Progressive Media - A PR War Room for Obama [1]
Submitted by John Stauber [2] on
Liberal think tanks and advocacy organizations [3] formed during the Bush/Cheney regime are working in close and well-funded coordination as a PR messaging machine for the Obama Administration [4]'s foreign and domestic policies. A Washington Post blog noted [5] that the Center for American Progress [6] is now running Progressive Media [7] which was begun by Tom Matzzie [8] and David Brock [9] in 2008 and now "represents a serious ratcheting up of efforts to present a united liberal front in the coming policy wars." Progressive Media is a joint project with CAP and Brock's Media Matters Action Network [10] and "headed by well-known liberal operative Tara McGuinness [11]." Matzzie recently reminisced [12] about his work with MoveOn [13]'s "Tara McGuinness [11], Eli Pariser [14] and others" organizing Americans Against Escalation in Iraq [15]. Today MoveOn [13], USAction [16] and others in that coalition are working hard to push Obama's policies, including rationalizlng or defending his escalation of the wars [17] in Afghanistan and Pakistan as "sustainable security [18]."