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MoveOn Promotes 'TurnOffFox' Campaign
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyCiting the "platform" Fox News gives Glenn Beck to promote his events, the liberal MoveOn.org Friday encouraged members to support a new project by ColorofChange called, "TurnOffFox." According to the e-mail, which was forwarded by MoveOn to its members, "TurnOffFox is the first step in our overall effort to beat back the poison, hate, and division of Fox. We'll get Fox turned off in stores, restaurants, and other public places-places where Fox pulls in new viewers and gains legitimacy." The e-mail goes on to say that, "The goal of Turn Off Fox is to reduce the number of public TVs showing ...
MoveOn Ad Calling for Target Boycott Is Rejected by MSNBC
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyMSNBC says it won't air an ad that calls for a boycott of Target over the retail giant's donation to a political group backing a conservative gubernatorial candidate in Minnesota who opposes same-sex marriage. MSNBC spokeswoman Alana Russo said the 30-second spot, created by the progressive group MoveOn, violates its advertising policy by directly attacking an individual business, AP reports. MoveOn criticized MSNBC and its parent company, General Electric. "According to MSNBC and GE it is alright for corporations, like Target, to attack candidates and buy elections, but it is not OK for ...
MoveOn Tries to Spur Oil Spill Vigils Across U.S.
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyFed up with the BP Gulf oil spill but don't know what to do about it? A leading activist group on the left has a suggestion: Attend one of numerous candlelight vigils being held around the country tonight marking the 50th day of the leak. MoveOn.org has sent an e-mail to its members and issued a press release announcing "emergency oil spill vigils to demand an end to our dependence on oil, call for stepped up efforts to end the spill, and stand in solidarity with those affected in the Gulf." The website itself offers a zip code search to allow interested persons to find the nearest vigil to ...
Memo to the Left: The Public Health Insurance Option Is Dead, Get Over It
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyAs the climactic votes approach this week on health care, some groups on the left seem more interested in throwing a wrench into the process than putting a landmark law on the books. MoveOn.org is in the latter camp. It is asking its 5 million members to back primary challengers to Democrats who don't support the reform package, and at least one union is sending similar signals. MoveOn also is running an ad featuring Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Which side of history will you be on?" it asks. The spot starts Tuesday on ...
Finger Bitten Off In Scuffle at Health Care Rally
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA 65-year-old man had his finger bitten off at a rally for health care reform near Los Angeles Wednesday night. Originally believed to be demostrating with a group of MoveOn-sponsored health care reform, advocates, William Rice now says he was not part of the rally, and did not go to advocate for his political views. According to one bystander who was demonstrating across the street with a small group of anti-reform protestors, the reform supporter, Rice had aggressively threatened her friends who were "peaceful people holding up candles and signs." He landed a heavy blow to the face of one ...
Why I Hate Liberals: MoveOn Meeting Gone Wild
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyOK, hate is too strong, but "A Particular Frustration For Me Where Liberals Are Concerned" just doesn't grab the same way.Leading Democrats, it has been said, is like herding cats. Cats, however, will at least be cool if you give them some catnip. Take a look at how this group acts, even with the biggest wad of catnip available, a Barack Obama victory party.This isn't new to me. I've tried to work with liberals on several occasions, but there are always a couple in every group who are more interested in being walking blog posts than in getting something done. Every liberal thinks they're a ...
Fox News News
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyMSNBC's Verdict with Dan Abrams tonight had an interesting piece in it's Beat the Press segment. Fox, in it's continual attempt to show John McCain in the best light possible, tried this one on for size: ...
Sexual Politics: Red Staters Meet Blue Ballers
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyWell, it looks like Democrats are trying their hand at "red meat" politics. As Caleb Howe noted yesterday, MoveOn debuted an ad that tugs at the barfstrings, in an effort to get people who don't mind the current level of death among Iraqis and US military personnel, to suddenly give a shit about a baby with an annoying mom.Another group, Truth Through Action, is also trying its hand at the manipulation game, to better effect, by suggesting that if you aren't a Democrat, you yourself will soon be...trying your hand.Here's the short film, entitled, "Blue Balled." Relax, it's rated about PG or ...
Daniel and Noah, Not Alex
By Caleb Howe - Politics DailyLast week, MoveOn debuted a general election ad titled "Not Alex," in which a young liberal mother is tearfully terrified her toddler might one day be conscripted into the Hundred Years War by the still-surviving head of John McCain, Dictator for Life of the post Obamalyptic nightmare of the future. OK, that might be a slight exaggeration. Suffice it to say, the worried mom seems a little confused about a number of facts. Hot Air's Allahpundit said it best: "... mom here hasn't yet grasped that (a) President McCain won't be setting Iraq policy for the next 18 years, let alone the next ...
MoveOn to Fold Its 527
By Denise Williams - Politics DailyIn a symbolic move that is meant to carry on the "people-powered" movement that has fueled millions of donations to Barack Obama's presidential campaign and helped down-ticket Dems via ActBlue and other fund-raisers, MoveOn.org's 527 group, MoveOn Voter Fund, will be shut down. While the MoveOn.org PAC is an FEC registered political action group, such groups as these are limited to $5000 per year cap on individual contributions and cannot take corporate donations. The Voter Fund by contrast could take unregulated corporate donatons. While still active on paper, this 527 has actually been ...
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