If the US Chamber of Commerce were innocent of the charge of having mixed foreign funds with US donations in the account it uses for its US political attack ads, you'd think they'd deny the charge. No such luck.
The Chamber did, however, launch a weird attack yesterday on the messenger - a blog named ThinkProgress. According to the Chamber, ThinkProgress is apparently run by Karl Marx and (that rich international Jew with horns who controls everything) George Soros.
From Greg Sargent at the Washington Post we get a taste of the Chamber's response:
These accusations by a George Soros-funded, anti-business blog (not a "report," as some in the media are saying) are unfounded, deceitful, and completely erroneous. They are a desperate attempt to silence those who support free enterprise, and a diversion by people upset about their grim prospects in the upcoming election.But as the Washington Post's Sargent notes, the Chamber refused to simply deny ThinkProgress' charge, that they are co-mingling foreign and domestic donations, possibly leading to foreign money illegally financing US elections:
When I asked Ms. Freeman whether the dues from AmChams go into the same general fund that bankrolls the Chamber's ads, she declined to answer. "We don't feel obligated to answer that question because we follow all applicable law, and no foreign money funds our voter education activities," Freeman told me.If the Chamber were innocent, wouldn't they just deny it?
