In connection with Jason's post about the Democratic financing of the effort to take Ed Schultz's North Dakota radio program national, note this passage from Jason Zengerle's article "False Dawn" in the November 8th issue of The New Republic (not online)(I'm trying to catch up on the stacks of magazines on the desk):
Liberals had set out to duplicate the right's counter-establishment. In the past two years, they founded a Heritage Foundation-like think tank, the Center for American Progress, that would come up with liberal policy ideas and make sure people articulating those ideas got on television and radio. They started two liberal talk-radio efforts, Air America and Democracy Radio, and a slew of liberal blogs. And they took advantage of a loophole in the campaign finance reform law to create or bolster independent political groups--including MoveOn and Media Fund--that would run advertisements attacking Bush. Although these groups would all be technically independent of the Democratic candidate's campaign, they would nonetheless work with him to take back the White House. "Hillary Clinton talked about a vast right-wing conspiracy," one prominent Democrat said last year. "Well, this is going to be a vast left-wing conspiracy."
Senator Daschle also spent $21 million in South Dakota to get his message out.
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