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...Today show startled and angered a lot of journalists several weeks ago when it let Terry Dolan, the right-wing fund raiser, use NBC's facilities, cameras and crews to put on his version of a news story. Dolan heads the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC). Had NBC capitulated to right-wing pressure? No, insists Steve Friedman, Today's executive producer, the idea was all his own. Dolan considers all network news liberal, bad and alike. So Today staged a match-off: his version vs. NBC's of the same story. The verdict has to be that both were...
...avoid spending limits while pummeling Democrats with ads g.o.p. candidates can later disavow. Finkelstein has played this game for years. In 1986 a federal court ruled that his National Conservative Political Action Committee violated election laws because he worked for both a Senate candidate and the supposedly independent ncpac. The beauty of this arrangement, his late ncpac colleague Terry Dolan once explained, is that "a group like ours could lie through its teeth, and the candidate stays clean...
...been a normal year, they probably would not have been around to lose in 1980 and invest that election with its seeming significance. As for what defeated them in 1980, given their precarious positions, everything was important no matter how small--Reagan coattails, the efforts of the NCPAC and a conservative resurgence on the one hand, or candidate personalities and local issues on the other...
...enough voters believe in the Shamie of the populist tradition and the Reagan approach to life and government, and reject the John Birch Society and NCPAC, then the Boy State may find itself with a Republican complement to Ted Kennedy in the Senate...
...NCPAC isn't marching alone. A new breed of self-styled "populist" conservatives, many supported by the Moral Majority and its clones, is attacking what has always been politically unattackable since the Great Depression: the welfare state...