Get ready for Hillary The Movie

If you thought the ridiculously lame e-mails about Obama being a Muslim secret agent were bad, wait until you get a load of Hillary The Movie, the latest bit of propaganda from the far right.

I was reading Charlie Krauthammer's essay about Hillary, Obama, and race, at RealClearPolitics, when I noticed the ad for the movie and watched the two trailers. Among the things we learn from Ann Coulter and a host of other putative experts is that Hillary is "worse than Nixon." OK!

The force behind this agit-prop is Citizens United, which describes itself this way:

Citizens United is an organization dedicated to restoring our government to citizens' control. Through a combination of education, advocacy, and grass roots organization, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security. Citizens United's goal is to restore the founding fathers' vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and good will of its citizens.

SourceWatch offers this view:

Citizens United (CU), created in November 1988 by conservative activist Floyd G. Brown,^[1] is "a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Virginia and tax-exempt under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code."^{[2] ....}

Citizens United is also affiliated with The Presidential Coalition, a 501c4, and the 2007 Conservative Victory Committee, a Section 527 political action committee. Previously, it was affiliated with the National Security Political Action Committee (National Security PAC), Presidential Victory Committee and Americans for Bush.

The greatest indictment thus far of Citizens United and its Hillary movie came when federal judges laughed at their claim that it's anything other than a partisan attack piece:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A conservative group must abide by campaign finance laws if it wants to run ads promoting its anti-Hillary Rodham Clinton movie, a federal court ruled Tuesday.

Citizens United had hoped to run the television advertisements in key election states during peak primary season. The court ruling means the group must either keep its ads off the air or attach a disclaimer and disclose its donors.

Lawyers for the group had argued its 90-minute "Hillary: The Movie" was no different from documentaries seen on television news shows "60 Minutes" and "Nova." That prompted skepticism and, at one point, outright laughter from the judges during a hearing last week.