"'It was incredible to see the creators interpret the government through the lens of internet culture,' Daks* said.
Next, it was off to the White House.... After [a] news conference, Biden ushered the content creators into the Oval Office for an hour-long private meeting.... 'We know people listen to trusted messengers, and as an increasing number of young people turn to Instagram, TikTok and other platforms for news and information, we need to engage with the voices they trust directly,' said Rob Flaherty, the White House director of digital strategy.... 'In all my years in politics, I’ve never seen a single strategy that could flip a state on its own,' said [a] founder of digital consulting firm.... 'TikTok is that strategy — it impacts culture and politics in a way that no other media reaches.'... Kat Wellington, 24, a lifestyle and fashion content creator, said she was previously hesitant to get political on her TikTok account, but... 'This trip helped me make the push to use my platform for that. I don’t want to be afraid to share my genuine beliefs about politics, even if it’s going to upset some people.'"
Writes Taylor Lorenz in "Inside the Dems’ elaborate attempt to woo TikTok influencers/A free trip to D.C., a private chat with Obama and an hour in the Oval Office with Biden: The Democrats are rolling out the red carpet for social media influencers" (WaPo).
This is giving me a flashback to the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, when Democrats were wrangling bloggers. I wrote:
So I'm a little conflicted about this... because I like to see bloggers use blogging to snag political jobs, [but]... I'm wary about this new activity of wrangling bloggers for the benefit of political candidates. For you bloggers seeking jobs: I hope you get them. But for you bloggers staying in this noble enterprise: Preserve your independence and don't let yourself get manipulated... ... I really was trying to hurt this emerging profession of blogger wrangler. I want bloggers to keep their distance from candidates and not succumb to flattery and seduction. Oh, the candidate actually cares about me, wants to talk to me. It's fine to take advantage of some access, but don't come back like a sucker and blog about how nice the candidate was to you.
So I must say to the young TikTok stars: Don't let them use you. Value your independence. Be you, and say what you think. If you're wowed by politicians, you're lost.
I mean, I wonder what happened to all the bloggers who arrayed themselves around Bill Clinton in 2006:
Where are they now?
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*Daks is Daniel Daks, head of a talent management firm that was used by the Democratic National Committee to arrange an event exploiting social media personalities for political advantage.
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On the same day, Democratic Senator Mark Warner of Virginia says "Trump was right about the security risks of Tik Tok."
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trump-was-right-tiktok-says-top-democrat-senator
"Russia, Russia, Russia" against Trump should have been "China, China, China" about the Biden clan? What say you, Hunter?
Merely seeing the words "Amanda Marcotte" makes my stomach turn.
If Rs don't ban Tik Tok then they are making a huge mistake...
Loser says what? How many states has TikTok flipped?
Sure, go court the vote of the people who don't vote and then let us all know how that worked out.
Getting Tik-Tokers to spread the Progressive Gospel on China’s platform.
Who is influenced by the easily-influenced?
The same Taylor Lorenz who stalked and doxed Libs of TikTok? Political influencing for me but not for thee.
Thankfully, Ann Althouse didn't fall into the clutches of Bill Clinton.
Uh...they dearly WANT to be exploited. It gives them a boner to be able to assist The Party in The Party's efforts to exploit non-Party members. They think that powwow like this is an insurance policy against being among the first to be taken out back and shot-- that is, if they're even faintly aware that such a fate awaits them, or that regimes such as the current one is capable of such puging.
Seems pretty desperate.
There’s a lot of ways this could be a fail.
Like in that the influencers see what a total dementia case Biden is, and suddenly discover they have a conscience after all.
“Greetings fellow kids.”
That's right, Joe tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock...
How many influencers could an influencer influence, if an influencer could influence influencers? That's the important question at today's Whitehouse.
(If they're lining up influencers for the 2024 election, they're about 18 months too early. The lifecycle of an influencer is about 6 months tops, I am guessing.)
Dressing casually to meet the President makes you look like a lightweight. Put on a suit or a proper dress. That guy in the blazer and white pants particularly looks like a doofus.
That said, the woman in the center clearly knew how to dress for an audience with Bill Clinton.
It's Corn was so Last Summer. That's the problem. Politicians chase things that were hot, and they just look sad and behind.
Appealing to the shallow, vapid, narcissists in order to get the votes of their low self esteem sycophants.
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"This is giving me a flashback to the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, when Democrats were wrangling bloggers."
And journalists. The journalists soon became JournoList and they have since carried the entire news industry to lower levels of credibility than the people they were hired to cover (politicians).
I'm sure no creator on TikTok will run into such low credibility issues.
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"Don't let them use you. Value your independence. Be you, and say what you think. If you're wowed by politicians, you're lost."
Well, that's nice. But--what Brian said.
Progs like being tools. They are authentically themselves. Prostration is their natural posture.
Oh please please please God, surround Joe Biden with these freaks.
Taylor is a horrible writer and worse human being. What she described was not incredible at all. Forcing their propaganda into every channel possible is and has always been the progressive play. What's new is their blantantly public lust to censor and control all social media, having so far failed to stop the growth of the one media outlet they don't control. And Taylor has been eager to doxx whomever, smear whomever, deplatform whomever in the name of the progress. She is the perfect spokeskank for this little oval office klan meeting. And WaPo just might be the perfect delivery device for her offal.
In your flashback was it Obama charm or democrat bullying that you recall being used to herd the bloggers?
Taylor Lorenz?
Really?
Idiots trying to influence morons.
Meet the new American "intellectuals". At least "intellectuals" in the traditional sense of those whose job it is to create the narrative for the masses. At one time, this was the purview of think tanks and the odd professor, then the news media took it up, then bloggers, and not Tik tokers.
Another salvo in what I've come to see as the war of the "intellectuals" over the last 20 or so years. Groups fighting on social media to protect their sinecures. And as often happens in war, the very ugly, true nature is being exposed for all to see.
For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the “intellectuals.” For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently; they follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals. The intellectuals are, therefore, the “opinion-molders” in society. And since it is precisely a molding of opinion that the State most desperately needs, the basis for age-old alliance between the State and the intellectuals becomes clear.
It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free market is never too secure; for the intellectual must depend on the values and choices of the masses of his fellow men, and it is precisely characteristic of the masses that they are generally uninterested in intellectual matters. The State, on the other hand, is willing to offer the intellectuals a secure and permanent berth in the State apparatus; and thus a secure income and the panoply of prestige. For the intellectuals will be handsomely rewarded for the important function they perform for the State rulers, of which group they now become a part.
--Murray Rothbard, 'The Anatomy of the State'
Influencers? Subliminal masssag... messaging? Will there be kneeling with "benefits"? Redistributive change? I am deplorable. I am not viable. I am a "burden". I was once a baby... fetus. I am a Rainbow of remnant colors, black and brown excluded.
Waste of time they don't vote
Creator? Womb envy?
“Where are they now?”
A few of the links are dead, but most are still around. One of them, Steve Benen, went on to become a producer for the Rachel Maddox show and won two Emmy awards in 2017 for production of the episodes, "An American Disaster: The Crisis in Flint”, and "One-on-One with Kellyanne Conway.” He also wrote a book called, The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.
Hubby and I attended an event yesterday involving young voters. We were told that based upon their research, young people get their "news" from YouTube. Not Facebook, Twitter or Tik-tok, but YouTube.
However, it doesn't surprise me that the Dems - political party that is obsessed with identity and outward appearance - would believe that superficial 30-second Tik-tok videos are somehow persuasive.
I'm curious about the follow-up post: "Let's Examine Those Breasts More Closely." What conclusions did you come to?
Anyone who’s vote is driven by an influencer should be barred from voting
The demos sure do like to bribe people.
Oh. My. God.
You posted THE PHOTO.
Jessica Valenti is still writing away! And so are you. Good for both!
"Kat Wellington, 24, a lifestyle and fashion content creator, said she was previously hesitant to get political on her TikTok account, but..."
I'm SO glad she's no longer hesitant, because I just don't think I could make up my mind on voting, without the guidance of a TikTok lifestyle and fashion content creator!
OMG!
Left Bank: "He also wrote a book called, The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics."
Why not "pounced" instead of "seized"?
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from the https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/2022/#!
Wisconsin Governor - Michels vs. Evers Data for Progress (D)** Evers 48, Michels 49 Michels +1
the DEMOCRAT poll shows Evers down by one.. hmmmm
What TikTok "creators" giveth they can taketh away. It sounds to me like craven influence peddling on the part of D's--so very typical.
The ostensible reason for this was to encourage people to get vaccinated. Is that still a thing? Is deadly COVID still a thing? Was it ever that deadly for young people?
Of course, the hope is that they will all be posting about how wonderful Biden and Obama are. There were also briefings on how in the influencers could best help out Biden and the Democrats.
So I'm a little conflicted about this... because I like to see bloggers use blogging to snag political jobs, [but]... I'm wary about this new activity of wrangling bloggers for the benefit of political candidates.
How do people get political jobs? By working for candidates. If you're angling for a political job, you've already stopped being a neutral observer and become an analyst. Of course, these kids never were serious commentators. No Walter Lippmanns in this bunch.
So ... which will be more easily bought in the coming election -- NYT/WSJ, Cable News, Twitter et al or Life Magazine?
The more things change the more they stay the same.
(Yes, I know -- Life Magazine is still dead.)
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