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Originally Posted by SamIam
The man who wrote that story is Matt Peterson who serves as a mouthpiece for the ultra conservative Capitol Research Center.
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Perhaps not when you read the whole story....
Actually his name is Matt Patterson not Peterson. However I would gladly venture a guess that the 50k donated by Philip Morris was a mere drop in the bucket... lets take a quick look.
Hey lookie here - Googling your paragraph links directly to the Wiki page and right above the part you quoted is this....
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Funding
According to MediaTransparency, CRC has received 182 grants between 1985 and 2003 totaling $7,778,153, its most generous contributors being Sarah Scaife Foundation, Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, among others.
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From Wiki
so the 50k your are discussing is not really all that significant relative to the 7.7+ million they've gotten over the years. Heck, PM was probably forced to donate to something and they chose this.
If you really want to complain about Philip Morris-
look here. Heck there are a lot worse that they've done and are at fault for plenty, just not so much in this instance. Well not that I could find real quickly.