The Clinton campaign isn’t the only group having a rough time since WikiLeaks published a cache of embarrassing emails hacked from the account of campaign Chairman John Podesta. Several of the messages show Neera Tanden, president of the liberal Center for American Progress, privately trash-talking various liberal causes and activists, prompting outpouring of anger against her on social media.
Among them was Lee Fang, a liberal reporter who previously worked for the center. Fang tweeted an image of a February email in which Tanden called him and another liberal writer, Zaid Jilani, “freaks” apparently because they supported Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt. In a follow-up email, Fang wrote: “I miss the old, progressive ThinkProgress which was unafraid to challenge power & even the Dem Party. Now it’s run by unimaginative suckups.”
