Six-figure TV ad comparing McCain to Hillary Clinton -- Look Who's Behind It

[Emit]

Here's the ad:

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=40254


And here's the group behind the ad -- they were the same group that demonized Clinton

The group has a member newsletter, Citizens Agenda, and a specialty periodical, ClintonWatch, sent to selected reporters and political activists.86

Citizens United is the project of Floyd G. Brown who published "Slick Willie:" Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton, a slim paperback book distributed as part of a direct mail fundraising effort. The book is a right-wing tirade designed to document Clinton's lack of character. What it also showed was that Brown unabashedly mixes sexism and homophobia in his conservative analysis.87 Along with standard attacks on Clinton as a draft dodger and friend to labor unions, Brown asserts: "Bill Clinton's America sees no difference between families of `homosexual lovers' and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family...In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party."88 It's no surprise to find cites to the ultra-conservative Human Events and neo-conservative American Spectator in "Slick Willie."

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When journalist Trudy Lieberman researched the influence of Citizens United for the Columbia Journalism Review, she reviewed some 200 news stories in late 1993 and early 1994 and found four stories where there was "an eerie similarity between the Citizens United agenda and what has been appearing in the press, not only in terms of specific details but in terms of omissions, spin, and implication." Lieberman tracked one incident where Citizens United repackaged previously reported charges about a letter from Vincent Foster in a more dramatic form, and sent the charge out to media contacts. According to Lieberman, "From January 1 to the end of March, twenty-three news organizations referred to the Foster letter-more than triple the number that picked up the story after the November 3 Washington Post piece." According to Lieberman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Boston Globe, and Newsday regularly featured what ClintonWatch had highlighted.94


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Michael Boos, a longstanding hard right ideologue, is the Legal Director of the National Citizens Legal Network, which is a project of Citizens United Foundation.105 In the Winter 1982-83 edition of the Young Americans for Freedom magazine, New Guard, he wrote an article headlined "The Nuclear Freeze Fairy Tale: Communist Front Groups Behind the Peace Movement." Boos warned that the "peace movement" is in fact not spontaneous but "Rather, it is a well conceived and thus far successfully implemented sinister scheme being directed by the Soviet Union through its front groups in the U.S. and abroad." In 1984 Boos spied on the anti-intervention group CISPES, then wrote a report titled: "Group in Nation's Capitol to Aid Left-Wing Terrorists." Boos also filed a story with the right-wing newsletter from Phillips Publishing, American Sentinel, and sent an unsolicited copy to the FBI, which promptly distributed it to 32 of its field offices. The FBI launched an official probe of CISPES based in part on the Boos report.106

Citizens United is an example of how the players and themes in conspiracist anticommunism shifted seamlessly to conspiracist antiliberalism and joined the campaign against a demonized Clinton, pulling their conspiracy theories into the mainstream media and Congress.

http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-12.html


David N. Bossie is the president:

David N. Bossie is the president of conservative non profit Citizens United. In 1992 he started work there as director of political affairs.

He was chief investigator for the Whitewater hearings held by U. S. Senator Lauch Faircloth, and was an investigator for Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), the chairman of the House investigation into alleged Clinton campaign finance abuses.

He has been sharply criticized by both Democrats and Republicans. James Carville said of him, "he made collective fools out of about 80 percent of the national press corps." President George Bush urged citizens not to support his campaigns, saying, "We will do whatever we can to stop any filthy campaign tactics" in a newsletter to 85,000 Republican contributors. Bush also filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission regarding one TV advertisement.

In early May of 1998, Bossie was fired for selectively editing and releasing to media the transcripts of prison conversations of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell that created the impression that Hillary Clinton was involved in billing irregularities at the Rose Law Firm where she and Hubbell both worked.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bossie

[jasmine621]

1. Hey, we all know what Hillary is up against. She'll be ok. nt

[Emit]

13. Well, she's been up against it for some time now, that's true.

She's honed her skills and hopefully will be fully prepared -- if she's the nominee.

[MethuenProgressive]

2. Obama's Swiftboat has a partner in crime.

...

[cali]

8. Obama? How do you make that connection?

Please provide links showing he has anything to do with this.

[Bodhi BloodWave]

11. Keep in mind who posted the statement

Doubt you will get any proper answers to be honest

[pdxmom]

3. This is the same group that has made "Hillary, The Movie" which they

are going to promote on Faux as if it's news, because the FEC won't let them actually run ads to promote it. Faux is going to do a fake news story about this movie for the next 5 days, leading up to Super Tuesday. These people are slime.

[Emit]

4. I wasn't aware of this

Where did you hear that the FEC wouldn't let them run the ads to promote it?

[Emit]

10. I see now that this group has a competitor in sleaze

"Although your organization was formed just days ago, it is clear from your actions and the publicity that your group has sought out and received that Citizens United's name was deliberately appropriated in order to capitalize on the release of the documentary film 'Hillary: The Movie,' " writes Michael Boos, Citizens United's general counsel, in a letter to Mr. Jones sent yesterday and obtained by The Washington Times.

http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NATION03/117356234/1008
http://wasteofmyoxygen.wordpress.com/2008/01/27/hillary-clinton-education-by-citizens-united-not-timid/
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4342776&mesg_id=4342776

[Medusa]

5. I saw it tonight

and wondered who was behind it. Good-it'll be easier to beat Romney than McCain

[Indenturedebtor]

6. Not a huge fan of HRC

But screw that. To hell with these morons.

[ErnestoG]

7. MORE to worry about with a Hillary nomination.

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. No, their piling on her now rallies support to Hillary

The best thing the Right can do to help us win in November if Hillary is our candidate is attack her like only they know how - down and dirty. As our nominee Hillary will get plenty of direct face time with the public, like she had in the last debate. People can see for themselves that she is a bright strong woman with a good heart and sense of humor. Hillary won't fold under Right Wing fire, and voters will be outraged. The Republican Right is so mentally reactionary that they fail to get the significance of women making up the majority of voters in America today. There's an old saying; "Beware a woman scorned".

[denem]

12. John McCain in the power behind the Clinton Throne

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: