August 25, 2004

Kerry, DNC, Illegally Coordinating Efforts With 527s

Here's a long list of proof that John Kerry's campaign and the Democratic National Committee are illegally coordinating campaign activities, including events, advertising, message and fundraising, with so-called "527s" such as MoveOn.org and America Coming Together. Every single piece of evidence is backed up with links to the documentation.

So far, Big Journalism seems interested in looking only at a few minor links between Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and President Bush, but the blogosphere is doing the real work, exposing the much broader connections between Kerry, the DNC and the Lefty 527s. But this is how things work in the media today: the mainstream media either misses the real story, or ignores it out of partisan bias, but the truth routes around the Big Media censors via the Internet and the blogosphere until, eventually, Big Media is forced to cover it.

Polls are showing that, despite Big Journalism's yeoman's effort at ignoring Kerry's Christmas-in-Cambodia lie, and their ongoing efforts to "kill the messenger" rather than investigate the claims made by the SBVT, the message of the SBVT's ads is reaching the public, and having an impact on Kerry's poll numbers.

That is why the Kerry campaign and its allies in Big Journalism are counter-attacking with such ferocity. First they ignore you. Then they attack you. Then you win.

Memo to all Republicans likely to be interviewed by the media: If they ask you about supposed connections between Bush and the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, your answer should be something like this:

"Unlike John Kerry, whose campaign has coordinated with MoveOn.org and other 527s on fundraising, events, message, and advertising, and has a revolving door of shared personnel between the campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the 527s, President Bush does not want his campaign workers to coordinate illegally with the 527 organizations. When the Bush campaign found out that some of its volunteers had also worked with the Swift Boat Veterans organization, possibly in violation of the law, they were immediately separated from the campaign. Why hasn't John Kerry done the same?"