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What EVERYONE should know about the secretive group trying to swift boat Barack Obama

think-progress:

MORE FACTS AT THE LINK about the group’s attempt to do to Barack Obama what the Swift Boat Veterans did to Kerry’s 2004 campaign. 

In four days, the first ad by Veterans For A Strong America garnered almost 1 million view on Youtube.  [YouTube, 5/1/12]

The group’s sole employee and founder is coordinating with key Islamophobic figures on the far-right.[ThinkProgress,2/12/12;For The Common Defense; New York Times,3/4/05]

The group’s founder helped promote a documentary advocating war with Iran. [Flier; ThinkProgress, 11/3/11]

Veterans for A Strong American is fully endorsed by Karl Rove. The man known as “Bush’s Brain” tweeted his support of their first web ad. [Twitter,5/3/12]

The group’s founder — posing as a “journalist” — organized and participated in a taxpayer subsidized propaganda trip to Iraq in 2008. [Charleston Gazette, 8/28/08]


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