David Brock has a long history. He was part of the people vicioulsy and dishonestly attacking Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and later switched sides:
Brock began his career as a right-wing investigative reporter during the 1990s[3] who wrote the book The Real Anita Hill and the Troopergate story, which led to Paula Jones filing a lawsuit against Bill Clinton. In the late 1990s he switched sides, aligning himself with the Democratic Party, and in particular with Bill and Hillary Clinton.
In 2004, he founded Media Matters for America, a non-profit organization that describes itself as a "progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."[4] He has since also founded super PACs called American Bridge 21st Century and Correct the Record, has become a board member of the super PAC Priorities USA Action, and has been elected chairman of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
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National Review has called him a “right-wing assassin turned left-wing assassin.”
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Later in January, Brock responded to a Sanders campaign ad by telling the Associated Press: “From this ad, it seems black lives don’t matter much to Bernie Sanders,” Sanders aides responded by accusing Brock of “mudslinging.” Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs said in a statement: “Bernie Sanders, as everyone knows, has one of the strongest civil rights records in Congress. He doesn’t need lectures on civil rights and racial issues from David Brock, the head of a Hillary Clinton Super Pac.” Briggs added: “Twenty-five years ago it was Brock – a mud-slinging, right-wing extremist – who tried to destroy Anita Hill, a distinguished African American law professor. He later was forced to apologize for his lies about her. Today, he is lying about Sen Sanders.”
Today, in a public letter, he apologized to Bernie Sanders and those of us who supported Bernie in the primary. Now I don’t know why someone writes a public letter. He could call up Bernie and apologize. For some reason, he wanted this public.
At times during the Democratic primary, I was criticized for being too aggressive in my support for Secretary Clinton — and rightly so. Looking back, I recognize that there were a few moments when my drive to put Hillary in the White House led me to take too stiff a jab. I own up to that, I regret it, and I apologize to you and your supporters for it.
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Senator Sanders: your candidacy electrified millions. From students to working class families, you inspired Americans to be more engaged in the political process.
Throughout your life of advocacy and career in public service, you have been a leader on some of the same issues to which I’ve devoted my professional life. You were one of the first to identify and call for media reform. That leadership has included calling out the corporate media for refusing to cover climate change, something my organization Media Matters has extensively exposed.
We need you to continue to be the voice of reason in a world that has been spun out of control.
You have consistently devoted yourself to ensuring a fair and free press. In your House days, I remember you being one of very few to attend a Congressional hearing about the fairness doctrine where, despite a mostly empty room, you posed thoughtful and penetrating questions. You introduced a bill to restore that doctrine, to guard against wildly biased and inaccurate media outlets. And how prescient that concern was. In this past election, we saw the media abdicate its vital public mission, cynically fueling Trump’s candidacy for money and ratings.
We need you to continue holding the corporate media’s feet to the fire.
One of the signature issues of your campaign was getting money out of politics. Even though I run a SuperPAC, I am with you on this.
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Senator Sanders, we need to be bold and united. Without fear or hesitation, we must oppose Trump. We must stand up for and defend our shared values.
The progressive movement is strong and growing, thanks in large part to your candidacy, Senator Sanders, which electrified so many voters. The bedrock American values you championed — of pluralism, equality, and opportunity — are ones I share. And I hope that we can be partners in the fight ahead.
Brock Public Letter to Bernie Sanders
As many know, Bernie has been out there opposing Trump.
I’m unclear of the letter’s purpose. Is it a job application?
Just weird.
But apology accepted from a Bernie supporter. Apologies are a start, but penance is also necessary. Amends.