Tim DICKINSON faced down the Mika MOUSE crew of her, Mort ZUCKERMAN, Maria Bart-la-DUMB-oh this morning, who were intent to pooh-pooh his findings and to claim that these a-holes were just doing what The Left also does: Bart-la-DUMB-oh went so far as to say this was NO DIFFERENT from what MoveOn does. Mika MOUSE was her usual vacuous cipher self, a three-yr old parroting tea party talk ("Thank you SO much!1").
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/30219673/the_lie_machineThe Lie Machine
GOP operatives are running a secret campaign to kill health care reform, and it's based on Karl Rove's old playbook
(by) TIM DICKINSON
* Rick Scott, the head of Conservatives for Patients' Rights
* Rove playbook: The effort to mobilize the angriest fringe of the Republican base was guided by a conservative dream team that included the same GOP henchmen who Swift-boated John Kerry in 2004, smeared John McCain in 2000, wrote the script for Republican obstructionism on global warming, and harpooned the health care reform effort led by Hillary Clinton in 1993.
* top Republicans — including House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, Minority Leader John Boehner and the chairman of the GOP's Senate steering committee, Jim DeMint
* In a May memo, Luntz outlined a battle plan for conservatives to block what he branded the "Washington takeover" of health care — the most terrifying buzz words
* Betsy McCaughey radio show of former GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson
* Philip Morris, the world's largest tobacco company, as part of a secret campaign to scuttle Clinton's health care reform
* Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks — actually grew out of the 2003 breakup of an outfit called Citizens for a Sound Economy
* Americans for Prosperity, which has taken the lead in the current fight against reform, is a front group for oil billionaires David and Charles Koch, co-owners of the world's largest private oil and gas conglomerate.
* Matt Schlapp, one of the original "Brooks Brothers rioters" — the GOP activists who disrupted the Bush-Gore recount in Miami-Dade County — now serves as director of federal affairs for Koch Industries
* Tim Phillips, one of the Republican Party's most notorious dirty tricksters. Phillips served as a strategic consultant to George W. Bush in 2000 and reputedly took part in the smear campaign in South Carolina that portrayed John McCain's adopted daughter as his mulatto love child.
* Under Phillips, AFP became a driving force behind the Tea Party protests against Obama's economic stimulus plan, and the group organized the Austin mob that attacked Rep. Doggett.
* The second group behind the town-hall mobs is FreedomWorks, headed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey.
* After FreedomWorks orchestrated the original Tea Party protests last April, it ostensibly handed over the reins of the movement to a third group, called the Tea Party Patriots.
* Titled "Rocking the Town Halls — Best Practices," the guide was written by a Connecticut tea partier named Bob MacGuffie, who outlined how fewer than three dozen activists could effectively silence a U.S. congressman.
* Jenny Beth Martin, the national coordinator of Tea Party Patriots.
* Conservatives for Patients' Rights, has direct connections to the health care industry. Its founder, Rick Scott, is the former CEO of Columbia/HCA, the world's largest hospital conglomerate.
* CRC Public Relations, the firm that orchestrated the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth campaign against John Kerry in 2004. CRC enjoys high-ranking connections to the right-wing establishment, with a client list including the RNC, the National Republican Senatorial and Congressional Committees, the Federalist Society, the Parents Television Council and the Christian Coalition.
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