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Liberals have created a powerhouse propaganda machine that helped Moveon.org smear a four-star general, promotes endless environmental scares and brags it can place its left-wing themes in the nation's leading newspapers.
Fenton Communications pitches for trial lawyers, collectively the largest contributors to the Democratic Party, as well as for the hardline environmental group Greenpeace. It also promotes Venezuela's Socialist leader Hugo Chavez; anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan, and gay agenda and abortion advocates.
Its account executives arrive from such left-wing outposts as the office of ultra-liberal Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio), abortion provider Planned Parenthood, the anti-Bush ACLU, Greenpeace and the news media.
Conservatives know liberals have built a powerful network of pressure groups that have entrée - where right-wing groups do not - into the newsrooms of the New York Times, Washington Post, and other left-leaning outlets.
What is not well known is that Fenton Communications, founded by liberal activist David Fenton, binds these leftist groups and media outlets together to produce explosive public relations campaigns that conservatives have trouble matching or rebuffing.
Understanding Fenton's connections to the press, liberal Washington lawmakers, pressure groups and trial lawyers is increasingly important for conservatives if they are to emerge from their decidedly minority status in Washington.
Pro-Obama Coalition
Just recently, some of Fenton's clients and other left-wing groups formed a huge coalition to push President Obama's government-expansion agenda. The Campaign to Rebuild and Renew America Now boasts over 100 member organizations and promises a state-by-state media campaign, meaning it will attack Republicans who vote no.
With offices in Washington, New York, and San Francisco, Fenton operatives work up smear campaigns against such targets as Gen. David Petraeus, Fox News' Sean Hannity or conservatives in general.
For Petraeus, one of the most successful commanders in the war on terror, Fenton fashioned an ad for Moveon.org in the New York Times that accused the general of betraying his country. Moveon.org is funded by billionaire George Soros, who likened President George W. Bush to a Nazi regime and is using his fortune made in the free market to try to institute socialism. Moveon.org also ran an ad likening Bush to Hitler. The Open Society Institute, Soro's foundation for doling out money to Moveon.org and other liberal groups, has been a Fenton...