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88: BEST OF: Anne Nelson on the Right Wing Shadow Network

The Al Franken Podcast

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Obama and the Internet and Social Media and Other Tools Effectively

In 1981, they found this group. A lot of them are fossil fuels, oil moguls from Texas. They have someone named Ralph Reed who advises them that there are 18 million evangelicals in the country who are not politically engaged. So if they put together their own system of media to reach them, enlist the churches to tell these people how to vote,. make them identify certain issues that they haven't identified before by basically lying. And then they'd go after specific seats.

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