a shirley and bannister employee, craig shirley, the shirley in shirley and bannister, fired off this e-mail to that employee and to public citizen. quote, public citizen is an ultra leftist, anticonservative, antibush organization. if they bother you one more time, please advise me soonest and i will have the lawyers alert the fbi and the virginia attorney general's office to investigate public citizen for any and all law they may have broke anne to prosecute the name of a specific public citizen employee and public citizen to the fullest extent of the law. what do they do to deserve that? public citizen was asking for publicly available information. and shirley and bannister threatened to sic the fbi and state attorney general on them. for their part public citizen disputes the characterization of them as an ultra leftist, anticonservative group, telling us today that they are an independent public interest watch dog. i understand this is the way beltway pr works. specifically this is the way that beltway right wing pr works. it is threats and intimidation and ginning up an angry mo

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group public citizen, grassfire.org is represented by the washington, d.c., based pr firm surely and bannisterpublic affairs. shirley is man named craig shirley. craig shirley is a very long-time republican pr operative whose resume includes the famous race baiting willie horton ad from the 1988 presidential campaign. the next time you hear republican party chairman michael steele say something like this -- >> anyone out there that says the republican party or state parties or republican activists are out there doing that are flat-out lying. they are wrong. >> flat-out lying, they are wrong. actually, they are not wrong. the willie horton ad making republican pr activist xi is the same buy thhas the obama/hitler website. we have been tracking the false flagging really for the entire month of august now. mainly because this sort of thing still isn't being widely reported which amazes me. this is a perfect system for the republican party. it is a constant feedback. the republican party activists stir up fear and anger on the internet. fearful, angry people go to town hall events and then republi

i shot into the bannister. >> you don't want to laugh but you can't believe the things he's saying. >ere was another story, his son griffin, son from a previous relationship, maintains he was mostly after farrah's money. >> i think that's silly. they were involved for 30 years. griffin was say that go at the very end he was inheriting her money. the money goes to her son. when i asked ryan about it, his first comment was, i hate him, because it made him very angry griffin was saying this. then he said i have plenty of money of my own, more than i deserve. alana said ryan has more money than farrah did. griffin is kind of a black and white reverse image. whatever ryan says, griffin sees it exactly the opposite way. >> it's a fascinating article in the new "vanity fair." good to have you here. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> tonight's breakout story will take you face-to-face with a predator roaming the florida everglades and we're not talking alligators. the number of pythons is exploding. this is corowise, a natural ingredient that can lower cholesterol. put them together... and you

-based pr firm, shirley and bannister public affairs. the shirley is a man named craig shirley. craig shirley is a very longtime pr operative. the next time you hear republican party chairman michael steele say something like this -- >> and anyone out there who says that the republican party or state parties or republican activists are out there doing that are flat-out lying. they're wrong. >> flat-out lying, they're wrong. actually, they're not wrong. the willie horton ad-making republican pr activist guy is the same guy that reps the anti-health care reform obama equals hitler website. no wonder people are afraid. we have been tracking this sort of astroturfing and false flagging, really, for the entire month of august now. mainly because this sort of thing still isn't being widely reported, which amazes me. this is a perfect system for the republican party. it's a constant feedback loop. the republican party activists stir up fear and anger on the internets, fearful, angry people go to town hall events, and then republican party officials say they're just responding to that a