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MoveOn.org and Britney Spears


What do they have in common? Just when you think they've hit rock bottom, they surprise you. We'll leave Britney to the mercy of Ace of Spades, but MoveOn.org deserves a little more attention.


Even after their "General Betray Us" ad was condemned by a landslide Senate vote -- with fewer than half the Democrats siding with MoveOn.org -- the liberal group refuses to ... well, move on.


Behold MoveOn.org's response:

The U.S. Senate just told you to sit down and be quiet when they passed a Republican amendment condemning MoveOn. ...


We're releasing a statement from MoveOn members--and anyone else who feels the same way--saying, "We will not be quiet, we will fight back. We will keep speaking out until Congress forces an exit plan for this awful war."

Of course, conservatives are shocked that 25 Democrats would side with MoveOn.org, but the real story is how many true-blue liberal Democrats voted against MoveOn.org: Sens. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, and Dianne Feinstein of California, plus Class of '06 freshmen Sens. James Webb of Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.


Some have suggested that MoveOn.org keeps pushing this issue because it's a great fund-raising device. But is the purpose of MoveOn.org merely to raise money, or to score political victories? Again, from their "fight back" response:

It's part of a larger campaign by Fox, the right-wing echo chamber, and Republicans like John McCain (who said we should be "thrown out of the country"). ....


And it has one purpose: to intimidate all of us. To send a message that anyone who speaks unpleasant truths about this war will pay. To make everyone -- especially politicians -- think twice before they accuse the administration of lying.

MoveOn.org's rhetoric implies that James Webb is taking his marching orders from Fox News, that Barbara Mikulski is part of the "right-wing echo chamber" and that Patrick Leahy wants to "intimidate" the Bush administration's critics.


If MoveOn.org's refusal to back down from their attack on Gen. Petraeus puts them at odds with anti-war Democrats -- and forces Democrats to choose between their anti-war base and moderate "swing" voters who disdain extremism -- how does that help anyone but Republicans?


MoveOn.org seems delusional, out of control and bent on self-destruction. Just like Britney.


-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times

Comments (11)

I would hope the FBI is keeping an eye on what seems to me to be a subversive group.

They are. They work for them.

Silence with that much publicity is approval. We seriously need to determine what the real Democrats agenda is. With the financing of Soros, MoveOn just becomes a money laundering unit, so they really don't generate funds, they launder and distribute them. More importantly, he is an organizer. Is there an underlying agenda with the Democrats approval. With the Democrats denigrating our military trending toward internationalization and placement under the jurisdiction of the ICC, the move toward government controlled heatlhcare, the failed immigration bill to offer citizenship to anyone who can cross our border and Soros views on globalization, is there an underlying strategy in which MoveOn is just a tool supporting a tactic? According to Alinsky, the main job of the organizer is to bait an opponent into reacting. �The enemy properly goaded and guided in his reaction will be your major strength.� - Rules for Radicals

THe MoveON organization and their Democrat zombie legislators would be amusing if they were merely a B horror movie from Hollywood. Reality however, is the recent desecration of the Vietnam Memorial and left wing agitators physically and verbally attacking our soldiers on college campuses across the country, along with repeated slander by numerous Democrat Senators and Representatives calling our military forces murderers and barbarians. These actions are worse than the recent MoveOn ad and repeatedly confirm a mindless hatred and contempt for our military men and women both living and dead. The action of these leftists demonstrate a coordinated campaign of hatred which is morphing into a willingness to take criminal action against our own military. It is time to identify organizations like MoveON as "hate groups" and take vigorous legal action against those involved in violence against our soldiers. While we cannot ban their slander or their flag burning under the first Amendment, we can change its' legal status to "fighting words," so that patriotic citizens can respond to these left wing provocations with a "more muscular response." Our elected leaders are rightly protected from violence or threats, so it is up to those legislators and citizens who still love and respect our soldiers to speak out loudly and daily to drown out the voices of those infected with soldier hatred and to vote for legislators who will never betray our soldiers.

It is clear that MoveOn.org and people of their ilk now OWN the Democratic party. They bought it, they paid for it, now they want a return on their investment. Why else would Hillary Clinton, Obama, and "Pretty Girl" Edwards not denounce the ad? They either agreed with it (which would be bad enough), or they were afraid to say anything bad about it (which would actually be worse). The Democratic candidates (except Joe Biden) seem to be terrified of the Liberal Loons from the Left and it was disgraceful of them for piling onto a four-star general who is trying, yes he's actually trying, to win the War in Iraq. When was the last time any Democrat (except Joe Leiberman, who was actually forced out of the party) ever come up with an idea to win the war?

MoveOn.org is as dangerous and annoying to Democrats and Moderate Liberals as Limbaugh and Coulter are to more open-minded and moderate conservatives. They all do more harm than good and cast a shadow of ignorance on the parties they hope to back. The best thing to do here is turn our back on them and hopefully they will go away.

As a democrat myself I am quite angry with my parties refusal to condemn the Ads remembering at one time when the equally shameful and misleading Swift Boat Ads came out John McCain and Bush were very quick to condemn those advertisements.

On another note the Dems need to take a breath and accept that a gradual withdrawal from Iraq based on performance and safety measures taken by the Iraqi Government is best right now rather then spending cuts and total withdrawal. They need to realize they were voted in to retreat from Iraq, but were voted in because the Republicans were muddled in scandal and deceit and Iraq was a quagmire and Bush was the sole reason for it all. That uncertainty in Congress got the Dems voted in, bot the wishes that we would up and leave Iraq.

It was a mistake to invade this country, but right now it would be greater one to give up now.

Does anyone else find it rather disgraceful that we paid those 100 senators $4,000 to discuss an ad in the New York Times?

The Math:
$165,200/Senator/Year
$660.8/Senator/Working Day (50*5=250)
$82.6/Senator/Working Hour
$41.3/Senator/Working Half Hour
$41.30 * 100 Senators= $4,130

$4,000 to talk about an ad in the New York Times? Really?

And that's if they only spent 30 minutes on this matter.

I think people in this country don't grasp how powerful MoveOn.org is. But what makes this worse is that MoveOn has a vested interest in this country actually losing the war. Instead of constantly whining about "When can we leave," when was the last time you heard MoveOn demand that we win? And if MoveOn is so dissatisfied with the President's performance, why didn't it demand that one single Democrat, any Democrat, come up with their own plan to achieve victory? I know, it's because from day one of this war all Liberal Loons from the Left (all of the Members of MoveOn) were part of the Teddy "I killed a woman at Chappaquiddick" Kennedy school of thought, that we would always lose, that the war was always a failure, and that we could never win. They hate this country so much that they would rather see us fail in a war rather than be part of a team that wants to win the war. How disgusting is that?

And, by the way, I thought MoveOn would be thrilled with both the President and Petraeus. We're probably going to reduce the number of our troops in Iraq by over 30,000 next year, more if the situation improves faster than we expect. It could just be me, but that sounds like good news, right? How come Liberals can't even accept any good news? Oh, I know, because only a quick and decisive loss in Iraq would make them happy.

I once had this wonderful thought on how to ensure global peace and stability, to which we take all the pissed off preachers of the world, duck tape them to the nuclear missiles of the world, and launch them slap off the planet into the largest nuclear furnace in four light years.

Move On.org has reserved seating available on the next flight out, for being dangerously stupid, not just pissed off.

I just hope that global warming speeds up and takes out the multimillion homes on both coasts of these wonderful americans who hide between their twelve foot walls, with helocopters, gulfstream jets and ownership of 98% of the american media. malibu back to orange county might rearrange sanity for this elite group of traitors

In Texas, we have a "robin hood" school finance plan. It simply taxes successful districts to subsidize the poorer ones. It does not take into consideration that a teacher in houston or dallas pays twice the cost of living vs the small towns. They have also taken highway funds to add to the "be fair to the children "slush fund" In Texas, many children are not North Americans so it came to me that perhaps some of our smaller states with high per capita incomes should contribute in the same fashion. If those states with a few million middle class citizens can have two senators (as the same with a state of 20-30 million, it only seems fair for them to pass the hat and help us with Robin Hood. Now doesn't that sound like someone running for president? Communal Sharing? hear that, New Hampshire, Deleware, Vermont????
or rather than money, bus them your way...I know buses would take too long but we could use MoveONorg's air fleet, or the Rockefeller air force. I am sure we could get free gas from the majors, (excellent write off)

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