Americans for Prosperity

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To "Americans for Prosperity" Capitalism Is a Love Story

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, C-Span, David Koch, President Obama, It's a Wonderful Life, Ann Coulter, Enron, Frank Capra, Koch Industries, Newt Gingrich, Capitalism, Tsa, Savings and Loan Scandal, The 2016 Olympic Games, Henry Clay Frick, Cnbc, Tyco, Free Market Fundamentalism, Americans for Prosperity, Laura Ingraham, Worldcom, Afp, Larry Kudlow, Supply-Side Economics, Knights of Labor, National Defending the American Dream Summit, Megan McCain, Long-Term Capital Management, John Birch Society, Pinkertons, Politics News

The only distinguishing feature of the Americans for Prosperity Foundation's "National Defending the American Dream Summit" was its astonishing homogeneity both in thought and in demography.

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912 March: The Tea Party Movement Is the New Religious Right

Adele Stan | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tim Phillips, Freedomworks, Ralph Reed, Americans for Prosperity, Richard Viguerie, Tea Party Patriots, 912-March-on-Washington, Glenn Beck, Tea Party Movement, Howard Phillips, Resistnet, Politics News

Marching has long been the province of the left. But the election of the nation's first African-American president, a moderate liberal, in a time of economic crisis, yielded right-wing leaders the gold of backlash.

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The Right Wing Attack Machine Behind the Van Jones Affair

Kevin Grandia | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Phil Kerpen, Clean Energy, Van Jones, Americans for Prosperity, Green Jobs, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Green News

You won't be surprised that Glenn Beck wasn't the mastermind behind the campaign to remove Van Jones. The attack was orchestrated by a fringe group of free-marketeers called Americans for Prosperity.

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Fox News Teamed with Big Biz Astroturf Group to Force Out Van Jones

Adele Stan | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Resisnet, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Cap-and-Trade, Americans for Prosperity, Grassfire, Glenn Beck, Mike Pence, Rupert Murdoch, Van Jones Glenn Beck, Van Jones Resigns, Politics News

The racism and red-baiting suffered by Jones at the hands of Beck and his admirers are simply key elements in a marketing strategy designed to serve Very Big Business.

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Anti-Reform Group Pumping Calls Into Nebraska Urging Senator Nelson To Help GOP "Kill" Reform

The Plum Line | greg Sargent | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afp, Filibuster, Gop, Ben Nelson, Healthcare Reform, Americans for Prosperity, Politics News

Here come the robocalls. In a clear sign that anti-reform forces are banking on "centrist" Dems to help block health care reform, the well funded gro...

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Forget Glenn Beck: The Problem is Murdoch

Adele Stan | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Jim Pinkerton, Americans for Prosperity, Rupert Murdoch, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Healthcare Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Healthcare, Net Neutrality, Alternet, Media News

Color of Change has done a remarkable thing: One by one, they have moved Beck's advertisers to pull their ads, the latest being Walmart. No small feat. But I'm not sure how much Beck's bosses really care.

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No One Wants to Talk About Their Idiots

Bill Shireman | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Americans for Prosperity, Sean Hannity, Barney Frank, Town Halls, Michael Savage, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Barack Obama, Idiots, Politics News

We need a third political movement in this country -- not today's ideological right or left, who pander to idiots, but a group of radical centrists who step past their initial ignorance, fear, and prejudice, and actually think through solutions to our problems, borrowing ideas from all sides.

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Don Lemon & CNN: No to "Real Americans," Yes to Real Journalism!

Linda Milazzo | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: The Constitution, Lila Garrett, George W. Bush, Progressives, Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright, Fox, Norman Solomon, Msnbc, America's Town Halls, Americans for Prosperity, Conservatives, Corporate Media, Health Care Town Halls, Rush Limbaugh, Progressive Democrats of America, Lou Dobbs, Alan Hardage, Marcy Winograd, Barack Obama, David Swanson, Cnn, Brad Parker, Maureen Cruise, Sean Hannity, Dr. Jo Olson, Corporate Media Coverage, Iraq War, Anti-War Protests, Tom Hayden, Real Americans, Don Lemon, Bill O'Reilly, Wayne Williams, Media News

Can anyone tell me of any wall to wall on-site coverage of peace movement events over the past six years where the corporate press offered extensive air-time to listen to progressive leaders? I don't recall that ever happening. Do you?

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After Swastika Incident, Rep. Scott Holds Health Care Town Hall

Glen McDaniel | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Slideshow, Jonesboro, Town Hall, David Scott, Tea Party Patriots, Congressman Scott, Americans for Prosperity, Health Care Town Hall, Tea Party, Health Care, Huffington Post Glen Mcdaniel, Pelosi Swastika Comment, Health Care Town Hall Swastika, Politics News

A few days after a recent town hall meeting where Scott lectured some in the crowd for "highjacking" the healthcare debate, a large swastika was painted outside his Smyrna district office.

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Town Hall Talks about Climate Should Be About Solutions, Not Intimidation

Frances Beinecke | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Energy Efficiency, Climate Legislation, Clean Energy, Green Jobs, Americans for Prosperity, Global Warming, Green News

While the primary target of town hall vitriol has been health care reform, recent accounts make it clear that some corporate-funded efforts also want to sink clean energy and climate legislation.

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Lobbyist-Run Group Provides Birther With Talking Points For Town Hall

Think Progress | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, Jack Abramoff, Obama Birth Certificate, Tom Delay, Town Hall, Birth Certificate, Lobbyists, Tom Perriello, Americans for Prosperity, Glenn Beck, Townhall, Politics News

Last night, ThinkProgress attended Rep. Tom Perriello's (D-VA) town hall in Ruckersville, Virginia. Inside, many people were holding signs provided by...

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"Obama The Anus Of America": Conservatives Riled Up By Health Care Reform Gather Along Bus Tour (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Party Protests, Town Hall, Health Acre Reform, Barack Obama, Slideshow, Hands Off My Health Care, Americans for Prosperity, Colorado Springs, Tea Party Patriots, Citizen Journalism, Eyes and Ears, Matthew Palevsky, Obama Health Care Initiative, Obama Healthcare Reform, Anus, Proposed Health Care Reform, Politics News

Two "Hands Off My Health Care" buses have been making their way across the country as the central organizational tools for the conservative group Amer...

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Manufactured Protesters Are Killing Democracy

Shannyn Moore | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ted Stevens, Jack Abramoff, Stimulus Money, Boston Patriots, Keith Olbermann, Don Young, Sarah Palin, Tea Baggers, Americans for Prosperity, Brett Gibson, Alaska Bar, Mccain-and-Greenberg-Traurig, Socialist, Bernie Madoff, Tarp, Tim Phillips, Arctic Paws, Freedom Works, Pebble Mine, Vanity Fair, Duane Gibson, Kenai River Classic, Alaska Legislature, Brooks Brothers Riot, 2000 Florida Recount, Livingston Group, Fake Outrage, Rachel Maddow, Thomm Hartmann, Ponzi Scheme, Fox News, Birthers, Stimulus Funds, Astro-Turfing, Politics News

The "Tea Party" movement flies in the face of what the true patriots in Boston stood for. Corporate lobbying-run groups are creating the illusion of grass roots protests at the health care town hall meetings.

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Townhall Mobs -- Brought to You by Big Oil and Dirty Coal

Josh Dorner | Posted 09.07.2009 | Green

There's considerable evidence that these astroturf corporate lobbying operations are also trying to derail clean energy jobs legislation.

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At Health Care Town Hall in Bristol, VA, Passions Run High

Sarah E. Jones | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care Town Hall, Americans for Prosperity, Tea Party, Health Care, Barack Obama, Bristol-Va, Virginia Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

The protesters made a passionate, well-organized and vocal crowd. "If you support this bill you're a communist! You're a communist and you don't love America!" a man shouted.

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Swiftboating Town Halls

The Progress Report | Posted 09.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lloyd-Doggett, Americans for Prosperity, Health Care, Freedomworks, Dick Durbin, Townhalls, Politics News

Having successfully delayed a vote until after the August recess, lobbyists are seizing on town halls to ambush lawmakers in an attempt to fool them and the greater public into thinking there is wide opposition to health care reform.

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How Come CBS Journalists Can't Recognize Paid Lobbyists When They See Them?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Armey, Americans for Prosperity, Freedomworks, Frank Kratovil, Wyatt Andrews, New York Times, Steve Forbes, Tea Parties, Health Care, David H. Koch, Politics News

Organizations like CBS and the New York Times are not reporting the news when it is right in front of them. They pass off this transparent lobbyist funded thuggery as a grassroots effort.

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Durbin Responds To Right-Wing Harassment Strategy: We "Won't Fall For A Sucker-Punch Like This"

Think Progress | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedom Works, Dick Durbin, Durbin, Town Hall, Americans for Prosperity, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Ahip, Health Care Reform, Gop, Democrats, Health Care, Jonathan Cohn, Politics News

ThinkProgress reported today on the growing number of angry right-wing activists viciously harassing Democratic, as well as moderate Republican, membe...

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Right Wing Groups Harassing Dems At Town Halls

Think Progress | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gop, Freedomworks, Tea Party, Democrats Harrassment, Americans for Prosperity, Lobbyists, Frank Kratovil, Ahip, Town Halls, Democrats, Tim Bishop, Republicans, Politics News

Today, House members are back home to begin their month-long recess. The far right has indicated that they plan to welcome many of their representativ...

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Searching for Answers in the Shadow of George Tiller's Murder

Susan J. Demas | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michigan Liberal, Abortion, Abortion Murder, George Tiller Killed, Late-Term Abortion, Andrew Sullivan, Abortion Rights, Scott Roeder, Anti-Abortion, George Tiller Murder, Scott Hagerstrom, Pro-Life, Dr. George Tiller, George Tiller, Operation Rescue, Moral Absolutes, Moral Absolutism, Americans for Prosperity, The Atlantic, George Tiller Killing, Partial-Birth Abortion, Pro-Choice, Off the Record, William Butler Yeats, Politics News

Some people know he did the right thing. What I'm not sure of is where that line is, between utter certitude in your beliefs and the willingness to kill for them. On Sunday, it got a lot blurrier.

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Susan Boyle: Teabaggers Get a Load of What a True Populist Phenomenon Looks Like

Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Americans for Prosperity, Dick Armey, Teabaggers, Susan Boyle, Ed Frank, Frank Strategies, Politics News

The Scottish singer was in heavy rotation all day long on cable news, which couldn't have been less interested in cutting away to the teabaggers.

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Americans For Prosperity: "No Stimulus" Petition Circulated

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: nostimulus.com, Americans for Prosperity, Nostimulus, No Stimulus, No Stimulus Petition, Politics News

A conservative group called "Americans For Prosperity" has started a petition against the stimulus package that became so popular, it crashed their we...

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