Breaking News: Obama Campaign Adviser Participated on JournoList - Thanks Charles
The Volokh Conspiracy published
Jared Bernstein, chief economist for Vice President Joseph Biden, served in 2008 as an economic adviser to the Obama campaign. At the same time, he was a member of JournoList, the controversial progressive email list.
Bernstein’s bio at Politico, which appears not to have been updated since 2008, states: “He is an economic adviser to the Obama campaign.”
He was known to many for his regular appearances on the financial channel CNBC. His primary employer in 2008 was the Economic Policy Institute, a pro-labor progressive think tank, but according to his bio when appointed to the Obama-Biden Administration, he also was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office.
Reached today at the Office of the Vice President, Bernstein revealed that his position with the Obama campaign was as something called a “surrogate.” “I was not paid by the campaign,” he explained. “They would call me from time to time to represent their positions, that side of the debate.”
Asked when he left JournoList, Bernstein replied, ‘‘I think I left the list around the time I came here.” Bernstein was announced as Chief Economist and Economic Policy Adviser to the Vice President-elect on December 8, 2008.
One question that has arisen in the last week is how closely JournoList members, not only discussed how to shape the news to advance the fortunes of Barack Obama, but coordinated with the Obama campaign. Jared Bernstein’s position as an unpaid adviser and surrogate shows that there was at least one direct link between JournoList and the Obama campaign.
Bernstein’s serving on the Economic Advisory Panel of the CBO is less worrisome, though it appears to violate Ezra Klein’s first rule for JournoList:
At the beginning, I set two rules for the membership. The first was the easy one: No one who worked for the government in any capacity could join.
It would appear that Bernstein’s presence on the list violated Klein’s first rule, since he met the test of working “for the government in any capacity.”
Yet note Klein’s careful wording here. People who worked for the government in any capacity couldn’t join, but could they stay on the list if they took a government job after joining?
Were there other campaign advisers or part-time government officials who participated on JournoList?
UPDATE: Here is an example of Bernstein’s humorous political writing at the Huffington Post.
2D UPDATE: I have an anonymous source who has shown me an email thread that appears to be from JournoList. From his search of the JournoList archives, he believes that Bernstein’s last direct email to the list was on December 5, 2008, a charming farewell sent 3 days before he was introduced as Biden’s chief economist. Indeed, months later there were several emails to the list from members who wondered how to contact Bernstein.
I hope to have a lot more in the next few days.
Another Whistleblower talking about fraud and corruption during Obama election
Posted on | July 24, 2010 | 1 Comment
http://www.orlytaitzesq.com/?p=12579
Revealed: The Obama Donor List
July 23, 2010 by Anita MonCrief · 96 Comments
“For a number of years traditional print media has been on life support, but after the revelations from Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller, it looks like someone finally pulled the plug. The expose on Journolist, a now defunct, listserv that included hundreds of liberal journalists, detailed: the Journolisters’ attempt, during the 2008 presidential campaign to kill and bury stories about Obama’s …”
http://emergingcorruption.com/
In case you don’t think all of these political operatives are part of a conspiracy, be advised that some of them have been in it from the get-go - and still are conspiring.
You think there’s really no conspiracy??? Think again and find out how the criminal document fraud of the eligibility part of this issue came about (and it included many others in high-level positions including a state governor as well as a bunch of “jpournalists” and “journalist wannabes”).
For exceedingly pertinent and definitive information about the paperwork (“BC” etc.) in the eligibility matter and how it all came about, just follow up on the videos by Dr. Ron J. Polland. You’re in for a REAL eye-opener!!!
Suggested sequence for watching Dr. Polland’s YouTube “FRAUD IN THE USA” video clips; enter the channel using the #0 link below and then immediately pause the displayed video and open the videos noted in the #1 – #9 sequence:
#0 http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDrRJP#p/c/C2281523DF8C0230/1/BWciae2HFKc YouTube channel entry; then select and view …
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#1 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 1)”
#2 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 2)”
#3 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 3)”
#4 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 4)”
$5 “It’s the conspiracy, Stupid!”
#6 “HAIL TO THE CHEATS!”
#7 “BLUE HAWAII”
#8 “FRAUD IN THE USA: “SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED” (Chapter 2-1)”
#9 “FRAUD IN THE USA: “MAKE A DATE WITH A SEAL” (Chapter 2-2)”
For exceedingly pertinent and definitive information about the paperwork (“BC” etc.) in the eligibility matter and how it all came about, just follow up on the videos by Dr. Ron J. Polland. You’re in for a REAL eye-opener!!!
Suggested sequence for watching Dr. Polland’s YouTube “FRAUD IN THE USA” video clips; enter the channel using the #0 link below and then immediately pause the displayed video and open the videos noted in the #1 – #9 sequence:
#0 http://www.youtube.com/user/TheDrRJP#p/c/C2281523DF8C0230/1/BWciae2HFKc YouTube channel entry; then select and view …
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#1 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 1)”
#2 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 2)”
#3 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 3)”
#4 “FRAUD IN THE USA (Chapter 1, Part 4)”
$5 “It’s the conspiracy, Stupid!”
#6 “HAIL TO THE CHEATS!”
#7 “BLUE HAWAII”
#8 “FRAUD IN THE USA: “SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED” (Chapter 2-1)”
#9 “FRAUD IN THE USA: “MAKE A DATE WITH A SEAL” (Chapter 2-2)”