Nov
05
2009
Move over Brian Ross, Fitsnews.com has done some impressive investigative journalism in uncovering who the “conservatives” are behind the ad campaign defending the embattled Lindsey Graham’s new support of cap and trade. FITS has the goods including documented emails, check copies and more…
In fact, in yet another display of the power of “new media,” our investigation into these ads appears to have been what prompted Graham’s handlers to ditch the left-leaning organization that was initially responsible for the content of the ads in an effort to find a new “issues launderer” for this message, although the group they finally settled on ultimately traces its roots to organizations run by George Soros, America’s foremost liberal financier.
More on that in a moment …
As reported on FITS last week, the pro-Graham radio and television ads were originally scheduled to be paid for by a group known as the “Truman National Security Project.”
Once our investigation began to expose this organization as nothing but a liberal front group, however, Team Lindsey quickly switched gears. In fact, they began scurrying frantically to switch the ad’s sponsors, even though a few radio ads bearing the name of the group had already started running.
How frantically?
Take a look at this email obtained from the public files at WIS TV 10 (Columbia – NBC), in which Jesse Demastrie – the advertising account executive in charge of placing the ads – writes that “we need to change the client name on these South Carolina buys. The client should be Republicans for Environmental Protection.”
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Thanks for a very good piece of investigative reporting!
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