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Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of the CMD, reporter Beau Hodai and others such as Lee Fang, there is some counterpoint to the din coming from the right wing noise machine. Obviously, if Edelman was able to connect to a group of propagandists with such facility, the reactionary echo chamber is far less spontaneous, more organized, than the public would even begin realize. The comparison to the despicable work of Hitler's Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, is indeed chilling, with the billionaire industrialist Kochs today reprising the role of I.G. Farben, Krupp Steel, Siemens, and Rupert Murdoch's empire acting as a contemporary voice for the right wing of the Republican party much as Nazi newspapers, The Attack and the People's Observer served that cause for the genocidal eugenicists. I'd recommend that readers go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Goebbels and come to their own conclusions. Lastly, ALEC overwhelmingly is a Republican, corporatist organization. The few Democratic members it has enlisted are an expression of tokenism. Indeed, a fair percentage of them have changed parties including the likes of for-profit prison supporters Kansas state senator Chris Steineger and Louisiana Senator Noble Ellington. ALEC boasts that two of its five most recent chairs have been Democrats. This is a tokenism that mirrors the presence of minorities who are prominent in Republican National Conventions. One wag noted that there were more African-American speakers at the RNC convention in NYC in 2004 than there were accredited as delegates. Ellington and fellow turncoat John R. Smith were the top two Louisiana legislative recipients of Koch Industries and subsidiaries cash over the last decade. http://www.followthemoney.org ALEC honored lame duck Noble as its outgoing national chair and former Louisiana state chair at its November 2011 conference in Scottsdale. It paid $2,150 to bring him and his current wife along. http://thepoliticaldesk.com/?p=1281 At that meeting, Beau Hodai was evicted in the middle of the night at the behest of ALEC by Westin hotel security and off-duty Phoenix police for being what the Free Beacon termed a "threat" to ALEC.