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	<title>Comments on: You don&#8217;t say: Chief Obama advisor Axelrod known as the &#8220;master of Astroturfing&#8221;</title>
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		<title>By: Dem Rep: You Know Who Was A Community Organizer? Jesus &#124; The American Pundit</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/08/you-dont-say-chief-obama-advisor-axelrod-known-as-the-master-of-astroturfing/comment-page-2/#comment-1406032</link>
		<dc:creator>Dem Rep: You Know Who Was A Community Organizer? Jesus &#124; The American Pundit</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Gettysburg Address, yet that exact quote was picked in a record time throughout the blogosphere. Now we learn that Obama chief strategist David Axelrod&#8217;s other business deals with astroturfing &#8212; [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Gettysburg Address, yet that exact quote was picked in a record time throughout the blogosphere. Now we learn that Obama chief strategist David Axelrod&#8217;s other business deals with astroturfing &#8212; [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Scenes from the House floor: Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor, says Dem</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hot Air &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Scenes from the House floor: Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor, says Dem</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] It&#8217;s Steve Cohen, longtime practitioner &#8212; and victim &#8212; of the sort of guileless liberal nuance conservatives have come to know and love. Anyone recognize the pedigree of this bon mot? That&#8217;s right, it comes from Kos, who fortuitously plucked it from the obscurity of a teeming inbox and devoted a whole post to it the day after Palin&#8217;s speech, with credit to an unnamed reader for the brilliance of his insight. Six days later, after a detour through the Internet (a lefty friend e-mailed yesterday to say her circle of liberal colleagues was quite taken with it), it&#8217;s being parroted by Democratic backbenchers for safekeeping in the Congressional Record. Is Cohen just another dKos fanboy like the &#8220;journalists&#8221; who harvested the Trig smear from the site, do you suppose? Or is this a case of David Axelrod doing what David Axelrod does best? [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] It&#8217;s Steve Cohen, longtime practitioner &#8212; and victim &#8212; of the sort of guileless liberal nuance conservatives have come to know and love. Anyone recognize the pedigree of this bon mot? That&#8217;s right, it comes from Kos, who fortuitously plucked it from the obscurity of a teeming inbox and devoted a whole post to it the day after Palin&#8217;s speech, with credit to an unnamed reader for the brilliance of his insight. Six days later, after a detour through the Internet (a lefty friend e-mailed yesterday to say her circle of liberal colleagues was quite taken with it), it&#8217;s being parroted by Democratic backbenchers for safekeeping in the Congressional Record. Is Cohen just another dKos fanboy like the &#8220;journalists&#8221; who harvested the Trig smear from the site, do you suppose? Or is this a case of David Axelrod doing what David Axelrod does best? [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Some Palin Smears Smashed &#171; Gunservatively!</title>
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		<dc:creator>Some Palin Smears Smashed &#171; Gunservatively!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] 9, 2008 by gunservatively    Patterico and Allahpundit review some of FactCheck.org&#8217;s debunking of Sarah Palin smears by the [...]</description>
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		<title>By: grtflmark</title>
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		<dc:creator>grtflmark</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama said he would fire anyone caught spreading calumn like this  ---- so why  sin&#039;t this guy fired?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama said he would fire anyone caught spreading calumn like this  &#8212;- so why  sin&#8217;t this guy fired?</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Treacher</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Treacher</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>test</description>
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		<title>By: Patterico&#8217;s Pontifications &#187; FactCheck.org Corrects a Few Smears About Palin</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/08/you-dont-say-chief-obama-advisor-axelrod-known-as-the-master-of-astroturfing/comment-page-2/#comment-1399399</link>
		<dc:creator>Patterico&#8217;s Pontifications &#187; FactCheck.org Corrects a Few Smears About Palin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Allahpundit comes a link to a Factcheck.org piece debunking a select handful of the smears that lefties have [...]</description>
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		<title>By: spmat</title>
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		<dc:creator>spmat</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damnit AP, stop making me google vocabulary. &quot;Seriatim&quot; my butt. Elitist. 

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damnit AP, stop making me google vocabulary. &#8220;Seriatim&#8221; my butt. Elitist. </p>
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		<title>By: 186k</title>
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		<dc:creator>186k</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In unrelated business a six year old Chicago Tribune story shows up as new news and &lt;a href=&quot;http://186-kps.com/blog/2008/09/08/speaking-of-the-chicago-tribune-and-the-power-of-media-stories/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;almost sinks United Airlines&lt;/a&gt;. Wow the power of one &quot;misplaced&quot; news story! 
Who could have imagined.

Funny...David Axelrod worked for Chicago Tribune.

Ooops.. gota go my tinfoil hat is smoking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In unrelated business a six year old Chicago Tribune story shows up as new news and <a href="http://186-kps.com/blog/2008/09/08/speaking-of-the-chicago-tribune-and-the-power-of-media-stories/" rel="nofollow">almost sinks United Airlines</a>. Wow the power of one &#8220;misplaced&#8221; news story!<br />
Who could have imagined.</p>
<p>Funny&#8230;David Axelrod worked for Chicago Tribune.</p>
<p>Ooops.. gota go my tinfoil hat is smoking.</p>
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		<title>By: crosspatch</title>
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		<dc:creator>crosspatch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>onlineanalyst:  And it is kind of insidious, though legal how they do it.  They steer people to make donations to the Tides Foundation.  With Tides, you can &quot;earmark&quot; your contribution to go to the other organizations they donate to, sort of like a Liberal version of the United Way.  And then they pool everyone&#039;s donations and make lump sum donations to the various groups.  So if you look at any of those groups&#039; books, Tides shows up as the major donor but nobody can trace what organizations you earmarked your donations for or how much they were.  It is basically &quot;donation laundering&quot; to prevent people from finding out who is supporting what.  

So I could make a 100K donation to Tides earmarked for Code Pink and at the end of the quarter or whatever, they take all the Code Pink donations and cut one check.  So one would see that Code Pink got, say $300,000 and Tides shows I donated $100,000 but you can&#039;t find out WHO donated to Code Pink and how much because it is laundered through Tides.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>onlineanalyst:  And it is kind of insidious, though legal how they do it.  They steer people to make donations to the Tides Foundation.  With Tides, you can &#8220;earmark&#8221; your contribution to go to the other organizations they donate to, sort of like a Liberal version of the United Way.  And then they pool everyone&#8217;s donations and make lump sum donations to the various groups.  So if you look at any of those groups&#8217; books, Tides shows up as the major donor but nobody can trace what organizations you earmarked your donations for or how much they were.  It is basically &#8220;donation laundering&#8221; to prevent people from finding out who is supporting what.  </p>
<p>So I could make a 100K donation to Tides earmarked for Code Pink and at the end of the quarter or whatever, they take all the Code Pink donations and cut one check.  So one would see that Code Pink got, say $300,000 and Tides shows I donated $100,000 but you can&#8217;t find out WHO donated to Code Pink and how much because it is laundered through Tides.</p>
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		<title>By: CCRWM</title>
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		<dc:creator>CCRWM</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it just me or does Axelrod resemble Hitler?</description>
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		<title>By: Meet David Axelrod: Head of ASK Public Strategies, Master of Astroturfing, Master of Corrupt Chicago Political Machine, and the key inventor of the empty suit Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/08/you-dont-say-chief-obama-advisor-axelrod-known-as-the-master-of-astroturfing/comment-page-1/#comment-1399249</link>
		<dc:creator>Meet David Axelrod: Head of ASK Public Strategies, Master of Astroturfing, Master of Corrupt Chicago Political Machine, and the key inventor of the empty suit Barack Obama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Via: HotAir.com [...]</description>
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		<title>By: DaveC</title>
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		<dc:creator>DaveC</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is it me or does Axelrod looks like &#039;Higgens&#039; from Magnum, PI..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is it me or does Axelrod looks like &#8216;Higgens&#8217; from Magnum, PI..</p>
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		<title>By: onlineanalyst</title>
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		<dc:creator>onlineanalyst</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>crosspatch:  Do you know how many of those organizations used to flood my mailbox at work and at home when I was teaching?  I would bet that my address was sold to them via the NEA simply on the basis of how my name appeared on the solicitation envelopes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>crosspatch:  Do you know how many of those organizations used to flood my mailbox at work and at home when I was teaching?  I would bet that my address was sold to them via the NEA simply on the basis of how my name appeared on the solicitation envelopes.</p>
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		<title>By: Chakra Hammer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chakra Hammer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>McCain is going into this contest with the press against him, with less money and he&#039;s ahead in the polls.. What does that say?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>McCain is going into this contest with the press against him, with less money and he&#8217;s ahead in the polls.. What does that say?</p>
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		<title>By: Chakra Hammer</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chakra Hammer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Terrie on September 8, 2008 at 9:46 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Obama&#039;s just trying to scare people into sending him money, he&#039;s a pathetic fool, why didn&#039;t he just keep his word and take public financing?

If he&#039;s such a good and gifted politician with such a wide appeal why does he need such a huge money advantage? AND the favorable media coverage? Sheesh, Obama such a weak sister on every level.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Terrie on September 8, 2008 at 9:46 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama&#8217;s just trying to scare people into sending him money, he&#8217;s a pathetic fool, why didn&#8217;t he just keep his word and take public financing?</p>
<p>If he&#8217;s such a good and gifted politician with such a wide appeal why does he need such a huge money advantage? AND the favorable media coverage? Sheesh, Obama such a weak sister on every level.</p>
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		<title>By: carbon_footprint</title>
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		<dc:creator>carbon_footprint</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/towash/goalcopy.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Axelrod &lt;/a&gt;just oozes corruption.  Just a matter of time until he gets caught.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://i490.photobucket.com/albums/rr262/towash/goalcopy.jpg" rel="nofollow">Axelrod </a>just oozes corruption.  Just a matter of time until he gets caught.</p>
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		<title>By: obladioblada</title>
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		<dc:creator>obladioblada</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Via Treacher via Tim Blair:

Site uncovers identity of punk who started Palin smears:
http://kerfuffle.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/we-found-arcxix/</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Via Treacher via Tim Blair:</p>
<p>Site uncovers identity of punk who started Palin smears:<br />
<a href="http://kerfuffle.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/we-found-arcxix/" rel="nofollow">http://kerfuffle.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/we-found-arcxix/</a></p>
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		<title>By: AZCoyote</title>
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		<dc:creator>AZCoyote</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:38:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Why DOESN’T Oblahblah tout his experience on this board?

91Veteran on September 8, 2008 at 10:27 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;



It would expose Obama&#039;s lies about Ayers being &quot;just a guy who lives in my neighborhood,&quot; and it would expose Obama as an incompetent, race-obsessed Liberal who squandered $160 Million paying for useless crap like Juneteenth celebrations instead of necessary and desperately-needed improvements to Chicago&#039;s public school system.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Why DOESN’T Oblahblah tout his experience on this board?</p>
<p>91Veteran on September 8, 2008 at 10:27 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>It would expose Obama&#8217;s lies about Ayers being &#8220;just a guy who lives in my neighborhood,&#8221; and it would expose Obama as an incompetent, race-obsessed Liberal who squandered $160 Million paying for useless crap like Juneteenth celebrations instead of necessary and desperately-needed improvements to Chicago&#8217;s public school system.</p>
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		<title>By: Axelrod Obama Dailykos and The Palin Smears &#124; 186 k per second</title>
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		<dc:creator>Axelrod Obama Dailykos and The Palin Smears &#124; 186 k per second</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Hot Air notes the speed, viciousness and pattern of the smears on Governor Sarah Palin and her family indicate that David Axelrod and the DailyKos / Netroots have been quite busy Astroturfing  Astroturfing in American English is a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous &#8220;grassroots&#8221; behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf. [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Hot Air notes the speed, viciousness and pattern of the smears on Governor Sarah Palin and her family indicate that David Axelrod and the DailyKos / Netroots have been quite busy Astroturfing  Astroturfing in American English is a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous &#8220;grassroots&#8221; behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf. [...]</p>
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		<title>By: crosspatch</title>
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		<dc:creator>crosspatch</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think I smell Fenton Communications in all of this:

&lt;blockquote&gt;
And when we say that Fenton works to promote the George Soros vision for the globe [this ain&#039;t pretty we remind], the Chavez-Correa-Cuban bloc and the Democratic Party of the USA, we say this because it is. Here is a partial list of some of Fenton&#039;s work for Soros, the DNC, and Chavez-Correa corridor:

    &quot;Other clients of Fenton Communications have included the AFL-CIO, America Coming Together, Amnesty International, Air America Radio, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (renamed the American Association for Justice in 2006), the NAACP, the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club, Global Exchange, the Open Society Institute, and Pew Charitable Trusts, the Institute for Policy Studies, Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen, People for the American Way, Service Employees International Union, Working Assets, the TransAfrica, the magazine In These Times, the National Urban League, the World Wildlife Fund, the American Friends Service Committee, Rock the Vote, School of the Americas Watch, the Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, the Ford Foundation, the Heinz Family Foundation , the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Turner Foundation, Ben and Jerry&#039;s Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the Columbia Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Iraq Policy Information Project, among many others.&quot; 

Barack Hussein Obama&#039;s campaign manager Axelrod calls this coordinating the &quot;astroturf&quot; - that is sending out organized minions, also called above listed NGOs, to give organized attention when their paying clients, like Correa and Chavez, need a little PR boost. No one does it better than Fenton and Axerod and they are spending lots of Correa and Chavez- and Soros&#039;s - money to make sure that we all pay attention to their propaganda, also called lying a lot. While some at the U.S. Department of State may call this politically expedient, somehow we can only hold a tiny hope that Secretary Rice and her Latin team stop calling the legitimization of the illegitimate in the Andes as &quot;politically expedient.&quot; We call this treason if taken down the road it is set on.

&lt;/blockquote&gt;

The above &lt;a href=&quot;http://ecrisis.net/2008/04/03/marxist-correachavez-war-of-attrition-to-legitimize-narcostates-adds-millions-to-payrolls.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;from here&lt;/a&gt; from back on April 3, 2008.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think I smell Fenton Communications in all of this:</p>
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And when we say that Fenton works to promote the George Soros vision for the globe [this ain't pretty we remind], the Chavez-Correa-Cuban bloc and the Democratic Party of the USA, we say this because it is. Here is a partial list of some of Fenton&#8217;s work for Soros, the DNC, and Chavez-Correa corridor:</p>
<p>    &#8220;Other clients of Fenton Communications have included the AFL-CIO, America Coming Together, Amnesty International, Air America Radio, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (renamed the American Association for Justice in 2006), the NAACP, the Rainforest Action Network, the Sierra Club, Global Exchange, the Open Society Institute, and Pew Charitable Trusts, the Institute for Policy Studies, Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen, People for the American Way, Service Employees International Union, Working Assets, the TransAfrica, the magazine In These Times, the National Urban League, the World Wildlife Fund, the American Friends Service Committee, Rock the Vote, School of the Americas Watch, the Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, the Ford Foundation, the Heinz Family Foundation , the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Turner Foundation, Ben and Jerry&#8217;s Foundation, the Tides Foundation, the Energy Foundation, the Columbia Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Joyce Foundation and the Iraq Policy Information Project, among many others.&#8221; </p>
<p>Barack Hussein Obama&#8217;s campaign manager Axelrod calls this coordinating the &#8220;astroturf&#8221; &#8211; that is sending out organized minions, also called above listed NGOs, to give organized attention when their paying clients, like Correa and Chavez, need a little PR boost. No one does it better than Fenton and Axerod and they are spending lots of Correa and Chavez- and Soros&#8217;s &#8211; money to make sure that we all pay attention to their propaganda, also called lying a lot. While some at the U.S. Department of State may call this politically expedient, somehow we can only hold a tiny hope that Secretary Rice and her Latin team stop calling the legitimization of the illegitimate in the Andes as &#8220;politically expedient.&#8221; We call this treason if taken down the road it is set on.</p>
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<p>The above <a href="http://ecrisis.net/2008/04/03/marxist-correachavez-war-of-attrition-to-legitimize-narcostates-adds-millions-to-payrolls.aspx" rel="nofollow">from here</a> from back on April 3, 2008.</p>
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		<title>By: Connie</title>
		<link>http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/08/you-dont-say-chief-obama-advisor-axelrod-known-as-the-master-of-astroturfing/comment-page-1/#comment-1399105</link>
		<dc:creator>Connie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m remembering a slight problem with ACLU advertising on the Dkos site - and the fact that John Kerry&#039;s Dkos UID is #52.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m remembering a slight problem with ACLU advertising on the Dkos site &#8211; and the fact that John Kerry&#8217;s Dkos UID is #52.</p>
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		<title>By: SouthernGent</title>
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		<dc:creator>SouthernGent</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:30:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Axelrod looks like an butthole.  He needs to realize America is not Chicago.  When one lives in a bubble, one forgets that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Axelrod looks like an butthole.  He needs to realize America is not Chicago.  When one lives in a bubble, one forgets that.</p>
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		<title>By: AZCoyote</title>
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		<dc:creator>AZCoyote</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Astroturfing = using devious methods to manipulate public opinion to your client&#039;s advantage, and charging big bucks to do it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Astroturfing = using devious methods to manipulate public opinion to your client&#8217;s advantage, and charging big bucks to do it.</p>
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		<title>By: 91Veteran</title>
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		<dc:creator>91Veteran</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It seems to me that Barry is using Ax to contain fires…..if Ax is engaged in fire prevention something tells me there is movement soon to come on the Annenburg front.

sven10077 on September 8, 2008 at 10:16 PM&lt;/blockquote&gt;

I have to agree. A couple of things from the article you linked:

&lt;blockquote&gt;Ayers plays a critical role in setting it up and in selecting Barack Obama to take over as the Chairman of the Board of the CAC:&lt;/blockquote&gt;

NOBODY does work like this, and let&#039;s some nobody take over to run it. It&#039;s like having your own baby, and letting the local crackhead babysit.

This was Ayers baby, and I suspect Obama was his hand-picked babysitter.

&lt;blockquote&gt;    Obama took over the reins of the Board in early 1995 and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the Board until the CAC phased itself out of existence and handed off its remaining assets to a permanent new institution, the Chicago Public Education Fund, in 2001. The Board began to meet in March of 1995 and formally incorporated the CAC as a non-profit entity in April 1995.

Do you ever ask yourself why Barack has not touted his “EXPERIENCE” as the Chairman of the Board of the CAC? You would think that a man who headed a $100 million plus foundation would put that at the top of his resume if he is running for President. Well, he doesn’t why? It appears that his ties to Ayers and how the funds were actually spent are facts the Obama campaign wants to keep buried. But the shovels are out and the facts will emerge. I guess the next question for Barack will be if he thinks it is okay for his Communication’s Director to talk regularly with an unrepentant terrorist? I bet most Americans would say no.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

All of this is interesting as well. It didn&#039;t really hit me until I read it.

Why DOESN&#039;T Oblahblah tout his experience on this board?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It seems to me that Barry is using Ax to contain fires…..if Ax is engaged in fire prevention something tells me there is movement soon to come on the Annenburg front.</p>
<p>sven10077 on September 8, 2008 at 10:16 PM</p></blockquote>
<p>I have to agree. A couple of things from the article you linked:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ayers plays a critical role in setting it up and in selecting Barack Obama to take over as the Chairman of the Board of the CAC:</p></blockquote>
<p>NOBODY does work like this, and let&#8217;s some nobody take over to run it. It&#8217;s like having your own baby, and letting the local crackhead babysit.</p>
<p>This was Ayers baby, and I suspect Obama was his hand-picked babysitter.</p>
<blockquote><p>    Obama took over the reins of the Board in early 1995 and stepped down from the chairmanship in late 1999, though he remained on the Board until the CAC phased itself out of existence and handed off its remaining assets to a permanent new institution, the Chicago Public Education Fund, in 2001. The Board began to meet in March of 1995 and formally incorporated the CAC as a non-profit entity in April 1995.</p>
<p>Do you ever ask yourself why Barack has not touted his “EXPERIENCE” as the Chairman of the Board of the CAC? You would think that a man who headed a $100 million plus foundation would put that at the top of his resume if he is running for President. Well, he doesn’t why? It appears that his ties to Ayers and how the funds were actually spent are facts the Obama campaign wants to keep buried. But the shovels are out and the facts will emerge. I guess the next question for Barack will be if he thinks it is okay for his Communication’s Director to talk regularly with an unrepentant terrorist? I bet most Americans would say no.</p></blockquote>
<p>All of this is interesting as well. It didn&#8217;t really hit me until I read it.</p>
<p>Why DOESN&#8217;T Oblahblah tout his experience on this board?</p>
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		<title>By: Connie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Connie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Astroturfing = Community Organizing.</description>
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