My Response to Crooked Politician Clark Judge on his NPR Screed

Clark Judge: The First Political Sewage on NPR in a long time
To: letters@marketplace.org

Attn: Marketplace, NPR and Mr. Brown:

Couched in a make-believe argument about campaign finance, Marketplace/NPR trots out former Ronald Reagan speech writer Clark Judge to attack Move On Dot Org. Snake-oil journalism from NPR in my opinion.

You are familiar with the word SYNERGY?

Let's think about "political sewage," as your guest, Mr. Judge, had the smarmy gall to characterize the creativity of our members...members that were characterizing the policies and politics of the Bush Administration. And doing it for nothing, except a chance to have their artistic creativity put on the Internet, and a shot at an award for excellence.

The RNC and Mr. Judge were quick to immerse themselves in hatred of Move On Dot Org by citing an independent upload to the website comparing Bush to Hitler. The RNC was so offended by it, that the only place you could watch that ad, after it was brought to the attention of contest supervisors, was on the RNC Website! They used it to cry on member's shoulders and ask for MONEY. It may still be there! And they have never paid the creator a single penny of copyright fund for it either, I would guess.

You have allowed Mr. Judge give his smear against Move On.org, an organization I have been associated with for 3 years now, without revealing that not only is he a "managing director of the white house writers group," but that he has been creating the very thing he now finds so offending, political advertising, for Reagan, and Bush 41, as a right wing hack for years. I believe he even had a hand in a book about Reagan. Right Wing Political involvement, perhaps? Synergy?

I didn't hear you or guest mention that the funding Mr. Soros provided, since Mr. Soros was also slurred by your guest and therefore by NPR and yourself...he didn't mention that this was a matching fund process to try and allow regular working stiffs to come up with a few bucks to thwart the Republican Corporate greed money machine that is buying up our air, water, lumber, beaches, rivers, and politicians.

Republican Big Oil, bloated and crooked Energy outfits like Enron, with bottomless pockets buying our democracy with fat checks that eventually bounce back on our retirement community...I guess that's OK with you and Mr. Judge and the White House Writers (hmmm...would that be news writers? Health writers? or Right-wing writers) group.

I resent that a single penny of a contribution I have made to NPR would fund this crooked rhetoric without your show, sir, providing a scintilla of response to the accusations. I would hope you can make amends for that by inviting members of the group, Move On. Org, to offer retort and reprise the ugly smears of Clark Judge. And maybe in the future you can be more discerning about the nature of trash you disseminate on NPR.

Did you even have the class to mention that the winning ads from Move On will be shown during the week of the unelected administrations next big speech, (SOTU), hopefully without the lies lies and more lies that took America into this disastrous war?

But Judge's use of the term "political sewage" bears repeating. It appears that Mr. Judge can well be an authority on the smell of political sewage, since he creates it so easily.