Earle subpoenas MoveOn.org leader

R.G. Ratcliffe:

Travis County prosecutors issued a subpoena Friday for the head of a liberal political organization to testify in a hearing next week on whether state District Judge Bob Perkins should be removed from hearing the criminal case against U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.

DeLay lawyer Dick DeGuerin has asked to have Perkins removed because of donations to Democratic organizations, including $200 Perkins gave to MoveOn.org in 2004.

Perkins said he made the donation because the group was supporting Democrat John Kerry's bid to unseat Republican President George W. Bush.

DeGuerin said the donation makes it impossible for Perkins to escape the perception of bias because MoveOn.org recently has been using attacks on DeLay, R-Sugar Land, to raise money. Last week, DeGuerin said in court that MoveOn was selling T-shirts with DeLay's mug shot on it. Perkins replied that he was unaware of the T-shirt and had not bought one.

MoveOn later accused DeGuerin of lying because it said the group was producing no such T-shirt. DeGuerin said he was mistaken because the T-shirt was being promoted by a group funded by MoveOn. But the other group canceled the T-shirt sale after seeing DeLay smiling broadly in his mug shot.

The subpoena by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is for Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org. The Democratic organization was founded for the 2004 elections as a means of getting around new federal campaign finance laws that were designed to limit the influence of money on national elections.

MoveOn shows it ignorance on the meaning of the word "lie." An inaccurate statement is not a lie unless the person saying it knows it to be inaccurate. In this case, MoveOn supplies no information to suggest that DeGuerin knew his statement was inaccurate at the time he made it. For five years, liberals and groups that represent them, but particularly MoveOn have tried to redefine the word "lie" for their political benefit. This attempt at redefinition of simple words is evidence of the fundamental dishonesty of their message. If they were really honest, they would debate issues without trying to redefine words.

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