Wall Street Journal hits MoveOn.org anti-Semitism
by Bill Levinson

Many scandals should kill organizations and political careers; whether they do depends on whether they “grow legs” and spread. Today’s Wall Street Journal’s editorial page (online subscribers see here) has just spread the information to millions of highly-educated and mostly conservative readers. Not only that, most readers don’t have time to read the entire paper but they do check the front page news summary and the editorial pages.

We played a direct role in killing the Million Mom March in 2000 by exposing its alleged misuse of 501(c)(3) tax-exempt money to support Al Gore’s Presidential campaign. The scandal would not have been fatal, though, had it not “grown legs.” We had the good fortune to find a pro-Second Amendment columnist, J.R. Labbe, who published the information in her national opinion column. The Million Mom March crumpled up visibly within weeks and liquidated less than a year and a half later.

William Kristol’s “Anti-Judaism” (Wall Street Journal, 8 September 2006) has given long legs to the information that Robert Miller’s “Donkey See, Monkey Do” (Washington Times) and our own Israpundit, netWMD, and blog at http://moveonpleasemoveon.blogspot.com/ have been trying to disseminate. Kristol writes specifically,

Some of the activists at Moveon.org, the political organization that raises millions for Democratic candidates and generates support for left-wing policies, had a curious reason for cheering the Democratic primary defeat of Sen. Joe Lieberman. As Robert Goldberg reported in the Washington Times, after one Moveon member celebrated the defeat of “Jew Lieberman,” 95% of those who responded to the post on the Moveon Web site expressed their approval.

We have already documented extensive evidence that this kind of material was posted at the Action Forum with the full knowledge of the people who run it, and it was removed only when MoveOn.org was caught red-handed like a dirty little thief hiding merchandise in his overcoat. Eli Pariser’s pathetic attempts at damage control have already been exposed for what they are (http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=2599); the kind of frantic, desperate, grasping-at-straws damage control that failed to save the Million Mom March six years ago.

The next step must be to demand that all candidates whom MoveOn.org has endorsed disown and reject MoveOn.org’s endorsement unless they want to be seen as endorsing MoveOn’s positions on Jews, 9/11 conspiracy theories worthy of any supermarket tabloid or the Jeff Rense Show, accusations that the United States is a war criminal country, and so on. That may play well in Massachusetts; it won’t in Pennsylvania, where Bob Casey is in a close race against Rick Santorum. Here is a list of MoveOn candidates for reference:

Ned Lamont (D-CT)
Patrick Murphy for U.S. Congress (PA-08)
Diane Farrell for U.S. Congress (CT-04)
Former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd for U.S. Senate (WV)
Bob Casey for U.S. Senate (PA)
Nick Lampson for U.S. Congress (TX-22)
Sherrod Brown for U.S. Senate (OH)
Francine Busby for U.S. Congress (CA-50)
Bill Nelson for U.S. Senate (FL)