Wow....That was quick
The morning after I posted the essay immediately below on the coming attack on 527 organizations, and the importance to liberals of keeping those organizations alive, my local newspaper carried three letters from right-wingers complaining about – you guessed it – 527 organizations.
So far as I’ve been able to determine, they are the first such letters to appear in that newspaper. That three of them appeared suddenly, on the same day, is hardly likely to be a coincidence.
The campaign by the right to silence liberals’ strongest, most effective and some might say only meaningful voices has begun. As with everything coming from the right these days, expect it to get nasty very quickly. Expect blatant lies and personal attacks on leaders of the organizations and implications, if not direct accusations, that everyone who supports them is a traitor.
Gee, ain't America under Bush & Co. great fun?
James Clay Fuller, principal (and principle) author of this site, is a sort-of retired journalist who has worked in newspapers and magazines for more than 45 years. His day job for 30 years was at the Minneapolis StarTribune, where he was a business and economics reporter, features writer, and sometime music critic, as well as an editor in charge of several specialized sections of the newspaper and a number of investigative projects. He was nominated for Pulitzer Prizes in 1977 and 1992, and was the instigator and senior editor on a project that was nominated for a Pultizer in 1997. He has
written for many national publications.
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