Posted on 08/20/2004 6:01:55 PM PDT by pineconeland
John O’Neill of the Swift Boat Veterans, who has always been on time for interviews, has missed his date with Michael Savage. His publicity agent does not know where he is; he has not answered his cell phone in over an hour.
I think it was a snafu with scheduling. O'Neill is running his hind-end off.
This sounds series...maybe you better take a shower.
Interesting.... Savage asked everyone to "get on the net and let people know."
Now I wonder where he meant we should go?
/sarcasm!
LORD GOD,
PLEASE CAUSE *EVERY* EFFORT OF THE PUPPET MASTERS AND OTHER HENCHMEN TO HINDER THE TRUTH THROUGH THE SWIFT BOAT VETS
--CAUSE EVERY SUCH EFFORT TO RESULT IN THE PERPETRATORS FALLING IN THEIR OWN PIT; BEING DEVASTATED BY THEIR OWN EVIL; BEING REMOVED FROM ANY SIGNIFICANT INFLUENCE ON ANYONE IN OUR LAND AND ERA.
PLEASE, LORD, PROTECT EVERY SWIFT BOAT VET FOR TRUTH AND INSURE THEIR CONTINUED AIRING OF THEIR STORIES IN SAFETY AND WIDE ACCLAIM.
IN JESUS' NAME.
Last hour. It's a news all the time format so it was broken up with lots of bulletins. Normal stuff. The moderator, Preston Westmoreland was very cordial and supportive.
Last heard at 8pm, here in Charlotte, NC. He was on WBT radio from 7pm to 8pm with John Hancock.
I'm not listening to Savage .. if I was to guess .. O'Neill has been doing radio and TV shows all day .. he could be busy and not have his cell phone on
I know I'm alive while listening, that's about it :)
I hope O'Neill just has some kind of mix up. Savage has been giving these guys lots of time and I don't think he would just blow him off.
An hour? I wouldnt call him missising yet. Maybe he took a nap and over slep. But, it is worth keeping a eye on obviuosly.
Oh my gosh! LOL!!!
I'm just hoping that he's not in jail somewhere for spitting on the sidewalk, courtesy of some RAT lawyer.
That's my guess
Traffic Dan congratulated Westmoreland for a great show!
Where is Amelia Airheart?
Maybe he stopped to grab a bite to eat.
Hey! I know! Does anyone have the phone number to his show? I'll call and see if it's live...
I lost even more respect for Savage when he floated as his first thought that O'Neill may have been intimidated and scared off. Not much common sense there.
Fattest Cat Officials: Democrat’s Biggest Money Man Has Mob ConnectionsBy Brian Ross B O S T O N, July 28, 2004 — As Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards arrived in Boston today for the Democratic National Convention, so did the California man who is their single biggest contributor.
He is Stephen Bing, a wealthy film producer who, with little fanfare, has managed to steer a total of more than $16 million of his money to Democratic candidates and the supposedly independent groups that support them. "To most of the people who track money and politics, they're like, who the hell is Steve Bing?" said Chuck Lewis, founder of the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog organization. Bing is perhaps best known for sparking a tabloid frenzy when he publicly expressed doubt that he was the father of actress Elizabeth Hurley's baby. (A paternity test proved he was indeed the father.) He repeatedly has refused to say why he is funneling millions of dollars to the Democrats. Lewis thinks it is cause for concern. "We can identify who the big donors are, but how much do we really know about any of them?" he said. In fact, Democratic Party officials said they knew nothing about the man who law enforcement officials tell ABC News is Bing's friend and business partner — Dominic Montemarano, a New York Mafia figure currently in federal prison on racketeering charges. Montemarano has a long criminal record and is known to organized crime investigators by his street name, Donnie Shacks. "Donnie Shacks' main activity was murder. No question about it. That was his main function for the Colombo family and for organized crime in general. He was one of the top hit men in the New York area," said Joe Coffey, a former NYPD investigator. According to The Los Angeles Times, Bing paid Montemarano's legal fees after his most recent scrape with the law. Montemerano's lawyer said his client was an employee of Bing's. After a recent private lunch with Democratic vice-presidential candidate Edwards, Bing also declined to answer questions about his relationship with Montemarano.
"The American people have a right to know who's funding their presidential candidates and their parties," Lewis said. "The Bing situation shows us how little we really know."
Throwback to Nixon Days?
Campaign reform advocates say the role of secretive big money is all a throwback to the days of Richard Nixon and the scandal that grew out of the 1972 Republican Convention.
The telephone company that helped pay the costs of that convention, ITT, later got favorable consideration on an antitrust issue, when it became the world's largest conglomerate.
"It raised a huge public outcry and led to basic reforms which said the public funds will be used to pay for these conventions, but that's the only money you can use," said Fred Wertheimer, president and founder of Democracy21.com, a nonpartisan watchdog organization.
He added: "Today, we'll have over $100 million from corporations and other special interests helping to fund these two national conventions."
For the Democrats, some $40 million in corporate money, in addition to $15 million in public funds, is underwriting their national convention — a no-expenses-spared operation.
There are even two private trains underneath the convention floor, courtesy of the railroad industry, with luxury club cars serving as cocktail and cigar lounges for top Democratic officials.
"This is money to curry favor, to gain influence," said Wertheimer. "The very thing that the Watergate laws were designed to stop."
this was from
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Vote2004/convention_stephen_bing_040728-1.html
but it's gone now... saved it on my comp
Is that even possible?
Savage is half nuts most of the time or nuts half of the time but he can also be really funny. Like I said though, he's been giving the Swift Boat Vets a lot of air time.
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