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Rise of a new political beast of burden : The "unaffiliated" political promoter

It seems republicans have hatched a new kind of avertising political consultant : the "non-affiliaited" political advertiser. That's the kind of (usually) guy that manages to be throw away hundreds of thousands of dollars in "unaffiliated" advertising for the candidates of their choice.

First example up : Bob J. Perry liked so much his swiftboating of John Kerry that he is at it again:

A new television commercial that targets Democratic Senate ca didate Ned Lamont as a "tax-hiking liberal" is being aired by a tax-exempt adv cacy group funded by a major Republican donor from Texas who worked with White House political guru.

That funder, Bob J. Perry, also was the chief financial backer of Swift Boat Vets and POWs for Truth, another tax-exempt organization that attacked the reputation of U.S. Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts in the 2004 presidential election.

Lest you dismiss this as an opportunity for the guy to bask in the Lamont glow, it seems he is targetting candidates supported by DailyKos : the guy is also throwing money for advertising against Patricia Madrid, who is in a tight race against the republican incumbent for New Mexico's CD-1, Heather Wilson.

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Words to live by

Let's begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes --indeed, deletes-- the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.

But most of the people who use the new designation --economists, in particular-- are innocent as to the effect. They see nothing wrong with their bland, descriptive terminology. They pay no attention to the important question: Whether money "wealth" accords a special power. (It does.) Thus the term innocent fraud.

— John Kenneth Galbraith: Free Market Fraud | The Progressive