Sidney Blumenthal
Sidney Blumenthal is a long-time Clinton surrogate and advisor known for attacks on Clinton opponents. He has defended the Clinton's through decades of scandals investigations.[1] He has worked for Media Matters and presently is employed by the User:RobSmith/Clinton Foundation.
Blumenthal was hired in the Bill Clinton White House in August 1997 as a speech writer and advisor on globalization.[2]
Blumenthal was he source of racist and Islamophobic attacks on candidate Barack Obama including allegations which became known as the birther movement during the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign.
In 2009, the Obama White House barred Blumenthal from serving in the Obama administration and the Clinton State Department because of him being the source of false rumors and attacks against candidate Barack Obama.[3][4]
U.S. Federal Judge Richard Posner called Blumenthal one of America's top public intellectuals.[5]
See also
- Hillary Clinton First Lady
- Hillary Clinton Senate career
- Hillary Clinton Secretary of State
- Hillary Clinton Foreign Policy
Notes
- ↑ (Newsweek blog)
- ↑ http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/resources/1999/impeachment/video.transcripts/blumenthal.html
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/09/23/republicans-are-blaming-hillary-clinton-for-the-birther-movement-thats-wishful-thinking/
- ↑ http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/09/26/washington-post-confirms-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/
- ↑ http://home.uchicago.edu/~rposner/TABLE II.pdf "Data for tables in Chapter 5 of Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline" where Posner talks about the data he used for his book Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline.