PHONY OUTRAGE STORY BREAKING HARD --- Hannity is on it; can mainstream media keep hiding?

dfu, Hannity show | 3-8-04 | dfu

[doug from upland]

Ladies and gentlemen, it is breaking hard right before our eyes. Sean Hannity is talking now about the phony outrage story regarding the President Bush ads.

We are going to find that the RATS contacted family members who are anti-war, anti-Bush and who lost relatives on 9-11. We will find they were given the phone numbers of newsrooms. We will find they were given talking points.

Although some who called got out of hand, we got the NY TIMES to take notice of the story. They were deluged with phone calls. I understand Neal Boortz was on the story as well as other hosts.

We will not let this stand. John Effin Kerry is attempting to use 9-11 for his political benefit. John Effin Kerry, no effin way.

Please post on this thread links to previous threads. Keep it moving, FReepers.

[bondjamesbond]

Check out Veterans for Peace as well. Hat tip to DeBug=int13.

[b4its2late]

I missed him on H & C. Did you see him and would you be able to give me a short synopsis of what he said? Thanks.

[Tricorn]

"OK, then I want to know why Kerry has a 10 point lead in the latest CNN/USA Gallup poll?? Kerry has fired up his base."

Take it easy. The campaign has just started. And Kerry's record is just hanging there like a pinata.

If the Dems wanna talk 9-11, these numbers will change in a hurry.

Kerry doesn't have a base. He has people who hate Bush, but that's all.

[Tricorn]

National Security -- "almost all people of any political stripe are unified in this persuasion."

News to me. Are the Deaniacs unified on National Security? How about Kerry's old hippie pals in the Democrat party? The only Dems to show any concern for National Security were shown the door by their own party.

[windchime]

Thanks!

[doug from upland]

NY POST DOES THE STORY

[abner]

Mr. Rice told Dom G. that the allegations about PT being funded by the Tides Foundation/Heinz are totally false.

He said that the Tides Foundation only is an 'umbrella' for PT to take donations. They are using the Tides non-profit status AND that their books are out there for anyone to see............

......

Dom G didn't seem to be buying that. Then, when Mr. Rice got off of the phone, he gave Dom's producer a piece of his mind for what he saw as an ambush.

FWIW, I was not able to run down PT's financial information anywhere. Probably because they run under the umbrella of Tides.

Anyway, this should be easy enough to dig into. Where to start? Mr. Rice was very angry that he was being questioned, and he denied all ties to Tides and Heinz. How can he have it both ways???

[doug from upland]

He can't have it both ways. He is lying.

[MamaLucci]

Good post...."the media doesn't investigate, it READS".

Exactly!

Only AP and Reuters feeds news for all the rest of them.

Until this ceases to be the case, the media bias will continue.

[dead]

As the NY Post editorial on this says, "Money is fungible."

This is especially the case where a fund is set up specifically to take advantage of this fungibility.

If they're going to try to hide their donations to certain dubious organizations under this umbrella, they have no right to complain when they get tied to all the dubious organization under this umbrella.

[spacewarp]

I know you didn't write the speech, so don't for a second take my rage to be at you. How in the HELL can that man begin to have the nads to attempt to revise history like that. That SCUMBAG was the reason why my uncle, who did three tours as a Marine Sgt. and NEVER LOST A MAN in their front-line combat had to be spit on when he returned. Why my uncle had a revolver at his bedside and nearly put a bullet between my eyes one night when I was visiting because I heard him crying "I didn't do it...." and I went to go check on him. Why my uncle had to have 4 of his men, who served valiantly in country ate a bullet once they got home because they couldn't handle being called "Baby-killer", "Murderer" and "Criminal" and being spit on. This SCUM KILLED GOOD PEOPLE!!!!!!!!! HE GAVE COMFORT AND AID TO THE ENEMY WHO THEN WENT ON TO MURDER OUR PEOPLE. He should be sitting in a jail cell, not on the campaign trail. He should never have defiled the floor of the Senate with his filth.

How a SINGLE PERSON can vote for that monster I will never know. Any person who does, I can never forgive.

If Kerry is the answer, the question was so f*cking stupid you should have your head removed and examined for having asked it.....

DAMN HIM.

< /rant >

[abner]

I'm looking into an offshoot of Tides at the moment called the "Tsunami Fund"....

[Tailback]

I for one am starting to believe the polls are correct or within magin of error. I haven't heard a positive thing about Bush in any major media form for months. We on FR and listening to talk radio get the truth and know what a pack of lies the Kerry campaign is selling. Unfortunately, most Americans aren't as informed as us. The Bush campaign better get with the program and realize that they're not only battling Kerry, they're battling 95% of mass media and will not get any help from them.

[spacewarp]

I thought TWA 800 was a "center-fuel tank explosion"? Did Kerry reveal a national "secret" on TV?

[abner]

Great point...

[eureka!]

Re#182 Sorry. I don't have Fox and didn't see it. If I see a thread with it, I'll flag you....

[finnman69]

wow, that's a tough and justified rant. You really need to channel that anger into exposing the dark side of Kerry to people who don't know him as you do. It would be cathartic for you and bring that bastard down.

[MissAmericanPie]

http://www.gopusa.com/barbarastock/2004/bs_0126.shtml

The above web address gives a revealing account of how Kerry likes to position himself in front of the Viet Nam Memorial quite often along with the names of some special interest purchasers of this prostitutes services.

[doug from upland]

Thanks for the link. Good article.

[abner]

UNDUE INFLUENCE   Drummond Pike

Secrecy, pass-through, and lobbying guru for hundreds of left-wing groups and their funders

Drummond Pike:
Tides Center
President  Salary  $51,601, benefits $13,468
Tides Foundation
President and Director  Salary $51,750, benefits $8,658
Total salary $103,351, benefits $22,126
President and Director, Tsunami Fund, a lobbying service provider
President, Highwater, Inc., private real estate company wholly owned by Tides Foundation
Founder, eGrants.org, fundraising service provider
Director, Environmental Working Group;
Director and shareholder, Working Assets Funding Service (a private fundraising corporation)
Solidago Foundation, former Director

Drummond's background:

• Co-founder and associate director, Youth Project, Washington, D.C.

• 1976-1981: Executive Director, Shalan Foundation in San Francisco (money of Alan Davis; Chittenango Trust; ML.com Charitable Lead Trust)

Drummond's philanthropy:

Pike is founder and president of the Tides Foundation (1976) and Tides Center (1992).

• The Tides Foundation is a pass-through for other foundations’ money. Tides Foundation is a public charity, not a private foundation. Tides Foundation passes other foundations' money to a spectrum of left-wing organizations which the original donors would not or could not support on their own.

• The Tides Center shelters a wide variety of leftist “social change” groups under its legal and tax-exempt status, providing management and payroll services, fundraising assistance, and legal counsel, while the groups themselves operate their own projects and programs. Because none of the more than 260 projects under the Tides umbrella files its own Form 990 with the IRS, their finances are totally secret and not available for public inspection, an issue that requires congressional remedy.

Drummond's connections:

• President and Director, Tsunami Fund, a 501(c)(4) lobbying organization funded by individuals and foundations to influence legislators in passing anti-capitalist laws.
• President, eGrants.org,  created by Tides Foundation, “a nonprofit focused on Internet fundraising” (only for left-wing anti-capitalist groups).
• President, Highwater, Inc., a private corporation wholly owned by Tides Foundation. Highwater is a general partner in Thoreau Center Partners, LP, which leases office space to the Tides Center at $219,202 annually.
• Co-founder (with John Harrington), a director and shareholder of Working Assets, a left-wing telephone and credit card firm that sells its services to the Tides Center.
• Director, Environmental Working Group.
• Former director, Solidago Foundation, created by Pike to fund the Tides Foundation.

Drummond's message: I can hide any amount of money I want and you can't find it.

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