Hoodwinked, Bamboozled, and Hornswoggled

Sean P. Treglia, formerly of the Pew Charitable Trusts, explains how Pew ginned-up a phony "grassroots" movement for campaign finance reform.

Wherein we see Core's Law of New Media in action.

A couple of articles at the New York Post, today, reveal that "bipartisan campaign finance reform" has been a scam & a sham: politicians and the public were fooled, and journalists couldn't have cared less. First, Ryan Sager writes Buying "Reform":

Campaign-finance reform has been an immense scam perpetrated on the American people by a cadre of left-wing foundations and disguised as a "mass movement."

But don't take my word for it. One of the chief scammers, Sean Treglia, a former program officer of the Pew Charitable Trusts, confesses it all in an astonishing videotape I obtained earlier this week.

The tape — of a conference held at USC's Annenberg School for Communication in March of 2004 — shows Treglia expounding to a gathering of academics, experts and journalists (none of whom, apparently, ever wrote about Treglia's remarks) on just how Pew and other left-wing foundations plotted to create a fake grassroots movement to hoodwink Congress.

"I'm going to tell you a story that I've never told any reporter," Treglia says on the tape. "Now that I'm several months away from Pew and we have campaign-finance reform, I can tell this story."

That story in brief: ....

Second, another article is a partial transcript of the video-taped session — including, at the end, links to three videos themselves. I say, get 'em while they're hot!

Core's Law of New Media? There Is No Such Thing As Local News Anymore: In the Internet Age, anything anybody has said anywhere, anytime, can sooner or later become known everywhere else.

(Thanks, Big Trunk.)

P.S. Sager has posted other video clips at his blog.

P.P.S. Thanks.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 03/17/05 05:30:47 PM
Categorized as Political.