Democrats Appoint RIAA Shill For Convention

An anonymous reader sends us to Boing Boing for a report that "the Director of Communications for the RIAA, Jenni Engebretsen, has been appointed Deputy CEO for Public Affairs for the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver." The DNC site has the official press release. Cory Doctorow notes that the RIAA is the most hated "corporation" in America, having beaten out Halliburton and Wal-Mart for the honor, and writes for the DNC's attention, "This represents a potential shear with the left-wing blogosphere."

Comments

Re:What did you expect?

[Lendrick]

To the contrary, I spent most of my time during the Clinton presidency bitching about Clinton's policies (DMCA, etc). Quite frankly, Bush is *far* worse than the RIAA, having corrupted pretty much every level of federal government and put a lot of laws in place that go a long way toward making the United States into a police state. When we get the democrats back in power, I'll go back into bitching about lesser evils. But for now, Bush is a bigger problem than the RIAA and jackasses legislating against video games. If you're running an ER, and you get somebody who's hemorrhaging and somebody with a broken arm, who do you treat first?

Re:Shill?

[ewhac]

You can claim that it doesn't matter -- that they were only Doing Their Job/Following Orders -- but the fact is that congruity and integrity matters, most particularly at this juncture in our history, when we're trying to clean up the damage done by most corrupt, criminal Administration this country has seen since Nixon.

Being a professional advocate is a risky job. Lawyers, advertising firms, lobbyists -- they all risk their own personal integrity by inextricably entwining themselves with the integrity of their client. Would you defend a man who serially raped and murdered children? Would you craft an ad campaign for cigarettes? Would you lobby for a bill that lowered clean water standards? What kind of person would do such a thing? The profession is an ethical minefield, and the only way you can totally avoid any kind of crisis of conscience is to become a complete sociopath.

Personally, I think the Democrats should grow their own advocates, rather than out-source it.

Schwab

Re:We Don't Hate The RIAA

[Irish_Samurai]

The artist chose to sign away their ownership rights in those cases. No boo-hoo for the artist.

Re:It is no surprise that Hollywood is Democratic

[Darby]

Yeah, and I'll admit this is a big reason why I voted Republican in 2000: I saw the writing on the wall with the way the Democrats were cozying up to the RIAA.

I can't say that the results are quite what I hoped.

If you didn't know *for a fact* in 2000 that a vote for Bush was a vote for misusing an attack on the US as an excuse to invade Iraq then you have no fucking business voting. It's a responsibility you ignorant moron, not just something to do.

Had you spent 5 fucking minutes doing any research then you would have known exactly how it would have turned out.
Either you're lying and you wanted it to turn out exactly the way ithas or you are too fucking ignorant to vote. Please don't ever fucking vote again if you can't be bothered to do any fucking research at all.

Your ignorance makes you *directly* responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
They would all still be alive had you and a few other people actually taken your responsibility as a citizen seriously. You didn't though. You just blindly voted for the worst traitors in American history because you were too fucking lazy to do your job.

I'm just sick to death of cowardly little shitbags like you trying to dodge responsibility for their actions.
You could *easily* have known exactly where a vote for Bush would lead. You refused to do a god damned thing to inform yourself and so now we're broke with a shitload of murdered people, no integrity whatsoever, and *rightfully* hated by every decent human being on the planet.

Thanks a lot for not fucking thinking you asshole.

It's called personal responsibility. Try it on for size.