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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