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Fri Aug 3, 2012, 01:01 PM Aug 2012

New SuperPAC, FightBigotry.com, Smears President Obama For ‘Racism Against White Folks’

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/03/636391/fightbigotrycom-super-pac-smears-obama/

By Josh Israel on Aug 3, 2012 at 12:30 pm

FightBigotry.com, a new Super PAC registered with the Federal Election Commission this week, makes no bones about its aim. It intends to run an attack ad that it says will hit President Barack Obama for “his disturbing, yet crystal-clear pattern of tacitly defending black racism against white folks before and since being elected president.”

FightBigotry.com’s founder and treasurer is Stephen Marks, a well-known Republican opposition researcher whose 2008 book Confessions of a Political Hitman detailed his work in what he called “the dark side of politics.” In 2000, he launched an attack ad under the misleading name “Americans Against Hate,” attempting to tie Al Gore to controversial comments by Rev. Al Sharpton. Another Marks spot in 2004 attempted to link John Kerry to convicted murderer Willie Horton. He was forced to retract a claim in the book about then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), acknowledging that “the information was not accurate.”

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New SuperPAC, FightBigotry.com, Smears President Obama For ‘Racism Against White Folks’ (Original Post) swag Aug 2012 OP
They just pop up an down like mushrooms those SuperPACS. bemildred Aug 2012 #1

bemildred

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1. They just pop up an down like mushrooms those SuperPACS.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 01:13 PM
Aug 2012

Just remember they are "persons" with "free speech" rights, Scalia says so.

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