To: bentway who wrote (721006 ) 6/22/2013 11:51:06 AM From: Brumar89 Read Replies (1) | Respond to An Illustrated Guide To The Dishonesty Of Think ProgressNOTE: There are no links to Think Progress in this article. a liberal progressive advocacy organization which disguises itself as a news outlet and blog. They’re backed by the Center for American Progress and despite being a “non-profit” devoted to social justice, a recent report by Ken Silverstein at The Nation points out that the Center for American Progress is up to its ears in corporate cash… when First Solar was taking a beating from congressional Republicans and in the press over job layoffs and alleged political cronyism, CAP’s Richard Caperton praised Antelope Valley in his testimony to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, saying it headed up his list of “innovative projects” receiving loan guarantees. Earlier, Caperton and Steve Spinner—?a top Obama fundraiser who left his job at the Energy Department monitoring the issuance of loan guarantees and became a CAP senior fellow—had written an article cross-posted on CAP’s website and its Think Progress blog, stating that Antelope Valley represented “the cutting edge of the clean energy economy.” the think tank didn’t disclose it, First Solar belonged to CAP’s Business Alliance, a secret group of corporate donors on First Solar’s board until April 2012 while also sitting on the board of CAP, where he remains a member, according to the group’s latest tax filing.Exhibit 1 Exhibit 2 http://americanglob.com/2013/06/21/an-illustrated-guide-to-the-dishonesty-of-think-progress/
