COVER'S BLOWN ON FREEDOM CENTER SHILLS (Hillary Alert !)

Yahoo/New York Post ^ | Fri Jul 15, 2005 | ANDREA PEYSER

[John Lenin]

HERE'S one thing New Yorkers do not need

[John Lenin]

Very interesting, the Aspen Institute is behind the blame America museum at ground zero.

New Yorkers are steamed at the whole idea behind this museum which has nothing to do with the deaths of 3000 people and instead is being presented as a "we had it coming to us" ehxibit.

[Mo1]

Aspen Institute ping

[Randy Papadoo]

Thank You Hillary!!!!! (urp)

FCS, the IFC museum is being financed by America-hating George Soros! Why is there any question about what it will contain?

[BallyBill]

Yesterday, Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson, late of CNN and Time, called me to insist that his center is "scrupulously non-partisan." And pro-American.

Whenever someone feels the need to throw that line in, you know you're in BIG trouble.

[JohnLongIsland]

Yesterday, Aspen Institute president Walter Isaacson, late of CNN and Time, called me to insist that his center is "scrupulously non-partisan." And pro-American.

...and Hillary is a moderate.

[Lion Den Dan]

The Aspen Institute hardly qualifies as a bunch of Colorado Pinheads. Most attendees come from anywhere but Colorado. Yea, they are pinheads.

[sauropod]

Walter Isaacson is a big-time Clymer. Always has been.

[mewzilla]

Another thread on the subject with some links on the Aspen Institute: Take Back the Memorial.

[mewzilla]

Isaacson's not going to blame freedom for 9-11. Just the US.

[Bahbah]

I believe he's sincere

I do not.

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[Mia T]

BIN LADEN FINGERS CLINTON FOR TERROR SUCCESS (SEE FOOTAGE)

THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IS AS CLOSE AS A CLINTON IS TO THE OVAL OFFICE

[TexasCajun]

Wonder if Chief ForkedTongue was in attendance?

[mewzilla]

Another Aspen-related link, from 2004, which discusses where Aspen gets some of its money and what Aspen does with it. From the link:

...On the serious policy front, MacArthur has charitably given money to undermine the president’s defense and foreign policy agenda. MacArthur awarded the Aspen Institute $841,000 to study “global interdependence.” The Aspen Institute’s Global Interdependence Initiative website says it works “to better inform, and to more effectively motivate, American support for forms of U.S. international engagement that are appropriate to an interdependent world.” Translation: We oppose the president’s “unilateral” (that is, effective) foreign policy. This grant generated more “scholarly” opposition to President Bush.

[BluH2o]

The Aspen Institute hardly qualifies as a bunch of Colorado Pinheads.

Actually they're wealthy Martha Vineyard type liberal democ'rats who migrate west for some invigorating mountain air each July. Aspen is the Martha's Vineyard of the Rocky Mountain west.

[mewzilla]

From this link:

And Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., reimbursed the Aspen Institute Congressional Program for travel, lodging and meal expenses for a May trip to Barcelona, Spain.

The Aspen Institute has something called the Aspen Institute Congressional Program?

Gee, now why do I think that should get a freaking good look?

[mewzilla]

From this link:

The Center, APM and Medill analyzed every Congressional junket between Jan. 2000 and mid-2004. This analysis was done on the most current lists of board members the Center could obtain.

Among the findings:

Just four groups sponsored about 600 of the more than 850 trips: the Aspen Institute, the Ripon Educational Fund, the International Management and Development Institute and the Korea-U.S. Exchange Council. The total cost of those trips was $3.7 million....

Dick Clark, a former U.S. Democratic senator from Iowa and ambassador at large, is director of the Aspen Institute's Congressional Program, which has sponsored 488 trips for congressional members in the last four and a half years, with a total cost of more than $2.5 million.

I'd love to get the particulars on those trips...

Paging Ms. Peyser...

[mewzilla]

which has sponsored 488 trips for congressional members in the last four and a half years, with a total cost of more than $2.5 million.

Or as Mr. Mew just said, Holy bleep!

[mewzilla]

An Aspen Institute ping.

[mewzilla]

More Aspen info ping.