Cheney's Latest Trick

Josh Marshall has the goods on this new phony Republican "grassroots" organization run by Bush/Cheney aides and funded by GOP millionaires. Beware "Freedom Watch":

First, both articles note that Freedom's Watch is made up of Bush-Cheney big-money givers and former staffers at the White House. But the AP makes explicit what the list of personnel makes clear: These aren't people close to "Bush" or "the White House". It's more specific than that: The activists and givers are people close to Dick Cheney.

Second, as the NYT explains, coming off the Petraeus press-rollout, Freedom's Watch's next press campaign is for confrontation (i.e., war) with Iran.

Your conservative media is trying to equate Freedom Watch with MoveOn, only MoveOn isn't made up of Party hacks and henchmen assigned by their megamaniacal leader to destabilize The World, and it's funded by hundreds of thousands of citizen contributions.

So be on the lookout for this dangerous new Cheney organization and maybe we can still stop the next war.

We'll still be #1.