Watching Freedom's Watch
By Nicole Belle Thursday Feb 14, 2008 6:01pm 
You may not know the name, but you certainly know the faces behind the 501c4 group, Freedom's Watch:
Freedom's Watch has been described by critics as a front group for White House policy and a "neo-conservative 'slush fund' supporting the views of Vice President Dick Cheney",[4][5] "came out of" a December 2006 "event"[6] at the American Enterprise Institute when retired Gen. Jack Keane and AEI scholar Frederick W. Kagan "talk[ed] about the need for a troop increase in Iraq, "a plan adopted by" President George W. Bush in January 2007.[7]
And members of Freedom's Watch are among the more frequently invited talking heads on all the news shows, Ari Fleischer, Dan Senor, etc., eager to push their version of reality and neo-con agenda on to the rest of us.
Good news is that we have now Freedom'sWatch Newsladder to watch these war and Bush/Cheney cheerleaders:
Thank you for visiting this site and learning more about Freedom's Watch - a 501c4 run by Republican leadership and consultants that intends to make a major impact on the 2008 Elections; from the Presidential Campaign to State and House races. [..]
We believe that America is indeed the land of free speech, but it is very important that you know who you are speaking to; Freedom's Watch is nothing more than a Republican, neo-conservative front group with a strict Republican, neo-conservative agenda, nothing more, nothing less.
You can join the Freedom's Watch Newsladder and keep all of us informed on their propaganda pushes.
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Vote Freedom Frist.
who's freedom ?
Sorry I couldn't stomach it and anyway I would rub miself raw just trying to wash off the slim these guys are spewing
Grass roots my ***
No Thanks, I wish to maintain my sanity...........such as it is. ;-)
Just curious, how many of the founders of this flag-waving, eagle-sporting, freedom-loving group have served in the military?
Why is it taboo to mention that Freedom Watch is fairly clearly linked to the Israel Lobby? Take a look at the board of directors and staff and you'll find quite a lot of overlap between the group's funders/leaders and prominent right wing Israel Lobby types.
Phil Weiss has been blogging on this group for some time and has investigated these links -- http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/02/once-again-free.html
Also on Tikkun Olam:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/01/right-wing-jewis...
Just love how they use such Orwellian language.
Old Billy @ 4:
They had other priorities..........and flat feet of course. ;-)
Sheldon Adelson(who owns some Las Vegas casinos) and Ed Snider(the former owner of the Philadelphia Flyers) are both big $$$ backers of Freedom's Watch.
FascismsWatch.org
Thank God, they found my watch!
-Freedom
Doesn't the MSM provide them with enough outlet for their propaganda?
Please keep in mind that Campbell Brown of NBC is married to the aforementioned Dan Senor of Freedoms Watch. More of your "Liburrral media" at work.
i love the neocon aesthetics of horrible graphic design. look at that beveled logo. i am constantly aghast at the graphics on fox news as well. when i think about it though, there is kind of a gestalt to all the tasteless vapidity, so maybe it's successful in that sense.
enor @ 11:
The MSM are first on the list to be sent the talking points.
If we progressives are on them like a cheap suit, ready to debunk their propaganda early, and forcefully, they will find a much stronger adversary than ever before. My hat is off to all the bloggers who built the blogosphere, and the writers/speakers that have been diligent for many years, but were lonely voices in the forest. To you, I say, "Your efforts are coming to fruition. I believe it is time where the leaders may want to 'huddle-up' and form a unified strategy for attacking the neocons. It could not be discussed openly on the web and it would have to be composed of those folk who are known to be true progressives. The neo-cons are only stupid about some things. But, with the power behind the neo-cons (FBI, CIA, NSA, ATF, HSD, Justice Department (currently an oxymoron), DEA, etc), it is pretty hard to keep a secret without due diligence.
The Orwellian flag + eagle + word "freedom" pretty much clued me in that this was a reich wing front group. These fascist Republicans alway trot out the symbols of America to undermine it.
Radically Moderate @ 7:
Many more Chickenhawks galore!
http://www.liberalslikechrist.org/about/chickenhawks.html
Swap out the American flag and eagle to a vulture and the Nazi flag then the "freedom" watch logo would be accurate.
Looks at the bright side folks. Americans are wising up. Less than a year till the Republicans find themselves regulated further into minority status and a regional southern party.
When they say "freedom," they really mean "obedience."
Read Glenn Greenwald's "A Tragic Legacy" to find out more about all these little war-mongering groups. I never knew before how much harm the American Enterprise Institute does. Every hawk in D.C., including Lynn Cheney, serves on the board.
Between the religious right, the National Review plus the other right-wing news outlets, and these knee-jerk think tanks, we'd all better keep our eyes open until W blows town. And if McCain wins, it will just be more of the same. All these folks are looking for the next middle-east war to involve the US in. Scaaaaary!
Wow a group devoted to eternal vigilance against freedom. You Americans have everything!
BIFF @ 12:
Have you ever heard her say on the air that she's married to Senor?
Just like Howie Kurtz never mentions that his wife is Sheri Annis!
For those who don't know, Sheri Annis is a Republican strategist.
The horror, the horror.........
You know, I think the world of a woman who made a commercial for this neocon front group, she lost a son in Iraq and supports the fight. As bad as I feel for her, she is motivated by her loss to keep "fighting". I dont know what one could say to her in her quest for "winning" in Iraq when it was lost the day the first soldiers entered Baghdad. A war crafted on lies and almost deliberately mismanaged makes the terrified and uprooted Iraqi people think that this mayhem was planned. And why shouldnt they?
More lives will also be lost. And more mothers like her will be ruined from their sons loss.
Oh man freedom watch got me pissed off the minute I heard of it. Ari Fleischer is such a weasel I can barely contain my distaste for that man.
Me Ranting - Another Guy That Won't Shut Up
The bald eagle in that ad for Freedom Watch,just shed a tear.It can not help but, to cry.Seeing how Facist we have become. Ari Fleischer is chickenhawk little BASTARD.
Where on earth does their money come from? I heard they'll have something like $250 million to spend on pro-war advertisements.
Was all of this money simply laundered thru blackwater?
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AWWWW... what's a matter.. little (and he is) anti American Georgie Soros has got all you guys (his disciples) worried..cuz he's getting a taste of his own medicine.. glad
to see Freedom's Watch has got the anti-American left bothered.
And, now, CNN has installed MRS.DAN SENOR aka CAMPBELL BROWN NOT ONLY ON HER OWN SHOW BUT AS ONE OF 'THE BEST POLITICAL TEAM' ON TELEVISION. fucking perfect ....
Pat @ 29:
Freedoms Watch = Who's "freedom" are they concerned with?
Surely not mine, they are only concerned with spying and then granting retroactive immunity.
Who am I kidding, you don't understand a word of it.
Freedom? WTF is "freedom"? It's nothing more now than a Buzzword the Repiglicans like to throw around, almost as much as the Dems. The United States of America hasn't been a "Free" country for a century. LOOK AT YOUR LIFE! Every damn thing in America is illegal, regulated, taxed, or prohibited. We have the biggest body of laws in the world. Nobody wants to take responsibility for their own actions, so whatever you might want to do, some jackass has gotten there before you and put up a "No" sign. (been to the beach lately?)
Every morning on my way to work (securely wrapped in my seatbelt because some bureaucrats feel I can't make my own decisions about my own safety) I pass a huge Billboard, sponsored by Martin-Marietta (part of the Military Industrial Complex bent on shoving our "freedom" down everybody else's throat by force) that says "America will always be the Land of the Free because it is the Home of the Brave" WTF...if Americans are so damn brave why are they so bloody afraid of taking ANY risks, of doing anything on their own. Why have we let a small bunch of bomb-chucking ragheads cause us to panic so completely that we allow assholes like George Bush to run the country and destroy whatever freedoms we have left? Washington, Jefferson, Adams, would VOMIT if they could see what our anxieties and unwillingness to take personal responsibility have made of this country.
It IS time for a change...
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