Investor's Business Daily takes on MoveOn.org and the Democratic Party in an editorial titled, "A Party Bought And Paid For," from last Friday, September 21st.  Read the entire editorial.

[M]oveOn.org once crowed that it had bought and owned the Democratic Party. With the Senate now blasting its tactics, that's an open question. But not, apparently, for Democrats running for president.
 
The Senate voted 72-25 on Wednesday to stand up for the integrity of America's leading military field commander, Gen. David Petraeus.
 
Everyone knew what it was really about: MoveOn's big-bucks ad in the New York Times that outrageously attacked Petraeus even before he gave his report to Congress on the Iraq War's progress. ...
 
MoveOn's ad disgusted average Americans across the country. Even the Democrat-dominated Senate couldn't halt a vote to condemn it. A quarter of the Senate, however, did refuse to condemn the attacks, and curiously, that included all Senate Democrats who seek to become the military's next commander in chief.
 
Sens. Hillary Clinton and Christopher Dodd voted against the symbolic measure. Sens. Joe Biden and Barack Obama had other things to do that day and abstained from voting. ...
 
[M]oveOn.org claims to have 3.2 million members. ... MoveOn.org claims that its average member contribution is $40. ... MoveOn.org can act out as wildly as it likes, driving the party left -- and it will.
 
[M]oveOn.org has gotten financing from the deep pockets of billionaires such as George Soros, who pledged it $5 million in the past and implied he would give more if that's what it took to win elections. ...
 
MoveOn's leaders declared in a 2004 e-mail that its cash contributions ensure its control of the Democrats: "Now it's our Party: we bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back."
 
With a slew of senators who won't even condemn their worst excesses in a mere symbolic vote, it's hard to dispute that statement.

Senator McConnell spoke today on the Senate floor about Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s visit to the U.N. and Columbia University in New York.
 
 
 
Read here about Ahmadinejad’s involvement in the capture of American hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979, read the Leader's entire remarks, and take a look at this photo of him with one of the hostages.

The Washington Post reports today on the controversy surrounding the MoveOn.org ad in The New York Times which Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI) still refuses to condemn.  Fourteen days after our campaign called on that organization to condemn the ad and return all contributions from MoveOn.org, they have still not responded.  Here's some of what The Washington Post story said:

After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to MoveOn.org for a full-page advertisement assailing Gen. David H. Petraeus.

The liberal advocacy group should have paid $142,000 for the ad calling the U.S. commander in Iraq "General Betray Us," not $65,000, the paper's public editor wrote yesterday.

Clark Hoyt said in his column that MoveOn was not entitled to the cheaper "standby" rate for advertising that can run any time over the following week because the Times did promise that the ad would run Sept. 10, the day Petraeus began his congressional testimony. "We made a mistake," Times spokeswoman Catherine Mathis was quoted as saying.

Clark Hoyt, the Public Editor at The New York Times, also wrote about the fallout from the ad in his Sunday column:

The ad infuriated conservatives, dismayed many Democrats and ignited charges that the liberal Times aided its friends at MoveOn.org with a steep discount in the price paid to publish its message, which might amount to an illegal contribution to a political action committee. In more than 4,000 e-mail messages, people around the country raged at The Times with words like “despicable,” “disgrace” and “treason.”

President George W. Bush called the ad “disgusting.” The Senate, controlled by Democrats, voted overwhelmingly to condemn the ad.