By Kevin McCauley
A group of conservative journalists and Republican operatives has launched the Center for American Freedom to take aim at the White House and the “liberal” media/blogosphere, according to a report on Politico.
Michael Goldfarb, chairman of CAF, says the organization will have an annual budget of “several million dollars.” CAF is modeled on the liberal-leaning Center for American Progress.
Goldfarb, former Weekly Standard reporter is partner at Orion Strategies, which counts the Koch brothers as clients.
CAF will have an online news arm called Washington Free Beacon that is to be edited by Matthew Continetti and a “campaign-style war room.” He wrote “The Persecution of Sarah Palin: How the Elite Media Tried to Bring Down a Rising Star.”
Confinetti will oversee a staff that includes Bill Gertz, who was defense/national security writer at the Washington Times; Andrew Stiles, a National Review Online alum; Patrick Howley, an American Spectator veteran and Sonny Bunch, ex-Weekly Standard and Washington Times writer who is now at PR firm Berman & Co. |