Posted on 08/12/2009 12:37:00 PM PDT by bs9021
Campus Progress Mob Rules
by: Alana Goodman, August 12, 2009
It appears that the writers at the Center for American Progress (CAP) can dish it out but they can’t take it. Lee Fang, one of the trenchant investigative reporters over at CAP’s Think Progress website uncovered what he claimed was a “leaked memo” written by a “Lobbyist-funded Republican operative” that detailed a diabolical strategy for disrupting town hall meetings.
Fang’s July 31st article was eagerly picked up by the Democratic National Committee (DNC), ABC News, the Washington Post, CNN, the New York Times, MSNBC and CBS, who railed against “manufactured Right-wing mobs.”
“This is orchestrated outrage. There is a script for this stuff that was written before these events happened and that appears to be instructions to people to shut down these efforts at civic discourse,” fumed MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on August 4th.
The DNC even used a photo of the memo in their most recent ad titled “Enough of the Mob,” with a sinister-sounding voice-over calling the tactics “straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives.”
Predictably, the media quietly dropped the issue without apology once it was revealed that the writer of the memo, Bob MacGuffie, was neither a high-level Republican nor a political operative. MacGuffie is a small-town Connecticut activist who emailed the alleged “memo” to eight or ten of his friends and was surprised to see it appear on a DNC ad shortly thereafter, reported Mary Katharine Ham on the Weekly Standard blog on August 5th. MacGuffie and four fellow activists are also the founders of a political action group called Right Principles that “has taken in a whopping $5,017 [since 2008],” wrote Ham, describing Federal Election Commission (FEC) records on the PAC....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
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