Left Wing

MoveOn and Fenton PR Launch Liberal Advertising Consortium

by John Stauber — May 8, 2008 - 8:20am

AdAge reports that Fenton Communications and its client MoveOn.org have announced a politically liberal advertising consortium using corporate advertising executives and firms to "help change the playing field this year. ... At the moment it will go after presumptive Republican nominee Senator John McCain. ...

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Advertising Age, May 6, 2008

MoveOn Pressure Democrats on Iraq? Dream on!

by John Stauber — March 26, 2008 - 5:21pm

Two leading anti-war journalists are challenging MoveOn, one "of the most prominent anti-war voices," to turn its activism against Democratic Party presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

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The Guardian (UK), March 26, 2008

Think Tank Talks Up Telecom Immunity

by Diane Farsetta — February 1, 2008 - 4:57pm

The Democratic think tank / advocacy group Third Way has been working with Senate Democrats to help sell a controversial measure granting retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies, reports Matt Renner.

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Truthout, January 31, 2008

War, What Is it Good For? Electing Democrats in '08

by John Stauber — January 17, 2008 - 7:58pm

Ryan Grim reports that the biggest and best-funded organizations in the liberal peace movement, primarily MoveOn and the groups in its Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) coalition, are no longer advocating that Congress end the war.

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Politico.com, January 17, 2008

Iraq: The "Gift" That Keeps On Bleeding

by John Stauber — August 20, 2007 - 9:24pm
  • Topics: Left Wing, Iraq, U.S. Congress, Politics, War / Peace

    • Shortly after the November 2006 election the Democracy Alliance, an exclusive group of about 100 Democratic Party millionaire activists, met in Miami, Florida. Members and their guests heard their keynote speaker and liberal legend Mario Cuomo analyze the Democratic Party in the wake of its stunning electoral victories that had given Democrats control of the US Congress. Cuomo criticized the Democratic Party for lacking vision, big ideas and a winning political argument. His recipe for future Democratic victories was simple: "You seize the biggest idea you can, the biggest idea you can understand. And this is what moves elections."

    Cuomo then dared to voice an inconvenient truth: "Now it's 2006 and we're all rejoicing. Why? Because of Iraq. A GIFT. A gift to the Democrats. A lot of whom voted for the war anyway." The former New York governor challenged his partisan audience, "If Iraq is not an issue, then what issues do we have to talk about? … Where does that leave you? It leaves you in the same position you were in in 2004 – without an issue. Because you have no big idea."

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