CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING STORY ALERT
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New Ads Rip Obama, But Democrats Fight Back
By Peter Overby and Will Evans
National Public Radio | August 27, 2008
It could be the Swift Boat ad of 2008. A conservative group pops out of nowhere with a hard-hitting TV ad against Obama. A billionaire foots the bill. Obama's campaign reacts fast. CIR and NPR look into the wrangling over the ad.
+ LISTEN to the story on NPR.org:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94029102
+ READ the corporate history of the group behind the ad, reported first on CIR's Secret Money Project blog:
http://tinyurl.com/newadsripobama
+ SEE more Money and Politics stories by CIR:
http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/projects/moneyandpolitics
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