Gigi Sohn talked to Personal Democracy Forum about the work she does at her organization, Public Knowledge. She took time to call out RedState and Less Government. Here’s my hastily-created transcript of the key passage around the 28:00 mark:
[On AT&T/T-Mobile] We often get attacked by the right-wing press, folks like, you know, RedState and Less Government, so I’m constantly dealing with attacks fully funded by AT&T – it’s like not even a secret – calling us, you know, Soros-supported Marxists and Google shills and all these kind… So, I mean I don’t want to respond to those things, but they shape the debate. They’re out in the air.
She says RedState, but at RedState I’m the one who posts on these issues, and mostly in my Tech at Night series. In that series I do highlight repeatedly that Public Knowledge takes money from George Soros‘s Open Society Institute. This is a documented fact on their own webpage.
However I don’t get paid a dime by AT&T. I don’t make a penny off of my tech policy writing. I don’t work for AT&T and never have. I don’t accept money from them and never have, not directly or indirectly. I’m one guy who devotes a few nights a week to studying and writing about these issues, and the fully-funded, paid professional Gigi Sohn feels the need to single me out.
I actually am looking for work in the DC or Austin areas to fund my escape from California. So if AT&T did want to hire me, well, serious offers would be listened to. Heck, if Sprint Nextel wanted to hire me, I’d listen. But the fact of the matter is, I’m a lone amateur. I’m not corporate funded and I’m not foundation funded. RedState doesn’t even pay its writers, let alone AT&T.
And that’s the whole story.
Jeff Emanuel
Whoo Hoo Neil!
barry915barry (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 8:40PM EDT (link)You should actually consider this a feather in your cap. Since, as you put it, “the fully-funded, paid professional Gigi Sohn feels the need to single me out”, this will most likely lead to inquiries into your work, etc..
Trusting that this will lead to you actually being paid for what you do.
Sweet! Barry.
Where did the AT&T rant come from, jeese what a liar
Juggernaut (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 9:17PM EDT (link)this woman is to make such a claim. But that’s how liberals operate, they know how to hoodwink and conspire against conservatives with weak lies and no fear liberals will fact check them.
These people plot and conspire against their own supporters using Alinsky tactics while not even caring that people deserve the truth at all times. Such double talking scum hurt this nation and plot as profiteers, deepen the debt while blaming only the other side and they proving greed is evil.
Anyone who would take money or represent Soros the unrepentant Nazi Collaborator, known felon and a man who admits to starting riots, called a Economic War Criminal by the government of Thailand and having fun with riots is not a man of character. Soros is a known total sleaze and he’s as evil as the day is long.
One other thing I’ve noticed about liberals like this, they tend to catalog people online to document them for other idiots to see. The Stasi did the same documenting every dissenting opinion while lying about them aka smear merchants. My twitter name is now listed by weirdo progressive groups who are in bed with Soros.
I laugh at the names they create, Public Knowledge, MediaMatters, PublicPolicyPolling and MoveOn.orgy all Soros funded and corrupt as it gets. Those dumb names sound kind of hip but they sucker the tabula rasa’s and bully the media against the will of the majority.
Time to register at http://personaldemocracy.com and embarrass them while pretending to be like minded.
RomneyCare is Right Wing Socialism –
Romney “severely conservative”? That’s the opposite of a “compassionate conservative” like George W. Bush? Actually, we know what a severely conservative is. It’s Dick Cheney and Mitt Romney is no Dick Cheney.
I'm with you there...
nathanalbright (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 9:25PM EDT (link)…I appreciate your work. To be called out like that is a sign of your effectiveness. After all, what we accuse others of is what we are, because we accuse them according to our own behavior and thought processes and worldview. Keep it up. And hopefully it will turn into a good-paying job.
California has Republicans
florajo Thursday, November 10th at 9:41PM EDT (link)You don’t have to leave California when you have Bakersfield. Its a perfect example of Republican governance–in contrast to LA and San Fran–for better and for worse.
Where in this thread did anyone mention CA.
gekster (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 9:50PM EDT (link)You should read the rules on threadjack.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
oops, mybad.
gekster (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 9:53PM EDT (link)one word in the article.
reading comprehension, I should use it.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
Heh yeah, I mentioned it
Neil Stevens (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 10:01PM EDT (link)RS contributing editor and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules
Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.
“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
Call it my Perry moment.
gekster (Diary) Thursday, November 10th at 10:22PM EDT (link)I do have them all too often.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
I’ve gone from
“Hope and Change” to
“Hopeless and Changeless”
I sympathize with your desire to leave Cali, Neil,
westcoastpatriette (Diary) Friday, November 11th at 9:23AM EDT (link)but, due to circumstances way beyond my control, I have no choice but to stick it out here. It has gotten so disgusting living under the hand of the moronic left that I battle depression over it sometimes.
Don’t see a way out short of a miracle of some sort. And that’s what makes it depressing.
Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise His name in the dance: let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp. Psalm 149:1-3
Tell me about it.
Ann_W (Diary) Friday, November 11th at 9:44AM EDT (link)I live in CT, which gets bluer and bluer as anyone who can leaves for greener pastures. Even local govt.’s have gotten bluer. Classic liberal politics– create problems, then as they get worse and worse people reach out to government to save them.
“The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan.” Ronald Reagan
good for you, Eric
bobguzzardi Friday, November 11th at 8:19AM EDT (link)You are getting their attention and because you have the better of the argument, the Left does what it does best…demonize you. the Alinsky model works well but not this time when you can get the facts out and we know who you are.
Well thanks, though I'm not Erick
Neil Stevens (Diary) Friday, November 11th at 8:59AM EDT (link).
RS contributing editor and “a hardy variety of crabgrass.”
Read the RedState Posting Rules
Unlikely Voter: Poll Analysis, Election Projection.
“I rejoice that America has resisted.” – William Pitt, the Elder
I have a telecom opening for ya...
rickperryreport Friday, November 11th at 1:59PM EDT (link)… But you have to know how to sell to oilmen in Texas. Contact me at my site if you are interested.