re: #132 Gus

It’s like that all the time. Real Pulitzer Prize material right there. Their opening announcement were pretty hilarious too:

There was also this:

And as you very well know, while this seems like it’s a parody or humor these knuckleheads are actually serious.

Free Beacon is also run by the Center for American Freedom whose chairman is Michael Goldfarb:

Michael Goldfarb—not to be confused with the journalist of the same name—is a neoconservative pundit, activist, and lobbyist whose resume includes working as an editor for the Weekly Standard, serving as an advisor to the Emergency Committee for Israel and the Liz Cheney-led Keep America Safe, and chairing the Center for American Freedom (CAF). Goldfarb has also been the vice president of Orion Strategies—a lobbying firm headed by former John McCain adviser Randy Scheunemann—and was a research associate for the now-defunct Project for the New American Century, a neoconservative letterhead group founded by Robert Kagan and William Kristol that helped spearhead efforts to push for the invasion of Iraq after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

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Emergency Committee for Israel

In his capacity as VP of Orion Strategies, Goldfarb served as an adviser to the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI), a Washington-based advocacy group established in mid-2010 that claims “to provide citizens with the facts they need to be sure that their public officials are supporting a strong US-Israel relationship.”ECI’s first act was to run a controversial attack ad in July 2010 targeting the track record of Senate candidate Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) and insinuating that he supported Mideast terrorists.[3]

ECI board members include William Kristol, editor and founder of the Weekly Standard and cofounder of the Foreign Policy Initiative; Rachel Abrams, wife of notorious Iran-Contra veteran Elliott Abrams; and Gary Bauer, a well-know Christian Zionist who leads the lobby groups American Values and Keep Israel Safe and serves on the executive board of John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel. Noah Pollack, a contributor to Commentary and former assistant editor at the Jerusalem-based Shalem Center,is widely reported to have served as the group’s executive director.[4]

Goldfarb confirmed his advisory position at ECI in an email to Salon.com’s Justin Elliott after Inter Press Service writer Eli Clifton tracked the address on the letterhead of an ECI letter to the offices of Orion Strategies.[5] Wrote Goldfarb, “I’m on the record as an adviser to ECI and its [sic] no secret that I work at Orion, where the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq sign is still proudly displayed on the front of the building. ECI will be opening an office next week, but given the urgency of our cause, getting an office sorted out seemed less pressing than exposing Joe Sestak’s anti-Israel record.”[6]