CBS Television, August 4, 2000
MSNBC celebrates attack on President Bush, December 15, 2008.
Posted on 08/01/2010 11:25:15 AM PDT by kristinn
Late on a Saturday night two weeks ago, an unemployed carpenter packed his mother's Toyota Tundra with guns and set off for San Francisco with a plan to kill progressives.
When California Highway Patrol officers stopped him on an interstate in Oakland for driving erratically, Byron Williams, wearing body armor, fired at police with a 9mm handgun, a shotgun and a .308-caliber rifle with armor-piercing bullets, Oakland police say. Shot and captured after injuring two officers, Williams, on parole for bank robbery, told investigators that he wanted "to start a revolution" by "killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation and the ACLU," according to a police affidavit. His mother, Janice, told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son had been watching television news and was upset by "the way Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items."
But what television news show could have directed the troubled man's ire toward the obscure Tides Foundation, which sounds as if it's dedicated to oceanography, or perhaps laundry detergent, but which is in fact a nonprofit that claims to support "sustainability, better education, solutions to the AIDS epidemic and human rights"?
A week after the incident, the mystery was solved. "Tides was one of the hardest things that we ever tried to explain, and everyone told us that we couldn't," Fox News host Glenn Beck told his radio listeners on Monday. "The reason why the blackboard" -- the prop Beck uses on his TV show to trace conspiracies -- "really became what the blackboard is, is because I was trying to explain Tides and how all of this worked." Beck accuses Tides of seeking to seize power and destroy capitalism, and he suggests that a full range of his enemies on the left all have "ties to the Tides Center."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
CBS Television, August 4, 2000
MSNBC celebrates attack on President Bush, December 15, 2008.
So true, and I wonder if they’d like to take responsibility for the violence lashed at tea partiers and those who attended town hall meetings, or maybe even the voting booths.
I guess Dana, WaPo and the rest of the MSM have already forgotten the Rodney King riots.
They showed that video how many times?
“Glenn Beck and the Oakland Shooter
(WaPo’s Dana Milbank smears Beck as inciting violence)”
I think it is true on both sides ... the truth has a habit of doing that when the truth is that your entire way of life and liberty is at risk ... and those who are doing it to you ask you to suspend reality ... who are you going to believe, the MSM or your own lying eyes? It’s inspiring me ... let’s get it on ... time to water that old Liberty Tree ... I don’t think they will stop until our liberty is in their pockets.
True, and the media also celebrated a movie about his assassination, “Death of a President”, given wide praise and the International Critics’ Prize. Crosshairs mysteriously appeared on him. Foreign and left-wing comics implied it. Left-wing blogs joked about it. It was OK then because it was the hated Bush, destroyer of worlds. Just imagine if our current President were the focus of such a movie...oh, the howls of racism and incitement that would ensue.
Link to Oakland crime map. So who is inciting violence, exactly?
The default is for the last week. Use the slider at the bottom left to see the crimes for the entire month of July.
They're just following Alinsky's Rules For Spoiled Brats that's all.
Oakland is a cesspool.
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Newsweek issued a formal retraction yesterday of the flawed story that sparked deadly riots in Afghanistan and other countries, after the magazine came under increasingly sharp criticism from White House, State Department and Pentagon officials.
The magazine's statement retracted its charge that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that an American interrogator at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had flushed a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Newsweek Editor Mark Whitaker said he thought the magazine had already “retracted what we think we may have gotten wrong” in an editor's note published Sunday and in media interviews. “We've called it an error,” he said. “We've called it a mistake.”
The May 1 item triggered violent protests last week in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Indonesia and other countries, in which at least 16 people were killed.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/16/AR2005051601262.html
Two words: William Ayers
In the predawn glimmering this morning here in Germany my neighbor's rooster stepped out, ruffled his feathers, puffed his chest, and let go with a cock-a-doodle-doo (although I'm told they do it differently here in Germany, at least the Germans have a different onomatopoeic for it). Shortly thereafter, the sun rose. Satisfied, our rooster retired to the henhouse no doubt with the intention of rendering the hens equally satisfied.
It seems that Dana Milbank has much in common with our rooster but I don't know how he makes it with the chicks.
‘They’ have already cancelled sections of your Constitution, and limited your freedoms by fiat ruling, and endorse the genocidal slaughter of tens of millions of alive unborn children ... the rest is merely a cake walk down progressive lane, shielded by an actively bussed-in thuggery known as SEIU and ACORN. I don’t need Glen Beck to know it is past time to be building needed guillotines.
Glenn Beck is simply doing what the MSM has failed to do and that is to exposed corruption instead of helping to keep it hiddenl like the mainstream media is doing. If the actions of the Tides group/foundation angers crazies, how is that the fault of the one who exposed them?
This is a typical, twisted, progressive accusation.
The DemocRat elite railroads through a series of massive expansions of government takeover through no hearings, midnight votes, no reading of bills, lying about the bills, and so on.
They are driven by the agenda of the Center for America Progress, the Tides Foundation, the Apollo Alliance, and a number of other groups influenced by Soros and other leftwingers.
A majority of Americans, according to pollsters, are not happy with this transformation of government power. One fringe person goes over the edge.
The problem, according to the Washington Post, is NOT that Congress is usurping massive new power to the federal government!
It's that Glenn Beck is actually telling people about it!
These "journalists" really are wannabe totalitarians.
When the Left completes the revolution, perhaps the homosexuals in the Washington Post newsroom can start their own Ernst Roehm Brigade to support the new dictatorship in honor of the 1930s Nazi leader!
The only thing missing is this...
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Council on American Islamic Relations
There have been many hateful claims about Tides Foundation and the Council on Islamic Relations (CAIR). As part of the Tides 9/11 Fund, Tides Foundation made a onetime $5,000 grant to CAIR. The grant was specifically for CAIR's Interfaith Coalition Against Hate Crimes project in 2002. Based in Southern California the project was established to promote peaceful coexistence between Muslims and non-Muslims and decrease hate crimes against Muslims.
CAIR has explicitly stated that they have no ties whatsoever to any violent or discriminatory organizations. For more information please visit their website at www.cair-net.org.
National Lawyers Guild
Tides Foundation has made grants totaling approximately $30,000 over the last ten years to support the National Lawyers Guild, one of the oldest and most respected civil rights organizations in the country.
The National Lawyers Guild goals are to eliminate racism; safeguard and strengthen the rights of workers, women, farmers, and minority groups; and maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties. For more information, please visit www.nlg.org.
Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund
Months before the launch of the war against Iraq, Tides Foundation publicly opposed the war and strongly supported the peace and justice movement—the largest international movement for peace in the history of the planet. Through the Iraq Peace Fund and the Peace Strategies Fund, Tides Foundation supported dozens of organizations that were working toward a just and peaceful resolution to the growing international conflict.
The Ruckus Society
Tides Foundation has granted more than $150,000 to the Ruckus Society over the last five years. The Ruckus Society—who have been wrongly characterized as "anarchists"—have in fact trained and assisted thousands of activists in the use of nonviolent direct action. Ruckus promotes and teaches strategic nonviolent direct action against unjust institutions and policies, respect for all living things and a commitment to the power of diversity.
The organization was formed in 1995, sparked by a pro-logging bill that was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in the spring of 1995 and catalyzed a well-organized response from environmental activists. For more information, please visit them at www.ruckus.org.
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Read more about the Tides Foundation at Discover the Networks.
And again, this is how Milbank describes a group that funds radical left-wing anti-American groups:
But what television news show could have directed the troubled man's ire toward the obscure Tides Foundation, which sounds as if it's dedicated to oceanography, or perhaps laundry detergent, but which is in fact a nonprofit that claims to support "sustainability, better education, solutions to the AIDS epidemic and human rights"?
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