February 21, 2005

GOP Targets AARP in Conspiracy Orchestrated from the Top

Thanks to Joshua Micah Mellancamp Boutros-Boutros Marshall, Duncan 'Atrios' Black, and dKos for pointing out that conservative lobbying group USA Next is going after the AARP (American Association of Retarded People). Something Kos calls "a knife in the back" because the AARP "dance[ed] with the devil" (Atrios' words) by supporting Bush's drug plan and Marshall characterizes as a 'scam' orchestrated by KKKarl Rove.

I am reassured by Marshall, dKos, Atrios, and Cousin Oliver that the left-wing MSM is just an illusion. That's good to know. For a minute there I thought the fact that the first paragraph of this NY Times piece tries to claim that the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were a front for an "orchestrated attack." Must be one of those illusions.

Speaking for myself, I'd love to see the AARP fall and not get up. They are the largest and most powerful special interest group in the nation and their members are the recipients of the largest entitlement program in the US--Social Security.

So, what is the connection between the Swifties and USA Next? USA Next is hiring the same firm, Creative Response Concepts, that the Swifties hired for their advertising. Do you see the deep dark connection here? They're hiring the same advertising firm.

It gets worse than that, oh yes the evil roots of this conspiracy run deep, you see the people that work for that advertising firm are all Republicans. Yes, you heard me right, Republicans.

Not like at a place like Media Matters or the NY Times where there are an equal number of Republicans and Democrats.

Sounds like the kind of connection that is so important that the NY Times feels it has to run an article about it. Not that there is any agenda at the NY Times. That would be an illusion.

The fact that the NY Times goes on to list the names and incomes of people who were associated with the Swifty ads, and does so in five paragraphs of text, is practically overshadowed by the one sentence that mentions that the AARP has already spent $5 million on anti-Social Security reform advertisments.

See how fair the NY Times is?

And just to show how fair the Times is, they let the unsubstantiated allegation made by unnamed sources that the White House is actually coordinating the attack juggernaut. To their credit, the Times did not ask Carl Rove how long had it been since he stopped beating his wife.

I call that fair and balanced.

I just hope that the USA Next attack dog is somewhat more masculine than Josh Marshall's.