Meet another donut eater from the Left. This guy is Matthew Yglesias, a political hack, a 4 year graduate from the much over-rated Harvard University, a fellow whose blog is funded and run by The Center for American Progress Action Fund.
Our commentary:
Before diving off into our posted comments, understand that Think Progress is not about “progress” but about the political effort we know as “progressivism.” In other words, it would be better named "ThinkProgressively."
In it’s latest assault on the Partiot side of the aisle, it made this charge:
A ThinkProgress investigation has found that the Chamber funds its political attack campaign out of its general account, which solicits foreign funding. And while the Chamber will likely assert it has internal controls, foreign money is fungible, permitting the Chamber to run its unprecedented attack campaign. According to legal experts consulted by ThinkProgress, the Chamber is likely skirting longstanding campaign finance law that bans the involvement of foreign corporations in American elections.
A couple of thoughts in response:
First, apparently ThinkProgress made one or two phone calls to Democrat operatives who gave the blog the new talking points for the next two weeks. They, the “legal expearts,” remain unnamed in the article, in spite of the supposed fact that they are legal entities other than members of the trial-lawyer cobal, a collective that has a firm grip on the Socialist democrat Party.
Secondly, in the “investigation,” the claim is made that the Chamber of Commerce collects the startling total of $100,000 dollars from folks in Behrain. In the meantime, Obama collected $178 million (that’s almost $178 million more than a $100,000), from 4.6 million donors, none of whom have ever been identified.
A third consideration in the ThinkProgress article is the “shocking” news that the Chamber collects membership dues from folks who live in India, folks who are on the same page as the Chamber of Commerce, folks who want the same things for their country as the Chamber wants for its country -- per the Chamber’s IRS filling as a 501 ( c ) (6) commerce entity. A progressive environmental group known as “1 SKY” has some 350 organizations under its umbrella from all parts of the world, doing exactly what the Chamber is doing, and doing it as a 501 -c-6, as well.
In a forth complaint, ThinkProgress found the books closed when it came to accessing funding information between foreign Chambers (Russian, Egypt, the Middle East) and the American Chamber of Commerce. The article implies “subversive activity” without making that specific charge. It doesn’t mention that the Obama 2008 campaign collected nearly $600 million from 501-c-3 and 501-c-6 organizations whose books are as guarded as anything within the Chamber of Commerce’s purview.
Fifthly, there is the complaint that the Chamber helped to defeat the most recent effort at campaign finance reform, a Democrat sponsored bill “ . . . . the Chamber successfully lobbied to kill, , , , , [as a result] . . .. [the] Chamber does not have to reveal any of the funding for its ad campaigns. This progressive article fails to mention that the Chamber is fully protected in its refusal to reveal its sources per the Jan 25th Supreme Court decision making corporate speech protected speech. (see Citizens United). In addition to this omission, ThinkProgress excluded the fact that the finance reform the Dems want excludes unions from the having to reveal their participation in the financing of campaign ads.
And so, you have the five major paragraphs of “thought” behind the progressive article’s implicit conclusion that something is seriously wrong with the Chamber's use of funding,
Maybe ThinkProgress will, next, delve into the 260 front organizations that continue to serve the interests of ACORN. It is a 501 ( c ) (3) and has received millions in 2009 from the Obama/Federal government.
What ads have been funded by the AFL-CIO, or SEIU, or the TEAMSTERS, or the STEEL WORKERS OF AMERCIA union.
Where does MoveOn.org get its millions and what political ads have been funded by this subversive group? How does Media Matters, a 501-c-3 get away with funding campaigns against any number of right wing politicians ??
Into which 501-c-3 entities does George Soros funnel his millions in donations?
We does Greenpeace get its millions? More to the point, where does Greenpeace spends its millions?
Take a look at this reference and ask the same questions about these 120 Leftist Democrat front groups: http://www.commondreams.org/progressive-community . . . .In fact, this list actually includes hundreds, if not thousands, of anti-American groups. In the listing of the first 15 groups, there are more than 660 chapters, fronts, .
What about the Tides Foundation ? Tides is a 501-c-3 group.Its very "financial" are set up in such a manner as to discourage investigation and negate the notion of transparency. It functions in near silence when it comes to campaign finance and will not be included in the Democrats campaign finance “reform” bill anymore than will be the unions, or ACORN, or the NEA.
Point of post: to bring to light the baselessness of ThinkProgress' charge against the Chamber of Commerce. In the article, TP asserts that "foreign money is fungible." We would argue that TP's version of truth is, likewise, fungible.
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