<x-flowed>My frustration is this entire media debate about the "shadowy groups" including moveon.org in the same category as the Swift Boat Vets. Is there any PAC more transparent than moveon?  Folks online get to vote on the ads, the fundraising is as out there in public as it gets. There's nothing shadowy about it. Moreover, it has a history; it didn't spring up overnight. In the spectrum of transparent to shadowy, moveon.org and swift boat vets are at opposite ends, yet they are conflated by the press, the president's press spokeman and the president.  If ethical and transparent political groups are smeared by being classified with the Swift Boat vets, what is the political advantage of being honest?

It's one thing for the President and the campaign to smear moveon, I expect nothing less from them. But when the media can't be bothered to distinguish between them, it's infuriating.


RuthAlice Anderson

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