Posted on 08/08/2014 1:29:51 PM PDT by lowbridge
The GOP Establishment wing of twitter is abuzz today about this story by ProPublica writer Kim Barker. ProPublica, for those who don’t know, is a far left-wing rabblerousing organization that has spent a ton of time and energy attempting to dig up dirt on right wing charities and PACs in an effort to slow the effectiveness of these groups. Ever willing to play the useful idiot, many establishment cronies are trumping up this story as proof of TEA Party corruption as alleged by Steve LaTourette’s nonsensical and hypocritical piece yesterday.
The basic thrust of Barker’s article is that Move America Forward, a charitable organization that purports to collect care packages to troops and which regularly hosts a Troopathon fundraising drive that is headlined by prominent conservatives, is being run improperly in a number of particulars. The overall insinuation and tone of the article is that Move America Forward does either little or no actual charity work and is in fact merely an improper conduit to make TEA Party consultants and/or their PACs rich. The folks who have a vested interest in discrediting the TEA Party have taken these insinuations and innuendo and are presenting them as what the article actually proves.
I have read the entirety of Barker’s article and as someone who has worked in house compliance with charities before, I can say the following things about the allegations in Barker’s piece, even if we assume that they are categorically true (which, coming from ProPublica, is not at all something I would assume):
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
How the Tea Party became as corrupt as the Beltway it loathes
Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead [Leftist Lies]
Misrepresentations from Move America Forward/Troopathon call charity into serious question
bkmk
All left-wing garbage.
Pro publica...didn’t they publish info given to them by illegally by the IRS?? Makes them corrupt, yes.
Bump
Best line from this well written dissection:
“Here is what I will say for the author of this piece; they have elevated the tactic of treating their own ignorance about basic facts in the story as proof of ominous behavior to an art form.”
thanks. Knew this group was involved in corruption.
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