In a Sept. 27 Accuracy in Media blog post, Roger Aronoff touts Pat Caddell — who spoke at AIM’s truth-challenged “Day of Truth” and Obama-bashing — as a “former Democratic pollster.” Similarly, in an AIM article the same day, Cliff Kincaid calls Caddell a “longtime Democratic political operative and pollster… who has become critical of the liberal direction of the Democratic Party.”
Aronoff and Kincaid are deceiving you. Caddell is not a “Democratic political operative,” and he hasn’t been a Democrat for years.
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Caddell quit the Democratic Party in 1988; last year, Caddell described the Democratic Party as his “former party.” Caddell regularly criticizes Democrats in his numerous appearances on Fox News, and he was a key behind-the-scenes part of the Citizens United anti-Obama film “The Hope and the Change.”
If AIM really cared about “accuracy in media,” it would tell its readers that Caddell is a right-wing operative, not a “Democrat.”