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I'm excited to announce that Siun is going to join the FDL team as our new Press Secretary. Many will know her as a valued member of the FDL community and also for her work handling press for Yearly Kos. She's also a good friend and I'm really looking forward to having her on board, so please put your hands together and welcome her in the comments.
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Siun Rocks! This is way cool.
frist
I’ve done it by gosh I’ve finally gotten to be Number one!
Darn I missed it!
So what exactly does the press secretary do?
Congrats Siun!
Hey Siun! woooohooooooo! You go girl!
HOORAY!!!
Did I say that loud enough?
HOORAY!!!
Good grief! A blog needs a press secretary?
dave @
3
Presses my shirts.
running like hell for cover!!!
EPU’d - the Jo(k)ester has hired a new press secretary too:
Asked to comment on the “anti-Democratic” charges against Lieberman, the campaign’s new press secretary, Tammy Sun, responded:
“Supporters of the Nedster may be focused on political gamesmanship and party politics, but Joe Lieberman is more concerned about what is best for the people of Connecticut. He believes they deserve better, which is why he’s running as an Independent Democrat on a message of unity and purpose.”
http://www.newhavenindependent.....ecords.php
I knew a stripper named Tammy Sun years ago. I wonder…?
Yeah Siun!
O’FDL!
Way to go Siun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SIUN!!! How wonderful! BIG congrats to all!
Who’s gonna be chief of staff, Jane? I nominate Pach. I’m holding out for dogcatcher for myself.
sweet! next…world domination!
EPU’d from the previous thread about Liebermans new blog starting Tuesday:
THE FUCKING FOOLS ! ! !
Guess who just bought www.Joe2006Blog.com and www.BlogJoe2006.com ?
A hint: it wasn’t Joe !
“I knew a stripper named Tammy Sun years ago. I wonder…?”
Would it hurt your eyes if you stared at her for too long?
Congrats, SIUN!!!
What does a press secretary do???
Pach,
How do you run from a 60ft sauropod. You don’t need cover, you need elephant tranquilizers!
Pach - I’m heating the iron up right now! We can’t have you looking frumpled!
and gang - thanks for the vote of confidence! I am so jazzed to get to work with this team!
I nominate *ilson for secretary of disinformation.
Will Joester let us play at his blog?
Ed*ard Teller -
I think Tammy Sun has also worked for another group - the DLC. I’m not sure whether she still does.
Here’s a link indicating Tammy’s involvement with the DLC:
http://www.ppionline.org/ndol/.....tid=253406
*ilson at 15 -
That is fantastic!
hmmmm… beside pressing Pach’s shirts (which he may regret given my ignorance of proper irony) …
I’ll be working with Jane and the team to help with publicizing our great work here. Since I actually enjoy talking with the CM, I’ll be helping them get a better sense of some of our kewl stuff.
or to put it a better way - I’ll spin until I’m dizzy!
shooogarp @ 16
Where’s there a picture of this Tammy Sun? The one I knew worked at a strip place in Seattle at Lake City Way and 145th or something - just outside the city limits, uh 32 years ago.
dave @
3
The only other press secretary I know of spends all his time and energy trying to keep it a secret what a dick-head his boss is.
Your job should be a cake-walk, Siun! *g*
Congratulations.
Congratulations, Siun! Great news!
tpres2000 - I just hope I don’t have to wear that Gerstein Catwoman outfit!
siun,
Apparently Gerstein has been demoted or something.
I think this idea just rocks! And I could not be happier for Siun, or for the entire FDL team - this was a brilliant idea.
The possibilities are endless!
Ed*ard Teller @ 9
As of last July, Tammy was press secretary for the DLC. Coincidence? I think not.
ET - poor Dan … perhaps we should send him flowers or something! or just the note saying ‘compliments of Firedoglake’!
Tony Snow’s really overmatched now!
So when will we be seeing Kobe’s first new conference?
Congrats Siun. I,m sure you arent going to give the press a snow job now are you.
Anne - yep!
FDL has grown so much and is certainly showing the real power of blog communities to work for change so we have a lot to crow about - and more to come.
Was that really Valerie’s Joe downstairs???
let me just say “Kobe stands by his earlier statements and will not have further comment”
Siun- that’s great! Still trying to get it as to what you will be doing, but then I’ve never known a press secretary before. Like media liason to CM?
I nominate Ed*ard Teller for Raconteur and *ilson for Man-about-Town.
Could we make TRex FDL’s White House Correspondent?
“Uh. I’ll take a question from the tall scaly fellow in the back…”
Siun @ 31
I like that.
I don’t know how much credit the Nedster can give to the fdl pups who have been so important in his campaign, but it has been vital help for him so far.
Oh happy day!
Have not read the comments, just saw Jane’s post and need to congratulate Siun and Jane & Christy and the mods and the support staff on a most excellent decision! Siun has the heart, intelligence and real gumption of a true citizen of the world. Hurrah!
VG - precisely. I’ll be helping to promote things like the Book Salon - and issuing “no comments” for Kobe. (oh, and trying to keep the Trex flight from rehab out of the press!)
BRAVA SIUN!!
And hell yeah, *ilson for Chief Disinfo Officer!! Good on you, dude, for snagging those domains!! hope you are loading up the meta-data with snark!!
Suin to CM: Do I have to slap the other side of your head to help you understand?
angie … merci!
We’re going to have some fun.
*xyz @ 22
Don’t you mean fascistic?
Hey Suin…you’re joining a great team! We are all a-twitter!
shooogarp … well hopefully, threatening to withhold the cocktail weenies will do the trick.
al-Scooter @ 38
I’m still holding out for dogcatcher. Speaking of whom - I’m off to take Strider mushroom hunting. (the mushrooms are for me, not him)
Congrats Siun - I look forward to seeing how your role develops. As always, FDL is breaking ground as to what a blog can be.
Keep on keepin’ on gang.
dipper … twittering here too
(though someday I want a pic online where I actually combed my hair!)
Wow! Siun! we are bigtime now!!
does that mean we can’t rampage off topic any more at our every little whim? (this may have been covered) Larry Johnson has a new post at Booman:
looks like it’s worth a read…
Woohoo! Siun, I am so happy for you and for FDL.
Folks - I’ll be using a new email address for this so make a note:
media dot firedoglake at gmail dot com
and next week, I’ll be doing a bit of work for Had Enough which will be mighty exciting.
After the fun of working the media for YKOS1, it’s even better to get to talk about all the great work being done by folks here!
Matt - thanks! I’m pretty excited to see what we can do.
G’day and good on ya Siun. You’ll make a fair dinkum press sect’y. Need an ambassador to Oz?
Petedownunder … thank you, I think
I work with a lot of Oz folks so I’ll try out “fair dinkum” on them next email!
Fair dinkum means true or honest in the sense of having real worth. Of course, as Ambrose Bierce tells us, an ambassador is a diplomat who is given a job on the condition that he leaves the country.
Congrats FDL
Siun is a gem.
And the photo hardly does her justice.
(Doesn’t a Press Secretary handle things like photos?)
Congrats, Siun. We look forward to hearing about all your success!
Fair dinkum is about as good as it gets!
Siun…CONGRATULATIONS…another wonderfully powerful lady of the lake.
Siun, you’ll be great! Press Secretary is a great idea for FDL.
Congratulations Siun!
I thought you already were the press secretary :)
Congrats Siun!
I’ll keep the place fulla gas, oh, wait, Fartacus does that.
Siun- v interesting thread on Late Nite- wild idea, but it would be very interesting to have John MacArthur at the book salon- Second Front is out of print, but still looks very topical- especially about the methods for spinning the media dev. back in the Gulf War
http://www.firedoglake.com/200.....ent-274464
Siun — at least kosher cocktail wieners (a.k.a. “media chum”) aren’t tough to come by these days.
OldCoastie — that post by Larry Johnson ROCKS!! So is Emptywheel’s thrashing of David Johnston, damn but it’s good.
There is a shoe hovering. There must be. Why out of the clear blue this staged disinfo campaign, all the heavy guns firing away. With Johnston’s POS in NYT this morning, it feels less like they are trying to indulge in misdirection than outright heavy-handed psyops.
Makes one wonder if the NSA has been listening in on Fitz — and if we should be expecting a salvo shortly from his office.
Were I betting person, I’d say before the end of September there will be an announcement. Who’d they miss? Weekly Standard? LAT? ChiSun? there aren’t a lot of other outlets that would be fresh to lob next in this volley.
shooogarp @
39
Excellent suggestion.
(Doesn’t a Press Secretary handle things like photos?)
Yeah, but that candid at the top of the page is better that the beauty shots for Clarke, Fleisher, McClellan, and Snow. Heck, not even Darkblack could make Scottie look that good.
egregious @
64
Yeah, well, there is that. We just thought we’d formalize it. She’ll now be on our “contact” page.
Jane Hamsher @ 68
I can do windows…
OldCoastie @ 52
looks like it’s worth a read…
By sheer coincidence (or maybe not *g*) I posted two comments last night that Fitz needs to make a move soon. The barbarians are at the gates. Of course I was speculating and so is Johnson (unless he has insider stuff), but so is everyone else (unless they have insider stuff). We’ll see what we will see (soon I hope).
Ed*ard Teller @ 9
Sure, and calling people Nedster and Lamonster isn’t political gamesmanship?
Rather pathetic and outmoded attempt to sound cool. Hip. Twenty-three skidoo.
Barfin’, baby!
In countries that use the Westminster system (UK, Oz etc) they have a shadow cabinent. I think FDL is building one:
Jane as Pres, Christy VP or AG
OFG as Secty of Transportation
HopeSprings as Secty of HEW
Other ideas?
Extra credit and/or contest: what year would it have been actually cool to end something in
-ster?
What other things from that year are also sadly out-of-date?
Welcome Siun~Fran!
1958?
Congrats,
Can you arrange a Press Conference for
Fitzy?
The best job in town is Fitzgerald’s
press spokesman, who doesn’t speak, no?
Jack
Fran - thanks!
and Jack … I think Fitz’ press guy is even better than Fitz but that’s based on professional affinity.
al-Scooter … I love you!
(((SIUN))) Congrats! You deserve every honor you get and you are doing us all proud, I’m thrilled for you.
Soooooo, any plans in the works for a fall FDL Brunch in Chicago? I notice it still gets brought up once in awhile and you should be the guest of honor to celebrate your new position! I can’t wait to meet you one way or another.
One thing I’ll be doing right off the bat is monitoring any mentions of FDL in the CM so if you see one, send me a note at media dot firedoglake at gmail dot com with a link.
Tracking coverage is a big job and everyone’s help is very very welcome!
You know what this means? No longer will CM be able to run from what is being said and done via the progressive side of the blogosphere, and that is HUGE.
We’ve been making lots of noise, and picking up steam, but it’s about damn time there was someone to dog the CM into paying attention. It’s like going from stereo to surround sound.
Oh, this is so exciting!
Shez!
I’d love to have an FDL brunch … let’s come up with a plan!
(but give me a month or two to get some work done first!)
I spoke too soon…New York Post fired a salvo today as well, lobbing what is little more than crusty feline feces at Fitz and of all people, Powell.
It’s an op-ed, too, no attribution; were I to guess, I’d say it’s Babs’ handwriting.
I think I better take a broader look to see what footprints are being left behind as they attempt to dig up more dust and sand to obscure our vision.
shooogarp @
39
If TRex’s Late Nite Saurian and alter ego showed up at a WH briefing doncha just believe, deep down, that dubya would nickname him 41 aka Poppa Failed or Mama Babs aka Momma Made Me Do It, ‘Cause Poppa Failed?
Tall scaly fellows, the things of childhood nightmares (and FDL’s delight). Since we have a preznit who never even got thru adolescence and has never reconciled his past, well…not too far to leap.
Anne - that’s a tall order but I think that tools like Spotlight are putting us in a really strong position to change the conversation. Hopefully I can add to that using the tools they are used to … media alerts, press releases, cocktail weenies …
Press secretary Cool! Get some dirt on some network executives and on air talent! Hint Hookers and drug dealers along with exsecretaries and exhouse keepers tend to have the best dirt. Make the Main Stream Media comment on things our way. Or else BLACKMAIL! G.E owns NBC, Disney ABC target their executives and their board of executives with a series of stories on each of them! Its about time the left got dirty! Meyer Lansky used to send THUGS from Murder Inc to break up American Nazi meetings. That should be the next step. That and folk singers every hero needs theme music!
Siun,
Congratulations. With all the time and effort Firedoglake devoted to Plamegate, I am particularly appreciative that you are there. I suspect you will be kept busy. Joe Wilson
For those of you who have not met Siun, she has a very strong likability about her, a very pleasant person.
oh DARN! knew I forgot something at the store last night - Cocktail Weenies!
Ambassador Wilson - thank you!
Joe at 88 — Nice to see you on the blog. Best to the missus and the kids.
Got a breather for a minute to check e-mail and wanted to drop by and congratulate Siun. :) (Fi is feeling a bit better today. Thanks everyone for the good wishes.)
It is really all of you who are to be thanked. We would have been totally destroyed by the wingnuts had it not been for your spirited defense of the truth. We are ever grateful. It makes the fight worth fighting knowing we have an army of people who love what this country stands for fighting with us.
Christy - Thanks!
and hooray for the good news on Fi! even after all these years, I can remember the nights with kids with those nasty illnesses.
Siun @ 86
Maybe the FDL Cooks Club should be working on a really, really good cocktail weenie recipe…Christy might want to host a “Favorite Cocktail Party Food” session for the next “Pull Up a Chair.” *G*
I listen to satelite radio on the road, so I will keep an open for fdl. I always have, and so far, the only mention has come from Cenk of the Young Turks, and it was in a positive light.
I have been here since nearly the beginning. It was an early link somewhere else that told me you folks had the best Plame coverage. Watching the blog develop has been stunning.
The remarkable development of community,
the increasing range of expertise of commenters,
the ability of blog owners to comment and commenters to post,
the emergence of regular weekly features,
and the sustained humanity of the whole crew
have been very wonderful to watch.
I think that the internal development of expertise has been remarkable. I think that the development of spotlight and the Share and Enjoy feature has been fabulously strategic. What this and the new relationship to Siun might mean is that you are able to leverage the power of the whole Lake community.
I am too overcommitted to post frequently or go to yearly Kos or host my own blog. I am an enhanced version of a lurker. But I see that networked intelligence with links and fact checking and real time editing is outstripping the capacity of the MSM for insight and thoughtfulness. (Maybe not Krugman)
The potential for authoritative reporting needs to continue to be unlocked at the same time as the FDL potential for action.
The paradigm of a social movement that researches the truth, gathers an informed populace, and then tells that truth to power is new and exciting. May all of us enjoy the fruits of this remarkable labor.
Ambassador Wilson - armies need inspiration and you and Valerie continue to show us how to stand up.
(and that’s not just spin)
egregious @ 75
The year the great John Hughes move “Sixteen Candles” came out. 1984 maybe?
Hi Christy,
Thank you for all you have done, especially with a sick little one. I’ll pass your best wishes to Valerie. She was a bit undone yesterday morning but after reading the blog response to the wapo she perked up. Felt a lot better after we cancelled our subscription
Petedownunder @ 74
I think not a president in a parliament. Jane as Prime Minister, Christy as Governor General.
I now know why this man is called Ambassador. I would love to stick around folks, but I gotta get stuff done.
LOL Siun, of course we know you need some time, there’s so much happening. One of the last times a Chicago FDL gathering was mentioned you said something about a facility with a kitchen, etc. Us in the midwest are hoping for something, anything, however informal it may be, to be able to easily travel there and meet up. Hell, I’d give up Thanksgiving even to be with FDL family! *g*
Siun @
31
We should definitely do that. *grin*
And congratulations!
Thank you for everything you and lovely Valerie are doing for America and beyond, Ambassador Wilson. You represent to me the essence of what that word represents– honesty, diplomacy and human relations. It’s something we have strayed from for way too long, imho.
Shez … I’ve got the greatest very old and clunky stove with 6 - count them! six! burners! (and two ovens for those … was it “dutch” somethings) plus the best source for amazing oj outside of Jamaica!
and no furniture so lots of room for people!
angie @ 105
ditto for me.
Congratulations Siun ~ as I’ve said before, I’m definately a devoted “lurker”, coming out from behind the hay bale when there’s something admittedly universally themed and a-political pretty much that I can comment on. This qualifies! It’s not that I underestimate myself; just that I know my strengths and weaknesses…and the political/social savvy shown by Jane, Christy et. al.; and the regular commentators ~ leaves me bowing to they that knoweth/expresseth better than I on these subjects. I read and learn ~ and maintain my hope and sanity.
But that said ~ I *can* speak to the absolutely phenomenal growth of this site; at the beginning it was postings about the dogs and donuts, with delightful insights, wit and humor on general governmental stupidity ~ then Jane took the bit in her mouth on Plamegate, ran away with it (forgive the horse analogy)…and the rest is history. This site, you people ~ ARE making history; do know that.
It’s a pleasure to watch…not to mention one of the few things in this day and age (besides the Daily Show, Colbert and Olbermann) that keep me from total dispair. Siun? Your new “position” here will only enhance and empower all that is already being done ~ that…is inspiring.
angie @ 105
Angie,
Thank you. I never forget the Orwell comment that in a time of universal deception simply telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
That is the context in which our drama plays out. It is all about the environment in which we are exercising our responsibilities as citizens to hold our government to account. In a different environment, this would not be noteworthy, just another act of civic duty, which is what it was in the first place.
Oilfieldguy @ 89
Plus she’s from Hyde Park, Chicago (I think). Hotbed of liberalism (used to be anyway). That’s a big plus.
Horsewoman and Alison … you both have such valuable voices and it’s so nice of you to pop in today. Thank you.
I’m off. Thanks Jane and the fdl team for putting this together.
Regarding the speculation that all of the recent pushback against Fitzgerald is a coordinated attempt to muddy the waters in advance of some upcoming event - I have a guess as to what the event in question might be: the arrival of the book “Hubris”.
Corn has been strongly hinting that there will be some bombshells in the book. I know he is interested in sales, but I also can’t help but believe that all of the Rovian rhetoric on the pages of the Times, the Post and elsewhere recently signal that they are running scared about what the book might reveal. Here’s hoping…
Congrats, Siun!
Hi Siun,
Congrats of the new gig.
The illinois continfent of the roots project is “rooting” for you!!
Is there a press secretary club were you can have a drink with Tony Snow? eeek Nevermind
All the best,
Tony
orangejumpsuit … you got it! and still a hotbed of good thinking! I’m very proud to call it home.
There is certainly a renewed effort to trash Fitz and the case altogether. It’s astonishing, really. We must be nearing a breakthrough. These recent articles showed the same lack of respect for process and information available to those who choose to look at all of it. Thank God for Firedoglake and emptywheel.
That stunningly ignorant and below-the-belt WaPo editorial serves to remind us how important it is to keep fighting that ignorance on as many fronts as possible.
Ambassador Wilson, huge thank-yous to you and Valerie for all that you have done in service to your country, and in service of the freedoms we hold so dear.
Siun, welcome, and thank you for helping to run one of my favorite hangouts on the innernets.
Hey Joe how about you the missus and Bill and Al start giving talks at black churches in the DC area now so that in November you got some credit and can lead a march on washington and the supreme court if things go bad in november! Build the roots beyound the netroots!
Congratulations, Siun! I believe you were the first person here to respond to one my (rare) posts (a warm welcome, as I recall). Best of luck with the new responsibilities.
Wait a minute. Somebody tell my I am not delusional. Is that the REAL Joe Wilson we have here?
If so, I salute you and Mrs. Wilson as true patriots.
In perilous times the truth is our best ally.