Perhaps we are going about this all wrong. Using our resources to attack people like Hoyer and Barrow will have limited, if any, direct impact, especially short-term. But....

What would happen if we focused our energies and resources on attacking bad journalism? What if we got our coalition to hammer away at these fools from all angles, with facts, with examples of syncophantic behavior, with concrete! Lord knows we have almost limitless fodder to choose from. There is so much wrong with media coverage of America's issues today that a clear, coordinated, and repetitive campaign to demand better journalism might pay more dividends than throwing ad money at safe incumbents or long-shots who just don't have the financial backing to make it right now....

Robert Greenwald does an excellent job of this at his site www.bravenewfilms.com. He has made some extraordinary documentaries, including "Iraq For Sale" and has spearheaded many attacks on Fox News for their corrupt and dishonest news coverage. What if we started there and built upon that, trying to get as much national exposure as possible?

One potential problem is the issue that plagued our cause when Comcast refused to run the Carney ads. But then, if they are going to censor us, I would think lawsuits and the ACLU would be the next logical move.

Of course I'm talking from 30,000 feet here, but wouldn't efforts to try and wake up the citizenry to the compromised, lazy, incompetent "work" of the MSM be a potentially much more profitable cause?

Or, are we too far down the road with what we're already doing, and would thus be spread too thin to make a run at this?

Just thinking out loud, but the ramifications if done well could be huge.

The Google is your friend.

David Iglesias, US attorney from New Mexico made several allegations of improper conduct by the Bush administration worthy of investigation. Summary below.

In October 2006 (prior to the 2006 midterm election) Senator Pete Domenici called to ask about the progress of an investigation, New Mexico U.S. Attorney Iglesias said he felt this inquiry was trying to "pressure" him to speed up indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state senator. When Iglesias said an indictment wouldn't be handed down until at least December, "the line went dead." Iglesias was fired one month after the election by the Bush Administration as part of the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Also in October, Representative Heather Wilson called about the indictments in a federal corruption investigation that involved at least one former Democratic state Senator."[13]

Allen Weh, chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico, said he complained in 2005 about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to a White House aide for Rove, asking that Iglesias be removed.[14] Then in 2006 Rove personally told Weh “He’s gone,” Rove said.[14]

Indeed, one of the stated reasons for Iglesias' dismissal, by Administration officials, was dissatisfaction in his prosecution of voter-fraud cases. Nevertheless, Iglesias "had been heralded for his expertise in that area by the Justice Department, which twice selected him to train other federal prosecutors to pursue election crimes" and was "one of two chief federal prosecutors invited to teach at a 'voting integrity symposium' in October 2005… sponsored by Justice's public integrity and civil rights sections."[15]

Iglesias alleged that in October 2006 he received inquiries regarding the timing of a federal probe of a kickback scheme involving local Democrats from two congressmen whom Iglesias refused to name for fear of retribution. He said that they appeared eager for there to be an indictment in time to assist the Republicans in the upcoming November election, and believed that he was ultimately fired for refusing to expedite matters.[16] In comments to the Albuquerque Journal he described them as "two members of the New Mexico delegation".[17]

The Justice Department also stated that part of the reason for Iglesias's dismissal was his frequent absences. In response to this charge, Iglesias stated that the reason for these absences was his mandatory 40-day per year service as part of the Navy Reserve, in which he still serves as a commander.[18] This represents a possible violation of USERRA.

Let's get an email campaign going. Who are the decision-makers inside ABC news? Give us the email addys and we can begin hounding them for some answers.

....as the MSM is reporting all about this right now, NONE of them are talking about the obvious link that the Anthrax attacks came from the same place they were "linked" to Iraq. How is it possible that not a single reporter in all of the MSM will pick up on this and run with it? Do they all make $1,000,000+ per year and are compromised by their paychecks?

How much do you want to bet there is absolutely NO in-depth reporting into the actual circumstances surrounding the suicide. I'd be willing to be my paycheck there is NOTHING reported beyond the fact that "he committed suicide, end of story."

This story really highlights my call to point our financial sources to marginalizing the MSM. They are one of the pre-imminent destructive forces of this country.

Glenn,

May I suggest that if you go after this story with teeth bared, that we do some analysis about how to get better coverage/answers than we did with the Military Analyst scandal. I believed that to be an utter outrage and dereliction of duty by the MSM, as well as patent illegality inside BushCo, but our efforts to expose this did not yield any meaningful arrests, changes or answers (IMO).

Maybe it is the time, and maybe this IS the story to call in some favors and get to those sources like you said. I don't know. Is this the thread which might open the floodgates to much more, or is it something not worth using a lot of capital just to wind up hearing more indistinguishable, muffled sounds on a dead end road?