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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (45767)	9/9/2010 6:01:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

(Providing the bulk* of an organizations finances, year-after-year, would of course never affect or alter the organization's agenda!* An organization who's agenda has been altered != An astroturfing organization. Those are two different points. Once again "astroturfing" is a term describing a fake "grass-roots" movement. If an organization is not presented as a grass root movement (but instead say as a think tank), then by definition it can not be an astroturf organization. Also "would never effect" is not the same as "did not seriously effect in this case". The fact that donations could seriously effect an organization doesn't mean that funding data showing a narrow funding base (if that's even the case, and I believe for many of these organizations it isn't) indicates such an effect occurred. So the funding data would not provide proof of such influence, and even certain knowledge of such influence doesn't address the issue of astroturfing.