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Capitol Hill Republicans are getting a much-needed fundraising boost from a newspaper advertisement in which the liberal group MoveOn.org accused Iraq war commander Gen. David H. Petraeus of lying, strategists say. Republican candidates and party committees are citing the ad in fundraising solicitations and campaign materials to attack Democratic opponents for not condemning the ad... Republican party spokesmen say it has been an effective fundraising tool. "The [MoveOn ad] issue is very hot with our base right now," said National Republican Senatorial Committee spokeswoman Rebecca Fisher. "We are using the controversy to reinforce our message that the Democrats in the...

Two days before Christmas in 1967, President Lyndon Johnson, visiting the Vatican, presented Pope Paul VI with a foot-high bust of Lyndon Johnson. Small choices can reveal the character of a person. Or of an institution. Consider The New York Times' choices concerning MoveOn.org's issue advocacy ad in the Times calling Gen. David Petraeus "General Betray Us" and accusing him of "cooking the books for the White House." Last June, the Times was in high dudgeon - it knows no other degree of dudgeon - about the Supreme Court's refusal to affirm a sweeping government power to suppress political speech....

It would be foolish to discount the political power of the Internet phenom known as MoveOn.org. After all, it claims 3.2 million members, and there's no denying that it has become a major player in the Democratic Party. But it appears that MoveOn.org misfired, public relations-wise, when it ran an ad in the New York Times raising questions about the integrity of General David H. Petraeus, the leader of U.S. forces in Iraq. The U.S. Senate has now approved a resolution condemning the liberal organization's provocative ad. Yet, Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton reportedly voted against the resolution. One is only...

Even as Sen. John Kerry and his cheerleaders in Big Media try to associate President Bush with the modestly funded Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they remain silent about the links Kerry and the Democrat party have to multimillion-dollar Bush-hating groups. But they cannot keep concealing these ties, because NewsMax has uncovered multiple examples. Thanks in part to tips from readers nationwide who are outraged about the blatant bias of the media establishment, we have found the following: # From Democrats.org, a Web site of the Democratic National Committee, May 9, 2003: “The Democratic Party is partnering with MoveOn.org, People...