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EDITORIAL Frank Salvato
December 12, 2003

The latest simplistic and fictitious offering by the propaganda machine known as MoveOn.org has a full complement of untruths. But then what’s new, right? Featuring a Santa Claus checking off a list of gifts allegedly afforded big corporations by the Bush Administration it would seem that the strange and the weird at MoveOn.org haven’t been watching too much television lately. Either that or they haven’t the wherewithal to understand the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Law.

Throughout the political fundraising season, and it seems as though the season has become about as seasonal as Chicago roadwork, the Bush-Cheney Campaign hasn’t been able to accept the alleged "big money” from those "big money contributors” that MoveOn.org so vehemently contends they do. The facts be known, it is against the law for the Bush-Cheney Campaign to do so. It is against the law for any political organization to do so. That is one of the significant elements of McCain-Feingold. But to listen to MoveOn.org one wouldn’t know it. The most that any political campaign can accept under the law is $2000. Most of the funding the Bush-Cheney Campaign has accrued is from individuals across the country who, quite frankly, are sick and tired of the nonsense that groups like MoveOn.org and Americans Coming Together are pushing.

The truth be told, do you know what group has accepted politically motivated contributions from the biggest political contributor of them all? Do you know what group gets to accept soft money while it tries to influence our political system? MoveOn.org, that’s who. With George Soros contributing at least $2.5 million to MoveOn.org they have accepted over 1000 times what the cap is for a donation in a single contribution. Political propaganda groups like MoveOn.org and Americans Coming Together have accepted a total of at least $15.5 million from Soros making him the biggest political contributor of them all, corporations included. So, it should go without saying that the Democratic Party is the beneficiary of the biggest of the big contributors. But listening to MoveOn.org you would have no idea that this fact is the unarguable truth.

Also in the commercial the pointed heads at MoveOn.org argue that the Bush Administration has issued no-bid contracts to "defense companies.” Before I get into exactly how ‘lucrative” these awarded federal contracts are I should point out that by their use of the term "defense companies” they are showing their ignorance. The purported "defense companies” that MoveOn.org refers to are companies in circles that include Boeing, Texas Instruments and McDonnell-Douglas, the very same companies that make more money from the private sector manufacturing things like commercial airliners and calculators then they do from the federal government. That being said, Steve Kelman, a procurement official in the Clinton Administration, views MoveOn.org’s statements as "somewhere between highly improbably and utterly absurd.” He was recently quoted in The Washington Post as saying, "As for the much-maligned Halliburton, a few days ago the company disclosed, as part of its third-quarter earnings report, operating income from its Iraq contracts of $34 million on revenue of $900 million – a return on sales of 3.7 percent, hardly the stuff of plunder.” Again, to listen to MoveOn.org’s commercial one would be hard pressed to understand the truth of the situation. MoveOn.org would have one envisioning the Halliburton employees ransacking the artifacts of the Baghdad museum and loading wheelbarrows of gold into swanky corporate jets. MoveOn.org paints quite the enthralling picture…maybe they should join the ranks of the realistically impaired out in Hollywood.

As their commercial goes on they contend the Bush Administration single handedly provided pharmaceutical companies with "high prices in the Medicare Bill.” This would come as a surprise to the Democrats that voted for the bill. Among those who would be surprised from Liberal Land are none other than Diane Feinstein, Max Baucus, John Breaux, Tom Carper, Kent Conrad and Ben Nelson to name but a few. They are all Democrats and they all praised the passage of the Medicare bill. In fact, Diane Feinstein went as far as to tell the San Francisco Chronicle, "‘I knew in my heart of hearts that the seniors in my great state are going to be better served by this bill than they are today.” Of course, once again, to listen to the cant from MoveOn.org one wouldn’t know this. They slanted the truth, a truth the leaders of the Democratic Party have attested to, to reflect a vision of a gouging pharmaceutical industry, hands deep into the pockets of every American.

Another quasi-slanderous element of their "propagandamercial” is the claim that the Bush Administration is "pushing a huge spending bill that will eliminate overtime pay for millions of workers.” In actuality the exact opposite is true. Under the proposed spending bill overtime protection will be strengthened for over 10.7 million American workers and include for the first time 1.3 million workers through the increase in the applicable minimum salary level. No doubt, by securing these elements of the bill the Bush Administration has once again afforded the American economy the chance for substantial growth. Yet once again MoveOn.org twists the truth leaving it a washed-out shadow of its actuality.

MoveOn.org is but a loud-mouthed cog in a much bigger anti-Bush propaganda campaign yet, for now, they are the most noticeable. Their plan is to spend at least $15 million over the next four months filling the airwaves with unfounded accusations, outright lies and bastardized truths that even Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels would envy. They advocate political positions, both in support of their candidates and in opposition to George W. Bush, that are so far from the realm of reality they seem almost Orwellian as viewed from a position of knowledgeable and contemptible from all viewpoints except the fanatically challenged.

So, get ready for an onslaught of info-garbage courtesy of MoveOn.org and the biggest political contributor in American history George Soros. One would do well to don some foul weather gear because there is only one thing that is absolutely certain this political season; the mud is going to be flying in from the left.

Frank Salvato is a political media consultant and the managing editor for The New Media Journal.us. He is a contributing writer for The Washington Dispatch, GOPUSA, OpinionEditorials, Men’s News Daily, Canada Free Press & AmericanDaily. His pieces are regularly featured in Townhall.com. He has appeared as a guest on The O’Reilly Factor, The Kevin Matthews Radio Show (Chicago) and The Brad Messer Radio Show (San Antonio). His pieces have been recognized by the Japan Center for Conflict Prevention and are occasionally featured in The Washington Times and The London Morning Paper as well as other national and international publications.

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