Scaife Continues to Smear Soros
Richard Mellon Scaife, one of the chief financiers of the Right Wing Noise Machine and publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, continues to take every opportunity to smear George Soros. The Trib column Whispers contains this nugget:
Anyone with the slightest degree of familiarity with MoveOn.org knows they get the bulk of their financing from small contributors. Though I'd assume George Soros is one of those he's anything but the principal money source for MoveOn. Certainly not like Scaife finances The Weekly Standard, the Heritage Foundation and many more right wing organizations (along with the Coors family).
Scaife never misses a chance to take a potshot at Soros. I think he's terrified of having a liberal counterpart to himself and will do anything possible to discredit Soros.
As far as the content of the Whispers item, it's hysterical. To discredit MoveOn's attack by saying the money came from the industry PAC's instead of the companies themselves is beyond being disingenuous. Companies are not allowed to contribute to campaigns (even by paying salaried employees to advocate on company time) so they set up PACs to do so legally. Saying someone's votes weren't affected by significant contributions from those PACs is insulting our intelligence. Of course Scaife has been doing that for years so what else is new?
A Columbus, Ohio, TV station pulled ads from the liberal political organization MoveOn.org after U.S. Rep. Deborah Pryce, R-Ohio, complained that the commercials distorted her record.
MoveOn.org, whose backers include financier George Soros, spent $89,400 on the ads, The Associated Press reported.
The commercials alleged Pryce was "caught red-handed" taking contributions from energy companies and then voting against legislation to punish them for gasoline price-gouging. Pryce, the GOP's highest-ranking woman in Congress, said the commercials implied she broke the law when she did not.
Pryce said the ads implied she took money directly from oil companies instead of their political action committees, which would have been illegal.
Anyone with the slightest degree of familiarity with MoveOn.org knows they get the bulk of their financing from small contributors. Though I'd assume George Soros is one of those he's anything but the principal money source for MoveOn. Certainly not like Scaife finances The Weekly Standard, the Heritage Foundation and many more right wing organizations (along with the Coors family).
Scaife never misses a chance to take a potshot at Soros. I think he's terrified of having a liberal counterpart to himself and will do anything possible to discredit Soros.
As far as the content of the Whispers item, it's hysterical. To discredit MoveOn's attack by saying the money came from the industry PAC's instead of the companies themselves is beyond being disingenuous. Companies are not allowed to contribute to campaigns (even by paying salaried employees to advocate on company time) so they set up PACs to do so legally. Saying someone's votes weren't affected by significant contributions from those PACs is insulting our intelligence. Of course Scaife has been doing that for years so what else is new?
posted by PA progressive @ Sunday, May 28, 2006
<< Home