{"id":40088,"date":"2017-09-08T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40088"},"modified":"2017-09-07T10:05:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T14:05:20","slug":"new-pro-hillary-website-gets-panned-even-by-otherwise-pro-clinton-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/08\/new-pro-hillary-website-gets-panned-even-by-otherwise-pro-clinton-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"New pro-Hillary website gets panned … even by otherwise pro-Clinton sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter Daou’s Verrit<\/em>, a new website for Hillary Clinton supporters, isn’t getting rave reviews even from pro-Clinton sources<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This Pro-Hillary Website Looks Like North Korean Agitprop<\/strong>
\nPeter Daou, the prickly pro-Clinton operative, has launched a propaganda rag so shameless it would make Kim Jong Un blush.<\/em><\/p>\n

Who would buy stock in a twice-defeated presidential candidate?<\/p>\n

If the candidate under question is Hillary Clinton, that zealous buyer would be Peter Daou, one-time rocker, seasoned political blogger, former campaign adviser to John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, ambitious litigant, propagandist and internet entrepreneur. A couple of days ago, Daou launched his self-funded Verrit.com<\/em>, a slavishly pro-Clinton site (endorsed by Hillary!) to carry on her failed crusade.<\/p>\n

The derision greeting Verrit is so universal it inspires sympathy for Daou, as Gizmodo<\/em>, the Washington Post<\/em>, Outline<\/em>, New Republic<\/em>, New York<\/em>, The Ringer<\/em> and others have broken its back with their snap judgments. \u201cVerrit<\/em>, a Media Company for Almost Nobody,\u201d read one headline. \u201cNo One Asked for Verrit<\/em>, But Here We Are,\u201d stated another. \u201cWhat Is Verrit<\/em> and Why Should I Care? (Unclear; You Shouldn\u2019t.),\u201d said a third. \u201cPeter Daou Continues to Embarrass Hillary Clinton,\u201d asserted the best in show.<\/p>\n

People, people! It\u2019s only a website!<\/p>\n

Granted, Verrit<\/em> is a goofy website, as websites go. If you don\u2019t possess the courage to visit it right now, here\u2019s a description: Imagine if Matt Drudge created a Hillary fan site, only instead of listing news stories in a text-heavy fashion, he arranged them on the Web equivalent of 3×5 cards, and in addition to typing headlines onto the cards, he pulled out salient facts and stats from the stories (called \u201cverrits\u201d). Each card carries a unique serial number that you can plug into the Verrit<\/em> database to prove \u2026 well, I don\u2019t know exactly what it proves other than Verrit drew its facts and stats from the news source cited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Daou’s Verrit, a new website for Hillary Clinton supporters, isn’t getting rave reviews even from pro-Clinton sources: This Pro-Hillary Website Looks Like North Korean Agitprop Peter Daou, the prickly pro-Clinton operative, has launched a propaganda rag so shameless it would make Kim Jong Un blush. Who would buy stock in a twice-defeated presidential candidate? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,13],"tags":[86,670,269],"class_list":["post-40088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-hillaryclinton","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aqA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40090,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40088\/revisions\/40090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}