she's using everyone else's money! LOL
Interesting isn't it that McCarthy and -ism have always been negative labels?
Must have something to do with the Hollywood10 and the years of Hollywood indoctrination since that our society has been bathed in.
LMAO!!!!
I only see personal attacks from the left. If they have their way they sue to silence you and hit your pocketbook.
Well yes. That was my point.
Oh, you're absolutely right. And being polite (the word Breitbart used) and taking the high road has gotten us a Marxist president and administration.
So this is one of the twits that helped Oliver Stone take a big fat dump on Tarantino's screen play. I think it's about time these twits get a taste of their own medicine. They can dish it out but let's see if the they can take it.
The first step, it seems to me, is to not allow the other side to control the language of the conversation. This is a tactic common to all totalitarian movements. Take the health care bill for example. Liberals scored a major victory at the beginning just by getting everyone to speak in terms of a crisis of health care. Once that was decided, it became a conversation between Dems and Repubs on how to defuse the crisis and which side had the better solutions, and as the former wanted to take bolder action the momentum has always been on their side. The ideal move, it seems to me, would have been to stop the liberals before they even got off the mat, by challenging them on the "crisis" language. Can anyone explain why the state of health care in America suddenly deteriorated into crisis mode in '08 and '09? Why does it constitute a crisis now? We have to challenge them even on their rhetoric, or they'll stay in control of the conversation.
What a pig. Oink Oink.
We can still be polite. The key is to use their words against them. Get them to show their true one-world-gov't-population-control-hateful-elitist faces without stooping to their level. It's all in how you play the game – and how well you hide your recording devices.
Excellent!
It's all about owning the narrative (as someone is saying now, so I'll copycat and use that word too HA!). I never once said we have to PLAY dirty, although that has been inferred and deduced by previous posters. What I said was that we need to LEARN what they are doing and how they are doing it. Read Rules for Radicals. I have. Know what they are doing to us and why they are doing it.
Thank you for your great opinion!
What a horrid person.
jane hamster is a jew hater. she hates and wants to destroy anything or everything good that represents our country…her along with the sulky miserable blacky that is called our president
And worst of all she is a Laker Fan. One more reason to root for the Golden State Warriors. Seriously I think many of these people smoked to much high grade weed back in the 70's.
Can we stop using "McCarthy" a negative attack? Joe McCarthy was a good man who only wanted to protect his nation.
In a sane world she'd be bumped off as a warning to the others.
In a sane world, she'd be bumped off as a warning to the others.
Good old Ms. Leni made propaganda movies glorifying Heer Shickelgruber AKA der Fuher Adolf Hitler.
The more people that find out about this, the less money she will have in her coffers …get the word out!!!
And Hamsher's latest revelation that Joe Lieberman's dog lifts ONLY his right leg when he urinates is sure to indicate just how far gone the senator is. And Hamsher also had to fire her hairdresser for daring to mention Atlas Shrugged in front of her. It seems this lady's work is NEVER done.
I don't know that I agree about fighting dirty. When someone starts descending into personal attacks (be it a politician or otherwise) I lose all respect for the individual.
What I think conservatives need to do is not TAKE the attacks anymore. Don't respond with more of the same but instead point out what they're doing, how they're wrong, and how it can be fixed. A calm, witty response will always win out one laced with personal insults and hysteria. That's my take on it anyway.
"knocking the bottom out"
haven't heard that expression used in a while…LOL
Gee, Maybe Hadassah ought to cry anti-semitism?! Hey it works for OTHER people (G-d forbid I should say who exactly cause that would make me a RACIST.)
ABZ
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After reading aabout this blister of a woman, and taking a look at some of the natural born killers stuff she produced, I have decided to go into the kneecapping business and in about one year I will spin it off into a liberal Limp-a-Thon somewhere in 'Frisco.
Rox, not to nit-pick, but trust me when I say that here in fly-over country we have ALWAYS known how to be guerrilla fighters. Its kinda in our blood from the Revolution on thru the old cattle wars…. With words or deeds, if they want to make it dirty, we can hold our own if we have to! lol
Wow! Hamster , a socialist fake turns out to be a producer of violent film "Natural Born Killer"? Me, think these socialist freak loathe violence and military industrial complex. What a fake!
I was checking out her resume on imdb and she really doesn't have much of one. She's a limo Marxist with a loud mouth. Not much more.
An ugly woman, inside and out, who bitterly sits at her computer tapping out vile and disgusting hatred for everyone to see. Gee, must suck to be you Jane.
"Jane you ignorant slut!"
~ Dan Ackroyd, SNL
Well, I can't take credit for it. Ironically, it's a line from "Death on the Nile" and was spoken by a character who is a communist and is speaking about the rich young woman who is ultimately murdered.
But funnily enough, it fits many different occasions and ideologies. So I use it a lot.
I think she does a better job as an example just as she is.
Think of her as a flare. She illuminates the political lanscape showing us who exactly is on her side, and what that side is.
For as long as I can remember, the left has been changing the definition of words. Such as racism is not not agreeing with modern liberals.
This is their definition of tolerence and open mind. It's also a wonderful example of their definition of compassion.
You can use the same tactics, and still fight cleanly. The left is counting exactly on your type of response.
Not trying to invoke Godwin here, but I'm using the term"nazi" because I am describing nazis.
What was the difference between the nazis rolling into Poland and Esienhower landing on D-Day? They both had massive armies, armed to the teeth, and were there to kick some serious butt.
The difference was the nazis wanted to conquer and destroy while the allies were there to free Europe.
Same tactics, different goals.
Can anyone explain why the state of health care in America
I can.
The number of people who signed up for Medicare and Medicaid keeps going up, so do their bills the government pays, and the day when both programs go belly up is rapidly approaching.
When that occurs, and it will, the government will be forced to ration health care. Enter the death panels. It has to happen, because rationing is the only thing government does. Sucks up all the tax money and then decides who gets it. Even a standard budget bill is a ration of money to various programs. Some get it, others do not.
When that happens, every one with private insurance will still be covered, and every on in the program will realize they've been suckered all along. Poof goes the magic illusion of cradle to grave government benevolence. And along with it, modern liberalism.
That's your crisis. Their fix? Every one on the sinking ship so no one realizes it. Think of social security about to assume room temperature.
You're not getting crotchety in your old age, you're just clearing the nasty mental underbrush out. I do the same things, and I feel so much better for it.
Goodbye Time, hellow Reason.
Is that sarcasm or irony? Because it is true.
She is a producer. I am getting crotchety in my older age. I dump mag's that tick me off and don't watch V programs that do the same. I will start looking for what ever Jane has her name attached to and will not watch it.
The Hollywood people live in a different world and never grovel for their daily bread. They can choose to be idealists and not get hurt. SO I can also choose to be an idealist and not partake in their art.
I lived in the Santa Barbara area and watched the lives of the pampered Hollywood people. I wish they would offshore the Hollywood jobs and then they would sing a different tune.
Viciously attack them/they're ides- but politely. User Alinsky's rules as a Judo technique. Given that almost no liberals/socialists/marxists/tyrant wannabes have a sense of humor- make fun of them.
you know how I like to speak truth to power…
you know how I like to speak truth to power
Thanks. By any chance do you know what that means?
I have to remember it because it's great! And I'm an Agatha Christie fan so shame on me for not knowing this.
You have a great sense of humor!
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There's a connection here that nobody has reported. Today's Glenn Beck show reported that Jane Hamshear is the old flame (she dated him for 2 years) of the one and only Andy Shear, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She has all the mannerisms of a SEIU thug doesn't she?
She is a producer. I am getting crotchety in my older age. I dump mag's that tick me off and don't watch V programs that do the same. I will start looking for what ever Jane has her name attached to and will not watch it.
The Hollywood people live in a different world and never grovel for their daily bread. They can choose to be idealists and not get hurt. SO I can also choose to be an idealist and not partake in their art.
I lived in the Santa Barbara area and watched the lives of the pampered Hollywood people. I wish they would offshore the Hollywood jobs and then they would sing a different tune.
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There are ways to fight dirty without bringing innocents into the fray.
See here:
http://perezstern.blogspot.com/2009/03/no-for-per...
The research that actually leads to cures of diseases is mostly done or funded by the government. Big Pharma just profits from it.
Hamsher is a breast cancer survivor who doesn't want Komen employing someone who has cost women with breast cancer their lives by lobbying for the HMOs and drug companies. No one can legitimately object to that.
It can mean many things, but I just enjoy throwing liberals' catch phrases and bumper sticker slogans right back into their faces. I get in touch with my inner A$$hole that way.
Funny, that's what I was doing.
/snarc
Hey dumblibhomo, exactly who do you think is conducting and paying for the research on cancer? Your lack of knowledge concerning healthcare research is showing. Before you attack get the correct information.
The web media has allowed the large population of US citizen to see through your left attacks for what they, nothing but political biased based. The web media has and is exposing all these “non-profits” organizations for what they are, nothing but propaganda for the Socialist Democratic agenda.
After visiting your silly blog, your thoughts on any subject has no creditability and is just part of the lefty efforts to continue to spew nothing but misinformation. The best thing you can do is sit down and shut up. You and Hamsher have nothing of value to add to any conversation.
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fun; is it not?
Those two statements just discredited you. Big Government has shut down more pharmacutical (sp?) labs in the last 20 years than gave money to prop them up.
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