Who Is Funding Distribution Of DVDs About Radical Islam In Campaign Home Stretch?

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Who Is Funding Distribution Of DVDs About Radical Islam In Campaign Home Stretch?
Eric Kleefeld - September 19, 2008, - http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/who_is_funding_distribution_of.php#more


This got a bit of attention earlier this week, and we're surprised it hasn't attracted the notice of the bigger news orgs, because it's a pretty interesting mystery: Who, exactly, is funding the distribution of lurid DVDs across America warning of the global radical Islamic threat, in the home stretch of the election?

The DVD, which would seem to be helpful to John McCain, is called Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West, and it was distributed in small newspapers across the country last weekend, prompting little news outlets to start digging. ....

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Clarion, for its part, has refused to reveal its funding. Clarion is a 501(c)3, so it's not obliged to reveal its donors. And it's so new that it hasn't filed any IRS-mandated 990 forms yet.