Blogged by Brad from “Thor” Country (St. Louis, Missouri)…
“Emptywheel” at Next Hurray has the details on the latest Republican front group to go missing on the Internets in the time-honored cowardly tradition of George W. Bush’s cut and run vote-suppression capo Thor Hearne of the “non-partisan” propaganda outlet, “American Center for Voting Rights” (ACVR).
At least the latest GOP scam outfit to see their website set to “This site is temporarily unavailable,” Italia Federici’s “Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy,” (CREA) had the decency to include the name of their party in the group’s name. As well, unlike Thor and his buddies, the group — whose major funder was the now-jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff — waited until its President, Federici, had pled guilty to obstruction and tax charges before giving up their website’s ghost.
Thor, on the other hand, got out as soon as the U.S. Attorney Purge scandal began to shine a spotlight on the “Democratic voter fraud” scam he had been perpetrating for years on a gullible nation and a pliant corporate mainstream media. If we ever find out who funded Thor’s tax-exempt ACVR scam to the tune of more than $1 million, we’ll not be surprised to see Abramoff’s finger prints all over it. Pointing even more directly towards the White House, we’ve got reason to believe that James A. Baker and friends were also likely on the inside of the hoax set up by the man who was Karl Rove’s top election “legal” eagle and, by no coincidence, Bush/Cheney ’04 Inc.’s general counsel.
With groups like ACVR and CREA, the GOP helped raise the art of “astroturfing” to new, unforgivable heights of cynicism and criminal fraud. The CMSM let ’em do it for years, as most of us looked the other way in disbelief that the folks who ran this country — by hook and mostly crook — would ever be so blatantly disingenuous. They were. We fell for it. And it’ll likely take years to undo the damage.
“Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy”
“American Center for Voting Rights”
“Clean Air Act”
Brad, did you ever stop to think, that maybe Republicans have a sense of humor, and they’re being “SARCASTIC” with these names??? I ask of thee???
I mean, COME ON! REPUBLICANS and ENVIRONMENT in the same sentence? REPUBLICANS and VOTING RIGHTS?
They’re being “SARCASTIC”…don’t you get it? They have a really good sense of humor…
That’s like, “Republicans are conservatives”, or “Republicans for social security”, or “Republicans for justice”. It’s A JOKE!
I saw it on the “half hour news hour”, or whatever that is. The Republican Party is just a “funny bunch of sarcastic white guys”.
Hey Brad – Please make sure your Thor hunting license is up to date, in case you bag your limit. And don’t worry about his varmint gun – true neos only shoot their friends in the face. Please keep up the fine investigative, well, maybe downright snoopy, reporting. Regards, from far, far away
Czaragorn –
🙂
Hey, at least I showed up. I’m here in St. Louis. Would Thor like to make his case in a public event along with me? If so, I’ll look forward to having it out with him and letting the public decide. He’s got the money for the best research in the world, so he shouldn’t have any trouble taking on one of those “conspiracy theory” bloggers, right?
Let’s see if he’s got the guts to show up. Our money (what little we don’t have) is on him staying under that rock of his for the duration…
You know Brad, cheney comes out here to richard mellon scaife country a few times a year. Its a real pain in the ass, stopping us peasant to let the royality go by. Any way, thats my suggestion on where to look. It makes sense with his history of funding Clinton investigations, and just get a load of this bio.
The bushie ambassador to Venezuela is packing it in too. He has some words that thor loser should ponder:
(New York Times, emphasis added). So thor loser, be patient and tell some more funny stories about the danger of voter fraud. You crack us up.