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All Hat and All Hate

MoveOn.org’s new swagger. Media shoots at Bush and sits on Kerry. Dems load up for another loss.
p> MOVEON.ORG'S LONGHORNS br> The new anti-Bush 527 "Texans for Truth" turns out to be nothing more than an extension of the larger 527 anti-Bush, George Soros - and organized labor-financed, MoveOn.org. /p>

According to a DNC fundraiser, the Texas group approached the party for possible financing about a month ago, but was turned away. "We didn't have the money, and it would have looked terrible to do that anyway," says the fundraiser, who added that the party steered the group to MoveOn.org. So much for that ban on coordination.

MoveOn.org offered to give the Texas group free advertising, as well as assistance in fundraising, but according to a MoveOn.org coordinator with the AFL-CIO, the group actually funneled more than $75,000 of its own money into accounts controlled by the Texas organization.

As well, MoveOn.org media advisers assisted the group in putting together its website and the commercial that is now running in some swing states.

p> SHOWS OF BIAS br> The Boston Globe claimed that when it published its story on Wednesday that essentially plowed old ground about President Bush's National Guard service, it was merely a coincidence that its sister publication, the New York Times
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