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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 01:52 PM
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TELL MEDIA: Ask every right wing pundit if Abramoff paid for opinions
In light of the recent stories showing that like the Bush White House, lobbyist Jack Abramoff paid for specific opinions and apparently even Chris Matthews is entangled to some degree, the first question EVERY TV talk fest or show that has these guys on as a guest or "expert" should ask if they have been paid by lobbyists, the White House, or PR firms.

A good starting point on pay for opinions:
http://armando.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/19/233435/80

Kos of GOP pay for opinion (control F for abramoff)
http://www.dailykos.com/tag/payola

Abramoff & Chris Matthews:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/4/1137/26232

The ombudsman or readers rep at your local paper should be contacted and they should ask their conservative columnists the same question.

I think it would be fair to ask that they identify any opinions so paid for, and also those agreed on at the weekly Grover Norquist message coordination meeting.

Norquist meetings:
http://www.commonwealinstitute.org/information.html#weekly


Media contacts:

http://capwiz.com/wa/dbq/media/




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Joe Chi Minh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 01:57 PM
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1. Wow. Under oath, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 02:03 PM
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2. this stuff makes you wonder if there is a conservative ideology
or just a fig leaf to cover organized corruption.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 02:12 PM
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3. Unethical people would have no problem lying, even under oath.
Look at Bush*.
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 02:57 PM
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4. only oath he took was oath of office
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smartvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 03:00 PM
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5. Explains why Matthews said the wiretapping is a bigger story. nt
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-05-06 05:51 PM
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6. you know they're in trouble when one scandal is used to distract from
another
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