Posted on 08/30/2010 6:24:16 AM PDT by kristinn
Edited on 08/30/2010 11:25:08 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In the wake of Glenn Beck's hugely successful Restoring Honor rally held in Washington, D.C. this weekend, the Huffington Post has published an offer of $100,000 to anyone with evidence that would destroy Beck's reputation and take him off the political/cultural battlefield.
An essay written by Beau Friedlander, the last editor-in-chief of Air America before it shut down this year, was posted in the Politics section of the Huffington Post today with the title, $100,000 For Glenn Beck's Sex Tape.
Friedlander says he will not use his own money for the hit, but that he will "broker" the deal.
It is time to pop the tea baggers' favorite balloon (so what if it will be replaced by another?), and with that in mind I hereby offer to negotiate a $100,000 payday to the person who will come forward with a sex tape or phone records or anything else that succeeds in removing Glenn Beck from the public eye forever. I am not offering the cash myself, but I will broker the deal and/or raise the money for what you bring to the table. (And it better be good.)
If you have the goods, or if you want to contribute to a slush fund to buy more takedowns (probably not tax deductible), please contact me at: glennbecksextape@gmail.com.
Friedlander couches his offer in the context of Andrew Breitbart's offer of $100,000 for the Journolist listserve messages, but this is more in line with pornographer Larry Flynt's blackmail campaign against Congressmen during Bill Clinton's impeachment, which followed a threat from Clinton conveyed by George Stephanopoulos to expose their sex lives.
Likewise, the Huffington Post has ties to the Obama White House, raising the question of whether the White House is behind this targeting of Beck.
Exposure by Free Republic Forces Huffington Post to Pull Article Threatening Glenn Beck: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2580103/posts
This thread now on Drudge, WOW!!!
Wow....that dude (?) is seriously twisted. Red diaper doper baby syndrome perhaps.
That explains a LOT. LOL. What a looser. Literally.
Every time I think that they can stoop no lower...they stoop lower. Unbelievable.
YESSSSSSSssssssss!
I doubt it. He is one termer and Obama has got his fraudulent birth certificate on the brain.
Evil people need to fear good men!
Yeah, It is what I expect from a guy who was once the Editor for Air-head America.
“IT WOULD BE SO SAD IF ANYONE SPAMMED THAT ADDRESS”
Yes, it would be just INEXCUSABLE if someone were to spam this address :)
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LOL -you have accurately described the left...
Who funds HuffPo?
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/funders.asp#private
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2010
ARIANNA HUFFINGTON
Left syndicated columnist and media personality
Founder, editor and namesake of The Huffington Post
2003 California gubernatorial candidate
Divorced wife of California Congressman and oil millionaire Michael Huffington
Member and ordained minister of John-Roger cult the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness
Former disciple of group-sex and germ-warfare guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Arianna Huffington is a progressive independent syndicated columnist, author, media personality, and co-host of the nationally distributed public radio program Left, Right & Center, for which she originally represented the right. In May 2005 she became founder, editor and namesake of the Huffington Post, a webzine and Internet blog featuring mostly left-liberal participants whose writings there are also distributed to newspapers by the Chicago Tribunes Tribune Media Services.
Huffington was born Arianna Stassinopoulos on May 15, 1950 in Athens, Greece. Her mother Elli was active in the Communist-led Greek resistance movement during World War II. Her journalist father Constantine edited the resistance newspaper Paron, survived internment in a Nazi concentration camp, and after the war became a publisher. When Arianna was 16 her parents divorced, and she and her younger sister moved with their mother to England.
In England Arianna attended Cambridge University, where she studied Keynesian economics at Girton College and one of her tutors was the Maoist economist Joan Robinson. At Cambridge she became the first foreign-born female president of the famed debating society the Cambridge Union and an outspoken Tory. She graduated in 1972 with a masters degree in economics.
After dating John Selwyn, a young Conservative Member of Parliament, Arianna met and settled into a close eight-year relationship with Times of London columnist Bernard Levin, 22 years her senior, who she did not marry but described, after his 2004 death, as the big love of my life. While with him she published her first book in 1973, The Female Woman, a response to Germaine Greers best-seller The Female Eunuch that accused orthodox feminists of denigrating a womans freedom to choose marriage and motherhood.
In search of spirituality, Arianna read the collected works of psychoanalyst Carl G. Jung. She introduced Levin to an organization called Insight whose rituals encouraged followers to act out their fantasies.
The future Arianna Huffington also became a disciple of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, whose cult practiced open sexual intercourse among its members, and with its leader, as a central sacrament of their faith. This cult later moved to Americas West Coast and attempted to take over an Oregon town. Bhagwan devotees were directed to purchase what eventually became 139 white Rolls Royces for their leader. As Judith Miller and two other New York Times investigative reporters recounted in their 2001 book Germs: Biological Weapons and Americas Secret War, the Rajneesh cult spread potentially lethal Salmonella bacteria in this town. Rajneesh cult members did this as a way of infecting and incapacitating town residents on election day so that cult voters could win control of the local government. The Bhagwan died in 1990.
It was like knowing there was another dimension to life and that I wanted to experience it, knowing that nothing else mattered as much, Huffington later told Stephanie Mansfield of the Washington Post about this time of her life. It took me over completely.
Out of this spiritual experience, Arianna in 1979 published her second book, After Reason (published in England with the title The Other Revolution). In it she criticized both the right and left for doing too little for societys poor.
In 1980 Arianna moved to New York City and soon began to tour the United States to promote her new book about a Greek operatic diva, Maria Callas: The Woman Behind the Legend. In 1988 she wrote a biography of Pablo Picasso, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer, which was the subject of a lawsuit from one of Picassos mistresses who Arianna had interviewed.
While visiting California she met the man who remains her spiritual guide to this day, John-Roger (Hinkins), founder of a New Age church apparently spun off from the ECKANKAR cult teachings of Paul Twitchell. John-Rogers Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA) is a faith based on the Mystical Traveler, a spiritual consciousness that exists throughout all levels of Gods creation.
One disciple of John-Rogers was the New York Times best-selling author Peter McWilliams. As a de-programmed ex-member, McWilliams wrote the expose Life 102: What to Do When Your Guru Sues You (1994). In this book McWilliams alleged that the charismatic John-Roger had told McWilliams the he (McWilliams) could be cured of AIDS if he wrote books giving John-Roger co-authorship and at least half of the books profits, which the brainwashed McWilliams agreed to do. To this day, John-Roger insists that he was the chief writer of such co-authored best-sellers as Life 101, and implied that McWilliams was more his scribe than a co-equal author.
In Life 102 McWilliams described how Arianna Huffington, too, had been duped by John-Roger and had become a major contributor to, and an ordained minister of, MSIA. McWilliams released to the press a video of Huffington in a white robe being baptized by John-Roger. Ive gotten a lot of value from John-Rogers work, said Arianna Huffington. Hes a good friend.
In the United States, Arianna dated a variety of men. Among them were real estate tycoon and U.S. News & World Report Editor-in-Chief Mort Zuckerman and former California Governor Jerry Brown. Dole Pineapple CEO David Murdoch and his wife then introduced her to Texas oil millionaire Michael Huffington, who she married in April 1986 in a wedding ceremony financed as a gift by Ann Getty. But Arianna’s friendship with Getty ended when the latter found that Huffington had frivolously spent $30,000 on her wedding dress and $100,000 in all.
Heir to approximately $80 millon from the sale of his familys oil company, Michael Huffington spent $5.4 million in 1992 to win a seat in Congress from Santa Barbara, California. In 1994 he ran for U.S. Senate against longtime veteran Democratic politician and incumbent Dianne Feinstein and narrowly lost. One issue contributing to his defeat was public concern over Arianna Huffingtons links to the John-Roger cult. He has more influence on her than anyone else in the world, Michael Huffington years later told the New York Times of Ariannas relationship with John-Roger.
In 1995 the new Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich helped make Arianna Huffington a senior fellow at his conservative think tank the Progress and Freedom Foundation, creating its Center for Effective Compassion (her name and idea) to advocate volunteerism as an alternative to the welfare state. She hosted the talk show Critical Mass on Republican Party-attuned National Empowerment Television. Her column in the conservative Washington Times newspaper was soon syndicated nationwide.
Huffingtons relationship with Gingrich soured abruptly for reasons unexplained. (In her 2000 book How To Overthrow the Government, Huffington claims that Gingrich did not care about the poor.) Returning to California after her husband Michael was forced to give up his congressional seat when he ran for the Senate, Arianna quickly organized a quite different social scene around herself — consisting of media leftists like Harry Shearer, Bill Maher, Al Franken, and Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer.
Soon she became a frequent guest on television, embraced by Maher and Franken who understood the 180-degree turn she was about to make better than most. In 1996 the cable channel Comedy Central made Franken and Huffington a team covering that years political conventions, and she was nominated for an Emmy for her role in this coverage. She was able to keep her credibility as a conservative, however, by hammering President Clinton with some wit during the Monica Lewinsky affair and impeachment process.
Huffington continued to write books. Her coffee table volume The Gods of Greece (1983) described the deities of Greek mythology as representing powerful psychological realities. Under her married name she wrote about her continuing spiritual exploration in Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul (1994). And, while ostensibly still a conservative, she wrote about President Bill Clintons sex scandal in a novel, Greetings from the Lincoln Bedroom (1998).
In 1997 the Huffingtons divorced, with Arianna receiving an undisclosed but large financial settlement in the seven-figure range. This event became a watershed in her orientation and choice of political bedfellows.
Shes a chameleon, Michael Huffington told the New York Times to describe his former wife. Since their divorce, Arianna Huffingtons political positions have shifted dramatically towards the left. She now describes herself as a progessive independent who is coming from the fourth dimension of political time and space.
In 2000 Arianna Huffington was deeply involved in staging the Shadow Conventions designed as media propaganda shows to undermine Republicans and nudge Democrats farther to the political left. These mock conventions were organized by the Shadow Party organizations funded by George Soros and other wealthy leftists.
Huffingtons books in recent years reflect her new left-leaning slant. They include How to Overthrow the Government (2000); Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America (2003); and Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America (2004).
In 2003 Arianna Huffington ran as an independent candidate in the California election that recalled incumbent Democratic Governor Gray Davis. She directed almost all her fire on consensus Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger, who ultimately won. One of Huffingtons chief campaign advisors during this race was her close personal friend Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink. Huffingtom received only one percent of the primary votes cast. One issue that cut against her was that despite living in a $7 million mansion, holding and making huge amounts of money, and demanding higher taxes on corporations, she herself had paid only $771 in federal taxes over the previous two years.
On May 9, 2005, Huffington launched HuffingtonPost.com, a website openly intended to do for the political left what Matt Drudges DrudgeReport.com has done to coalesce the right. As the New York Times reported, Huffington hired for her new website, Drudges right-hand web whiz, Andrew Breitbart.
In a May 2008 interview with John Stossel, Huffington boasted that she drove a Prius hybrid vehicle in an effort to help reduce global warming. When Stossel pointed out that Huffington also has a $7-million house that burns more carbon than a hundred people in the Third World, Huffington replied: There is no question that the fact that I’m living in a big house, I occasionally travel on private planes — all those things are contradictions. I’m not setting myself up as some paragon who only goes around on a bicycle.
In the same interview, Huffington stated that welfare reform (which was enacted in 1996) was “not a success” because it had left “a lot of people ... without job training and therefore without the ability to really lead productive lives.” Stossel then pointed out that since welfare reform, eight million people had left the welfare rolls, and that many of them had gone on to find gainful employment. Huffingtons retort: But you know we have over 30 million Americans living below the poverty line. When Stossel informed her that the percentage of families living below the poverty line had fallen considerably since 1996, Huffington said: The fact that we used to live in caves is not a justification for the state of affairs right now.
Republican strategist Ed Rollins (who managed Michael Huffington’s 1994 campaign for the California Senate) once called Arianna Huffington “a domineering Greek Rasputin” who was “the most ruthless, unscrupulous, and ambitious person I’d met in thirty years in national politics.”
Who and where are the political leaders you ascribe to?
I firmly believe this is also why most on the left seem to be so determined to run away from God, and to ridicule and dismiss those who want to return to our heritage of government based upon God-centered principles. If one allows God and his plan for mankind to be acknowledged, then it forces a decision to be made: either follow God or follow one's own sinful (selfish) desires. Leftists simply love their sin too much to ever allow themselves to face up to that decision.
This communist POS just put out a CONTRACT on Glenn Beck's life in the public eye and not a damned thing happened to him.
In my heart of hearts, I don’t believe HolyO will ever be more than a OTP! I think the November election is going to be a blowout, and that things will start to get better once Reid and Pelosi are history—God knows, how much worse can it get??? :-(
(Don’t answer that, I have a very big imagination, and it is scaring me to think of these anti-American, fetus-killing, immoral bunch of no-gooders continuing to rule this land!)
She’ll huff and puff and blow his...
Wait I was thinking what she did for new fur coats from her late husband.
I hope that you are correct. But I also have have seen how the Democrat Party and main stream media operate.
Imagine that. A Greek socialist is anti-America, and anti-Beck. I’m shocked! I wish she could be deported back to her homeland, Greece. Where the EU just bailed out all her socialist relatives.
Thanks kristinn.
I resemble that tag-line remark. :-|
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