Rolling Stone Distorts Moveon

This piece in Rolling Stone about Moveon, while generally positive, concludes by parroting a right-wing charicature of the group, even though it previously acknowledges there is no data to back it up.

Rolling Stone writes: "MoveOn's values aren't middle-American values. They're the values of an educated, steadily employed middle and upper-middle class with time to dedicate to politics -- and disposable income to leverage when they're agitated."

But just a few paragraphs earlier, Rolling Stone acknowledged that there is very little - if any - demographic data on who Moveon members are. Furthermore, there is absoultely no basis for Rolling Stone to claim "Moveon's values aren't middle-American values." As hard polling data from this earlier piece in the Nation Magazine proves, the whole idea of "middle-American values" and "centrism" continues to be distorted by the mainstream corporate media and right-wing punditocracy.

Again, the Rolling Stone article was generally complimentary. But it should get its facts straight before parroting the same tired, old and dishonest Beltway characterizations of what is a massive grassroots, citizen-driven organization.