APCO Revisited

As you have been already underneath a assault of a UMNO/BN promotion machine in a weeks heading up to a 13th General Election, a little gob has popped up that reminds us of a characteristics as well as attributes of a incoming government.

If you recall in 2008 UMNO/BN began acquiring a services of really costly international public relations consultants together with APCO as well as FBC. In both cases a contracts were unprotected as well as eventually canceled. But not after most ink as well as video fasten had been spilled upon ad hominem attacks upon Anwar Ibrahim, a opposition, while blindly extolling a greatness of PM Najib Razak. These articles were portrayed as 'journalism' though they were in fact anything but.

This complete fiasco was expertly unprotected by SarawakReport.com hereand here.

One of a people during a center of this scandal as well as abuse of supervision energy was a American Joshua Trevino. In Jan Josh Trevino filed a inform with a United States Department of Justice underneath a Foreign Agents Registration Unit. Any American you do work upon interest of a unfamiliar supervision or politicians has to proactively register these activities with a Department of Justice.

Trevino's Jan filing is related hereor here.

In it you see as well as have been reminded of a couple of engaging things.

Trevino was working upon interest of a Prime Minister's! office by a companies APCO Worldwide (Washington DC), FBC Media (London, right away defunct) as well as a David All Group (Washington DC, right away defunct, a employees engrossed in to APCO worldwide).

Trevino is no longer you do work for a Malaysian supervision since during a really least a 3rd quarter of 2012

Trevino perceived payments totaling $ 389,724.70 from May 2008 by Apr 2011 for a blogs he posted during MalaysiaMatters.com (now defunct) as well as MalaysiaMonitor.com (also defunct) as well as efforts to place alternative opinion pieces in US media.

Trevino additionally was paid to revisit Malaysia in 2008 as well as to attend a 3rd International Conference upon a Muslim World as well as a West as part of his activities related to MalaysiaMatters.com

Josh Trevino was a conduit by that payments were done in 2010 to 10 one more hired writers who published blogs as well as articles in a United Sates often aggressive Anwar Ibrahim as well as a Malaysian opposition. These amounts totaled $ 130,950.

These people included

• Brad Jackson (received $ 24,700) who published articles aggressive Anwar Ibrahim during a regressive blog RedState.
• Ben Domenech (received $ 36,000) who published articles aggressive Anwar Ibrahim as well as his mother Wan Azizah Wan Ismail during a regressive blog RedState together with this oneand this one upon a Huffington Post.
• Claire Berlinski (received $ 6,750) who published essays aggressive Anwar Ibrahim during a regressive blog Ricochet.com here.
• Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld (re! ceived $ 30,000) who published essays during FamilySecurityMatters.org aggressive Anwar Ibrahim an Georgetown Universityhere; a contributing editor as well as director of a New York City based American Center for Democracy as well as one of a key proponents of Islamophobia-fear in America.
• Seth Mandel (received $ 5,500) who viciously pounded Anwar Ibrahim during FrontPageMagazine, a National Review, Daily Caller as well as alternative regressive blogs.
• Chuck DeVore (received $ 3,000) former member of California State Assembly who ran for a US Senate in 2010 as well as mislaid in a Republican primary. Currently functions during a regressive Think Tank. He sent out emails andpublishedessays aggressive Anwar Ibrahim as well as was debunked here.
• Rachel Motte (received $ 9,500) who pounded Anwar Ibrahim often during a right away gone blog called a New Ledger. One of her essays was so vast that she had to remove it when she was threatened with a law fit by a former US Ambassador for a libelous statements. (see my blog here). Rachel additionally posted during a Daily Caller as well as alternative regressive sites.
• Christopher Badeaux (received $ 11,000)
• David Brown (received $ 2,500)
• Kevin Holtsberry (received $ 2,000)

Let us repeat. All of these people were paid BY THE MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT to tell essays that praised a Malaysian supervision as well as pounded Anwar Ibrahim in AMERICAN MEDIA as well as have it appear similar to they were independent, UNBIASED writers. This is a crack of journalistic firmness during RedState, Huffington Post as well as each alternative outlet that carried thesefrivolousessays.

This additionally reflects a ethics of he Malaysian supervision as ! well as a believe that it can chuck a couple of million dollars to paper over a massive corruption taking place underneath a purview simply byslingingsome mud during a political opponents.

Furthermore, a irony of a promotion is amazing. In Malaysia Anwar Ibrahim is continually pounded as being a Jewish agent as well as american agent. However in most of these articles a paid writers conflict him for being a terrorist sympathizer, an agent of thenefariousMuslim society as well as as well as frontman for in advance Islam who hides at a back of a facade of moderate Islam.

Trevino himself has turn a target of a little ridicule. He was about to join a staff of a Guardian when report about his writing-for-hireactivitieswas revealed to a British paper, that soon canceled his contract.

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