<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/14f760f1-4c4e-40d4-9aa6-7166bc674322/2F36F66C-30B5-45C0-823B-3B983C1862EB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/rights/142068/utilizing_public_airwaves%2C_media_mogul_murdoch_is_big_muscle_behind_fraudulent_astro_turfers/" href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/142068/utilizing_public_airwaves%2C_media_mogul_murdoch_is_big_muscle_behind_fraudulent_astro_turfers/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/rights/142068/utilizing_public_airwaves%2C_media_mogul_murdoch_is_big_muscle_behind_fraudulent_astro_turfers/"><P class="storyheadline">Utilizing Public Airwaves, Media Mogul Murdoch Is Big Muscle Behind Fraudulent Astro Turfers</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/rights/142068/utilizing_public_airwaves%2C_media_mogul_murdoch_is_big_muscle_behind_fraudulent_astro_turfers/"><DIV class="teaserleft"> Burrowing inside the radical right's gathering of astroturfers and mouthpieces, AlterNet Reporter Adele Stan discovers what makes the anti-health reform machine tick. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/rights/142068/utilizing_public_airwaves%2C_media_mogul_murdoch_is_big_muscle_behind_fraudulent_astro_turfers/"><P>As nearly 2,000 progressives made their way last weekend to Pittsburgh for the annual <A href="http://www.netrootsnation.org/">Netroots Nation</A> conference, the right made its stand in the same town with a conference called <A href="http://rightonline.com/">RightOnline</A>, sponsored by <A href="http://blogs.ajc.com/cynthia-tucker/2009/08/19/the-return-of-the-vast-rightwing-conspiracy/?cxntfid=blogs_cynthia_tucker">Americans for Prosperity</A>, a group that has gained notoriety for its involvement in organizing seemingly grassroots opposition to health-care reform.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/rights/142068/utilizing_public_airwaves%2C_media_mogul_murdoch_is_big_muscle_behind_fraudulent_astro_turfers/"><P>Billed as a counterconference to the Netroots Nation gathering of bloggers and online activists, RightOnline convened at a Sheraton hotel, offering a few 101-level workshops on new technologies like Twitter and YouTube.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2F36F66C-30B5-45C0-823B-3B983C1862EB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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