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<h1 class="page-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-weight: 200; line-height: 1.1; padding-bottom: 9px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liberal AG’s Climate Change Witch-Hunt Expands to Include More Innocent Victims</h1><div class="region region-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><section id="block-system-main" class="block block-system clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="node-1120461" class="node node-opinion node-promoted clearfix" about="/commentary/hans-bader/liberal-ags-climate-change-witchhunt-expands-include-more-innocent-victims" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="authors" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 10px 0px; clear: both; padding-bottom: 10px;">By <a href="https://www.cnsnews.com/author/hans-bader" title="View user profile." class="username" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Hans Bader</a> | June 22, 2016 | 3:35 PM EDT</div><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 20px;"><div class="view view-slides view-id-slides view-display-id-entity_view_slides view-dom-id-7667d0549372aa5b379537d3882e5e99" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="view-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="views-field views-field-field-slides-field-slide-image" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 10px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-items" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="box-sizing: border-box;">
A climate-change witch-hunt is expanding to include conservative groups that have never received a penny from Exxon. Attorney General Maura Healey is part of a multistate investigation of “climate change deniers” brought by <a href="http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/04/08/the-new-eco-tyranny/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">20 Democratic state attorneys general</a>. As the Daily Caller<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/15/exclusive-massachusetts-ag-demands-docs-from-more-conservative-skeptic-groups/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">notes</a>, last week she issued a sweeping broad subpoena that<blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 20px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(238, 238, 238);">“demands decades worth of records from prominent conservative think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation and activist group Americans for Prosperity, and also from smaller, lesser known state-based right-leaning groups, such as Boston’s Beacon Hill Institute and the Acton Institute … At least two of the groups the subpoena demands records from have not received any money from Exxon. Beacon Hill and Americans for Prosperity have not gotten any Exxon funding, but are still being targeted.”</blockquote>This is revealing, because, as <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-17/fck-fascist-one-mans-epic-response-mass-ag-over-subpoena-climate-change" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Zero Hedge</a> notes, all of these subpoenas are “<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/06/15/exclusive-massachusetts-ag-demands-docs-from-more-conservative-skeptic-groups/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">anchored </a>in the claim that Exxon has lied to shareholders and consumers about the risks of global warming in its communications and shareholder filings.” That rationale obviously provides no justification for a subpoena aimed at the Beacon Hill Institute, which has no connection to Exxon. Instead, it looks like a pretext for harassing conservative non-profits like the Beacon Hill Institute, whose free-market views make it a dissenter in a state whose legislature and judiciary are dominated by leftists.The investigation is brought by people who are know-nothings when it comes to the First Amendment.As I previously <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/ag-schneidermans-lame-defense-speech-chilling-climate-change-investigation" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">explained</a>, the attorney general spearheading the multistate investigation, New York’s Eric Schneiderman, has publicly gotten basic First Amendment principles wrong (such as citing a dissenting view <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/ag-schneidermans-lame-defense-speech-chilling-climate-change-investigation" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">rejected by the Supreme Court</a> as if it were the law), and Exxon <a href="http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/04/08/the-new-eco-tyranny/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">does not</a> appear to have told any lies about climate change (a company’s prudence in taking into account worst-case climate scenarios in hedging against future risks, and planning for the future, <a href="http://legalnewsline.com/stories/510703834-cei-attorney-cites-chilling-effect-of-state-investigations-of-exxonmobil" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">does not prove</a> its belief in such scenarios, anymore than buying fire insurance proves you know that your home will burn down in the future). And speech by nonprofits funded by Exxon remains protected, as does Exxon’s decision to fund them, under court rulings like <a href="http://openjurist.org/46/f3d/1284/asbestos-school-litigation-pfizer-inc-v-t-giles-45" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Pfizer v. Giles</a> (1994)Subjecting a person, or a non-profit like the Beacon Hill Institute, to burdensome document demands based on its viewpoint violates the First Amendment. Such demands violate free speech when they are in retaliation for the target’s viewpoint or past speech.  (See <a href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12714418385953067211&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Taoh v. Freeh</a> (1994)). They also violate free speech when they are so burdensome that they would chill the speech of a reasonable person.  (See <a href="http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-9th-circuit/1204232.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">White v. Lee</a> (2000)). And they violate the First Amendment by demanding sensitive internal communications.  (See <a href="http://www.leagle.com/decision/In%20FCO%2020100104094/PERRY%20v.%20SCHWARZENEGGER" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Perry v. Schwarzenegger</a> (2009)).<div id="imkIncontent" class="IM_ad" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shortly after Healey’s subpoena, 13 mostly conservative state attorneys general such as Luther Strange of Alabama and Craig Richards of Alaska sent a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2862197-AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">June 15 letter</a> to their fellow attorneys general, arguing that “this effort by our colleagues to police the global warming debate through the power of the subpoena is a grave mistake.” Quoting Justice Jackson’s concurrence in Thomas v. Collins (1945), they <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2862197-AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">noted</a> that our “‘forefathers did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us.’”  They also <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/16/gop-ags-dems-climate-alarmists-can-be-prosecuted/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">pointed out</a>that the 20-state investigation of “climate change deniers” reflects viewpoint discrimination, since “’clean energy’ companies have funded non-profits who exaggerated the risks of climate change,” yet this “fraud” is not being investigated, only the purported “fraud” alleged against non-profits that have supposedly minimized the risks of climate change. The Supreme Court has said that even unprotected speech should not be regulated in a viewpoint-discriminatory fashion, in its decision in <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/90-7675.ZO.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">R.A.V. v. St. Paul</a> (1992), which ruled that a city could not ban even unprotected “fighting words” based on the speaker’s viewpoint.As part of the multistate climate-change investigation, an incredibly <a href="https://cei.org/content/competitive-enterprise-institute-will-fight-subpoena-us-virgin-islands-ag" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">burdensome subpoena</a> was sent to CEI on April 7, <a href="https://cei.org/blog/attorneys-general-launch-intimidation-campaign-subpoena-against-cei" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">demanding</a> 10 years of its records relating to a wide range of topics (CEI’s First Amendment <a href="https://cei.org/sites/default/files/CEI%20Objections%20to%20USVI%20Subpoena.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">objections</a> to that subpoena are found <a href="https://cei.org/sites/default/files/CEI%20Objections%20to%20USVI%20Subpoena.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>). We received that subpoena <a href="https://cei.org/blog/attorneys-general-launch-intimidation-campaign-subpoena-against-cei" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">shortly after</a> CEI’s <a href="https://cei.org/blog/state-attorneys-general-conspire-shake-down-big-oil" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Myron Ebell</a> and <a href="http://legalnewsline.com/stories/510703834-cei-attorney-cites-chilling-effect-of-state-investigations-of-exxonmobil" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">I had</a> publicly criticized the investigation. (The subpoena came in just as I was drafting an even longer commentary criticizing the investigation, which is found <a href="http://www.libertylawsite.org/2016/04/08/the-new-eco-tyranny/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>).Last month, CEI filed a <a href="https://cei.org/sites/default/files/CEI%20-%20Anti-SLAPP%20Fees%20Motion.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">motion for sanctions</a> against the attorney general who sent us that subpoena, Claude Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands, under the District of Columbia’s <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/think-tank-seeks-damages-unlawful-climate-subpoena/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">anti-SLAPP law</a>.  The attorney general had belatedly withdrawn the DC version of the subpoena, but reserved the right to <a href="https://cei.org/blog/complaint-we-didnt-expect-hear-virgin-islands-attorney-general-now-says-were-wasting-his-time" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">reinstate it at any time</a> (the underlying Virgin Islands subpoena remains in place), essentially forcing CEI to live under a sword of Damocles. On June 2, the attorney general <a href="https://cei.org/blog/complaint-we-didnt-expect-hear-virgin-islands-attorney-general-now-says-were-wasting-his-time" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">filed his opposition</a> to our motion for sanctions, along with a transparently lame demand for sanctions against CEI unsupported by facts and caselaw. A hearing is pending in DC Superior Court next week, but it is not yet clear whether that hearing will adjudicate the merits of our motion, or defer its resolution until a later date.Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C. 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<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#Iraqi_Intelligence_Service_documents">3.1 Iraqi Intelligence Service documents</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#False_claim_about_Paul_Begala">3.2 False claim about Paul Begala</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#Attack_on_John_Murtha">3.3 Attack on John Murtha</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#Contact_details">4 Contact details</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#Related_SourceWatch_Resources">5 Related SourceWatch Resources</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#References">6 References</a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#External_links">7 External links</a>

<ul>

<li class="toclevel-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#GOPUSA_News_Service">7.7 GOPUSA News Service</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2>History</h2>

CNS was launched on July 16, 1998, by founder <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brent_Bozell" title="Brent Bozell">Brent Bozell</a>, as an "alternative news service" to mainstream news sources which reports by MRC claim have a "liberal bias."

CNS says it strives to "cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission," and "endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-1" title="">[2]</a>

In September 2007, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terry_Jeffrey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terry Jeffrey (page does not exist)">Terry Jeffrey</a>, former editor of the conservative weekly <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Human_Events" title="Human Events">Human Events</a>, was named editor-in-chief, replacing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=David_Thibault" title="David Thibault">David Thibault</a>, who died earlier in the year.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-2" title="">[3]</a>

<h2>Personnel</h2>

Current CNS personnel include<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-3" title="">[4]</a>:

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=L._Brent_Bozell_III" title="L. Brent Bozell III" class="mw-redirect">L. Brent Bozell III</a>, President</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terry_Jeffrey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terry Jeffrey (page does not exist)">Terry Jeffrey</a> - Editor-in-Chief</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michael_Chapman&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Michael Chapman (page does not exist)">Michael Chapman</a> - Managing Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Goodenough&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Patrick Goodenough (page does not exist)">Patrick Goodenough</a> - International Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Craig_Bannister&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Craig Bannister (page does not exist)">Craig Bannister</a>, Communications Director</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eric_Pairel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric Pairel (page does not exist)">Eric Pairel</a>, Chief Technology Officer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stuart_James&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stuart James (page does not exist)">Stuart James</a>, Systems Administrator</li>

</ul>

<h3>Washington News Staff</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Melanie_Hunter&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Melanie Hunter (page does not exist)">Melanie Hunter</a>, Senior Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Susan_Jones&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Susan Jones (page does not exist)">Susan Jones</a>, Senior Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Randy_Hall" title="Randy Hall">Randy Hall</a>, Staff Writer/Editor</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pete_Winn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pete Winn (page does not exist)">Pete Winn</a>, Senior Staff Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Josiah_Ryan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Josiah Ryan (page does not exist)">Josiah Ryan</a>, Staff Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fred_Lucas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fred Lucas (page does not exist)">Fred Lucas</a>, Staff Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kevin_Mooney&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kevin Mooney (page does not exist)">Kevin Mooney</a>, Staff Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Penny_Starr&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Penny Starr (page does not exist)">Penny Starr</a>, Staff Writer</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Nicholas_Ballasy&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nicholas Ballasy (page does not exist)">Nicholas Ballasy</a>, Video Reporter</li>

</ul>

<h3>Foreign Bureaus</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Julie_Stahl&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Julie Stahl (page does not exist)">Julie Stahl</a>, Jerusalem Bureau Chief</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Sergei_Blagov&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sergei Blagov (page does not exist)">Sergei Blagov</a>, International Correspondent</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eva_Cahen&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eva Cahen (page does not exist)">Eva Cahen</a>, International Correspondent</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Mark_Mayne&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mark Mayne (page does not exist)">Mark Mayne</a>, International Correspondent</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kevin_McCandless" title="Kevin McCandless">Kevin McCandless</a>, International Correspondent</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Stephen_Mbogo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stephen Mbogo (page does not exist)">Stephen Mbogo</a>, International Correspondent</li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Deepak_Mahaan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Deepak Mahaan (page does not exist)">Deepak Mahaan</a>, International Correspondent</li>

</ul>

<h3>Regular Columnists</h3>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terry_Jeffrey&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Terry Jeffrey (page does not exist)" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Terry Jeffrey</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alan_Caruba" title="Alan Caruba" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alan Caruba</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Michelle_Malkin" title="Michelle Malkin" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michelle Malkin</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Ben_Shapiro&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ben Shapiro (page does not exist)" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ben Shapiro</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Pat_Buchanan" title="Pat Buchanan" class="mw-redirect" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pat Buchanan</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>Controversies</h2>

<h3>Iraqi Intelligence Service documents</h3>

On October 4, 2004, CNS reported that a "senior government official who is not a political appointee" provided CNS with 42 pages of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraqi_Intelligence_Service" title="Iraqi Intelligence Service">Iraqi Intelligence Service</a> (IIS) documents which were then translated from Arabic by two CNS translators. CNS reports that the official told them that the documents answer "whether or not Iraq was a state sponsor of Islamic <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Terrorism" title="Terrorism">terrorism</a> against the United States. It also answers whether or not <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq" title="Iraq">Iraq</a> had an ongoing <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Biological_warfare&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Biological warfare (page does not exist)">biological warfare</a> project continuing through the period when the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=UNSCOM" title="UNSCOM">UNSCOM</a> inspections ended."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-4" title="">[5]</a> Details can be found at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service:Claim_of_Hussein%27s_WMD,Ties_to_Al_Qaeda" title="Cybercast News Service: Claim of Hussein's WMD, Ties to Al Qaeda">Cybercast News Service: Claim of Hussein's WMD, Ties to Al Qaeda</a>.

<h3>False claim about Paul Begala</h3>

A July 15, 2005, CNS article claimed that Democratic strategist <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Paul_Begala" title="Paul Begala">Paul Begala</a> said that Republicans wanted to kill him and his family. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-5" title="">[6]</a> Begala vehemently denied this, claiming that when he said, "They want to kill me and my children if they can," he was referring to terrorists, not Republicans. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-6" title="">[7]</a> CNS refused to retract the claim, insisting that "[t]here was nothing unclear about what Begala said."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-7" title="">[8]</a> Then-CNS editor in chief David Thibault challenged Begala for his "unmistakable and outrageous coupling of terrorists and Republicans."<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-8" title="">[9]</a>

<h3>Attack on John Murtha</h3>

A January 13, 2006, CNS article assailed the military record of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Democratic_Party%28United_States%29" title="Democratic Party (United States)" class="mw-redirect">Democratic</a> Rep. <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Murtha" title="John Murtha" class="mw-redirect">John Murtha</a>, a former Marine who has heavily criticized the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iraq_war" title="Iraq war" class="mw-redirect">Iraq war</a>. The article quoted people who were either former political opponents of Murtha or who were dead or incapacitated casting aspersions on the two <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Hearts</a> Murtha earned while serving in the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Vietnam_War&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Vietnam War (page does not exist)">Vietnam War</a>.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-9" title="">[10]</a> The next day, the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Washington_Post" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a> repeated the article's allegations.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-10" title="">[11]</a> Critics likened the CNS article to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth" title="Swift Boat Veterans for Truth">Swift Boat Veterans for Truth</a> attacks on the war record of Democrat <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=John_Kerry" title="John Kerry" class="mw-redirect">John Kerry</a> during the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=U.S.presidential_election,_2004" title="U.S. presidential election, 2004">2004 presidential campaign</a> as another example of conservatives attempting to discredit the military credentials of Democrats in order to blunt their criticism of the Iraq war.<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_note-11" title="">[12]</a>

<h2>Contact details</h2>

Cybercast News Service

325 S. Patrick

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: 703-683-9733 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              703-683-9733      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Toll-Free: 877-CNS-NEWS begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              877-CNS-NEWS      end_of_the_skype_highlighting

URL: <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/" class="external free" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnsnews.com/</a>

<h2>Related SourceWatch Resources</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service:Claim_of_Hussein%27s_WMD,Ties_to_Al_Qaeda" title="Cybercast News Service: Claim of Hussein's WMD, Ties to Al Qaeda">Cybercast News Service: Claim of Hussein's WMD, Ties to Al Qaeda</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Marc_Morano" title="Marc Morano">Marc Morano</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Crosswalk" title="Crosswalk">Crosswalk</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=GOPUSA" title="GOPUSA">GOPUSA</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center" title="Media Research Center">Media Research Center</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Parents_Television_Council" title="Parents Television Council">Parents Television Council</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Swiftboating_John_Murtha" title="Swiftboating John Murtha">Swiftboating John Murtha</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Talon_News" title="Talon News">Talon News</a></li>

</ul>

<h2>References</h2>

<li id="cite_note-0"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-0" title="">↑</a> Terry Krepel, <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2000/cnschange.html" class="external text" title="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2000/cnschange.html" rel="nofollow">'Journalistic Window Dressing"</a>, ConWebWatch, December 14, 2000.</li>

<li id="cite_note-1"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-1" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/corporate/history.asp" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/corporate/history.asp" rel="nofollow">"History"</a>, Cybercast News Service, accessed March 8, 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-2"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-2" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200709/NAT20070917b.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200709/NAT20070917b.html" rel="nofollow">"Terence Jeffrey Joins Cybercast News Service as Editor-in-Chief"</a>, Cybercast News Service, September 17, 2007.</li>

<li id="cite_note-3"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-3" title="">↑</a> <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/static.aspx?PageID=22" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/public/static.aspx?PageID=22" rel="nofollow">"Staff contacts"</a>, Cybercast News Service, accessd March 2008.</li>

<li id="cite_note-4"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-4" title="">↑</a> Scott Wheeler, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5C%5CSpecialReports%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200410%5C%5CSPE20041004a.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5C%5CSpecialReports%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200410%5C%5CSPE20041004a.html" rel="nofollow">"Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties,"</a> CNSNews.com, October 4, 2004.</li>

<li id="cite_note-5"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-5" title="">↑</a> Jered Ede, [<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200507/POL20050715a.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200507/POL20050715a.html" rel="nofollow">"Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans 'Want to Kill Us' "</a>,Cybercast News Service, July 15, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-6"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-6" title="">↑</a> Paul Begala, <a href="http://www.campusprogress.org/features/406/right-wingers-dont-want-to-kill-me-just-lie-about-me" class="external text" title="http://www.campusprogress.org/features/406/right-wingers-dont-want-to-kill-me-just-lie-about-me" rel="nofollow">"Right-Wingers Don't Want to Kill Me; Just Lie About Me"</a>, Campus Progress, July 20, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-7"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-7" title="">↑</a> Randy Hall, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200507%5CPOL20050722a.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200507\POL20050722a.html" rel="nofollow">"Begala Now Says Republicans Want to 'Lie About Us' "</a>, Cybercast News Service, July 22, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-8"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-8" title="">↑</a> David Thibault, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200507%5CCOM20050725a.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCommentary.asp?Page=\Commentary\archive\200507\COM20050725a.html" rel="nofollow">"Paul Begala Needs a Lesson in Civility"</a>, Cybercast News Service, July 25, 2005.</li>

<li id="cite_note-9"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-9" title="">↑</a> Marc Morano and Randy Hall, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200601%5CSPE20060113a.html" class="external text" title="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=\SpecialReports\archive\200601\SPE20060113a.html" rel="nofollow">"Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question"</a>, Cybercast News Service, Janaury 13, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-10"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-10" title="">↑</a> Howard Kurtz and Shailagh Murray, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301736.html" class="external text" title="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301736.html" rel="nofollow">"Web Site Attacks Critic of War Opponents, Question Murtha's Medals"</a>, Washington Post, January 14, 2006.</li>

<li id="cite_note-11"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#cite_ref-11" title="">↑</a> Bob Geiger, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/38145/?comments=view&cID=144586&pID=144362" class="external text" title="http://www.alternet.org/story/38145/?comments=view&cID=144586&pID=144362" rel="nofollow">Why Do Republicans Hate America's Veterans?'</a>, Alternet, June 27, 2006.</li>

</ol>

<h2>External links</h2>

<ul>

<li>Terry Krepel, <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/cnsabort.html" class="external text" title="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/cnsabort.html" rel="nofollow">"The Aborted Debate"</a>, ConWebWatch, January 4, 2002.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>George Putnam, <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/28/95205.shtml" class="external text" title="http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/5/28/95205.shtml" rel="nofollow">"One Reporter's Opinion - Fraud on Every Front!"</a> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NewsMax" title="NewsMax" class="mw-redirect">NewsMax</a>, May 28, 2004: [CNS News "feeds" NewsMax]: "A day before this public news conference, I received a report from Scott Wheeler of CNS News. Scott told me of an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking, also suspected of money laundering and smuggling people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Jordan into the U.S."</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001298.htm" class="external text" title="http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001298.htm" rel="nofollow">"Revealing More About Phony 'Voting Rights' Org, GOPUSA Runs CNS Story on GOP Front Group ACVR!,"</a> bradblog, March 31, 2005: "As it turns out, Hogenson -- the Founding and Executive Editor of CNS and also (no conflict at all here) the Radio Services Manager at the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=RNC" title="RNC" class="mw-redirect">RNC</a> Press Office! -- is the longtime compadre to one of the two known lead scheisters at ACVR, Jim Dyke. ... Dyke, who has worked hand-in-hand for years in his position at the RNC with Hogenson, was the 2004 RNC Communications Director."</li>

<li><a href="http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/other/sjm_cht.htm" class="external text" title="http://cns.miis.edu/pubs/other/sjm_cht.htm" rel="nofollow">"Chart: Al-Qa`ida's WMD Activities,"</a> by Weapons of <a href="http://cns.miis.edu/cns/projects/wmdtrp/index.htm" class="external text" title="http://cns.miis.edu/cns/projects/wmdtrp/index.htm" rel="nofollow">Mass Destruction Terrorism Research Program</a> at <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Center_for_Nonproliferation_Studies" title="Center for Nonproliferation Studies">Center for Nonproliferation Studies</a>, <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monterey_Institute_of_International_Studies" title="Monterey Institute of International Studies">Monterey Institute of International Studies</a>, May 13, 2005 (update). Cites: Scott Wheeler, <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35339" class="external text" title="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35339" rel="nofollow">"Evidence Points to Dirty-Bomb Plot,"</a> Insight Magazine (World Net Daily), October 29, 2003.</li>

<li>Terry Krepel, <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/cnsbegala.html" class="external text" title="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/cnsbegala.html" rel="nofollow">"Prolonging the Lie"</a>, ConWebWatch, July 29, 2005.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Hunter, <a href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/keyword/Swift%20Boat%20Vets" class="external text" title="http://www.politicalcortex.com/keyword/Swift%20Boat%20Vets" rel="nofollow">"The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon, Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?"</a> Political Cortex, January 16, 2006.</li>

<li>Terry Krepel, <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2006/cnsmurtha.html" class="external text" title="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2006/cnsmurtha.html" rel="nofollow">"A Textbook Example of Conservative Journalism"</a>, ConWebWatch, January 18, 2006.</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li>Terry Krepel, <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2007/cnsbias.html" class="external text" title="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2007/cnsbias.html" rel="nofollow">"Once and Future Bias"</a>, ConWebWatch, November 8, 2007.</li>

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<li>Terry Krepel, <a href="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2008/cns-pp.html" class="external text" title="http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2008/cns-pp.html" rel="nofollow">"Planned Attacks"</a>, ConWebWatch, July 17, 2008.</li>

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<h3>GOPUSA News Service</h3>

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<li><a href="http://www.gopusa.com/news/" class="external text" title="http://www.gopusa.com/news/" rel="nofollow">GOPUSA.com News</a> web page.</li>

<li><a href="http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-gopusa-news-service-cybercast-news.html" class="external text" title="http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/new-gopusa-news-service-cybercast-news.html" rel="nofollow">"New GOPUSA News Service, Cybercast News, Replaces Talon News; Now Embroiled in Scandal Over Flooding Google News With Identical Jeff Gannon Articles,"</a> The Nashua Advocate Blogspot, March 11, 2005.</li>

<li><a href="http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/meet-new-boss-same-as-old-boss-brent.html" class="external text" title="http://nashuaadvocate.blogspot.com/2005/03/meet-new-boss-same-as-old-boss-brent.html" rel="nofollow">"Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Brent Bozell Supplants Jeff Gannon As Man Most Likely to Be Accused of Involvement in Bush Propaganda Scheme,"</a> The Nashua Advocate Blogspot, March 11, 2005.</li>

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<h2 style=" margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.34em; background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224);">A Million Tiny Strands <a href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/email/2006/1/16/16736/0818" title="Email this story" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;"><img src="/c0dcbc0a-dbc0-5cdb-abfa-8a272bb1ba70.png"/></a> <a href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/print/2006/1/16/16736/0818" title="Print this story" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;"><img src="/29084619-487b-54f9-bbc9-fc5164318295.png"/></a></h2>

By <a class="light" href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/user/Hunter" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Hunter</a>

01/16/2006 04:07:36 PM EST

<div class="introtext" style=" line-height: 13.6000003814697px;">The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon, Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?

[Crossposted from <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/15/131258/767" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daily Kos</a>]

<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153); background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201);">"Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality."

-- Ron Arnold, Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

"We're out to kill the fkers. We're simply trying to eliminate them. Our goal is to eliminate environmentalism once and for all."

-- Arnold <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1441" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in a 1992 interview</a>. Arnold's "Wise Use" movement has been linked to right-wing militia groups.

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The website Daily Kos <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/9371/64940" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highlighted</a> this story from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060113_2851_db035.htm" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BusinessWeek's Earnon Javers</a> on Saturday:

<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">Asked about the payments, Fumento says, "I'm just extremely pro-biotech." He says he solicited several agribusiness companies to finance his book, which was published by Encounter Books. "I went after everybody, I've got to be honest," Fumento says of his fund-raising effort. "I told them that if I tell the truth in this book, the biotech industry is going to look really good, and you should contribute." [...]

Fumento insists that disclosure of financial transactions between op-ed columnists and the companies they cover wouldn't be practical.

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So here's a stunner. A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute -- one of those right-wing think tanks founded in order to provide haven for truthiness-based, business-friendly "science" that no actual scientific or knowledgeable policy institution would touch with a sterile, non-conductive ten foot science pole -- solicited money from a biotech company in the process of writing a book that would make them "look really good". And sure enough, Monsanto "contributed" $60,000 to get the book written.

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<a class="light" href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/16/16736/0818" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Wait... There's more!</a> (13 comments, 4199 words in story)

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but wait:

<h2 style=" margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;">A Million Tiny Strands <a href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/email/2006/1/16/16736/0818" title="Email this story" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;"><img src="/5be9ced5-52e5-5a9a-bf04-00aeb3967706.png"/></a> <a href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/print/2006/1/16/16736/0818" title="Print this story" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;"><img src="/e0d9ece6-fd29-56e8-bf0d-f0df7c4d4a1e.png"/></a></h2>

By <a class="light" href="http://www.politicalcortex.com/user/Hunter" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); text-decoration: none;">Hunter</a>

01/16/2006 04:07:36 PM EST

<div class="introtext">The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon, Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?

[Crossposted from <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/15/131258/767" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Daily Kos</a>]

<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">"Facts don't really matter. In politics, perception is reality."

-- Ron Arnold, Vice President of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise

"We're out to kill the fkers. We're simply trying to eliminate them. Our goal is to eliminate environmentalism once and for all."

</blockquote>

The website Daily Kos <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/9371/64940" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">highlighted</a> this story from <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jan2006/nf20060113_2851_db035.htm" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BusinessWeek's Earnon Javers</a> on Saturday:

<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">Asked about the payments, Fumento says, "I'm just extremely pro-biotech." He says he solicited several agribusiness companies to finance his book, which was published by Encounter Books. "I went after everybody, I've got to be honest," Fumento says of his fund-raising effort. "I told them that if I tell the truth in this book, the biotech industry is going to look really good, and you should contribute." [...]

Fumento insists that disclosure of financial transactions between op-ed columnists and the companies they cover wouldn't be practical.

</blockquote>

So here's a stunner. A senior fellow at the Hudson Institute -- one of those right-wing think tanks founded in order to provide haven for truthiness-based, business-friendly "science" that no actual scientific or knowledgeable policy institution would touch with a sterile, non-conductive ten foot science pole -- solicited money from a biotech company in the process of writing a book that would make them "look really good". And sure enough, Monsanto "contributed" $60,000 to get the book written.

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<div class="story_body" style=" margin-bottom: 4em; line-height: 13.6000003814697px;">Now couple that for the moment with another big story of the day -- the CNSNews "story" by senior staff writer Marc Morano smearing Congressman and Vietnam war veteran Jack Murtha -- according to methods nearly identical to the "Swift Boat" claims against Kerry.

Why is Morano's "breaking" coverage of the story especially interesting? Because, as <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2006/1/14/13952/5861/157#157" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">daria g</a> and <a href="http://gadflyer.com/flytrap/index.php?Week=200503#1407" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Gadflyer</a> point out, CNSNews was the first source of the Swift Boat Vet claims in the 2004 election. And who was the writer of those multiple stories, each sourced heavily from such figures as John O'Neill and Jerome Corsi?

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/SpecialReports/archive/200405/SPE20040503a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a>.  Exact same guy.

Imagine that. Anyone think maybe there's a connection between the background sources, in those two stories? Gee, I sure wonder what a perusal of Marc Morano's <a href="http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/sprint-joins-growing-list-of-wireless.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cell phone records</a> would turn up, over the course of the last month or two.

Aside from a particular interest in the Swift Boat Vet claims, Morano has a long and inventive list of story ideas, including <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200406%5CCUL20040618a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">an entire article</a> dedicated to the breathless report that right-wing uber-crackpot Lucianne Goldberg found Bill Clinton's memoirs "boring".

But among the stories Morano and others have returned to time and time again, for CNSNews, have been pro-biotech, pro-GMO, anti-environmental stories. And that's where, in light of yesterday's news on the Monsanto-paid Fumento and our particular interests in sniffing out links between stories, things get a bit interesting.

Because I mean a lot of pro-biotech and anti-environmental stories. Including, as it turns out, one hell of a lot of stories featuring quotes from Niger Innis, spokesman for the Congress of Racial Equality, and other figures which, one by one, can each be traced to either ExxonMobil and/or Monsanto-backed "nonprofits" and "think tanks".

Earlier this year, Chris Mooney in <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/blackgold.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mother Jones</a> provided a description of what the previously significant and longstanding CORE has become. And it isn't pretty:

<blockquote style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">So why, then, does the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of the nation's most storied civil rights groups, organizer of the Freedom Rides and the 1963 March on Washington, attack those who want to curb global warming? ExxonMobil, which in 2003 gave CORE $40,000 ($15,000 was earmarked for "global climate outreach"), would obviously like to avoid any appearance that its products and policies are a slow-moving assault on poor people of color. How better than to turn the accusation around? In that bit of public relations jujitsu, CORE has been most useful. To those familiar with CORE's recent history, its allegiance to ExxonMobil comes as no surprise. In 1968, Roy Innis seized control of CORE and moved the group to the far right. Innis has been accused by founder James Farmer and other black leaders of renting out CORE's historic reputation to corporations like Monsanto and ExxonMobil. (CORE even mounted a counterprotest to environmentalists picketing an ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting.) [...]

Helping CORE form these talking points is its senior policy adviser, Paul Driessen, the author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death, who also works with several other ExxonMobil-funded groups. At a 2004 ExxonMobil shareholders' meeting, Driessen referred to CORE as "one of America's oldest and most respected civil rights organizations" and called for greater funding for the group.

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So out of curiosity, who covered that shareholders "counterprotest" for CNSNews? Hmm -- yep, <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=//Nation//archive//200205//NAT20020530a.html" style=" font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a>, in a story approvingly quoting both Innis and Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, another "nonprofit" group receiving funding from ExxonMobil, of which Paul Driessen is also a senior advisor. Needless to say, neither group was identified by Morano as having an ExxonMobil connection to the "counterprotests".

As far as CORE itself, <a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=344" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Matthews</a> detailed the new Monsanto and ExxonMobil connections to the group in an excellent article from last March that went down the list of recent CORE-based propaganda efforts:

<blockquote style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">Of course, such attempts to position biotech's soap box behind a black man's face neither began nor ended in Johannesburg. In late 1999, for instance, a street protest against genetic engineering in Washington DC was disrupted by a group of African-Americans bearing placards such as "Biotech saves children's lives." A Baptist Church from a poor neighborhood had, the New York Times revealed, been paid by Monsanto's PR firm to bus in the counter-demonstrators. But Johannesburg does seem to have been a kind of watershed. Since then, Monsanto's fake parade has really begun to hit its stride. And from US administration platforms to UN headquarters, from Capitol Hill to the European Parliament, we've been treated to a veritable minstrelsy of lobbying.

Let's pick up the trail amidst the Martin Luther King Day observances in New York City this January. That was when the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) invited some 700 diplomats, scientists, journalists, and Gotham high-school students to come and consider the "implications and reality" of biotechnology at UN headquarters.

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OK -- so who covered that pro-biotechnology "World Conference" for CNSNews? Well, in this case, none other than <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">CORE national spokesman Niger Innis himself, along with CORE senior policy advisor Paul Driessen</a>, in a "commentary" for the news service. Neo-conservative lobbyist and CORE senior advisor Driessen, in fact, has written at least six such pro-biotech, anti-environmental "commentaries" for CNSNews between November of this year:

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200411/COM20041101c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Country-Club Anxieties vs Malaria Victims</a> By Paul Driessen, November 01, 2004

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200412%5CCOM20041215e.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Prophets, False Prophets and Profiteers</a> By Paul Driessen, December 15, 2004

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200501%5CCOM20050103d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When Visions Collide</a> By Niger Innis and Paul Driessen, January 03, 2005

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Commentary/Archive/200503/COM20050308d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Facts v. Fears on Biotechnology</a> by Paul Driessen and Cyril Boynes, Jr., March 08, 2005

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200503/COM20050321a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Sustainable Development = Sustained Poverty</a> By Paul Driessen, March 21, 2005

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200504%5CCOM20050422d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Earth Day 2005</a> by Paul Driessen, April 22, 2005

As an aside, Driessen apparently started writing commentaries for CNSNews in 2004, not long after he and Innis were <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200404%5CNAT20040423b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">interviewed by CNSNews' Marc Morano</a> in an article heavily leaning on the 'Eco-Imperialism' theme of Driessen's anti-environmental book.

Continuing on with Matthew's article:

<blockquote style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">In a talk on biotechnology at the Natural History Museum in London in May 2003, the world-renowned American botanist, Dr Peter Raven, noted CORE's strong concern about the obstruction of technological advancement. "Last month, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), one of America's most venerable and respected civil rights groups, confronted Greenpeace at a public event and accused it of "eco-manslaughter" through its support of international policies limiting development and the expansion of technology to the developing world's poor."</blockquote>

Who covered that 2003 counter-protest for CNSNews?  <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200305%5CNAT20030509d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a>, in a glowing article made up almost entirely of quotes from Innis and a CORE press release on the event.

Let's keep going:

<blockquote style=" margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">In September 2003, CORE's national spokesman presided over a mock awards ceremony at the World Trade Organization meeting in the Mexican resort of Cancun. The ceremony included participants carrying "Save the Children" placards while the awards went to those Innis termed advocates of "lethal eco-imperialism."</blockquote>

Who wrote about the pro-biotech CORE event for CNSNews? <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200309%5CFOR20030912c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Marc Morano</a>.

<blockquote style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">Four months later CORE organised a "Teach-In" in New York entitled, "Eco-Imperialism: The global green movement's war on the developing world's poor".</blockquote>

Oh, I can't bear to look. Did CNSNews cover this one too? Yes.  But we're in a bit of luck, because CNSNews "Morning Editor" Susan Jones <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200401%5CNAT20040116a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">covered the event</a>, which was organized by the aforementioned frequent CNSNews contributor and CORE senior advisor Paul Driessen.

The key speaker at the event, just to ensure that no CNSNews story about pro-biotech CORE publicity stunts goes by without a reference to Morano, was <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Patrick_Moore" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Patrick Moore</a>, a distantly ex-Greenpeace figure with a consultancy business supporting mining, logging, biotech, and other corporate anti-environmental efforts -- who Morano made a quite a name for himself with as reporter in a 2000 documentary piece for American Investigator Television (and available for purchase in the WorldNetDaily store, Joseph Farah would like to ever-so-whorishly <a href="http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:aiq84aO2D4MJ:wnd.com/news/article.asp%3FARTICLE_ID%3D14987+%22Patrick+Moore%22+%22Marc+Morano%22&hl=en&client=safari" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">point out</a>) in which Moore asserted that the Amazon rainforest was over 90% intact, and unharmed by logging, mining and agriculture.

Moore's own connections to Monsanto were touched upon by the Manila Times in <a href="http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:S90xI_Suy5sJ:ngin.tripod.com/131202d.htm+%22Patrick+Moore%22+Monsanto&hl=en&client=safari" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">a 2001 article</a>:

<blockquote style=" background-color: rgb(224, 216, 201); margin: 1em 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0.5em; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 153, 153);">A flurry of such pro-GM/anti-Greenpeace publicity centering on Moore, was originally prompted by Moore's appearance at the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification in New Zealand, after Moore was flown in by the biotech industry as one of its expert witnesses.

"There are so many real benefits from genetic modification...", Moore told the Commission, but he ran into some difficult questions as to what exactly had qualified him to appear as an expert on genetic modification. Moore proferred:

"I have.. recently had a full tour of the Monsanto labs in St Louis for example. I have also been briefed thoroughly by the people in Novartis in Basel Switzerland..."

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That hardly describes the relationship. Although Moore's consulting records are, obviously, unavailable, Moore has <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:www.bio.org++%22Patrick+Moore%22+BIO+biotechnology" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">proved</a> <a href="http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Patrick+Moore%22+AgBioWorld&btnG=Search" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">prominent</a>in the Monsanto-linked lobbying groups <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=23&page=B" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">BIO</a> and <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=106" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">AgBioWorld</a>, supporting Monsanto's bioengineered "Golden Rice", as well as on the<a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:www.monsanto.co.uk+%22Patrick+Moore%22+Monsanto" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Monsanto news site</a>.

Yeah, yeah, circle of life. What a coincidence. Now, is it just me, or does it seem that CNSNews has gone to some lengths to write, worldwide, about every significant pro-biotech activity of the pro-biotech, Monsanto and ExxonMobil-backed CORE of the past few years? And by "CNSNews", I mean with a Marc Morano connection more often then not?

Lest you think I'm picking on him unnecessarily, Marc Morano has done anti-environmental articles for CNSNews that do not rely explicitly on the ExxonMobil and Monsanto-backed, Innis-led CORE. <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com//ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200404\CUL20040422a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This April 2004 article mocking dry toilets</a> quotes only aRobert Bidinotto, Senior Fellow at the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise. The same Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in which CORE's senior policy advisor, Paul Driessen, is also a senior fellow, and the publisher of Driessen's book. So, is Bidinotto another remarkably pro-biotech source?

<a href="http://www.cdfe.org/frankenfoods.htm" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">You had to ask?</a>  He's also a writer of <a href="http://www.capitalresearch.org/pubs/author.asp?ID=125" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">books</a> on the "Hollywood Left" and John Kerry, among other <a href="http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=%22Robert+Bidinotto%22&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">voluminous</a> claims to fame. What an odd person to run across for a quote in an occasional series mocking dry toilets. (And how does that even work? Did Morano call Bidinotto up, and say "I'm working on a story about crap, and I thought of you?")

Other anti-dry-flush-toilet experts called upon by Morano included <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/Archive/200306/CUL20030612b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dennis Avery</a>, then the "director of global food issues" for the Hudson Institute -- the very same Hudson Institute in the news because of the $60,000 kickback by Monsanto to Hudson Institute figure<a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/1/14/9371/64940" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Michael Fumento</a>. Among other activities, GMWatch notes that the Morano-quoted <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=30" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Avery himself</a> had previously joined in an open letter criticizing Starbucks for the decision "to stop serving milk products from cows treated with Monsanto's genetically-engineered bovine growth hormone."  The Hudson Institute, site of the Fumento scandal, <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=15" style=" background-color: rgb(249, 240, 224); color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is itself backed by Monsanto, Dow, and other biotech-related companies.</a>

Dennis Avery, in addition to his Monsanto-backed Hudson Institute duties, <a href="http://www.eco-imperialism.com/content/book_review.php3" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">penned a complementary review for Driessen's anti-environmental book</a> -- as did Patrick Moore (and an Alan Caruba, who himself has penned several CNSNews pro-biotech commentaries.)  Niger Innis, of CORE, did one better -- he wrote the book's introduction.

Like a spiderweb, isn't it? All quotes leading back to pro-biotech, pro-GMO, Monsanto-linked figures?

You get the feeling CNSNews reporter Marc Morano doesn't exactly have to get his ass off his chair to get leads on what stories to write?

But let's momentarily give Morano a bit more credit. After all, his very first CNSNews article on the menace of the dry toilet was written way back in 2002. From Johannesburg, at the same summit that saw U.S. corporate interests such as the pro-biotech, <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=30" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Monsanto and Dow Chemicals funded</a> Competitive Enterprise Institute caught sponsoring <a href="http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/article.php?id=254" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">fake pro-biotech demonstrations involving fake local farmers</a>.

The <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/Archive/200208/FOR20020830c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">first person interviewed</a>, in that article?

Competitive Enterprise Institute President Fred Smith.

Well, oops. Three rather odd anti-dry-toilet articles by Marc Morano, picked at random from Morano's other anti-environmental articles at CNSNews, yield three more thinly-veiled Exxon-funded and Monsanto-funded quotes.

Knock me over with a feather.

Just a series of rampant coincidences, I'm sure. I mean, please -- anyone who previously worked for Rush Limbaugh is, I'm certain, above such petty ideological considerations.

But I think maybe media critics like Howard Kurtz, who yesterday <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301736.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pushed the Murtha-bashing story from CNSNews into the Washington Post</a>, might want to revisit the story and put a bit more meat behind the bones of who CNSNews is, and how they operate. Just a hunch.

Because it seems Marc Morano and CNSNews have some pretty interesting choices of which stories to go with. And they don't seem to have to go very far to get them.

Here, though, is the rub.

Mother Jones also published this year, alongside a separate Chris Mooney story, <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2005/05/some_like_it_hot.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Some Like It Hot</a>, describing ExxonMobil's connections to various right-wing groups and media outlets (including ample mention of Paul Driessen himself), <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">this chart</a> of the over forty "think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe" and which have received funding from ExxonMobil.  Notable groups receiving the cash include the American Enterprise Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, CORE, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institute, Hudson Institute, Tech Central Science Foundation...

... and the Media Research Center, parent foundation of CNSNews.

I suppose that might be one reason why even Media Research Center head Brent Bozell went out of his way to <a href="http://conservativenews.org/bozellcolumn/archive/2002/col20020604.asp" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">praise and highlight Marc Morano's CNSNews report on the ExxonMobil "counterprotesters"</a> in Bozell's syndicated column, even including some of Morano's quotes from CORE's Niger Innis in his own column.

Welcome to your right-wing "news."

Bought and paid for by the people funding the quotes.

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Additional Notes:

(1) In addition to the ExxonMobil-linked Niger Innis of CORE, Morano's 2002 report on the pro-ExxonMobil counter protests cited one other pro-Exxon nonprofit figure: Ron Arnold, cited only as Vice President of the nonprofit Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, of which the aforementioned Exxon-linked Paul Driessen is a senior advisor.  The CfDFE itself also receives funding from Exxon. According to <a href="http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=23" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ExxonSecrets.org</a>, Arnold himself was formerly a consultant for Dow Chemical, among other things, and was briefly head of Washington State chapter of the American Freedom Coalition, the political arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. The Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise was itself founded by convicted tax felon and notable gun activist Alan Gottlieb.

See <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=248&page=C" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">here</a> for detailed information about the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise's Ron Arnold, including interviews in which Arnold stated his purpose against environmentalists was to "kill the bastards. [...] People in industry, I'm going to do my best for you. Environmentalists, I'm coming to get you." In addition, links between Arnold's "Wise Use" movement and right-wing militias have been reported.

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(2) The odds are low, of course, that either ExxonMobil, Monsanto, or other corporate sponsors of right-wing "news" and "think-tanks" would have a direct corporate involvement in Swift Boating Congressman Jack Murtha. But there are other people who do; Newsweek's Howard Fineman stated on MSNBC's Countdown, on November 18th, that the attacks on Murtha were being orchestrated directly <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/19/33312/448" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">by Karl</a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/19/33312/448" style=" font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> Rove </a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/11/19/33312/448" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">himself</a>, inside the White House.

So any links between this group, and that? You might say that. <a href="http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=344" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Jonathan Matthews</a>, one last time.

The night before CORE's UN biotech conference this January, the organisation hosted a reception at the New York Hilton to honor, amongst others, Karl Rove - the Bush election strategist widely credited with having overseen black voter disenfranchisment in Florida and Ohio. This might seem a curious way of marking the MLK holiday, particularly for an organisation that features on its website images of murdered freedom riders killed during the drive for black voter registration in the Civil Rights Summer of 1964. Recently, however, those images were joined by Monsanto's logo. The organisation now styles Monsanto, which also sponsored its film "Voices from Africa", "CORE's corporate partner". [...]

[W]hen it came to honoring Bush's election strategist at CORE's celebratory dinner at the New York Hilton, Monsanto was certainly no ghost at the feast. Hugh Grant - not the actor but the CEO of Monsanto -- presided as chairman of the occasion. [...] Only days before Grant's appearance, news had broken that his company was to pay $1.5 million in penalties under US anti-bribery laws, for passing $50,000 to a senior Indonesian environmental official in an unsuccessful bid to amend or repeal the requirement for an environmental impact statement on new crop varieties. The bribe in question was just the tip of the iceberg: Monsanto has admitted to paying over $700,000 in bribes to more than a hundred officials over a five year period. The Monsanto executive in charge of Indonesia at the time the bribery got underway was none other than Hugh Grant.

Grant and Rove were far from the only controversial invitees to CORE's King Day celebrations. Others have included the Austrian politician and Nazi-sympathizer Jorg Haider, and the right-wing radio host Bob Grant, who once called Martin Luther King a "scumbag". But CORE itself has become increasingly controversial--and in some ways downright strange--since Roy Innis took its helm. Innis once branded opponents of racial segregation in the US as "house niggers", and dismissed the struggle against Apartheid as "a vicarious, romantic adventure" with "no honest base". When asked in 1973 why CORE supported Idi Amin despite the Ugandan president's hatred of Jewish people and praise of Hitler, Innis is reported to have said, "we have no records to prove if Hitler was a friend or an enemy of black people."

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(3) In addition to anti-environmental quotes for Marc Morano, CORE spokesman Niger Innis features prominently in a great many CNSNews stories, typically showcasing instances of black-vs-black political attacks with Innis as the go-to attack source on each story. A partial list of CNSNews stories quoting Innis show an unmistakable pattern:

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200210/NAT20021010a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Amid Race Flap, Lott Urged to Pull Out of Belafonte Award Dinner</a> By Marc Morano, October 10, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200210/NAT20021011a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Trent Lott Retreats From Belafonte Awards Dinner</a> by Marc Morano, October 11, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200210%5CNAT20021024b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Belafonte's Racial Remarks Prompt Criticism, Anxiety</a> by Marc Morano, October 24, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200211%5CNAT20021122b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bush Administration, GOP Slammed Over Bilingual Education</a>By Robert B. Bluey, November 22, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200212%5CPOL20021226a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bush Urged To Oppose Race-Based College Admissions</a> by Robert B. Bluey, December 26, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Business/Archive/200301/BUS20030106a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Bush Administration 'Duped' by Jesse Jackson Event</a> By Marc Morano, January 06, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/Culture/archive/200301/CUL20030117c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Administration Officials Call Jackson's Conference 'Wonderful,' 'Marvelous'</a> By Marc Morano, January 17, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200305%5CNAT20030515d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Anniversary of Desegregation Case Sheds Light on New Challenges</a> By Robert B. Bluey, May 15, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200306%5CPOL20030623a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dem Influence on 2004 GOP Convention Worries Conservatives</a> By Marc Morano, June 23, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200307%5CPOL20030717a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Enron-Linked Bush Official Named in Labor Dept Lawsuit</a> By Marc Morano, July 17, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200310%5CPOL20031030a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Enron-Linked Bush Official Gets Another Chance to Restore Funds</a> by Marc Morano, October 30, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200311%5CPOL20031105b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Black Conservatives Join Fight Over Stalled Judicial Nominees</a> By Robert B. Bluey, November 05, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5C%5CSpecialReports%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200404%5C%5CSPE20040415a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">NAACP Legal Group's Integrity Called Into Question</a> by Robert B. Bluey, April 15, 2004

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5CSpecialReports%5Carchive%5C200404%5CSPE20040421a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Latest 'Memogate' Developments Fail to Generate Media Buzz</a> By Robert B. Bluey, April 21, 2004

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5C%5CNation%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200404%5C%5CNAT20040429a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">President of NAACP Legal Group Won't Discuss Role in 'Memogate'</a> By Robert B. Bluey, April 29, 2004

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200405%5CCUL20040510b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Attendance Down for Anti-Gun Million Mom March</a> By Robert B. Bluey, May 10, 2004

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200502%5CNAT20050218a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Black Conservatives Demand Return of 'Principled Leadership'</a> by Susan Jones, February 18, 2005

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(4) For reference, a partial list of stories by Marc Morano and other CNSNews figures heavily laden with quotes from Exxon or Monsanto-backed groups, along with the pro-biotech, anti-environmental series carried by CNSNews as "commentary" by Paul Driessen, senior advisor to CORE, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, and other groups that have taken money directly from ExxonMobil and/or Monsanto. (It should be noted, in passing, that Driessen is also omnipresent on the ExxonMobil-funded <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:techcentralstation.com+%22Tech+Central+Station%22+%22Paul+Driessen%22" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Tech Central Station</a>, where he writes similar fare.)

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewBusiness.asp?Page=%5C%5CBusiness%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200205%5C%5CBUS20020529a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Oil Giant 'Guilty' of Crimes against Humanity, Protesters Say</a> by Marc Morano, May 29, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=//Nation//archive//200205//NAT20020530a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ExxonMobil Protesters Seek to Inflict 'Death of a Thousand Cuts'</a> By Marc Morano, May 30, 2002 -- quotes Ron Arnold of the Exxon-funded Center for Defense of Free Enterprise, (publisher of Driessen book) and Innis.

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CCulture%5Carchive%5C200207%5CCUL20020709a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Study Claims Global Warming Helped US Avert Deeper Recession</a> By Marc Morano, July 09, 2002 -- featuring quote by Monsanto-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute figure Myron Ebell.

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=%5CBusiness%5Carchive%5C200211%5CBUS20021122a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Greens Praise ExxonMobil for Efforts to Save Tiger</a> By Marc Morano, November 22, 2002

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200305%5CNAT20030509d.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Protest Planned Against Greenpeace's 'Eco-Manslaughter'</a> By Marc Morano, May 09, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=%5CForeignBureaus%5Carchive%5C200309%5CFOR20030912c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Free Market Advocates Fight Back at WTO</a> By Marc Morano, September 12, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ForeignBureaus/archive/200309/FOR20030915c.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Mexican Village Plays Host to Fight Over Genetically Modified Food</a> By Marc Morano, September 15, 2003

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5CCommentary%5Carchive%5C200311%5CCOM20031121b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Killing Millions to 'Save' the Earth</a> by Alan Caruba, November 21, 2003 -- self described "public relations counselor" Alan Caruba, an "Adjunct Scholar" at the ExxonMobil-funded Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, is one of those linked on Driessen's website with a glowing review of Driessen's anti-environmental book.  This article is a glowing review of the book, quoting both Driessen and Innis, and is one of at least two very similar pro-Exxon, anti-environmental "commentaries" by Caruba carried by CNSNews. Caruba is also author of a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en-us&q=+site:www.cnsnews.com+CNSNews+%22Alan+Caruba%22" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">large number</a> of other articles for the group, including... well, you'll really have to see for yourself.

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200401%5CNAT20040116a.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Civil Rights Group Blames Greens for Africans' Plight</a> By Susan Jones, January 16, 2004 -- At this point, you may be forgiven for thinking that CNSNews writes the same pro-Exxon, pro-Monsanto story, coupling it with the plight of the poor indigenous peoples who could benefit from Exxon and Monsanto products, on a clockwork basis.  You'd be right.

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=%5CNation%5Carchive%5C200404%5CNAT20040423b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Environmentalists Accused of Promoting 'Eco-Imperialism'</a> By Marc Morano, April 23, 2004  -- Morano interviews Paul Driessen

Paul Driessen is senior policy advisor for the Congress of Racial Equality

<a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200504/COM20050422b.html" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Killing People to 'Save' the Environment</a> By Alan Caruba, April 22, 2005 -- see above, re: 4/23/04. This article, like many of the others at CNSNews, coincides with a Monsanto/Dow effort to use fears of malaria as a reason for promoting both pesticide and GMO use in Africa.

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