Day 56--believe it or not--of the continuing crisis.
You know Frank, the controversy surrounding the fund-raising efforts of the Pampered Progressive Panhandler began long before FR or just about anyone else noticed. Many on the Left, those who are not very gullible and childlike DUmmies, raised concerns about this fund-raising from the beginning.
For example, the obviously well-educated and outspoken Dr. Lilian Friedberg objected to the "...day-by-day, organ-by-organ, diagnosis-by-diagnosis, panic-attack-by-panic attack updates on the status of Andy Stephenson's illness." way back on Feb. 24th in comments at Will Pitts Truthout.org:
http://forum.truthout.org/blog/story/2005/2/24/84720/3496
Although her reasoning may be different than most who continue the questioning, she was not alone.
It really amazes me that the Beebie Geebies continue to believe that this is part of some grand conspiracy to get Andy launched by various nefarious villains ranging from Bev Harris to the Freepers all the way to Karl Rove himself. Nothing could be further from the truth. But let them live in their tin foil houses about all of this.
Let them think it's anyone but who it really is, a bi-partisan group of rationally skeptical individuals who believe that honesty and integrity matter, whether it's an elected official or a lesser known wanna-be, like Andy.
One cannot go about preaching about accountability, as Andy does, and not face greater scrutiny when it comes to ones own practices.