As The Russians Did With The Vietnam Anti-War Peace Movement...

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[Ulaven_Demorte]

The Washington Free Beacon is the online publication of the self proclaimed "conservative advocacy group" the Center for American Freedom. According to its website, the publication is "dedicated to uncovering the stories that the professional left hopes will never see the light of day."


Interesting factoid: The Free Beacon has multiple posts calling for more F-16 fighter jet sales to the island nation of Taiwan, and has branded skeptics of militarization as “pro-China” activists. The site, however, fails to disclose the fact that its sponsor is a lobbyist for a firm dedicated to helping Taiwan advance its policy agenda. There is no disclosure on the Free Beacon website that its chairman, Michael Goldfarb, is paid to lobby for Taiwan and other interest groups.

Idiots in glass houses should not throw stones.

 

[Busybody]

The Washington Free Beacon is the online publication of the self proclaimed "conservative advocacy group" the Center for American Freedom. According to its website, the publication is "dedicated to uncovering the stories that the professional left hopes will never see the light of day."


Interesting factoid: The Free Beacon has multiple posts calling for more F-16 fighter jet sales to the island nation of Taiwan, and has branded skeptics of militarization as “pro-China” activists. The site, however, fails to disclose the fact that its sponsor is a lobbyist for a firm dedicated to helping Taiwan advance its policy agenda. There is no disclosure on the Free Beacon website that its chairman, Michael Goldfarb, is paid to lobby for Taiwan and other interest groups.

Idiots in glass houses should not throw stones.

first class asshole

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Plenty of energy companies use libtards to hurt competition.

 

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[KingOrfeo]

The Soviets gave money to the peace movement but did not control it.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Yes the standard answer that quislings like UD come up with on any story that demolishes their world view is that the source is somehow in error because of some obscure event in the past, but cannot offer an acceptable refutation of the facts in the article.

The assertions made in the Free Beacon article you posted are no more or less questionable than the Chairman of that institution promoting those who hired him as a lobbyist without disclosing that fact to their readership. Hence my glass house comment.

It's not an "obscure event in the past" simply because you never heard of it. It took all of about 5 seconds to find out exactly who and what the Free Beacon represents. They are the mouthpiece for their Chairman's lobbying efforts. No more, no less.

The article did more to demolish the Free Beacon's credibility as anything other than a RW rag meant to incite morons like you than it did my world view.

 

[Busybody]

The Soviets gave money to the peace movement but did not control it.

another idiot

 

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[Que]

So "just money' is not control...a BILLION dollars bought them nothing? They just hoped?

I'm glad that Oreo now agrees with Citizen's United.

 

[KingOrfeo]

So "just money' is not control...a BILLION dollars bought them nothing? They just hoped?

I'm glad that Oreo now agrees with Citizen's United.

According to Time magazine, a US State Department official estimated that the KGB may have spent $600 million on the peace offensive up to 1983, channeling funds through national Communist parties or the World Peace Council "to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many cases, reject the financial help if they knew the source."[15]

If you have to hide who you are to get people to take your money, you do not control them. You empower them, but you don't control them.

Now, when the Koch Brothers give out money . . . the recipients know. And many of them are elected officials.

 

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[Joeybagadonuts]

fuckers never gave me any money.

 

[Sean Renaud]

How does it feel to know that much of what you believe in, talk about and preach to others, was financed by our enemy?

Just fine.

 

[Que]

If you have to hide who you are to get people to take your money, you do not control them. You empower them, but you don't control them.

Now, when the Koch Brothers give out money . . . the recipients know. And many of them are elected officials.

If the maniacally evil Koch brothers passed out their money through a guy named Fred who didn't bother to mention it was from the Koch's the money used to finance campaigns for candidates and issues that you disagree with would have resulted in people being '"empowered but not controlled?" Great, I'll send a note to them to tell them to use cut-outs and that you have no problem with their money buying influence. It is the branding, not the money and the message then?

So...

How do you think those peace-loving reds did it? Divvied up the billion bucks into duffel bags and just left them laying around on game trails that hippies frequented hoping that it all went to a good cause?

 

[KingOrfeo]

How does it feel to know that much of what you believe in, talk about and preach to others, was financed by our enemy?

Good. The Soviets spent money on things good for America -- and that's a good thing. For their own reasons, to be sure, but so what? Even during the Cold War, what was good for America was not always necessarily bad for the USSR or vice-versa.

 

[cowslinger64]

If the maniacally evil Koch brothers passed out their money through a guy named Fred who didn't bother to mention it was from the Koch's the money used to finance campaigns for candidates and issues that you disagree with would have resulted in people being '"empowered but not controlled?" Great, I'll send a note to them to tell them to use cut-outs and that you have no problem with their money buying influence. It is the branding, not the money and the message then?

So...

How do you think those peace-loving reds did it? Divvied up the billion bucks into duffel bags and just left them laying around on game trails that hippies frequented hoping that it all went to a good cause?

The kocks are planning to spend around 900 billion dollars in the next presidential election.. Which is WAY more than total for both parties in the last one. I'm sure a dumbass like you sees no problem with that.

 

[Busybody]

The kocks are planning to spend around 900 billion dollars in the next presidential election.. Which is WAY more than total for both parties in the last one. I'm sure a dumbass like you sees no problem with that.

STFU, NIGGERcowshit with BS

The Hill: Hillary Clinton plans to astound, intimidate with fundraising ‘like nothing you’ve seen.’



Major donors are ready to announce huge financial commitments to Hillary Clinton as soon as she announces a second run for the White House, according to Clinton allies and Democratic fundraisers.

The Clinton team wants to build excitement about her campaign launch, which is expected in March or April. The money blitz would be a show of Clinton’s strength meant to scare away potential primary rivals.

“The floodgates are going to open immediately, and there’s going to be a rush to get on the team,” said Don Peebles, the real estate mogul who served on President Obama’s national finance committee. “There’s nobody in the Democratic Party who can match her. Not even close.”

“It’s going to be like nothing you’ve seen,” added one top Democratic donor, who supported both of Obama’s presidential campaigns and plans to throw big support behind Clinton. “The numbers will be astounding.”

Clinton is also busy considering who to have run the finances of her would-be campaign.

 

[cowslinger64]

STFU, NIGGERcowshit with BS

The Hill: Hillary Clinton plans to astound, intimidate with fundraising ‘like nothing you’ve seen.’



Major donors are ready to announce huge financial commitments to Hillary Clinton as soon as she announces a second run for the White House, according to Clinton allies and Democratic fundraisers.

The Clinton team wants to build excitement about her campaign launch, which is expected in March or April. The money blitz would be a show of Clinton’s strength meant to scare away potential primary rivals.

“The floodgates are going to open immediately, and there’s going to be a rush to get on the team,” said Don Peebles, the real estate mogul who served on President Obama’s national finance committee. “There’s nobody in the Democratic Party who can match her. Not even close.”

“It’s going to be like nothing you’ve seen,” added one top Democratic donor, who supported both of Obama’s presidential campaigns and plans to throw big support behind Clinton. “The numbers will be astounding.”

Clinton is also busy considering who to have run the finances of her would-be campaign.

It's already been all over the news... Dummy

The kock news, that is

 

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[KingOrfeo]

Total bullshit, but typical.

Oh, it's for real -- but in millions, not billions. Almost $1 billion.

The most significant thing is that the Kochs are playing a long game:

Here’s what the long game looks like, at least the way the Kochs are playing it. The long game is a House of Representatives that is, thanks in part to Citizens United and the 2010 census, almost guaranteed to stay Republican for the foreseeable future. The long game is a GOP establishment that knows it can only diverge from the Tea Party in style (and not substance) if it wants to survive a primary challenge from a Koch-funded opponent. The long game is a new era of almost unprecedented dominance on the part of the GOP when it comes to politics on the state level. And the long game is a feeder system that sends those far-right state-level conservatives to Congress — while threatening to replace them with someone else if their time in D.C. weakens their devotion to the cause.

In other words, if you broaden your timeline since 2010 from years to decades, the Koch brothers’ track record starts looking a whole lot better. At the same time, the Democrats’ chances to build a new, economically populist party for the 21st century start to look a whole lot worse. Have you heard that because Democrats are so few in number on the state level and in the halls of Congress, the party lacks a “bench”? Sure, that’s partially just the usual partisan crowing from right-wingers. But like the Kochs themselves, these conservatives are looking at state politics for a reason. Another example: Americans often pick governors as their presidents. Almost every high-profile governor in the U.S. right now is a Republican; you can partially thank the Kochs for that, too.

So while I’m sure the Kochs desperately want Republicans to win the White House in 2016 — especially given the stakes for the Supreme Court, which are likely to be abnormally high — I have no doubt that much of their promised nearly $1 billion will be trickling down to races that are much further from public view. The Kochs and their buddies are fighting the battles of the here and now, of course. But they’re trying to design a right-wing machine to dominate American politics in the near- and medium-term future, as well. On the whole, it’s gone rather well for them thus far. And as Tuesday’s news showed, they have no intention of stopping.

 

[KingOrfeo]

You're too stupid for words.

If that's all ya got, you lose.

 

[cowslinger64]

Total bullshit, but typical.

Feel free to admit you're wrong, any old time



http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpoli...m_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=assortedstoriesfrom


The Koch organization unveiled the $889 million budget to several hundred donors at a private conference in Palm Springs, Calif., which concluded Monday. Donors were asked to pledge.