Freedom’s Watch is shutting down.»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/11/24/freedoms-watch-done/

Freedom’s Watch is shutting down.»

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports today that Freedom’s Watch, the right-wing advocacy group founded by Ari Fleischer and funded by Sheldon Adelson, “is pretty much kaput.” Freedom’s Watch spokesman Ed Patru “confirmed that much of the staff was on its way out,” but refused to say if the group would continue in the future:

As for the organization’s future, Patru maintained it was yet to be decided by the board of directors, which includes former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and Sands Corp. President Bill Weidner.

“In the coming weeks and months, the organization will downsize,” Patru said. “In terms of the future and what role the organization will play, those decisions will be made in the very near future.”

Politico’s Josh Kraushaar notes that “the group is going out with one last blast in the Georgia Senate runoff” by running an ad that attacks Democratic Senate candidate Jim Martin, whose daughter was kidnapped, as being soft on crime.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. No sad songs from me. Good riddance. Hope their final effort is a

disaster.

[EFerrari]

2. We outted them early and they had no cred in the first place. Good going!

:toast:

[drmeow]

3. This bleeding heart liberal's

heart ain't bleeding for this group, that's for sure. Good riddance.

[gratuitous]

4. Fitting that they're going "kaput"

Freedom's Watch press releases always scanned so much better in the original German anyway.

[EFerrari]

5. I want to give Rob at OpEdNews credit for challenging us to write about this org.

His challenge got a lot of information out there very quickly.

[SoCalDem]

6. Here's hoping that it's just the FIRST of many to close

Perhaps the meltdown on Wall Street has tightened the purse-strings of some right wing think tanks.. they cannot have muchg faith in their "brand" right now, and all those "thinkers" seem to have been pretty ineffectual.. I could see many of the benefactor class, rethinking their contributions.
If Mrs Moose is the "future" of their party, can you really see them being all that eager to keep pumping money into Think Tanks.. With her, there's very little thought even needed:evilgrin:

[KG]

7. too funny -

:rofl:

[Swamp Rat]

8. Adios Wormtongue!

:hi:

[eleny]

9. Good, they need to spend more time with their families

[ColbertWatcher]

10. B-b-but, who'll be watching freedom now!?

Who has the qualifications?

Who has the strategically placed window?

Oh noes!