(OMFG! The DLC/PNAC Connection!)No More Moore: DLC Joins the Witch Hunt

[JohnOneillsMemory]

http://nypress.com/17/48/news&columns/taibbi.cfm

"We've got to repudiate, you know, the most strident and insulting anti-American voices out there sometimes on our party's left... We can't have our party identified by Michael Moore and Hollywood as our cultural values."
— Al From, CEO, Democratic Leadership Council

"You know, let's let Hollywood and the Cannes Film Festival fawn all over Michael Moore. We ought to make it pretty clear that he sure doesn't speak for us when it comes to standing up for our country."
— Will Marshall, President of the Progressive Policy Institute, the think-tank of the DLC

>snip<

In addition to his duties as the president of the PPI, Marshall kept himself busy in the last few years. Among other things, he served on the board of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, an organization co-chaired by Joe Lieberman and John McCain whose aim was to build bipartisan support for the invasion of Iraq.

Marshall also signed, at the outset of the war, a letter issued by the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) expressing support for the invasion. Marshall signed a similar letter sent to President Bush put out by the conservative Social Democrats/USA group on Feb. 25, 2003, just before the invasion. The SD/USA letter urged Bush to commit to "maintaining substantial U.S. military forces in Iraq for as long as may be required to ensure a stable, representative regime is in place and functioning."

One of just a handful of Marshall's co-signatories on that letter was Bruce Jackson, who also happens to be the head of the PNAC (whose letter Marshall also signed) and the founder of the aforementioned Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. Jackson is not only a neo-con of high rank and one of the chief pom-pom wavers for the war effort. He was also a vice president in the weapons division of Lockheed-Martin between 1993 and 2002—meaning that he was one of the implied targets of Bowling for Columbine, which came out in Jackson's last year with the company.

Clearly, Marshall was thinking about the good of the Democratic Party, and not the integrity of his grimy little network of missile-humping cronies, when he and Al From made the curious—and curiously conspicuous—decision to denounce Moore, Hollywood and France at the DLC meeting in early November.

[killbotfactory]

1. Can I hit Al From in the face with a lead pipe?

Please.... ?

[wryter2000]

2. Only if you let me watch...eom

eom

[NJCher]

3. LOL

I have an idea MM would recommend a coconut custard pie.


Cher

[hopein08]

4. Just jealous

Al From and Will Marshall, who I don't recognize at all, are probably just jealous that Michael Moore has the balls to say what needs to be said.

He doesn't have anything to lose, like they do.

He doesn't hold aspirations of politics, like they must.

In the end, it's probably better for Michael Moore that he not be associated with the DLC/DNC/whatever else. I don't think he ever asked to be a spokesman for the Democrats, did he? I think he sees himself as a spokesman for the people. He supported Nader in 2000, right? His message gets across. I see him as telling a story from which people can take what they want.

[Ardee]

6. Jealous? Hell no

These people are neocons of the highest (lowest) order and are actively engaged in the destruction of the Democratic Party......

[Malva Zebrina]

5. Eating their own

and causing chaos within their own party, instead of attacking the likes of Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh and others.

What is wrong with these people? They are ashamed of the truth.

[FullCountNotRecount]

7. Something Arnold does in movies should happen to Al From

Muthahfukka.

[oly]

8. WOW, let's just play into repug hands. They don't want me in the

Democratic party. Amazing.