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Thursday, March 10, 2005

Broder Watch (continued):

David Broder pens the following words in an essay about campaign reform: (excerpts, emp add)

... abuses stemmed from the expansion of so-called 527 groups, nominally independent political organizations that collected $400 million in essentially unregulated funds and poured them into TV ad campaigns, often of the nastiest variety.

Democrats were the main abusers, with billionaire George Soros and friends financing a network of groups run by longtime party and labor activists. But Republicans drew even more blood, thanks to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads questioning John Kerry's service in Vietnam.

Broder is probably measuring "abuse" in terms of dollars spent, not on the message delivered. The Swift Boat messages were mostly lies asserting that Kerry was a traitor, which Broder characterizes as "questioning John Kerry's service". Broder is a disgrace. The Dean is a Dunce.

posted by Quiddity at 3/10/2005 12:03:00 AM

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Broder also fails to dicuss the extended network of right wing 510c
groups that function as the PR and research arms of the GOP and provide training and employment for GOP activists. Groups like the Cato institute, Heritage, the American Enterprise Institute and the Discovery Institute have large amounts of funding coming from a few very wealthy individuals. Yet, somehow these extremely partisan groups are not taken into account.

By Anonymous, at 3/11/2005 8:08 PM

Broder has been dead for years. Spmeone should say so publicly so that the body gets carted ou.

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