Liberal Progressive Media Operatives Freaking Lie About Fracking? Say it isn't so

By Rob Janicki

Supporters of an innovative oil and gas extraction technique are crying foul after an environmentalist group with ties to a U.S. congressman used photos of a young girl with an unrelated genetic disorder to tout the dangers of the practice.

All this ethically challenged behavior revolves around an ad picturing Sarah Murnaghan who suffers from cystic fibrosis.  If you remember, Murnaghan was the subject of a national controversy last year when she was denied a lung transplant due to her age.  Murnaghan's medical condition has nothing to do with tracking and is thus, both misleading and unethical ethical.  But a lack of ethics has never stood in the way of a liberal progressive agenda to smear the political right.

The ad was posted by Democracy Resources (DR), an Oregon-based company that gathers petition signatures for its clients.

The posting did not identify a particular client, but Colorado campaign finance records show that the group Coloradans for Safe and Clean Energy (CSCE) paid Democracy Resources $22,420 for “signature gathering services” ...

It paid the company another $40,000 the day after the ad went up. In total, CSCE has paid DR more than $1.35 million for its services since May. Days after the payments started, DR created a Facebook page to promote ballot measures and recruit petitioners.

CSCE...is an anti-fracking group backed by millionaire Rep. Jared Polis (D., Colo.). He has almost single-handedly bankrolled the state’s anti-fracking movement, most recently donating $770,000 to CSCE on August 14. Read more at the Washington Free Beacon.

It's obvious that Democrats are hiding behind such reprehensible and unethical political campaigning against 'fracking' and those companies that are engaged in the business of 'tracking' for natural gas development.  

 Why don't these Democrats come out and directly oppose 'tracking', rather than hiding behind front groups such as CSCE, which purposely puts forth misleading and ethically challenged assertions that are flat out lies?  The answer to that rhetorical question is that liberals cannot successfully attack 'tracking' on the merits of the practice and thus must sink to unethical levels of prevarication and obfuscation.