MoveOn.org and RightMarch.com on Fresh Air Today (1/21/04)

NPR ^ | 1/21/04

[NewsJunqui]

From the NPR web site:

Wes Boyd and Eli Pariser of Moveon.org. The group was founded by Boyd and Joan Blades, two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, in the late '90s as a liberal political force. MoveOn.org recently sponsored the "Bush in 30 Seconds" ad contest. Some 1,500 contestants submitted ads and more than 100,000 people voted for them online. Moveon.org is now raising money to air the winning ad on TV this week and is even trying to get the ad aired during the Super Bowl.

Also, Political Activist William Green. He is a founder of the conservative group rightmarch.com. According to the group's Web site, rightmarch.com "is an umbrella Web site for many conservative organizations." The group has launched media and e-mail campaigns, some of them against Moveon.org. They are planning on sponsoring TV ads criticizing the liberal group. One of the group's members recently released a country song entitled "Hey Hollywood." The song pokes fun at so-called "liberal" actors and country musicians, like Willie Nelson and The Dixie Chicks, who speak out against the war in Iraq.

[NewsJunqui]

Why wasn't Jim Rob invited?

[cwb]

For such a well organized and financed group, MoveOn must be feeling like complete failures. This is the organization that started the groundswell that put Howard Dean on the map. From their grassroots support to their highly tauted internet straw poll, they have been the ones driving Deans popularity. Heck, even Mr. Sorass was Keen for Dean. There's nothing better than watching everything MoveOn touches, turn to mold. Irrelevant!

[NewsJunqui]

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