FAMILY OF FALLEN SOLDIER PLEADS: PLEASE STOP, CINDY! (Drudge)

Today. Tomorrow at the latest. And put it near their room; small children are the hardest to wake up for a fire or CO detector.

We do have a detector and I thank you.

You want to know something very odd about my family. I lost a daughter, my mom lost a daughter and my grandmother lost a daughter. I have not gone any further back than that. I was afraid to.

Notice how even her in=laws had to be wrong. Geez...

Maybe we should get everyone from FR. What a group that would make!!! Sometimes when it is cool though. I am tired of getting in my car and burning my hands on the steering wheel. I got out one time and the keys were still so hot that they burned my hand. I am ready for some cool weather.

I cannot tell you the number of freepmails I've gotten from people these last years telling me stories about either their or their friends CO detector stories.

Remember this?

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a4fb40e443f.htm

I walked out of the office of a former golf partner and friend yesterday. I check in and say hi every couple months. He was uncontrollably bashing President Bush. I turned and walked out and suspect we are no longer friends.

Five years ago this December.

Five years! I remember when it happened. Your courage brought me to tears, but inspired me at the same time.

Same for MamaB, when her beloved Jan was failing, and then when she passed.

MoveOn.org's public interest PR firm Fenton Communications is directing who interviews Cindy Sheehan.

To remind everyone of Fenton Communications...

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The ad called “A Mother’s Tears”

It is put out by a high-minded 527 group—Real Voices—which perforce has nothing to do with the Democrat Party or perforce any campaign to elect or unelect anybody. That would be illegal, don’t you know.

(Despite that fact that Real Voices openly admits they “advocate the election of John Kerry” – they are not affiliated with his campaign, you see.)

So who is behind this noble non-profit band who have “had it with George W. Bush? (And who claim non-profit status while they are still awaiting their non-profit approval):

For Media Contacts:
Trevor Fitzgibbon 202-822-5200
Michelle Mulkey 415-987-7377
Fenton Communications

In case you don’t recognize the name, Fenton Communications are the folks who brought you the Alar scare and countless other bogus health claims over the past twenty years or so:

"Their practices combine junk science with a hidden agenda to scare consumers away from safe products, supposedly all in the name of protecting public health and the environment." ... including scares about Alar and apples, swordfish, leaky breast implants, Health Care Without Harm ("danger of phthalates, chemicals used to make plastic flexible for products such as IV bags, teethers, nipples, and toys"), the book "Our Stolen Future" ("alleged that synthetic chemicals were causing developmental and reproductive problems in humans, such as low sperm counts, impotence and even homosexuality"), Bovine Growth Hormone," Cohen wrote.

"If you have been scared about food or pesticides in the last 10 years, chances are Fenton Communications played a key role in provoking that fear. The scares just don’t ever stop. But they all have one thing in common -- a lack of evidence and abundance of deceit. The claims involved in the scares have all been refuted in public. By the time the scares have been debunked, however, the campaigns have taken such a strong hold that the truth usually is irrelevant," he wrote.

So it is only natural that Fenton Communications would list so many Democrat front groups as their clients, including those lovers of truth, MoveOn.org.

In fact, the same names listed for “Real Voices”, Fitzgibbon and Mulkey, show up on countless Moveon.org press releases, such as this and this and this.

But Fitzgibbon, Mulkey and Fenton Communications don’t stop there. They are also behind “Win Without War” which is another front group for Moveon.org.

So, like “Win Without War,” the group calling itself “Real Voices” is almost certainly just another Moveon front. Which means that the “real voice” you hear is that of the billionaire Bush-hating megalomaniacal crackpot, George Soros.

It should also be noted that Fenton Communications was behind "Peaceful Tomorrows" the notorious leftwing activists 9/11 widows group.

"Peaceful Tomorrows; which is coordinated by leftwing public relations specialist David Fenton, and funded by the left grant-giving Tides Foundation; is an antiwar support organization founded by individuals who lost loved ones in the terrorist attacks of September 11th."

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America's Red Army
By Jennifer Verner
FrontPageMagazine.com | September 1, 2004

As radicals from across the country descend upon New York City this week in their malicious attempt to violently disrupt the Republican National Convention, it appears the perfect time to dissect the affiliations and leadership of one of the most influential anti-Bush “peace” groups to emerge since 9/11: Win Without War.

Comprised of 42 environmental, feminist, religious and human rights groups that claim to be united in promoting peaceful solutions for international problems, Win Without War first burst onto the political scene in December 2002, at an international press conference featuring leftist actor Mike Farrell. Although the organization was initiated with a letter signed by over 100 celebrities calling for an end to America's “imperialist” wars, with the help of David Fenton, the founder of the public relations firm, Fenton Communications, and the rabidly anti-Bush Internet outfit, Moveon.org, the campaign was presented as a non-partisan patchwork of American life. But while Fenton may want Americans to see Win Without War as being “middle of the road,” the sum of its parts paints a vastly different picture.

Fenton Communications is a “socially responsible” PR firm with a penchant for backing Marxist regimes, and Win Without War boasts a number of “progressive” operatives, like the coalition's director, Tom Andrews, and Clinton employee, Maggie Williams, who use non-profits to front for the Democratic Party line.

In addition, elements of the fringe Left like Veterans for Peace, which held a solidarity convention in Havana with Cuban veterans of Angola in 1992, are also members of the Win Without War team. And, to top it off, funds are channeled through billionaire George Soros' Open Society Institute and the ultra-leftist Tides Foundation into many of the coalition members' bank accounts. Indeed, Win Without War isn't even close to the mainstream- it's the Left Bank.

The radical Left owes a great debt of gratitude to David Fenton. He has mixed Neo-Marxist ideology with junk science, trial lawyers, labor, progressive millionaires, politicians, and radical policy wonks to construct a complex, moneymaking left-wing advocacy empire. Fenton Communications reported billing $6 million dollars in 2002, and will likely make much more this year with high profile clients like The Heinz Family Foundation, the aforementioned Open Society Institute and Moveon.org.

Fenton has never forgotten his radical 60s roots, and surrounds himself with like-minded comrades. His client list has included the Cuban-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) and Grenada's Maurice Bishop, who welcomed hundreds of Cuban and Soviet “advisors” to his small island before radical Marxist members of his own cabinet murdered him in October 1983 (Ten days later, the US invaded Grenada, and ended all Cuban military construction projects). Fenton Communications also had no trouble taking money from El Salvador's revolutionary Marxist guerillas, the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN), a group responsible for thousands of innocent deaths in that country's thirty-year civil war. Fenton’s organization has also served as the mouthpiece for Nicaragua's Sandinistas.

Fenton presently makes a name for himself as a champion of environmental junk-science scare campaigns - the type favored by trial lawyers and “earth-friendly” companies like Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. In a 2002 report titled, “Fear Profiteers: Do ‘Socially Responsible’ Businesses Sow Health Scares to Reap Monetary Rewards?” a highly respected panel of research scientists found “a tangled web of non-profit advocacy groups with a public relations 'ring leader' playing spider.” The web spinner was none other than David Fenton.

But while he currently poses as a fervent environmentalist, Fenton has a militant political past and has cut his radical teeth in the 60s as a photographer for the pro-Vietcong Liberation News. He was a long-time friend of radical left icon, Abbie Hoffman, and was also a leading advocate and promoter of the Nuclear Disarmament movement, a stronghold for Marxists after the end of the Vietnam War.

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Fenton was also a member of the White Panther Party (a Caucasian-led offshoot of the Black Panthers), and even did photography work for the Weathermen, the Communist/anarchist group which bombed the U.S. Capitol building, along with other prominent U.S. institutions in Washington, DC and New York City.

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Tom Andrews is Fenton's assistant spin-doctor at WWW. Andrews served two terms in Congress beginning in 1990 and was called the House of Representatives' “most progressive member” in 1994. Andrews was defeated by Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) in a bid for the Senate, and subsequently started a decade-long career as a rabble-rouser for progressive, Democratic Party causes in the murky world of left-wing non-profit organizations like Citizen Action, where he was national programs director.

Fenton's firm worked for Citizen Action and paired the non-profit group with the Sierra Club (also Fenton's client) to target Republicans in 15 key Congressional races in the 1996 election cycle. In 1997, Citizen Action collapsed under an avalanche of scandal and corruption generated by its role in the 1996 Teamster's money laundering scandal. This happened just as Tom Andrews was leading a campaign to “clean up” the Republican Congress.

Andrews then joined forces with Fenton to form New Economy Communications, a non-profit media company supported by the far left Tides Foundation. In keeping with David Fenton's philosophy, New Economy Communications is known for smearing companies like Nike in anti-sweatshop campaigns and bringing media attention to obscure, Marxist-leaning anti-globalization groups.

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Like Moveon.org, most Win Without War coalition members are closely linked to Fenton Communications. The NAACP, Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange and ice cream mogul Ben Cohen, founder of coalition member True Majority, all do business with Fenton. Other WWW members, like NOW, WAND, Peace Action and Fourth Freedom Forum have close ties with Fenton's rich clients or employees.

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One of the most sophisticated of Fenton's anti-war projects is the co-mingling of Win Without War and the Center for International Policy (CIP). Before 9/11, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, mainly acted as Fidel Castro's greatest “think tank” ally. Much of its million-dollar budget was spent lobbying to end economic sanctions and travel restrictions against Cuba.

Now, it has another mission. Fenton has established a “war room” with CIP called The Iraq Policy Information Program (IPIP). Its main job is getting the anti-Bush foreign policy message out to the media and providing guests for talk shows. A featured speaker of the IPIP is former ambassador Joe Wilson, one of the Bush administration’s most vocal enemies. Like Moveon.org and Win Without War, the contact for the Iraq Policy Information Program is Fenton Communications. Win Without War also collects tax-deductible donations through CIP.

In addition to progressive non-profits associated with Win Without War, Fenton Communications flaks for the politically motivated wealthy patrons who fuel their efforts. Fenton has a client list filled with America's richest, most left-leaning philanthropic organizations. They include the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the Ford Foundation, The Blue Moon Fund (formerly the W. Alton Jones Foundation), The Heinz Foundation and George Soros's Open Society Institute. Fenton Communications undoubtedly crafted Win Without War with its left wing clients, like Soros and Heinz-Kerry, in mind. Through non-profit coalition members, John Kerry-supporting billionaires are free to dole out taxpayer subsidized millions to oust the Bush administration without spending limits and scrutiny from the Federal Election Commission.

More...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=14893

Thanks for your service. Truely a thankless job under the Clinton administration.

I hear what you are saying, but I think there is a big difference between the two situations. I would imagine those of you in Somalia probably thought "There isn't a snowballs chance in hell for the situation improving in this shithole. What the heck are we doing here?"

``These past days have been among the worst I have had since Jan died. My hubby has been in Ohio all that time. He will be home tomorrow night. I have been alone all of that time. Plus, my arm has been really hurting. I will be so glad when he gets back home.`````````

I walked out of the office of a former golf partner and friend yesterday.

Shame. He probably cheated anyway ;o)

You want to know something very odd about my family. I lost a daughter, my mom lost a daughter and my grandmother lost a daughter. I have not gone any further back than that. I was afraid to.

This is a weird coincidence: My grandparents lost their house in a fire in the 40's, my parents lost their house to a fire in 1984, and I lost my house to a fire in 2002. Makes you almost wonder about Karma, doesn't it?

No, he didn't cheat. He has just gone over the deep end in hatred of Bush and of the war. He was irrational.

Doesn't seem like that long ago, does it?

See history of Fenton Communications who is running the Cindy Sheehan Campaign against President Bush....

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The Smear Campaign; Left-wingers have poured money into Bush-hating "527" groups, which straddle a fine line in an all-out effort to defeat the president
Insight on the News, May 11, 2004

The life and odyssey of fiftysomething PR guru David Fenton has been one radical adventure after another. In the sixties he dropped out of high school and got a job as a photographer for the Liberation News Service, which favored the Viet Cong in the war against America, becoming a confidant of hippie leader Abbie Hoffman. In the seventies he would serve as public-relations director of Rolling Stone magazine and organize antinuclear concerts with leftie entertainers such as Jackson Browne. During the eighties he grew more corporate and at the same time more radical, building offices for Fenton Communications in New York City and Washington while fattening his payroll by performing services for various communist state and "liberation" groups, including the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, the dictatorship of Grenada's Maurice Bishop that President Ronald Reagan sent troops to overthrow in 1983, the El Salvadoran terrorist Farabundo Marti National Liberation group and the conspiratorial Christic Institute, which spread vicious, baseless smears about retired U.S. military heroes.

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Along the way, Fenton got rich. According to a Weekly Standard article, he once told an interviewer he made about $100,000 per year in three years representing Sandinista interests. But he insisted to the neocon weekly in 1996, "I'm not a Marxist, I'm a Democrat!"

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Fenton has become an important power broker because of his behind-the-scenes role in shaping the agenda of MoveOn.org and being a force behind the media campaigns of other "progressive" anti-Bush groups.

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Fenton Communications, have for the last two years been the hidden hand behind its media savvy and presidential smears. To a large extent, MoveOn.org has become a creature of Fenton Communications.

A search of Lexis-Nexis and Internet databases shows that Fenton Communications has been listed as MoveOn.org's public-relations firm on press releases for the group and its affiliates since 2001. Indeed, MoveOn.org's Washington mailing address is on the same floor of the same building as that of the Washington office of Fenton Communications, and to reach a MoveOn.org employee in Washington, it's necessary to call the Fenton phone number. Fenton served as a judge for the group's recent "Beat Bush in 30 Seconds" ad contest and contributed an essay to MoveOn.org's new book, 50 Ways to Love Your Country, by becoming a left-wing activist. Most telling is Fenton's use of personal pronouns in the essay to describe the group's activities. "Without the contributions of MoveOn members, we wouldn't be able to buy our own 30-second ads to unmask Orwellian deception propagated by our nation's leadership," Fenton wrote (emphasis added).

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After the RNC filed its complaint, the Kerry campaign hired Zack Exley of MoveOn.org to be its communications director. Exley and MoveOn.org have said they will not communicate with each other for the rest of the election.

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One common theme of MoveOn.org's ad is Bush's alleged dishonesty. The group and Fenton's Website even have referred to the strategy as the "misleader campaign." But critics of Fenton note that many of his campaigns, though they created great hype at the time, were completely discredited when the dust settled. If Fenton is questioning Bush's credibility, voters and the media might begin to look at his own. The Christic Institute charged in a grandiose lawsuit that anticommunist retired military personnel, including Maj. Gen. Jack Singlaub, a much-decorated soldier who operated behind enemy lines in World War II and commanded U.S. forces in South Korea, were involved in nefarious activities, from drug smuggling to murder. Fenton arranged the press conference to support the lawsuit at Washington's National Press Club and was identified by the left-wing Nation magazine as the Christic Institute's "public-relations consultant."

When the Christics could not produce any reliable witnesses, a judge ordered them to pay Singlaub and other defendants $1.2 million in legal costs, which put the Christics out of business. As wacky as the charges were, Singlaub says, they caused him great harm. "I spent a quarter of a million dollars defending myself against something that didn't happen," he recalls to Insight. "It was very painful."

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In MoveOn.org's new book Fenton begins his essay with the sixties motto: "If you don't like the news, go out and make your own."

saw you went to the Citadel.

That Rocks!!!!

I may go to Crawford this weekend.

Good post.

There's a National Review thread on FR now about how Cindy appeared in a Soros/Move On ad.

MamaB, I'm glad your hubby will soon be home - you definitely need loving arms around you. Hopefully you know you and Howlin are very much loved in our Freeper family. You are both still in my prayers.

I'm really really sick of commies like Cindy Sheehan besmerching the good name of my family members who are serving in Iraq.