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The Southampton Meeting
To the extent that the Shadow Party can be said to have an official launch date, July 17, 2003 probably fits the bill.[10] On that day, a team of political strategists, wealthy donors, leftwing labor leaders and other Democrat activists gathered at Soros’ Southampton beach house on Long Island. Aside from Soros, the most noteworthy attendee was Morton H. Halperin. Soros had hired Halperin in February 2002, to head the Washington office of his tax-exempt Open Society Institute – part of Soros’ global network of Open Society institutes and foundations located in more than 50 countries around the world. Given Halperin’s history, the appointment revealed much about Soros’ political goals.
Halperin has a long and controversial track record in the world of Washington intrigue, dating back to the Johnson Administration. Journalists sympathetic to Halperin’s leftwing sentiments give him high marks for blowing the whistle on the Vietnam War, but his activism helped undermine America’s war effort and contributed to the Communist victory.
Put this in there somewhere:
O'Reilly Factor - Left-wing "reporters" met with John Kerry in Al Franken's apartment
03.22.04
Posted on 03/22/2004 10:13:09 PM EST by kcvl
In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of:
Al Franken and his wife Franni;
Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker;
David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker;
Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine;
Howard Fineman, chief political correspondent for Newsweek;
Jeff Greenfield, senior correspondent and analyst for CNN;
Frank Rich, columnist for the New York Times;
Eric Alterman, author and columnist for MSNBC and the Nation;
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist/author of ‘Maus’;
Richard Cohen, columnist for the Washington Post;
Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate;
Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate and author;
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek;
Philip Gourevitch, columnist for the New Yorker;
Calvin Trillin, freelance writer and author;
Edward Jay Epstein, investigative reporter and author;
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who needs no introduction.
We sat in a circle around Kerry and grilled him for two long hours. In an age of retail politicians who avoid substance the way vampires avoid sunlight, in an age when the sitting President flounders like a gaffed fish whenever he must speak to reporters without a script, Kerry’s decision to open himself to the slings and arrows of this group was bold and impressive. He was fresh from two remarkable speeches – one lambasting the PATRIOT Act, another outlining his foreign policy ideals while eviscerating the Bush record – and had his game face on. He needed it, because Eric Alterman lit into him immediately on the all-important issue of his vote for the Iraq War Resolution. The prosecution had begun.
16 posted on 10/06/2004 10:34:54 AM PDT by Howlin (What's the Font Spacing, Kenneth?)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1190718/posts
Top Individual Contributors to 527 Committees(list of 22)
2004 Election Cycle click HERE
(here are the top three:
1- Peter Lewis-Peter B Lewis/Progressive Corp- Cleveland, OH- $14,030,000
2- George Soros-Soros Fund Management- New York, NY- $12,600,000
3- Steven Bing-Shangri-La Entertainment- Los Angeles, CA- $8,086,273
*note: if you follow the above link and click on the individual's name, you'll find a list of the 527 groups contributed to; for example, here's Peter Lewis' list:
Joint Victory Campaign 2004- $7,750,000
America Coming Together- $2,995,000
MoveOn.org- $2,500,000
Marijuana Policy Project- $485,000
Young Democrats of America- $250,000
PunkVoter Inc- $50,000
15 posted on 08/13/2004 2:04:06 AM PDT by Susannah (Kerry has a flexible message--it changes with each campaign stop and audience.)
Thank you!
I remembered that meeting but not the date.
Thanks for the ping, JJ. "Vast Left Wing Conspiracy"?? Naaaahhhh.....
Let's put aside for one moment 'how' the Rove presentation came into their hands. And let's not worry about whether the presentation was a plant or real. For they thought it was real and that is what counts.
Obviously Kerry was involved. Matter of fact, there were several articles out there about this meeting and there is no dispute that Kerry was involved.
Why isn't Kerry held responsible for allowing unauthorized people to review this presentation?
A little more on Halperin:
Google - Morton Halperin + Weather Underground
Morton H. Halperin - Director Open Society Institute DC
Morton H. Halperin - Institute for Policy Studies and more Institute for Policy Studies
Morton H. Halperin - Biographical Information
NOMINATION OF DR. MORTON H. HALPERIN (Senate - July 01,1993)
Morton Halperin and his ultra-radical Center for National Security Studies
Betrayal, duplicity & treachery (Halperin)record of hatred for the security forces of the United States since his opposition to the Vietnam War
Father of ABC's Mark Halperin
The ABC's of Media Bias Front Page 10-14-04