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WSJ's Fund: Victim of Disturbed Person (Pillsbury is a smear artist) Lefty Alterman defends Fund
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| May 16, 2003
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 05/18/2003 8:21:06 AM PDT by TLBSHOW
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posted on
05/18/2003 8:21:06 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
To: TLBSHOW
If the left had had a smoking gun about this, Fund would have been crucified. The fact that the story died a natural death pretty much exonerated him. (But he still showed a huge lapse in judgment).
To: widowithfoursons
I've had lapses in judgement without being falsely accused,smeared and my ability to make a living threatened.The false accusations were widely believed.
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posted on
05/18/2003 8:43:11 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: MEG33
Ahhh, but no intelligent person believed them. Gossip is gossip, and only the left gave it credence. BTW, how many liberals do you know who a) read the WSJ, or b) know who John Fund is? So he was excoriated by the left media, and the right ignored the rumors.
To: widowithfoursons
Ahhh, but no intelligent person believed them. Gossip is gossip, and only the left gave it credence. Intelligent or not, there were MANY right here on Free Republic who believed them. They especially believed the accusations that Fund had helped procure abortions for both women.
This place is home to some of THE most gullible saps in the world.
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posted on
05/18/2003 8:55:06 AM PDT
by
sinkspur
To: widowithfoursons
Widely disseminated may have been a better term.I only lurked when this came out. I remember some believed it.
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posted on
05/18/2003 8:59:10 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: sinkspur
Well, I would definitely question the intelligence of those Freepers. Even Brit made a point of keeping him on the air when this surfaced.
To: TLBSHOW
Alterman's column on Fund can be found
HERE.
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posted on
05/18/2003 9:14:42 AM PDT
by
beckett
To: sinkspur; All
Do you still have a link to that thread, or anyone know where it is?
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posted on
05/18/2003 9:17:25 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
To: TLBSHOW
I bet Ms. Pillsbury is skinny. All skinny women are crazy.
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posted on
05/18/2003 9:25:38 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.)
To: sinkspur
This place is home to some of THE most gullible saps in the world.It's always so surprising to me when our own people not only buy into this crap, but actively "spread the word."
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posted on
05/18/2003 10:01:30 AM PDT
by
Howlin
To: TLBSHOW
Well, it is worth noting that he pursued his girlfrinds daughter and then tried to get her to have an abortion when he got her pregnant, that much is not in dispute.
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posted on
05/18/2003 10:26:03 AM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: widowithfoursons
I hate to be the one who breaks the news but a lot of so called intelligent people on FR believed it.
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posted on
05/18/2003 10:27:26 AM PDT
by
cksharks
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
05/18/2003 10:39:54 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
To: Rodney King
Well, it is worth noting that he pursued his girlfrinds daughter and then tried to get her to have an abortion when he got her pregnant, that much is not in dispute. posted by Rodney King If it's not in dispute, perhaps you will be so kind as to post the proofs, because I'm not up on what friend John Fund has been so egregious at doing and I haven't had time to follow the gossip. Source and citation please?
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posted on
05/18/2003 10:49:59 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
There was a telephone transcript and recording that was on the web when this story broke that I listened to. I am looking for it now.
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:00:52 AM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
To: TLBSHOW
bump
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:03:41 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: TLBSHOW
...she acknowledges that she has 'trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy'... she has a 'borderline personality disorder... an inability to discriminate truth from fiction.'... in response to the question, 'What lies had you told in the past?' she answers, 'Too many to name.' She sounds to me like a typical run-of-the-mill modern liberal.
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:04:53 AM PDT
by
jpl
To: Rodney King
Thank you, I would appreciate that. I would however prefer the sound track for greater credulity.
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:10:20 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote Life Support for others.)
To: jpl
don't miss this BS from her mommy........
Mother's Day 2002
by Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
May 11, 2002 | Mother's Day is traditionally filled with small remembrances, lovely buffet breakfasts and happy hugs. But no mother worth her salt would trade any of these delights for the knowledge that her child was well and safe.
I know. I am the mother of five and one of my children lives daily in fear for her life.
Morgan lives in New York City. Even though she locks herself in at night, she often wakes shaking because she is afraid.
She has reason: after she filed a complaint with the police against her ex-lover for physical abuse and following his subsequent arrest, there have been two break-in attempts in her apartment, located in a safe area and in a "secure" doorman building. I was on the phone with her when the first took place -- the last time she felt safe. She saw the doorknob turn and threw herself against the door, throwing the neglected bolt.
Two such attempts in three weeks in not a coincidence.
Morgan refused to flee for her life. She often calls me late at night, needing to hear my voice. We talk long into the hours of darkness. I am her mother and I share her fear. She asked me why the world demands she run and hide when she has a restraining order. The question, of course, presumes that the rhetoric of justice is the same as the practice and many of us realize that the reality is far different.
The system often appears to be rigged such that justice is not available to women who "inconveniently" accuse those with power. My daughter was unwise enough to have a long-term relationship with an influential political pundit who has power and does not hesitate in wielding it. Even though he has been charged with hideous acts of abuse -- physical and emotional -- he stands accused of domestic violence and, it would seem, looks to be calling in IOU's garnered through twenty years of being a political insider.
IOU's are amazing things. They can cause the photos taken of your former girlfriend's injuries, taken by the police, to disappear. They can transmute paperwork to show that the photos were never taken -- even when the mother of the girl, myself, was a witness.
Unfortunately, a copy of the original and accurate police records noting the existence of the photos is on line and can be viewed, if you are interested. Somehow, the DA's office in Manhattan never received a copy.
One wonders what kinds of favors might have changed hands during the course of these perfect spring days in New York City. Might they have something to do with other uncomfortable secrets that threaten the man who stands accused of battering my child?
Is it possible that someone in law enforcement compromised his or her oaths and duties, and misused their power? The sad truth is that there are too many such people in this world. You meet them everywhere, in circles high and low. Some people will sell themselves for the opportunity of just talking to people with power. Some people come cheap; others cost more.
But they all speak the belief that they cannot be stopped and they are too often right. This has been the way it is far too often through human history and in the history of this country.
People who misuse their power are the source of more human suffering than we can possibly imagine. But all people of power misused know that there is a single thing they must avoid. That thing is the light of public knowledge.
The truth has a power all its own. The words with which God first brought the world into being were held within a single phrase: "Let there be light."
For what we know we need not fear;
What we understand we can change;
What we understand no longer possesses the power to destroy us, our future, and our hopes for our children.
Power is given in trust. When trust is broken power must be revoked. Human institutions such as courts of law and City Hall do not listen to the fall of every sparrow in flight, but they hear the hammer of retribution when we are not silent.
Mother's Day is coming and I am a mother asking for a gift. That gift is justice for my daughter, a victim of domestic violence, and hope for unnamed other daughters of other mothers who also live in fear.
Domestic violence is a crime. It is a crime with a perpetrator who is known and named. We can speak loudly to power subverted and for justice long deferred for many, many women by demanding that this case be heard; that the DA look into whether there is a tie between evidence that has vanished and the influential, powerful individual who stands accused of abusing my daughter; that the "disappearers" of documents also be brought to justice; and that the people of power learn that neither abuse of our persons, our trust, or our justice system will be tolerated.
Next Monday, after you have spent a very special day with your own mother take a moment and call City Hall. Morgan's mother will really appreciate it.
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posted on
05/18/2003 11:13:17 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
(the gift is to see the truth)
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