That’s what Joe Biden said when, two months after the election, “all the pieces came together” for the Obama White House, according to a new book, “Russian Roulette,” reviewed at The Guardian.
The folks at Cambridge Analytica apparently don’t believe in their ability to sway elections by legal means, so they also rely on prostitutes, bribes and spies as well — in short, kompromat.
Mark Zuckerberg has his tits caught in a wringer over this, too, as it’s thrown light on Facebook’s policy of letting outside developers (like CA) have data not just on users but their friends, who did not give express permission to allow it. This violates the law in some states, and the company’s policy of it’s better not to know what those developers do with the data, taken for its supposed legal protection, didn’t stop Facebook’s stock from falling 7% yesterday.
As mediawatch noted yesterday, Trump’s new lawyer is none other than Wilmington-born and bred Joe diGenova, who rose to fame along with his wife, Victoria Toensing, harassing Bill Clinton back during the blue-dress follies. I’ve never seen a grain of evidence that he’s a good lawyer, but he and his wife are unsurpassed at self-promotion, which explains how Trump found him.
Here’s a trick diGenova’s former client, Tom Gordon, used to pull all the time: Using sockpuppets to praise him. Arizona Rep. Martha McSally, who’s running to replace Sen. John McCain, was caught praising her own video on her Facebook page. This is the analog version of Russian troll farming.
At WDEL, my former colleague Allan Loudell describes the controversy over the firing of Padua Academy principal Cindy Mann as another self-inflicted wound for the Diocese of Wilmington. If your teenager had as many self-inflicted wounds as the Diocese of Wilmington you’d diagnose her as a cutter.