David Brock to Lead Progressive Anti-GOP Smear Campaign

This post is a follow-up to my earlier entry, "Obama's Nebulous Campaign Funding Operation."

In that essay I noted that Barack Obama's fundraising operation - despite claims to be based in the mom-and-pop grassroots - is "merging mainstream big-money bundling operations with hardline antiwar factions who're notorious political tools for the Democratic Party establishment."

Well, it turns out that Progressive Media USA - the far-left 501(c)(4) organization backed by the far-left George Soros network - will be headed by David Brock, a muckracking former conservative known for his no-holds-barred ad hominem attack campaigns.

Here's a little background on Brock:

According to Politico.com, Media Matters president David Brock is collaborating with mega-donor George Soros and longtime Democrat operative Paul Begala to launch a four-month, $40 million media campaign whose aim will be to discredit Republican presidential candidate John McCain. Brock, who will lead the campaign, last month assumed the chairmanship of an organization called Progressive Media USA, which will likely be the main vehicle for the Democratic attacks on McCain. Brock complains that because "the press is in love with John McCain," the Republican senator "is allowed to say [things] without being challenged by facts that will show him to have said something different in the past." "Progressive Media USA will be a permanent part of progressive media infrastructure," adds Brock.

For more on Brock and Progressive Media USA, see Bill O'Reilly, "American Axis of Evil."