{"id":1424954,"date":"2022-04-08T07:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424954"},"modified":"2022-04-08T07:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:29:50","slug":"new-disney-spokeswoman-worked-for-biden-obama-and-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-disney-spokeswoman-worked-for-biden-obama-and-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"New Disney Spokeswoman Worked for Biden, Obama, and Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-disney-spokeswoman-worked-for-biden-obama-and-hillary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1424954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2021\/03\/GettyImages-1029865292.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Disney named Kristina Schake \u2014a veteran of the Biden administration, the Obama administration, and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign \u2014 as its new spokesperson. <\/span>(Disclosure: The Daily Wire has announced plans for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/introducing-dw-kids\">kids entertainment content<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><span>The move comes as Disney faces backlash from consumers and lawmakers over its opposition to the Florida parental rights bill, which CEO Bob Chapek condemned after pressure from progressive activists within the entertainment conglomerate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thewaltdisneycompany.com\/kristina-schake-named-executive-vice-president-global-communications-of-the-walt-disney-company-2\/\"><span>press release<\/span><\/a><span> from The Walt Disney Company, Schake \u201cwas appointed by President Biden to lead the nationwide COVID-19 vaccine education campaign,\u201d served in the Obama administration as Special Assistant to the President and Communications Director to the First Lady, and worked as Deputy Communications Director for Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI could not be more pleased to welcome Kristina to Disney and to have her leading communications for the company,\u201d Disney chief corporate affairs officer Geoff Morrell said in the statement. \u201cHer experience in the public and private sectors, in political and corporate campaigns, make her ideally suited for this important role and to help me integrate communications with government relations, public policy, and corporate social responsibility into a new Corporate Affairs team.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Schake also co-founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights \u2014 a nonprofit that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/American_Foundation_for_Equal_Rights#cite_note-4\"><span>pushed<\/span><\/a><span> for \u201cfull federal marriage equality for all Americans.\u201d The Disney statement lauds Schake for leading \u201cthe successful bipartisan public awareness campaign and legal challenge to restore marriage equality to California.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Recent criticism of Disney, however, has focused upon Disney weighing in on cultural issues.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, Christopher Rufo, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/not-at-all-secret-gay-agenda-disney-employees-break-down-adding-queerness-to-shows-and-degenderizing-theme-parks\"><span>released<\/span><\/a><span> several videos purportedly from a recent \u201call-hands\u201d Disney staff meeting to discuss the Florida parental rights legislation \u2014 dubbed the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay Bill\u201d by critics. According to the footage, Latoya Raveneau \u2014 an executive producer for Disney \u2014 explained how she was pleasantly surprised by the welcoming attitude and open-mindedness that the company has toward her \u201cnot-at-all secret gay agenda,\u201d particularly as it relates to \u201cadding queerness\u201d to the show she worked on, \u201cThe Proud Family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur leadership over there has been so welcoming to like, my like, not-at-all secret gay agenda,\u201d Raveneau said in reference to the team that worked on the show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>More recently, former child actor Cole Sprouse <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/former-disney-star-cole-sprouse-says-girls-on-channel-were-heavily-sexualized\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> The New York Times that female child actors on the Disney Channel were \u201cheavily sexualized,\u201d emphasizing that his experience as a child actor was far different from females\u2019 experience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy brother and I used to get quite a bit of, \u2018Oh, you made it out! Oh, you\u2019re unscathed!\u2019 No,\u201d the actor explained. \u201cThe young women on the channel we were on [Disney Channel] were so heavily sexualized from such an earlier age than my brother and I that there\u2019s absolutely no way that we could compare our experiences. And every single person going through that trauma has a unique experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhen we talk about child stars going nuts, what we\u2019re not actually talking about is how fame is a trauma,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo I\u2019m violently defensive against people who mock some of the young women who were on the channel when I was younger because I don\u2019t feel like it adequately comprehends the humanity of that experience and what it takes to recover.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same? <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>Become a member now and join our mission.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney named Kristina Schake \u2014a veteran of the Biden administration, the Obama administration, and the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign \u2014 as its new spokesperson. 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