Sheldon Adelson: GOP's Answer To George Soros?
Sheldon Adelson, the 74-year-old casino billionaire who has become the third richest man in America and who has strong ties to the hard-line Likud Par...
Sheldon Adelson, the 74-year-old casino billionaire who has become the third richest man in America and who has strong ties to the hard-line Likud Par...
Howie Klein | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
We went into overdrive and put together an incredible team to write, produce and deliver calls to every person Freedom's Watch has attacked with robo calls in nearly 20 Democractic districts.
Politico | Posted 07.10.2008 | Politics
Freedom's Watch, the conservative advocacy group that has vowed to spend millions against Democratic congressional candidates this fall, will be runni...
Robert Creamer | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
Our goal shouldn't be to keep money out of politics -- but rather to keep big money out of politics.
Mother Jones | Posted 06.16.2008 | Politics
In a new National Journal article (not available online), writer Peter Stone dives deep into the conservative establishment and gets campaign staffers...
Craig Newmark | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
There are already a few groups damaging the election process, but there are also good investigative reporters exposing these groups.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.01.2008 | Politics
Here at Campaign AdWatch, we see an awful lot of politically themed ads. And most of them are just awful, which stands to reason, since the people wh...
Brian Wolff | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Today, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee filed a FEC complaint against the swift-boat group Freedom's Watch and the NRCC for illegally coordinating their political attack ads.
Huffington Post | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
The Washington Post reports that Democrats are accusing the Republican party of covertly and illegally being behind a new ad by the conservative group...
NY Times | Michael Luo | Posted 04.12.2008 | Politics
The conservative group Freedom's Watch, headlined by two former senior White House officials, had been expected to be a deep-pocketed juggernaut in th...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 03.27.2008 | Politics
The military understands that we need to move toward persuasion and away from coercion as our guiding principle. But they can't become the public advocates of it. That is our job.
James Boyce | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics
Sheldon Adelson has perverted the service of our troops and created a front group to promote war. It's run by people who never served, to take advantage of the sacrifice of those who have.
Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 02.19.2008 | Politics
The people working for Freedom's Watch are not tireless grassroots advocates, they are paid professionals.
Dave Johnson and James Boyce | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
In Freedom's Watch, we see a front group on steroids, a massive death star of right wing machinery, floating, ready and waiting.
Craig Newmark | Posted 01.29.2008 | Media
Front gropus are sometimes called "astroturf," since they're the opposite of honest grassroots efforts. More bluntly, the purpose of a front group is to deceive consumers or voters.
Michael Shaw | Posted 12.10.2007 | Media
Allison Kilkenny | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media
If we can't even air each other's commercials, then we're in more trouble than I initially thought.
AP | Jim Kuhnhenn | Posted 12.07.2007 | Media
NBC has rejected a TV ad by Freedom's Watch, a conservative group that supports administration policy in Iraq, that asks viewers to remember and thank...
Tom Andrews | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
Don't get too comfortable with this new NIE report. It is not likely to dissuade those itching for an attack on Iran.
Tom Andrews | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics
As far as President Bush and Vice President Cheney are concerned, Congress has the green light permanently lit if and when they decide it is time to "shock and awe" Iran.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 11.14.2007 | Politics
If House Democrats are worried about Freedom's Watch calling them out in newspaper ads in their local districts, they aren't showing it. "In an age o...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 11.13.2007 | Politics
The morning after the country observed Veterans Day, newspaper readers in seven cities woke up to full page ads blasting their local Democratic repres...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.29.2007 | Politics
One month after Freedom's Watch emerged with a $15 million ad buy supporting a sustained Iraq war, the New York Times reported that the group was turn...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Roston | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Tuesday's forum before members of the Republican Jewish Coalition was an important opportunity for the GOP's top presidential hopefuls. RJC members a...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 07.25.2008 | Politics