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Unsurprisingly, listed among FDD's board of advisors are [[Bill Kristol]] and Sen. [[Joe Lieberman]] (I-Conn.).
==Catapulting the propaganda==
VFF's Missouri chairman, [[Brendan Mueller]], has reportedly called on [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Sen. [[Claire McCaskill]] "to return $16,000 she received from [[MoveOn.org|Moveon.org]] during her election campaign in 2006," according to the September 13, 2007, ''The Source'' Blog.<ref>[http://thesource.typepad.com/thesource/2007/09/give-more-back-.html "Give More Back, Claire,"] ''The Source'' Blog, September 13, 2007.</ref> McCaskill was also asked to "denounce" the MoveOn.org ad "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" published in the ''New York Times'' September 10, 2007, the first day of [[troop surge in Iraq: The Petraeus Report: Testimony|testimony]] on the progress of the [[troop surge in Iraq|surge]] and [[war in Iraq]] by Lt.Gen. [[David Petraeus]] before Congress,<ref>[http://pol.moveon.org/petraeus.html "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?"] MoveOn.org, accessed September 13, 2007.</ref><ref>Nick Juliano, [http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Republicans_focus_on_attacking_MoveOn.org_Gen._0910.html "Republicans focus on attacking MoveOn.org 'Gen. Betray Us' ad during 'surge' hearing,"] ''The Raw Story'', September 10, 2007.</ref> calling the ad "a disgrace". Mueller "went on to say she [McCaskill] should 'take the lead on this issue and return the money that she has taken from the organization that has libeled an American patriot who has served his country selflessly for many years.'"
It should be noted that, on September 9, 2007, the day before MoveOn.org's controversial ad was published, it was VFF's executive director [[Pete Hegseth]] who accused MoveOn.org in the article "MoveOn.org Calls Petraeus a Traitor" published in the [[right-wing]] publication ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' of calling Lt.Gen. Petraeus a "traitor".<ref>Pete Hegseth, [http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/091rhesh.asp "MoveOn.org Calls Petraeus a Traitor. Do Democrats in Congress agree?"] ''The Weekly Standard'', September 9, 2007.</ref>
As Jeffrey Feldman wrote September 11, 2007, in ''The Daily Kos''<ref>Jeffrey Feldman, [http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/11/8323/75329 "Frameshop: How Rt-Wing Lie About MoveOn Ad Became The Story (update),"] ''The Daily Kos'', September 11, 2007.</ref>
:"The only problem: the word 'traitor' appears nowhere in the MoveOn.org ad nor anywhere on the MoveOn.org page about the ad. It is Hegseth's article that introduced the word 'traitor' into the story--an outright lie intended to silence dissent against the war. Less than 24 hours after the Hegseth piece ran and the MoveOn.org ad appeared, the mainstream media picked up the Weekly Standard's lie and repeated it until it became the story."
The phrase "catapulting the propaganda" comes from a comment made on May 24, 2005, by President [[George W. Bush]]: "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."<ref>Tom Engelhardt, [http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0829-21.htm "Catapulting the Propaganda. The President, Cindy Sheehan, and How Words Die,"] ''TomDispatch.com'' (''Common Dreams''), May 29, 2005.</ref>
==Supporting pro-war candidates ... again==
