UPDATED: Murdoch's WSJ claims Chamber of Commerce is not “overtly political”

The conservative lobbying behemoth isn't “overtly political,” the Wall Street Journal assured readers last week, in an article about how the Journal's corporate parent News Corp had donated $1 million to the Chamber. The group just spends tens of millions of dollars trying to defeat Democrats.

Well, here's some more information about how the GOP-friendly institution is not “overtly political.”

From Think Progress [emphasis added]:

As of Sept. 15th, the Chamber had aired more than 8,000 ads on behalf of GOP Senate candidates alone, according to a study from the Wesleyan Media Project.