Who Is Ceci Connolly And Why Does She Think Americans Don't Deserve Health Care On This Independence Day?

- by VG


I’ve been avidly following Blue America’s and Howie’s awesome efforts to make the Senate knuckleheads who take insurance lobby money as if it was their due and f*ck the people who really are hurting, suffer. And, everyone else in between. I read Howie’s latest, here and went off to read the July 4th (Independence Day) WaPo article he linked- and then... something about it made me do teh
Google.

The most recent WaPo article is by Ceci Connolly. And, as I discovered, she is quite a piece of work. I'm not excusing Obama, not one whit, but Ms. Ceci seems to have had an agenda...

From Howie's WaPo link here: Ceci Connolly sez- article linked above July 4:

Obama Urges Groups to Stop Attacks– Advocates Should Turn Attention to Promoting Legislation, President Says

In recent weeks, liberal bloggers and grass-roots groups such as MoveOn.org, Democracy for America, Service Employees International Union and Progressive Change Campaign Committee have targeted Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Arlen Specter (Pa.), Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.).

Ceci Connolly from June 28 WaPo article- here.

Health-Care Activists Targeting Democrats- Sniping Among Liberals May Jeopardize Votes Needed to Pass Bill

In recent days-- and during this week’s congressional recess-- left-leaning bloggers and grass-roots organizations such as
MoveOn.org, Health Care for America Now and the Service Employees International Union have singled out Democratic Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.), Mary Landrieu (La.), Ron Wyden (Ore.), Arlen Specter (Pa.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) for the criticism more often reserved for opposition party members.

If nothing else she knows how to use cut and paste. And, I thought, well... she has an agenda... let's see...

Angry Bear had some choice words about Ceci Connolly's June 28 WaPo "piece" here

A good sign of a totally bogus argument is reliance on contradictory presumptions of fact. When one is simply wrong, one can often make a convincing argument by inventing facts. When one is being absurd, one can fall into the temptation to invent inconsistent facts.

In this article in the Washington Post Ceci Conolly is being absurd. She argues that progressives (such as MoveOn) who attack Democratic Senators who don't support a public option are endangering health care reform.

She presents two arguments one stated in her own name in what is supposed to be a news article and one ascribed to an anonymous source whom she does not criticize.

OUCH.

I found her personal website here, and OMG, she lurves her some Lieberman.

Lieberman hailed the Democratic victory eight years ago as nearing the political promised land. In another allusion to Moses, he said: "You might say the Red Sea finally parted, and more Americans than ever before walked through be-hind President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore." Even Lieberman's new charter airplane--owned by Spirit Airlines--fit with the theme of the day. "The Spirit literally moved me," he said with a chuckle, describing today's maiden flight.

And, further googling revealed this Rolling Stone article by Eric Boehlert here, snip below:

Incredibly, none of the three examples Connolly offered to highlight Gore's compulsion for exaggerating were based on fact. Eleven months later, and just three weeks before Election Day, the Post returned to the topic of Love Canal, reporting how Gore's "clumsy" statements "suggesting he discovered the Love Canal disaster" had made him an easy target for ridicule.

And then, an FDL commenter here, put me onto this fine article, here.

OMG! This is a "must read"!!

WaPo's Ceci Connolly plays Baghdad Bob to America’s health neglect system

Connolly was also instrumental in smearing Howard Dean in 2004 and misleading reporting about the debate leading up to the creation of Medicare Part D(eath). She is as bad as it gets. If you see her coming, cross the street to avoid her.

Over and out, from VG!