Moo-On Hands Obama An AnchorOh, the irony. A group that was formed to save Bill Clinton from impeachment (and failed) is now
trying to knockout Hillary Clinton (and will fail).
Today Barack Obama earned the endorsement of MoveOn, one of the largest grassroots membership organizations in the United States, after clobbering Hillary Clinton by 40 percent in Internet balloting. Obama led the final tally 70.4% to 29.6%, clearing the supermajority required for the endorsement. MoveOn, which has never endorsed a presidential candidate before, boasts that it has 1.7 million members in Super Tuesday states. The group has over half a million members in California alone – roughly one out of ten primary voters in Tuesday's largest state.
Ooooh, they have a big email list, and lots of members. And I'm going to make a rough guess that 70.4% of their members have already signed up with the Obama Campaign. So whom does it help?
That's not too hard to figure out. It helps Hillary, who dodges being smeared by association with the group that financed the infamous "Betray Us Petraeus" ad:
And if Obama somehow manages to defeat Hillary, then obviously it helps Senator John McCain, just as Ann Coulter's endorsement of Clinton helped McCain.
Labels: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, MoveOn
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Ana Marie Cox Has the VaporsConsidering that she made her name by joking about anal sex, it seems a bit much to see her
hyperventilating over John McCain's comment that MoveOn should be "thrown out of the country." One would think he was a judge sentencing MoveOn to become another "Man Without a Country". Let's see if we can get MooOn to demand an apology from Senator McCain.
Labels: John McCain, MoveOn
Thursday, September 13, 2007
NY Times Gave Discount for "Betray Us" Ad?Whooo-boy are they going
to regret this.
According to Abbe Serphos, director of public relations for the Times, "the open rate for an ad of that size and type is $181,692."
A spokesman for MoveOn.org confirmed to The Post that the liberal activist group had paid only $65,000 for the ad - a reduction of more than $116,000 from the stated rate.
You know how it is; the Times should be free to charge whatever it wants for a full-page ad; that's not the issue. But this does mean that they can't turn around and claim that they're just running the ad, that they have nothing to do with the content. One is forced to conclude that they subsidized this particular ad because it fits their editorial policy.
Labels: Betray Us Ad, MoveOn
