Group Now Smearing Pelosi Was Led By Swift Boat Funder Sam Fox

[MagickMuffin]

Think Progress has more details but here are a few highlights:

The conservative group currently running an ad campaign attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for her visit to Syria was headed until January by Sam Fox, the Swift Boat Vets funder whom President Bush has appointed as Ambassador to Belgium.

Fox infamously gave $50,000 to the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth, which smeared Sen. John Kerry’s (D-MA) military service and claimed his combat medals were undeserved. Fox also served as National Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) for six years. He stepped down in January after being nominated for the ambassadorship by President Bush.

Contacted by ThinkProgress, a spokeswoman for the RJC would not rule out that Fox was involved in the ad, saying only that “as far as I know,” Fox was not connected.

The RJC television ad on Pelosi highlights the baseless Washington Post editorial and contains no mention of the five Republicans who also traveled to Syria last week. The ad’s tag line: “Tough? No. Dangerous and very wrong.”

http://thinkprogress.org/

[acmavm]

1. The dems need to find out and then shit-can this fool's

recess appointment fast. I can't imagine that one would be allowed to be and Ambassador to Belgium and a lying troublemaker as well, would one?

[frogcycle]

2. get belgium to reject his credentials

hell, I'd cheer Nancy for making a trip there to request that personally (but of course she shouldn't)

Kerry could though

[mopinko]

3. there is no elected official too small to be smeared by these

clowns.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=150&topic_id=14381&mesg_id=14381

this is what you get if you stand up to walmart.

[ray of light]

4. we need to cut off the financing of those adds. Shame the people who pay for them.

[KharmaTrain]

5. More Important...Make Their Words Payback...

527 ads have been abused, but it's a double-edged sword. This is the same method we get the word out through MoveOn and other organizations about Repugnican corruption that helps our candidates. The difference is our 527 have facts and truth on their side, the Repugnicans have slime and lies.

I like the idea of getting Belgium to reject his "credentials" (I wonder if he even gets those being only a temporary appointment), but the real deal here is to expose those who pay for repeated lies and their connections to this regime. Sadly, goons like Fox and his Texas Ranger pals have deep pockets and no scrupples. They will continue to pull this shit in one form or another until they realize they're throwing their money away. So let them keep funding and throwing their money away on their 527s...the game here is to support ours that counter these lies to have bigger and louder voices.

[MagickMuffin]

6. More on this from FireDoglake

More details on Pelosi smear group.
Jane Hamsher has more details on the Republican Jewish Coalition, which is bankrolling a series of attack ads on Speaker Pelosi (D-CA) over her trip to Syria: “The board is quite the rogues gallery and includes Ari Fleischer, David Frum, Sheldon Adelson, Lewis M. Eisenberg and Ken Mehlman. They also financed ads for Lieberman during his senate race, and has some lovely overlap with the Scooter Libby Defense Fund.”