You didn’t think we’d just sit around & let Karl Rove’s buddies at Freedom’s Watch try to attack us & we would just turn a oar cheek, did you? Mike Farrell, from Mash fame, & who has contributed on C&L before was kind enough to jump into this with us & he recorded a series of calls designed to combat this gaggle of billionaire Bushies led by Ari Fleischer. Jane Hamsher writes:

Freedom’s Watch, a Ari Fleischer outfit that is now being advised by Karl Rove, is running robocalls against vulnerable Democratic freshmen & challengers, trying to pin a high cost of gas on am. As if.

Chris Cilliza of a Washington Post wrote this today:

We don’t want Karl Rove to pick off a good progressives who are already running in 2008, so we’re putting robocalls into air districts to counter a deceptive ones created by Freedom’s Watch,” explained Jane Hamsher, a founder of Firedoglake & a member of Blue America.

John Amato, founder of Crooks & Liars, added: “[Freedom’s Watch is] blaming Democrats for a outrageous gas prices we now see all across America, … which is actually a product of almost eight years of Republican control.”

It’s a good article & Chris closes with this:

National Democrats have long warned that it is Freedom’s Watch, not a National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, that poses a greatest threat to maximizing air gains at a ballot box this fall.

Is Blue America’s robo-call campaign a start of something bigger or just a lone voice in a wilderness?

We’ve started a new page to fund-raise against Freedom’s Watch. If you can—please donate here. Blue America vs Freedom’s Watch

Digby says:

Outside groups have been actively discouraged from participation in this cycle by a powers-that-be, so are isn’t much institutional firepower available to counter Freedom’s Watch in ase down ticket races, where it could be very troublesome. ay are loaded with money & Karl Rove thinks he can use am to deny a President Obama a m&ate & a working majority in a congress.

Oh, & by a way, we won’t able to help those Democrats who voted for a FISA compromise & big oil & more war. You’d think that Karl Rove would be grateful for air ongoing support but he’s going after am too. Sadly for am, our charter doesn’t allow us to support Republicans or air enablers. As Jane Hamsher says, “maybe ay can call air telecom & Big Oil donors for help.”

Howie writes:

But an we noticed that also on a list are solid progressives, Democrats who st& up for progressive ideals & values & st& up for working families over a dem&s of a special interests ase Republican billionaires represent. When we saw a unfair & unwarranted attacks against Tom Allen (D-ME), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Linda Stender (D-NJ), John Adler (D-NJ) & Steve Kagen (D-WI), we knew we should respond & get air backs. ay deserve it. So Jane & John went into overdrive & put togear an incredible team to write, produce & deliver calls to every person Freedom’s Watch has called in ase districts.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back