Moveon.org's Shifty Campaign
cn | 27 February, 2007 12:26FactCheck.org reports that MoveOn.org's political action group is throwing some republicans into the fire without analyzing the actual stance of those republicans in regards to the issue they are fighting about - escalation in Iraq:
MoveOn.org Political Action began airing ads attacking four Republican senators in their home states, accusing them of favoring escalation of the war in Iraq and saying all are "willing to send tens of thousands more troops to face danger in Iraq." The ads clearly misrepresent the stands of three of the targeted senators, who in fact had publicly expressed strong disapproval of sending additional US troops.
This is just from the summary. The article itself goes into great detail about the actions of Moveon.org (who managed to raise $150,000 to run the ads) and pulled quotes by those that Moveon names.
A couple of the great things about FactCheck.org - they include a bibliography of their sources and they present the data of the issue at hand rather than hypothesis.
Now, why doesn't CNN, BBC, the NY Times, Fox News, etc. provide a bibliography of their sources. I understand the importance of certain sources remaining anonymous, but when they quote a fact or a source actually named in one of their stories, why not provide the reader with a reference to the actual source document or full interview, etc so we can see the context from which the information was pulled? Hmmm...that might mean accountability...
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