MoveOn.org Versus Its Members

MoveOn polled its membership without including the Lee alternative, offering a choice of only Pelosi's plan or nothing. Amazingly, Eli Pariser of MoveOn has admitted that the reason MoveOn did this was because they knew that their members would favor the Lee amendment. The following is from a report on Salon.com:

...Pariser is simultaneously admitting that he knew his members favored the Lee amendment to quickly end the war by defunding it, and claiming that he did not know whether his members preferred Pelosi's weak anti-war gestures to nothing at all. This makes no sense. Are we supposed to imagine that Pariser honestly believed there was some chance that his membership would read his praise for Pelosi's bill and then vote for nothing at all instead of supporting it? Of course not. The point of the poll was to allow MoveOn to announce that its membership supported Pelosi rather than Lee. Yet Pariser admits that he did not offer MoveOn's membership a choice of Lee's plan because he knew they would vote for it.

...Now, Pariser believes he knows better than MoveOn members what is good for them. He didn't let them make the supposed mistake of backing Lee rather than Pelosi, because Lee supposedly could never pass, while Pelosi could. There are three problems with this, other than the extreme arrogance and dishonesty.

...So, Pariser held off as long as possible to run a rigged poll and announce support for Pelosi's bill, in order not to actively work against the Lee Amendment.

Clearly MoveOn needs to work on distinguishing "member driven" from "member funded."

MoveOn's growing problems (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=4344, noting that Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore also have accused MoveOn of misrepresenting its members' views on the war, while George Soros bought 1.9 million shares of Halliburton) are our opportunities. We must circulate this information as widely as possible so MoveOn's rank and file will see how Eli Pariser & Co. are using and exploiting them as opposed to serving them, and that will be the end of MoveOn.org.

What we think of MoveOn.org's members, or Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan is irrelevant. What MoveOn's people think of Moore and Sheehan is very relevant. Moore and Sheehan have effectively accused MoveOn's leaders of exploiting and using the group's rank and file. We must use this material to break the commitment between the members and the leaders, and MoveOn will go down faster than the Million Mom March did in 2000. And I'm the one who put it down, so I have some knowledge of this.

http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/ for more about MoveOn.org, including the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian hate speech at its disgraced Action Forum.

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