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Posted on 07/28/2004 5:11:29 PM PDT by Liz
AUGUST 2, 2002
Having dragged a group of Manhattan elites back from the Hamptons last week to attend a fund-raiser at a tony Chelsea night club, Al Gore criticized the Bush administration for "working on behalf of the powerful, and letting the people of this country get the short end of the stick."
Back when he was exhibiting the Democrats' renowned good sportsmanship after he lost the presidential election, Gore managed to fund his tantrum with donations sent in from such ordinary Americans as dot-com multimillionaire Steven Kirsch ($500,000), former Slim-Fast Foods chief S. Daniel Abraham ($100,000) and Minneapolis multimillionaire Vance Opperman ($100,000).
Gore also got some help from the Manhattan "working poor" such as Loews Hotels scion and tobacco company beneficiary Jon Tisch ($50,000) -- who must have been on a break from demanding that West African peddlers be thrown off the streets of Manhattan; songwriter and ex-wife of pardoned financier Marc Rich, Denise Rich ($25,000); and investment banker Jon Corzine ($25,000), now representing working families against "the powerful" in the U.S. Senate.
Also warming to Gore's pledge to fight for "working families" were many Hollywood billionaires. Notorious inseminator and Hollywood "producer" Stephen Bing ponied up $200,000. (In Democratic Party parlance, "producer" evidently means "a do-nothing who inherited a lot of money.") Actress and traitor Jane Fonda gave the Gore-Lieberman fund $100,000.
George W. Bush limited donations to his Election Recount Fund to $5,000 or less and still raised $13.8 million -- four times more than the $3.2 million collected by Gore. Americans saw what the Democrats were up to, and thousands upon thousands of small contributions poured in to Bush from across the country.
Gore's Tantrum Fund took in $2.1 million from just 38 individuals -- or, "working families." He had 84 donations above Bush's $5,000 maximum -- totaling about $2.8 million. Of those, 30 were from California and 23 from New York. (Jane Fonda lists her address as Georgia.) Only $56,216 of the Gore-Lieberman fund came from donations of $200 or less. Bush raised more than $3 million in individual donations of $200 or less -- more than the entire amount raised by Gore's Tantrum Fund.
The genuine and spontaneous outrage of ordinary Americans against a small band of Democratic royalists was pointedly ignored in news accounts about the recount funds. The Washington Post's headline was: "Bush Far Outspent Gore on Recount." The Chicago Tribune's was: "Bush spent 4 times as much as Gore in Florida recount." The AP headline was: "IRS: Bush spent four times as much as Gore on Florida recount."
The thousands of small donations sent to Bush from average Americans all across the country was said to demonstrate "the powerful fund-raising abilities of the Republican Party" -- as The Washington Post obtusely put it.
Meanwhile, back at the Party of the People headquarters, the Democratic National Committee recently took in its largest single donation ever: $5 million from "producer" Stephen Bing -- our featured Democrat this week.
In the current Vanity Fair, Bing is described by other Hollywood billionaires as a self-effacing, modest man. As evidence, they note that he has only one maid. "Name anyone else with his wealth who has only one maid," Man of the People Rob Reiner says. "You'd be hard-pressed."
I'd be hard-pressed to think of one of my friends who has a maid. Marie Antoinette did not flaunt her wealth in such a way as "progressive" liberals in America do.
Rich Hollywood progressives raved about how Bing helps out strippers when they're down on their luck. (And, one may surmise, also down on their knees.) "I've helped so many," Bing says, "you'd have to get me the names." That's "self-effacing" for a liberal.
Bing's admiration for the underclass is mainly shown by his predilection for siring children out of wedlock. This seems to be the new status symbol among liberals, with Bing currently leading Jesse Jackson 2-to-1 in disclosed illegitimate children. (Q: How do you empty a room full of rich liberals? A: Ask for a paternity test.)
In a romance borne of progressivism, the mother of one of his illegitimate children, Elizabeth Hurley, crossed a Screen Actors Guild picket line. Bing gallantly paid her fine to the union. So much for the little people.
Also, he plays the blues on the piano. I take it back: He (BEGIN ITALS)is(END ITALS) a man of the people.
Interestingly, Bing doesn't make a fuss about the estate tax. His professional accomplishments amount to having dropped out of Stanford -- which we can assume he did not enter on the basis of his SAT scores -- and then spending a decade writing a single episode of "Married With Children." Bing's credentials as a producer are as credible as his belief that women are attracted to him for himself.
The current Democratic Party is a crowd of idle rich degenerates the likes of which hasn't been seen since the czar's court. When not occupied with abortions or strippers, they busy themselves denouncing the Cossacks as "the powerful."
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AUGUST 2002
Ann Coulter's Slander skyrockets to #1 on New York Times Best-Seller list. Prominent liberals -- desperate to gain even more political power in America -- pull no punches in their effort to defame and discredit conservatives. And their pals in the media are forever letting them get away with it. But finally someone is calling their bluff. In "Slander", Ann Coulter exposes those carrying out this campaign and refutes their vicious slanders and outright lies.
Contact Ann Coulter | Read her biography (at web site)
©2002 Universal Press Syndicate
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For those who don't know how Bing got his money the link below is interesting:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/mojo_400/13_bing.html
Stephen L. Bing
March 5, 2001
Stephen Bing made his money the old-fashioned way: He inherited it. The millionaire grandson of New York real estate magnate Leo Bing, he stands to inherit an estimated $600 million from his father, Peter, who serves on the board of Stanford University.
Much of his money goes to support his lifestyle. A notorious playboy, Bing reportedly keeps a permanent room at the swank Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles and has been linked romantically in the media to actresses Farrah Fawcett, Uma Thurman, Sharon Stone, and, most recently, Elizabeth Hurley.
He is also linked financially to national politicians. In addition to the $759,000 he gave to support Democratic candidates, Bing contributed $1 million to help pay for the party's national convention. He also gave $1 million to help defeat a California referendum that would have cut cigarettes taxes and depleted programs to teach children about the dangers of smoking.
Professionally, Bing has been trying to make a name for himself as a Hollywood screenwriter, producer, director, and actor, lending his talents to television's "Married With Children," Sylvester Stallone's "Get Carter," and the Chuck Norris "Missing in Action" trilogy. In 1993, he wrote and directed "Every Breath," starring his brat-pack friend Judd Nelson. The Internet Movie Database summarizes the thriller's plot: "An unemployed actor gets involved with a strange woman who hangs out in lesbian nightclubs and her rich arms dealer husband."
-- Pam Smith
THE COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
The top contributors in this industry are:
2. Bernard Schwartz
missile maverick
3. Davidi Gilo
$750,000 on Nov. 3
5. Haim Saban
the Power Ranger
8. Fred Eychaner
the big Chicago fundraiser
13. Stephen Bing
playboy Democrat
All contributors in this industry
Nope... and she don't like 56-year old men (dangit!) who are Conservative Republicans either!
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Re#15 Oh, the convention will--for now. Especially with the presstitutes on the side of the Rats. That's okay. We got radio and the 'net, for now, and methinks that there's a lot more to out. Bergler (and others) indictments for one...
I've died and went to Heaven.
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Methinks if he had been cavorting with Republicans, the relationship would have been front page news.
So, I've set my sites on a gal I have a chance with!
Gad! I just get lost in her eye...
read later
Sometimes I wonder if Ann Coulter knows she's going to marry me....
l8r
This is the same Stephen Bing who made girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley have a paternity test before acknowledging he was the Father.
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