[Cincinatus' Wife]

POLL with this article: Should groups like Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and MoveOn.org be more closely regulated?

Yes. The rise of '527' groups has led to less accountability in political advertising.
No. Speech must have an outlet, and money will always find a way to influence politics.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0825/p11s01-ussc.html

At the moment:

Yes. The rise of '527' groups has led to less accountability in political advertising. 51.7%
No. Speech must have an outlet, and money will always find a way to influence politics. 48.3% Total votes: 211

[sonofatpatcher2]

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[ladyinred]

Perhaps what should happen is the media shouldn't focus on the groups to the extent that they have. If they treated all of them as they do the Swift Boat Vets, then this would all just go away. Most disgusting is that they are accusing President Bush of being entangled with the vets, while giving Kerry and his too numerous to mention groups a pass.

[Belisaurius]

That poll is gonna get alot more "yes" votes when the DIMs learn that new Republican 527s are about to join the fight. One of them has $35,000,000 on hand.

[Harris]

"downplaying donors' contributions one moment, praising them the next"

Hypocrisy.

Hypocrisy is the one consistent theme in the Democratic Party. I was for the rich fat cats until I was against them. I was for a smear campaign until one was launched against me. I wanted to bring on the free speech and debate in this campaign until I whined that such open discusssion should be stopped.

[Cacique]

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[NYCVirago]

As the article itself admits, Soros has been funding these groups for over a year now. Yet he has gotten very little media mention. I wonder why?

[texastoo]

The article says Soros spent $18 Million to buy Republican and Democrats to get this passed. $18 million spent by one person for the passage of CFR, an illegal bill so far as I am concerned. This bill needs to be repealed as soon as possible.

I wonder how much McCain made off Soros? Did Bush take a kick back signing it?

[dennisw]

And how come the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Boston Globe cannot publish such an article? Linking big Democrat money to Dem controlled 527s? Where are ABCNBCPBSCBSCNNMSNBC on this kind of story?

Instead all we see are stupid flow charts "exposing" the nefarious Republican backers of the Swift Boat Vets. Whose money is a fraction of what Soros, Stephen Bing, Peter Lewis have kicked in to Dem 527s.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Could not get past "Regime-changing" and the "Mr."

"Mr." Soros, "Mr." bin Laden, no difference.

[q_an_a]

the problem for Republican advertising is not that they have a good message it is that they can't seem to take on FAT CAT RATS by name and say-

"The following people Soros, Lewis, Streisand have been funding some very negative advertising and Democarts tell the world that they represent the People. These rich people WANT something and they think that voting for a Democart will do it. What do they want? Our tax code is forty years of favors created during the Democartic Congress they want a return to those hidden deals."

"The average donation to President Bush's campaign in 2000 and in 2004 is less than 100.00. Maybe we are the party of the working man and women- the small business man and women that wants a fair tax deal the small FAMILY that wants good schools and fair taxes. Vote FOR the people that support the real Little Contributor- vote Republican!"

[Shermy]

"Thirteen million?" says one Soros staffer, with a laugh. "He has thrown a lot more money at other problems.... He would give that out as a small loan to any Balkan state that needed it."

[DTA]

>>>>>>After the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944, Tivadar Soros procured false papers for each family member. George was listed as the godson of a gentile bureaucrat. The family split up and went into hiding.<<<<<

There is something wrong with this picture.

Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, run by Fascist government of Gen. Horty even before alleged NAZI INVASION in 1944.

This fraudulent information is enough to raise question about the role of Soros family (namely has grandfather and his father) in property confiscation, deportation and subsequent murder of fellow Hungarian Jews.

This paid PR piece stinks to the high heaven.

[Alouette]

He published a literary magazine in Esperanto - a language George and his brother, Paul, were taught from childhood.

"Esperanto" -- now there's a language with fewer native speakers than Elvish and Klingon.