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Episode #7: Freedom's Watch? We're not buying it. (10/4/0

2008-11-23T08:27:43Z

A billionaire's club buys the airwaves to sell us a shiny new war.

Fund for America takes on Freedom's Watch

2008-02-04T19:50:11Z

H/t to Commenter OxyCon for this:

Billionaire George Soros is weighing in heavily with more cash, delivering $2.5 million to a new political organization called Fund for America.
According to a year-end campaign report filed with the Internal Revenue Service and uncovered by The Times' Dan Morain, Fund for America was organized by Taco Bell heir Rob McKay, former Clinton White House Chief of Staff John Podesta and Anna Burger of the Service Employees International Union. The SEIU matched Soros with another $2.5 million, too. Other major donors include investor Donald Sussman, who has given $1 million and AKT Development of Sacramento.
Although it cannot get directly involved in advocacy for or against candidates, Fund for America is expected to air television ads and take other political action aimed at helping Democrats claim the White House and retain control of Congress.The group is organized as a "527," so named for the revenue code section that defines it.
Fund for America is the liberal answer to the conservative Freedom's Watch, organized by former political aides to President Bush and funded by wealthy Republicans including billionaire Sheldon Adelson of Las Vegas. But as a nonprofit corporation, Freedom's Watch is not required to disclose its donors.

Sounds good to me.

NBC flips: WILL air conservative group's ad after Gingrich threat

2008-10-21T15:31:18Z

Via MediaBistro:

NBC changed course, and apparently their ad standard guidelines as a whole, and has decided to air the Freedom's Watch ad that thanks the troops.
NBC said in a statement that they changed their guidelines and decided their policy will only apply to content and not referenced Web sites. NBC previously cited the fact that Freedom's Watch would not remove mention of their web site as a reason for rejecting the ad. What may have grabbed NBC's attention was the strongly worded welcome page with calls to "do battle with the radical special interests groups and their left-wing allies in government."
NBC's initial refusal to air the ad, which was approved by Fox News and CNN, drew criticism from Newt Gingrich, who appeared on Fox News on Friday and called for a boycott of NBC.
Earlier this week, Fox News decided against running an ad by the Center for Constitutional Rights.

That "liberal media" sure is fair and balanced.

The video is the one in question.

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