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Bringing the Heat on Warming

by Sheldon Rampton — November 20, 2007 - 5:00pm

The Heartland Institute website accuses Gore of a "snowjob" on global warming.Chicago Sun-Times Business Editor Dan Miller, who previously

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Chicago Tribune, November 18, 2007

Fine-Tuning the Sell Job for the Next War

by Diane Farsetta — November 19, 2007 - 4:07pm

"The basis of the whole thing was, 'we're going to go into Iran and what do we have to do to get you guys to go along with it,'" said Laura Sonnenmark, a participant in a recent focus group apparently funded by the Republican-associated lobbying group Freedo

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Mother Jones, November 19, 2007

Please Forward This Smear

by Sheldon Rampton — November 7, 2007 - 2:37pm

An e-mail sent to millions of Americans claims that Hillary Clinton has refused to meet with mothers of soldiers killed in Iraq. Another claims that Barack Obama was educated as a Muslim extremist.

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The Nation, November 12, 2007

Berman Attacks Teachers

by Sheldon Rampton — November 7, 2007 - 12:08pm

Corporate-funded attack dog Rick Berman, who has previously attacke

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Las Vegas Sun, November 3, 2007

Anti-Tax Lobby Not Just in Kansas Anymore

by Diane Farsetta — October 22, 2007 - 12:28pm

"According to the Americans for Prosperity Web site, some 28 Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature signed a 'no tax increase' pledge with the organization," along with two Democrats, writes Dave Zweifel. He blames pressure from no-tax groups on delays with Wisconsin's state budget, now more than three months overdue.

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The Capital Times (Madison, Wis.), October 22, 2007

Well-Connected Skeptics Behind UK Attack on Global Warming Film

by Diane Farsetta — October 15, 2007 - 5:43pm

The school governor who challenged the screening of Al Gore's climate change documentary in secondary schools was funded by a Scottish quarrying magnate who established a controversial lobbying group to attack environmentalists' claims about

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The Observer (UK), October 14, 2007

AEI & Freedom's Watch Seek $200 Million to Sell War on Iran

by John Stauber — October 1, 2007 - 9:21am

The New York Times reports that Freedom's Watch is working with the American Enterprise Institute to lobby for war with Iran. "'If Hitler's warnings were heeded when he wrote Mein Kampf he could have been stopped,' said Bradley Blakeman, 49, the president of Freedom's Watch and a former deputy assistant to Mr.

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New York Times, September 30, 2007

Conservative Media Bias

by Sheldon Rampton — September 14, 2007 - 10:25am

Media Matters for America, the liberal media watchdog organization, has conducted a systematic study of the commentary sections in U.S. newspapers. "The results show that in paper after paper, state after state, and region after region, conservative syndicated columnists get more space than their progressive counterparts," they conclude. "Sixty percent of the nation's daily newspapers print more conservative syndicated columnists every week than progressive syndicated columnists."

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Media Matters for America, September 12, 2007

The Pro-War Lobby's Latest Addition is Freedom's Watch

by John Stauber — August 22, 2007 - 8:27pm
  • Topics: Right Wing, Iraq, Front Groups, Pundits, Terrorism, Lobbying, Politics, Propaganda, War / Peace

    • The business of pro-war propaganda is booming as "Freedom's Watch" joins Vets for Freedom, Move America Forward and other pro-war advocates for a stepped up war in Iraq in line with the Bush/Cheney Global War on Terror.

    Ari Fleischer, former White House PR flack who jumped ship into the private sector shortly after the 2003 US invasion, is the public face and a founding board member of Freedom's Watch, which is being rolled out this week with emotional advertisements featuring wounded veterans imploring Americans to keep the money flowing for the occupation.

    One such advertisement is up on YouTube. Once again the war in Iraq is being falsely linked to and justified by the terror attacks of 9/11, one of the Bush Administration's Big Lies that was was used to mislead America into war. In the Freedom's Watch advertisment on YouTube a war vet with prosthetic legs beseeches:

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