Mediaboss Marketing

Flickr

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been accused of many murders of individuals working close to her. A recent fake news article suggested that Clintons assistant Johnston Wilson (J.W.) McGill died under mysterious circumstances. However, there are no concrete facts supporting the claim that McGill was found dead after suffering an apparent heart attack. Where did this fake news article originate?

In April 2017, the web site geopolitica.ru published the article claiming that McGill, an assistant for the former Secretary of State, had died under mysterious circumstances. You can read text from the fake story below.

Johnston Wilson McGill, 34, was pronounced dead on his couch by a private doctor after suffering an apparent heart attack. It has happened just days after being summoned to appear before Trey Gowdys congressional committee to testify about Hillary Clintons email server. McGill was one of Clintons aides. The death was reported hapanned [sic] at her home of natural causes.

[]

Does this whole thing seem a little bit odd to anyone else? It feels oddly like weve seen things like this happen before to people who could possibly incriminate Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, as the doctor who pronounced has an impeccable record and is an authorized coroner in new York, the findings will be accepted and entered into public record.

However, there is no truth to this rumor. Although the Geopolitica.ru story is currently being circulated on social media, this text originally appeared on The Last Line of Defense, an entertainment web site with a penchant for fake news. According to a disclaimer on the web site, all of its content is satirical.

The Resistance may include information from sources that may or may not be reliable and facts that dont necessarily exist. All articles should be considered satirical and any and all quotes attributed to actual people complete and total baloney. Pictures that represent actual people should be considered altered and not in any way real.

Although there is no truth to this rumor that did not stop conspiracy theorists from quickly starting to spread the claim that McGill was killed in an attempt to keep Clinton out of jail. Here are some examples of people sharing and discussing the fake news article about Clinton.

Besides the origin of the story with a known fake entertainment news site, there is no record of a Johnston Wilson McGill working on Clintons staff. Additionally, there are no genuine news reports about his alleged death.

Furthermore, Trey Gowdy concluded his investigation into the Benghazi email scandal in July 2016. Although this article does not include a date for the death of the fictional McGill, the web sites appear to have published the story in March and April of 2017, according to Snopes.

What did you think of the fake news about another murder at the hands of Clinton? Have you seen people sharing the story falsely on social media? Let us know in the comments section.

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore, Flickr

Webcast, May 4th: The Death of Email Marketing and How to Avoid It

Follow this link:
Hillary Clinton's Assistant J.W. McGill Dead Under Mysterious Circumstances Is Fake News - Business 2 Community

SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER

Shattered: Inside Hillary Clintons Doomed Campaign claims neither Clinton nor her campaign team could articulate exactly why she wanted to be president. At one point, her teamproposed the idea of using the slogan because its her turn to encapsulate her core campaign message.

The claim ties in with comments made by Donald Trumpbefore the election that Hillary Clinton somehow felt entitled to be president.

Staffers eventually chose to run with the phrase Stronger Together, implying that Clinton could unify the country in a way thatDonald Trump could not, as well as encouraging Clinton supporters to promote the phrase Im with Her.

According to the book, written by The Hills Amie Parnes and Sidewires Jonathan Allen,Barack Obamas former speechwriter Jon Favreau described the campaign as abunch of operatives who were smart and accomplished in their own right but werent united by any common purpose larger than pushing a less-than-thrilling candidate into the White House, adding that it reminded him of John Kerrys unsuccessful presidential bid in 2004.

Furthermore, Clintons speechwriting team were reportedly stunned by the absence of any talk about her actual vision for the country.

Other revelations from the book include Hillary apologizing to Barack Obama after conceding to Trump, Clintons lack of understanding of losingwhite working-class support, and Obama privately criticizing Clintons use of a private email server describing it as political malpractice.

You can follow Ben Kew on Facebook, on Twitter at @ben_kew,oremail him at bkew@breitbart.com

More here:
Hillary Clinton Staffers Considered Campaign Slogan 'Because It's Her Turn' - Breitbart News

Hillary Clinton made a surprise appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday to take part in a panel for The Protectors: Walk in the Ranger's Shoes, a Kathryn Bigelow-directed short film about elephant poaching.

The film, shot as a VR experience, documents a day in the life of a park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo that is tasked with saving elephants from the dangerous ivory trade.

"We've got to bust this market so it can't come back," Clinton said of elephant poaching, an illegal practice she fought both as Secretary as State as well as through her Clinton Global Initiative foundation, the Associated Press reports.

"Im very proud that under President Obama, the United States passed a near federal ban on the transportation and interstate trafficking of ivory in our own country. The Obama administration had three overriding goals: Stop the killing, stop the trafficking, and stop the demand And part of that is protecting these rangers."

Clinton also made note of the massive March of Science that took place nationwide on Saturday, Earth Day. "We are marching on behalf of science, and part of science is understanding the intricate relationships that we share with all those on this planet and particularly large mammals like elephants, who have a role to play both in reality and in our imaginations."

National Geographic will premiere The Protectors on May 1 on VR app Within, then on YouTube and Facebook360 the following week.

Sign up for our newsletter to receive breaking news directly in your inbox.

Visit link:
Watch Hillary Clinton Make Surprise Appearance at Tribeca Film Festival - RollingStone.com

A couple of hours ago I tweeted this:

Shattered tells us in loving detail about every mistake the Clinton campaign made, but every losing campaign gets that treatment. Her campaign also did a lot of things right. My horseback guess is that when you put it all together, she was about average as a candidate and her campaign was about average as a campaign.

But that got me curious: how do Clinton and her campaign compare to past elections? There's no way to measure this directly, but you can get an idea by comparing actual election outcomes to the predictions of a good fundamental model. So I hauled out Alan Abramowitz's model, which has a good track record, and looked at how winning candidates performed compared to the baseline of what the model predicted for them. Here it is:

According to this, Hillary Clinton did way better than any winning candidate of the past three decades, outperforming her baseline by 2.4 percent. Without the Comey effect, she would have outperformed her baseline by a truly epic amount.

Now, was this because she ran a good campaign, or because she had an unusually bad opponent? There's no way to tell, of course. Donald Trump was certainly a bad candidate, but then again, no one thinks that Dole or Gore or Kerry or McCain were terrific candidates either.

Bottom line: we don't have any way of knowing for sure, and this is an inherently subjective question. But the evidence of the Abramowitz model certainly doesn't suggest that Hillary Clinton ran an unusually poor campaign or that she was an unusually poor candidate. Maybe she was, but aside from cherry-picked anecdotes and free-floating Hillary animus, there's not really a lot to support this view.

Read more:
How Bad Was Hillary Clinton's Campaign? - Mother Jones

Its been nearly six months since Hillary Clinton lost the presidency to Donald Trump, and if she had any hope that people would stop talking about how bad her campaign was, she got a rude awakening this week whenShattered: Inside Hillary Clintons Doomed Campaignwas released.

Article after article has revealeddetails from the book that make Clintons campaign less like a well-oiled machine up against unforeseeable forces and more like the Titanicif the crew knew the iceberg was there all along and deliberately ignored it, as reported in The Observer.

Written by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, the book describes how staffers in the Hillary Clinton campaign begin to bicker with one another:

"All of the jockeying might have been all right, but for a root problem that confounded everyone on the campaign and outside it," they wrote at the end of Chapter One, as cited in Rolling Stone. Chapter One is entirely about that campaign's exhausting and fruitless search for a plausible explanation for why Hillary was running."Hillary had been running for president for almost a decade and still didn't really have a rationale, " conclude the authors.

Shatteredis sourced almost entirely to figures inside the Clinton campaign who were and are deeply loyal to Clinton. Yet those sources tell of a campaign that spent nearly two years paralyzed by simple existential questions:Why are we running? What do we stand for?

Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes portrait of Clinton's campaign compares to a Titanic-like disaster, reported The New York Times: an epic fail made up of a series of perverse and often avoidable missteps by an out-of-touch candidate and her strife-ridden staff that turned a winnable race into another iceberg-seeking campaign ship.

What Allen and Parnes captured inShatteredwas a far more revealing portrait of the Democratic Party intelligentsia than, say, the WikiLeaks dumps. And while the book is profoundly unflattering to Hillary Clinton, the problem it describes really has nothing to do with Secretary Clinton.

Read this article:
Shattered: New Book Brutalizes Hillary Clinton's Campaign - AL DIA News