Rachel Maddow investigates...

she acts like she did all kinds of research...

I was looking up the FCC Czar and it lead me to the center of american progress.

I see this in their ruels for dealing with radicals.

Quote :

These forces are organized and driven from above


While it is important strategically that anti-immigrant and now
anti-health care forces appear to be simple manifestations of
spontaneous disgust with progressive legislation, that is simply not
the case. There are a small number of Washington-based organizations
that provide strategy, funding, and talking points to "grassroots"
groups.
In the case of the anti-immigrant cause, FAIR, NumbersUSA, and the Center for Immigration Studies,
provide legal support and regional organizers to foster local groups,
give them talking points and organizing strategies, as well as furnish
them with easy-to-use online tools to get in touch with their members
of Congress. In the anti-health reform arena, well-funded groups such
as Americans for Prosperity, Conservatives for Patients Rights, and FreedomWorks play the same role. Other groups, among them Grassfire.org,
are happy to switch between immigration, health care, and climate
change to mobilize mostly manufactured conservative rage wherever they
can find it.
The lesson: All strategies involving pushing back against
these astro-turf forces should include addressing the national
organizations, not just their local tentacles. Research how they are
funded, what their ultimate goals are and what means they use to engage
local activists. Then build the capacity to address them accordingly.
At the same time, it is important to ensure that local media treat
the local manifestations of these groups as what they are; part of a
conservative national strategy. These abusive hecklers are not local,
suddenly angry people who otherwise might vote for a progressive.

wow, does this make me an investigative researcher too