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« on: October 06, 2009, 12:13:23 PM »

It wasn't enough for FACES--the bogus Big Coal front created by a Washington, DC lobby firm-- to be pilloried on the Rachel Maddow Show and the Daily Show for using fake iStock photos in their ads.

Now comes Big Coal Gone Wild: The Sequel. While a broad and peaceful national movement rooted in the Appalachian coalfields has emerged to halt the destruction and death toll in the Appalachian coalfields from coal slurry-contaminated water, fly rock and mountaintop removal mining, FACES is running an incredibly bizarre ad that depicts the besieged coalfield residents as masked bandits:

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