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Conservatives Have Invented a Conspiracy About Tim Walz’s Dog

Right-wing commentators are once again barking up the wrong tree

By Nikki McCann Ramirez

August 26, 2024

Gov. Tim Walz holds Scout during a news conference to announce his adoption ohn Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. Anthony Souffle/Star Tribune/AP

Like dogs with a bone, the right won’t drop their efforts to malign Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

On Monday, prominent conservatives circulated an absurd allegation that Walz was faking the identity of his family’s dog Scout.

“This is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these are two completely different dogs,” Dustin Grage, a columnist at the right-wing website Town Hall, wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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The post contrasted two images of Walz. One was of Walz with Scout — a black labrador mix — celebrating the pup’s birthday in June of 2022. The second showed Walz petting a different dog on October 19, 2022. “Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a beautiful fall day than at the dog park. I know Scout enjoyed it,” the governor captioned the image.

The same day, Walz posted a video on Instagram featuring Scout and several other dogs at a dog park. In the video, the governor is sporting the same jacket, beanie, and dog toy seen in the photo, and the dog featured in the X post is also clearly visible. In the clip, Walz jokingly asks Scout if he’s “jealous” of the attention he’s giving other dogs before giving him an affectionate rub. The photo of Walz at the dog park has seemingly been removed from his X account.

Given that Scout has been in Walz’s family since 2019, and recently got his own *Vogue* profile, reasonable bipedal thinkers might assume that Walz was simply posting a photo with a friendly dog he met at a dog park — not concocting an elaborate scheme to trick voters about his family pet.

Nevertheless, the right ran with Grage’s post like a hound who’d just stolen the Thanksgiving turkey off the dining room table.

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) quoted Grage’s post with the caption: “Why would Tim Walz do this? It’s Creepy™️ and Weird™️.”

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“Tim Walz is an all-time legendary liar,” Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk wrote in a now-deleted tweet.

“Wait so Walz is even lying about his dog? Ruff stuff,” wrote former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is currently engaged to Donald Trump Jr.

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Monday, several prominent Republicans launched their latest attack on Tim Walz, this time coming after not his background or his policy, but his dog Scout.

“This is Tim Walz tweeting about his dog Scout. Only problem is that these are two completely different dogs,” right-wing columnist Dustin Grage wrote on X.

He shared two photos Walz had previously posted. One photo is from June 2022 and shows Walz with his dog Scout, who is a black labrador mix, and is captioned: “Sending a special birthday shoutout to our favorite pup, Scout.”

The other photo is from October 2022 and shows Walz petting a different dog at a dog park. “Couldn’t think of a better way to spend a beautiful fall day than at the dog park. I know Scout enjoyed it,” the caption reads.

Republicans falsely claimed the photos showed Walz was lying about the dog he’s very much had since 2019.

Sen. Eric Schmidt, R-Mo., wrote that Walz's dog posts were “creepy” and “weird.”

“Wait so Walz is even lying about his dog?” wrote Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News host and the fiancee of Donald Trump Jr.

The rumor was quickly debunked by video of Scout and the other dog pictured running around the dog park together on that same day.

This is just the latest attack from Republicans on Walz. From questioning his military background to his relationship with his son, none of their criticisms have landed, argued MSNBC host Jen Psaki. They’ve now gotten so “desperate” they’ve come after his dog, Psaki said. “Better luck next time, guys."

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  3. ^ "Salem Communications to Acquire Townhall.com; Salem Expands News Talk Radio Platform into New Media with Addition of Leading Conservative Opinion Website.", The Free Library, 2014. Retrieved on March 4, 2015.
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  5. ^ Stephen Koff, "Republican presidential candidates talk to these conservative media outlets. Here's why." The Plain Dealer, June 1, 2015.
  6. ^ Townhall Magazine, "premier issue", January 2008.
  7. ^ "Conservative Columnists with Political News Commentary, Analysis". Townhall. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  8. ^ Porterfield, Carlie (November 2, 2021). "Breitbart Leads Climate Change Misinformation On Facebook, Study Says". Forbes. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
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TownHall Mediais a publishing group that operates Townhall.com, Red State, PJ Media and Twitchy, all of which share misinformation with a total audience of 6.2 million followers. Townhall Media’s sites have published false or misleading claims on Covid and vaccines, including unproven allegations about dangerous side effects of vaccines and the efficacy of horse-dewormer ivermectin as a treatment.45 Climate denial content also regularly features on Townhall Media’s websites, where columnists refer to it as a “hoax”.46 

Founded in 1995, Townhall.com was originally a publication of the Heritage Foundation, which has received significant funding from the fossil fuel industry including $870,000 from ExxonMobil.47

The Heritage Foundation was also, along with ExxonMobil and the Koch Brothers, an early member of the ‘Cooler Heads Coalition’ that has lobbied against climate policy and promoted climate denial for decades.48 Although Townhall Media is estimated to have relatively modest annual revenue of $249,263,it was acquired in 2006 by Salem Media Groupwhich has an annual revenue of $236 million.49

This article from our sample by PJ Media, one of Townhall Media’s properties, questions the severity of global warming and suggests “there is little concrete evidence” that carbon emissions have an impact on global climate.50 It has carried ads for the delivery company DHL, whose CEO Dr Frank Appel has promised to “commit to a science-based target and reduce our emissions by 2030”.51

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CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Marc Morano joins me now, he is the author of the great reset and plush everywhere of climate depot.com. Mark, great to have you.

CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Marc Morano joins me now, he is the author of the great reset and plush everywhere of climate depot.com. Mark, great to have you. You heard my monologue. Am I right. Is this whole green thing a big scam?”

mORANO: “Impact our children, the green energy revolution that everyone talks about it’s easier than fossil fuels. United Nations climate summit. You can rename it a China empowerment summit. All it’s going to do is make the once energy dominant west more reliant on China for all this rare earth mining and with lower environmental standards and this is the most important aspect, Rachel, lower human rights standards. Whether you are talking about the uyghurs in China or particularly in relation to your opening, kids as young as 8, 9 years old in the coming go mining cobalt. Now, this has been reported over the years, years ago by cbs news, by CNN, so, the mainstream media is aware of it. But they haven’t connected any dots and they don’t hardly ever talk about it although they did cover it. But, essentially, we are empowering China by more and more mandates rely on them. Very little oversight; what’s going on with the kids in africa and just human rights in africa with these Chinese owned companies

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great Rush Limbaugh used to say that "the modern environmentalists worship the created, not the creator." I was reminded of that after listening to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi once President Joe Biden signed the fiscally unconscionable $750 billion tax-and-spend Inflation Reduction Act, which gives another $369 billion to the climate change-industrial complex.

Pelosi (D-CA) claimed the wind, solar and electric subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act would placate an "angry" planet. "Mother Earth gets angry from time to time, and this legislation will help us address all of that," the speaker said.

This is a highly revealing statement. Do Pelosi and her Democratic colleagues really believe that spending $369 billion on Tesla subsidies (with batteries made in China), windmills (made in China) and solar panels (made in China) is going to save the planet, stop the rise of the oceans and lower the global temperature?

This is the same gang in Congress that can't stop the daily drive-by shootings in our cities, can't secure the U.S.-Mexico border, can't come anywhere near balancing the budget and can't provide the resources our military needs for our national security.

Even if this additional $369 billion were to work as planned, the Wall Street Journal reports that the impact on global temperatures in the coming decades would be to lower them by 0.001%. So, instead of the global temperature being an average of 59 F, it will be 58.999 F. Thank God! We are saved from Armageddon.

But as Pelosi's quote makes clear, this is about symbolism. It is about ruining the economy as a sacrifice to Mother Earth. Marc Morano, the journalist who runs ClimateDepot.com, asks: "Will human sacrifices be next to appease the 'angry' Earth gods? Actually, this bill will create human sacrifice by imposing even more suffering from energy deprivation, supply chain issues, good shortages, inflation, debt, and bad science."

He's right. The suffering that will occur from this assault on American energy security and reliability could be profound -- and it will be the lowest-income people who will be hurt the most. Inflation will rise as energy prices soar. The shortages of energy will cause hardship for many consumers, including food shortages. Europe, which got hooked on the green energy fad, is now rationing energy. In Spain, there are new restrictions on using air conditioning to set the temperature of your store or home at less than 80 F -- during a heat spell. It's one of those sacrifices to Mother Earth.

One of the great injustices and ironies of the new law is that it purports to give billions of dollars for "environmental justice" grants to low-income communities and inner cities when it is this group of people who will feel the brunt of the anti-fossil fuel policies. The poor spend much more of their incomes on energy than the rich.

the warmest years in North America are not recent years -- instead, they occurred during the 1930s amid the Dust Bowl era. This was (SET ITAL) before (END ITAL) 80% of the carbon dioxide was released into the atmosphere. Back then, thousands of U.S. residents died from extreme weather. But now we have, through modern electric power and technological innovation, major ways to reduce death rates from weather events. The way to save the Earth is through more growth, more innovation and a richer planet.

That is what Mother Earth wants. That is what America wants. Only one out of 20 people rate climate change as the No. 1 problem facing our country. The public wants lower inflation and more prosperity. This law delivers neither.

The God that many of us worship wants us to create peace, prosperity and light. The god of radical environmentalists will deliver darkness, despair and decline.

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FBI Responds to Zuckerberg's Claims About Hunter Biden's Laptop

The FBI responded to claims made by Meta CEO and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, saying that it “routinely notifies” social media companies of potential threats.

During a podcast interview with Joe Rogan, Zuckerberg told the host that Facebook’s restrictions surrounding the New York Post’s 2020 article on Hunter Biden were based on FBI misinformation warnings.

The Post’s article reported that data recovered from a laptop belonging to Hunter Biden included emails which indicated that President Joe Biden used his position and power as then- vice president to help his son, Hunter, in business dealings with Ukraine.

Zuckerberg claimed that Facebook suppressed stories on the platform related to the article on Hunter Biden and his laptop after the FBI warned the social media company to be aware of potentially polarizing content. 

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“The FBI has provided companies with foreign threat indicators to help them protect their platforms and customers from abuse by foreign malign influence actors,” the agency said in a statement. 

In response to Zuckerberg’s comments, many speculate that Facebook censored information that may make Biden look bad ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

“[The FBI] routinely notifies U.S. private sector entities, including social media providers, of potential threat information, so that they can decide how to better defend against threats,” according to the agency.

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Fossil fuel apologists blame everyone but Putin. Because of course they do. | Red, Green, and Blue

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... Carlson (who's been defending Putin) had Marc Morano on his show to –what else – blame Biden and climate concern for the Russian invasion.

OAN reporter: The survival of our country depends on COVID-19 vaccines killing liberals

https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-reporter-survival-our-country-depends-covid-19-vaccines-killing

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[pearson wacko?] SHARP (REPORTER): More and more Americans are standing up and fighting back against thetyranny of the COVID conspiracy theory. Convoys of outraged truck drivers are sending a message loud and clear to cowardly leaders all over the world, from Canada to Australia and even here in the U.S., and that message is simple: Back off, or else. We, the people, will not tolerate this oppression any longer.

We have had enough. Enough of watching our businesses get destroyed, while hypocritical politicians like Gavin Newsom dine out at fancy restaurants with their friends during lockdowns, [NOT BORIS?] or go maskless to public events they demand that we wear masks to. We've had enough of watching our loved ones get sick and die pointless deaths, all because the media and despots in Washington refused to let us treat our sick with the safest and most effective drugs in the world, like ivermectin. We've had enough of being denied basic services,[LIKE HAPPY HOUR?]  like being refused entry into a grocery store or restaurant,or being refused a life-saving organ transplant unless we have a dehumanizing passport proving we're dumb enough to sign over the rights to our own bodies to these murderous tyrants. Enough of seeing our children die after being forced to take this same poisonous drug that's making Big Pharma companies like Pfizer and Moderna over $100 billion a year. Enough is enough.

They can try to cover up their crimes. But the evidence is mounting, and they can't hide it forever. The story that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated is laughable. How do they explain the hundreds of fully vaccinated cruise ships coming down with the Fauci flu? Israel is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, and right now nearly 1% of their entire population is coming down with the China virus every single day. Think about that. Really let that number sink in: 1% of the entire country gets sick with this engineered virus, every day. And they're all fully vaccinated.

Wayne Allyn Root over on Townhall put together a great article on this, demonstrating how the German government claimed up to 90% of the infected and dead are unvaccinated. But that was a flat-out lie, because it turns out the German government was actually classifying every sick and dying person as unvaccinated, regardless of whether they were or not. Same goes for Canada, where they claimed 60% of the COVID deaths were unvaccinated. But that was a lie, too, because in reality, they just classified anyone who got sick or died within two weeks of getting the vaccine as unvaccinated.

And surprise, surprise, our own beloved CDC -- the Centers for Democrat Control -- pulled the same trick on us. The CDC claimed that anyone who died within 14 days of getting injected wasn't vaccinated. Even though the majority of the deaths and injuries from the vaccine happened within that first 14-day period. Good way to cover up all the people they're murdering, just say they're not vaccinated. Sneaky, sneaky.

Daniel Nagase, a Canadian doctor for over 15 years who was fired after saving the lives of three patients with ivermectin, says this is just the tip of the iceberg. Nagase said looking at Pfizer's own clinical trial data, the number of deaths and injuries from the vaccine are staggering. According to their data,fully 31% of the people who got the vaccine either died or had permanent disabilities.

Even more shocking is what's happening in the military. Since the armed forces rolled out the vaccine, in one year cancer rates are up 300% among military members.But that's not all. Infertility is skyrocketing as well, up 500% in women, along with miscarriages, which are up another 300%. But those numbers pale in comparison to the rates of clinically diagnosed neurological disorders, which went up an astronomical 1,000% from 82,000 to nearly 900,000. And that happened in one year since the vaccines were introduced. Just think about what that's doing to America's ability to defend itself. Our young warriors crippled by their own government. And we still insist on giving this experimental drug to our children.

Even research published in theToxicology Reports Journal, one of the most well-respected medical journals anywhere, found that children have almost no risk from COVID, but suffer severe consequences from what the researchers themselves called toxic inoculations, including paralysis, heart attacks and even death. The study found the spike proteins from the injections cause permanent damage in children's critical organs, including their brains, nervous and reproductive systems. After being ordered by a judge in December, Pfizer released its own data, which showed that out of 32 known pregnant women who received the vaccine, 28 women experienced fetal death and lost their babies. This is tantamount to child sacrifice on the altar of Big Pharma.

Young athletesare another prime group to be targeted by this deadly vaccine with 500% more soccer players in the E.U. dropping dead from heart attacks than one year ago -- 500%. Who is actually braindead enough to think that this is just a coincidence, when Pfizer and Moderna's vaccine are known by the FDA to cause heart attacks. This is a pandemic of the ignorant, and it's killing our country.

So, for all of you progressives and Democrats and radical leftists out there. Do us all a favor, please, and go get vaccinated. In fact, don't stop there. Get double vaccinated, and be sure toget all your boosters. All three or four of them. Why stop there? If more is better--- get five, six, get 10 boosters. All the rest of us sane, freedom-loving Americans are counting on you to get your injections. The survival of our country depends on it.

https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/gaza-2653011635

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Far right pundits cheered the Israeli airstrike that leveled a building in Gaza Saturday housing several international news outlets, including The Associated Press, Al Jazeera and the BBC.

The Israel Defense Forces later said the militant group Hamas had "military intelligence assets" in the building — though as of Sunday afternoon no evidence supporting the claims had been made public.

The bombing, broadcast live television by several journalists who had just escaped the blast, quickly gained widespread media attention Saturday due to the nature of the attack, which drew condemnation from many press freedom advocates around the globe.

Yet, right-wing pundits on Twitter had a different view on it all — they celebrated and jeered at the destruction.

Senior columnist at the right-wing site Townhall, Kurt Schlichter, called those who carried out the bombing "heroes," while seemingly finding pleasure in the attack. "Let's stop pretending that the media is not a participant and that it is somehow entitled to not be treated like every other active enemy," he declared.

Let’s stop pretending that the media is not a participant and that it is somehow entitled to not be treated like every other active enemy.

— Kurt Schlichter (@Kurt Schlichter)1621090669.0

Popular conservative Twitter pundit, Stephen L. Miller, who is currently a contributor at the conservative opinion site The Spectator, reacted by mocking the bombing with a meme of a lady smiling....[twt]

Former Newsmax TV host John Cardillo wrote on Twitter: "Looks like the IDF took out Hamas's PR team," while fellow right-wing Twitter pal David Reaboi called the bombing "based," a term coined by the rapper Lil B to signal that one agrees or approves of a statement.

"Just warms your heart to see," a contributing editor for right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire, Harry Khachatrian, responded to the attack.

@davereaboi Probably watched this a dozen times already, what a great start to the weekend

— Harry Khachatrian

Many online also tried to draw spurious connections between the destruction and last summer's Black Lives Matter protests.

GOP operative Arthur Schwartz, who is known for losing his coolafter a waiter spilled steak sauce on him while dining with Trump, tweeted, "Black Lives Matter, Inc. thugs burned and looted American cities, we're now told that property damage is a big deal? What's different here?"

No journalists were reported injured as a result of the airstrike. According to several firsthand reports from inside the building, residents and workers were warned ahead of time that the bombing would occur, sparking a mad scramble to evacuate the premises.[10 min?!]

"I have been covering lots of events from this building. We have lots of good memories with our colleagues," Safwat al-Kahlout, a reporter for Al Jazeera, said. "Now everything, in two seconds, just vanished."

The AP reports at least 188 Palestinians were killed this week in the most recent round of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. That number includes 55 children and 33 women, with more than a thousand wounded. Eight people in Israel have died from rocket attacks launched from Gaza.

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Let’s have some real talk, because the Orange Man Bad side of the debate – the side that suddenly is all hopped up on war juice – offers nothing but hack clichés to support its amorphous position. The Kurds helped destroy ISIS, true. It’s also true that the Kurds would have fought ISIS anyway, since the psycho caliphate was right next door. Let’s be honest – the Kurds didn’t show up for us at Normandy or Inchon or Khe Sanh or Kandahar. The Syrian Kurds allied with us in their homeland because we shared a common interest in wiping out the head-lopping freak show that was ISIS. Moreover, all Kurds are not equal.The PKK – the Kurdistan Workers' Party – are a bunch of commie terrorists who have been fighting the Turks for a long time. Those reds are no friends of ours, and it’s their antics that seem to be inspiring the Turkish campaign. I have little use for the Turks, but they aren’t just picking this fight for Schiffs and giggles. The fact that it’s all so confusing is a really, really good reason for us to stay the hell out of it.

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How many dead Americans is it worth to stop the Turks and Kurds from brawling? I, and our president, say, “Exactly none.” Those who disagree owe us all an exact number of their own.

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https://www.alternet.org/right-wing/conspiracy-theory-cia-hacked-obamas-birth-certificate

Some local talk radio shows and fake news websites are pushing a new conspiracy theory from Infowars that the CIA hacked into a Hawaii state government database to forge former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. One of the radio hosts pushing the conspiracy theory has previously been cited as an analyst on a local ABC affiliate.

On December 12, Jerome Corsi of the conspiracy theory outlet Infowars claimed that investigators for former Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, headed by his chief investigator Michael Zullo,had found “evidence that the CIA and or other government entities illegally hacked into Hawaii Department of Health records searching for” Obama’s records. (President Donald Trump pardoned Arpaio in August after he was charged with criminal contempt because of his treatment of undocumented immigrants.) Corsi, who has been a chief figure of the birther movement, added that the “evidence” “strongly suggests the CIA played a role in the forgery” of Obama’s birth certificate.

Some local talk radio stations have hyped Infowars’ report. New Orleans talk radio host Jeff Crouere -- a Townhall writerwho has been featured as a “political analyst” on ABC’s New Orleans affiliate WGNO -- called Corsi’s report a “bombshell” on his radio program(which is carried by a station affiliated with Louisiana Public Broadcasting) and said, “I’ve said from the beginning that birth certificate [Obama] released was a fraud.”...

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Townhall.com

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Townhall.com is a website that publishes numerous conservative columnists. Formerly a project of the Heritage Foundation, it was purchased in 2006 by Salem Communications Corporation.

* 1 History

* 2 Townhall.com

* 3 Townhall becomes a for-profit company

* 4 Sale to Salem Communications

* 5 Key Staff

* 6 Former Staff

* 7 Regular Contributors

* 8 Members

* 9 Contact Information

* 10 References

* 11 Other SourceWatch Resources

History

It started in 1991 as a BBS called 'Town Hall'. A 'Town Hall Tour' of May 1992 gives an impression that BBS, Town Hall, was a joint venture of National Review Magazine and the Heritage Foundation. In March 1993 they had about 700 individual users and they were connected to 15 organizations. To access the BBS you needed a computer and a modem using a network phone number and an access code. Joining costed $20 and beyond that the user was charged from 26 cents to 66 cents a minute depending on the time of day. [1] Jeanne Allen was in 1993 the executive director of Town Hall. [2]

In March 1994 they announced that Town Hall would become a private forum on Compuserve. [3]

On July 19, 1994 Rich Winkel wrote about Town Hall in a Usenet posting

"On Compuserve computer network (202) 546-4400 [voice line at Heritage Foundation, ask for Town Hall information] An electronic bulletin board (BBS) and interactive dial-up computer service for the conservative movement carried on the Compuserve computer network. Sponsored by National Review and the Heritage Foundation. Includes electronic (ASCII) text version of materials from groups such as the The Free Congress Foundation's National Empowerment Television project, Focus on the Family, The Leadership Institute, International Freedom Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and the State Policy Network of state-based think tanks." [4]

Townhall.com

According to the whois-information the domain name (townhall.com) was claimed on March 2, 1995. The web site (www.townhall.com) went live on June 29, 1995. [5] [6] Tim Butler was at that moment president of Town Hall and the organization was still owned jointly by Heritage and National Review. Soon after that 'Townhall.com' was considered to be only a Heritage Foundation project. The WayBack machine has pages that go back to 1996. On the 'media-kit' page of 'townhall.com' they write

"Online since 1991, and on the Web since June 1995, townhall.com reaches an established, older, and highly influential community of between 200,000 and 250,000 individual users each month. The largest conservative site on the Web, www.townhall.com is the main internet address for over 35 member sites, including publications and radio shows, think tanks, and public policy, grassroots, and educational organizations."

Townhall becomes a for-profit company

In 2004 the Heritage Foundation Board of Trustees backed a proposal to end its direct role with Townhall.com. In a note in its consolidated financial statements for the 2003 and 2004 financial years the foundation stated "the separation was completed on March 15, 2005 and Townhall.com will operate as a separte autonomous for-profit company, with no shared governance." It reported that the the Chief Executive Officer of the new for-profit entity had previosuly worked for the foundation. [7]

"The Foundations received consideration of $100,000 for Townhall.com, based upon an indepnedent valuation, in exchange for accounts receivable and fixed assets with a book value of approximately $76,000. The Foundation has agreed to act as guarantor of a loan for Townhall.com for up to $1,000,000 and will receive 10% of Townhall.com free cash flow, calculated on an annual basis, as defined in the agreement, up to an aggregate of $1,500,000; however no payments are due until 2012," the note reports.

Sale to Salem Communications

In April 2006, Salem Communiations announced that it had acquired Townhall.com.[1] In addition to its original mission, Townhall.com now also serves as a promotional platform for the conservative radio hosts Salem syndicates, including Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved, Bill Bennett, and Dennis Prager.

Key Staff

* Jonathan Garthwaite, Editor-in-Chief[2]

* Hugh Hewitt, Executive Editor[3]

Former Staff

* Mary Katharine Ham, former managing editor,[4] now online editor at the Washington Examiner.[5]

Regular Contributors

* Mike Adams

* Gary Aldrich

* Mark Alexander

  * Doug Bandow

* Bruce Bartlett

* Tony Blankley

* Brent Bozell

* Peter Brookes

* Jay Bryant

* Pat Buchanan

* William F. Buckley, Jr.

* Neil Cavuto

* Mona Charen

* Linda Chavez

* Chuck Colson

* Ward Connerly

* Ann Coulter

* Helle Dale

* Larry Elder

* Edwin J. Feulner

* Suzanne Fields

* Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

* Rich Galen

* Maggie Gallagher

 * Jonah Goldberg

* Paul Greenberg

* Rebecca Hagelin

* David Horowitz

* Dexter Ingram

* Paul Jacob

* Terence Jeffrey

* Jack Kemp

* Charles Krauthammer

* Larry Kudlow

* John Leo

* David Limbaugh

* Rich Lowry

* Ross Mackenzie

* Michelle Malkin

* John McCaslin

* Bill Murchison

* Joel Mowbray

* Oliver North

* Robert Novak

* Marvin Olasky

* Kathleen Parker

* Dennis Prager

* Alan Reynolds

* Paul Craig Roberts

* Debra Saunders

* Phyllis Schlafly

* Ben Shapiro

* Thomas Sowell

* Jacob Sullum

* Mark Tapscott

* Cal Thomas

* Matt Towery

* Rich Tucker

* Emmett Tyrrell

* Diana West

* George Will

* Armstrong Williams

* Walter Williams

Members

* A World Connected

* Accuracy in Academia

* Accuracy in Media

* Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

* AgapePress

* Alliance Defense Fund

* American Conservative Union

* The American Enterprise

* American Land Rights Association

* American Legislative Exchange Council

* American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property

* Americans for Prosperity Foundation

* Americans for Tax Reform

* AnnCoulter.org

* Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University

* The Bradley Foundation

* BreakPoint Online

* Campus Report

* Capital Research Center

* Cato Institute

* The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity

* The Center for Consumer Freedom

* Center for Equal Opportunity

* Center for Individual Freedom

* Center for Security Policy

* Center for the Future of Russia

* Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

* Citizens Against Government Waste

* Citizens for a Sound Economy

* The Claremont Institute

* clashradio.com

* Collegiate Network

* Competitive Enterprise Institute

* Concerned Women for America

* The Conservative Caucus

* Conservative Petitions.com

* Conservative Political Action Conference

* Defenders of Property Rights

* Digital Freedom Network

* Employment Policies Institute

* EnviroTruth.org

* Evergreen Freedom Foundation

* Family Research Council

* The Federalist e-journal Digest

* The Federalist Society

* The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

* Free Republic Network

* Free-Market.Net

* Freedom Alliance

* Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation

* Frontiers of Freedom

* The Fund for American Studies

* Georgia Public Policy Foundation

* Green Watch

* Greening Earth Society

* Grove City College

* Heartland Institute

* The Heritage Foundation

* Hillsdale College

* The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society

* Human Events Online

* The Human Life Review

* Independent Women's Forum

* Insight on the News

* Institute for Humane Studies

* Institute for Policy Innovation

* Intercollegiate Studies Institute

* ISI Books

* Landmark Legal Foundation

* Lawsuit Abuse Makes Us Sick

* Leadership Institute

* LifeNews.com

* The Lone Star Report

* Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute

* Mackinac Center for Public Policy

* Maryland Public Policy Institute

* Massachusetts News

* Media Research Center

* Mountain States Legal Foundation

* National Center for Policy Analysis

* The National Center for Public Policy Research

* National Legal and Policy Center

* National Review Online

* National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.

* National Taxpayers Union & NTU Foundation

* Ohio Taxpayers Association & OTA Foundation

* OpinionEditorials.com

* The Optimate

* Pacific Legal Foundation

* Pacific Research Institute

* The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty

* The Philadelphia Society

* The Project for California's Future

* The Reagan Ranch

* religionjournal.com

* RetireSafe.org

* Small Business Survival Committee

* State Policy Network

* Susan B. Anthony List

* Tax Foundation

* Taxpayers League of Minnesota

* Tech Central Station

* Texas Public Policy Foundation

* Townhall.com

* Traditional Values Coalition

* U.S. English, Inc.

* U.S. Term Limits

* The Washington Times National Weekly Edition

* The Weekly Standard

* The World & I

* World Congress of Families

* World Magazine

* The Yorktown Patriot

* Young America's Foundation

Contact Information

214 Massachusetts Ave NE

Washington, DC 20002

Tel. 202-608-6099

Fax 202-544-7330

web site: www.townhall.com

References

  1. ↑ Salem Communications to Acquire Townhall.com, April 10, 2006
  1. ↑ Jonathan Garthwaite bio, Townhall.com, accessed March 13, 2008.
  1. ↑ Hugh Hewitt bio, Townhall.com, accessed March 7, 2008.
  1. ↑ Mary Katharine Ham bio, Townhall.com, accessed March 7, 2008.
  1. ↑ "MKH Relocation Efforts Underway", Mary Katherien Ham's blog, Townhall.com, May 23, 2008.

Other SourceWatch Resources

* New Media Alliance

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49. townhall.com

Edited on Mon Oct-25-04 02:27 PM by evilqueen

Disinfopedia: Townhall.com is a project of the Heritage Foundation. Regular contributers include: Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Pat Buchanan, William F. Buckley, Jr., Oliver North, Robert Novak, among others. Free Republic Network (from whom the free republic website was born) is one of many members.

Disinfopedia's Entry on Townhall.com : It started in 1991 as a BBS called 'Town Hall'. A 'Town Hall Tour' of May 1992 gives an impression of that BBS. Town Hall, was a joint venture of National Review Magazine and the Heritage Foundation. In March 1993 they had about 700 individual users and they were connected to 15 organizations. To access the BBS you needed a computer and a modem using a network phone number and an access code. Joining costed $20 and beyond that the user was charged from 26 cents to 66 cents a minute depending on the time of day. <1> Jeanne Allen was in 1993 the executive director of Town Hall. <2>

In March 1994 they announced that Town Hall would become a private forum on Compuserve. <3>

On July 19, 1994 Rich Winkel wrote about Town Hall in a Usenet posting

"On Compuserve computer network (202) 546-4400

An electronic bulletin board (BBS) and interactive dial-up computer service for the conservative movement carried on the Compuserve computer network. Sponsored by National Review and the Heritage Foundation. Includes electronic (ASCII) text version of materials from groups such as the The Free Congress Foundation's National Empowerment Television project, Focus on the Family, The Leadership Institute, International Freedom Foundation, Citizens for a Sound Economy, and the State Policy Network of state-based think tanks." <4>

Townhall.com

According to the whois-information the domain name (townhall.com) was claimed on March 2, 1995. The web site (www.townhall.com ) went live on June 29, 1995. <5> <6> Tim Butler was at that moment president of Town Hall and the organization was still owned jointly by Heritage and National Review. Soon after that 'Townhall.com' was considered to be only a Heritage Foundation project. The WayBack machine has pages that go back to 1996. On the 'media-kit' page of 'townhall.com' they write:

"Online since 1991, and on the Web since June 1995, townhall.com reaches an established, older, and highly influential community of between 200,000 and 250,000 individual users each month. The largest conservative site on the Web, www.townhall.com is the main internet address for over 35 member sites, including publications and radio shows, think tanks, and public policy, grassroots, and educational organizations."

Key Staff

  • Jonathan Garthwaite, Editor
  • Jennifer Biddison, Assistant Editor
  • Ryan Zempel, News & Politics Editor
  • Laura O'Dea, Marketing Manager
  • Carolyn Davids, Community Coordinator

Regular Contributors

  • Mike Adams
  • Gary Aldrich
  • Mark Alexander
  • Doug Bandow
  • Bruce Bartlett
  • Tony Blankley
  • Brent Bozell
  • Peter Brookes
  • Jay Bryant
  • Pat Buchanan
  • William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Neil Cavuto
  • Mona Charen
  • Linda Chavez
  • Chuck Colson
  • Ward Connerly
  • Ann Coulter
  • Helle Dale
  • Larry Elder
  • Edwin J. Feulner
  • Suzanne Fields
  • Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.
  • Maggie Gallagher
  • Jonah Goldberg
  • Paul Greenberg
  • Rebecca Hagelin
  • David Horowitz
  • Dexter Ingram
  • Paul Jacob
  • Terence Jeffrey
  • Jack Kemp
  • Charles Krauthammer
  • Larry Kudlow
  • John Leo
  • David Limbaugh
  • Rich Lowry
  • Ross Mackenzie
  • Michelle Malkin
  • John McCaslin
  • Bill Murchison
  • Joel Mowbray
  • Oliver North
  • Robert Novak
  • Marvin Olasky
  • Kathleen Parker
  • Dennis Prager
  • Alan Reynolds
  • Paul Craig Roberts
  • Debra Saunders
  • Phyllis Schlafly
  • Ben Shapiro
  • Thomas Sowell
  • Jacob Sullum
  • Mark Tapscott
  • Cal Thomas
  • Matt Towery
  • Rich Tucker
  • Emmett Tyrrell
  • Diana West
  • George Will
  • Armstrong Williams
  • Walter Williams

Members

  • A World Connected
  • Accuracy in Academia
  • Accuracy in Media
  • Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty
  • AgapePress
  • Alliance Defense Fund
  • American Conservative Union
  • The American Enterprise
  • American Land Rights Association
  • American Legislative Exchange Council
  • American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property
  • Americans for Prosperity Foundation
  • Americans for Tax Reform
  • AnnCoulter.org
  • Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University
  • The Bradley Foundation
  • BreakPoint Online
  • Campus Report
  • Capital Research Center
  • Cato Institute
  • The Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity
  • The Center for Consumer Freedom
  • Center for Equal Opportunity
  • Center for Individual Freedom
  • Center for Security Policy
  • Center for the Future of Russia
  • Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
  • Citizens Against Government Waste
  • Citizens for a Sound Economy
  • The Claremont Institute
  • clashradio.com
  • Collegiate Network
  • Competitive Enterprise Institute
  • Concerned Women for America
  • The Conservative Caucus
  • Conservative Petitions.com
  • Conservative Political Action Conference
  • Defenders of Property Rights
  • Digital Freedom Network
  • Employment Policies Institute
  • EnviroTruth.org
  • Evergreen Freedom Foundation
  • Family Research Council
  • The Federalist e-journal Digest
  • The Federalist Society
  • The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
  • Free Republic Network
  • Free-Market.Net
  • Freedom Alliance
  • Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
  • Frontiers of Freedom
  • The Fund for American Studies
  • Georgia Public Policy Foundation
  • Green Watch
  • Greening Earth Society
  • Grove City College
  • Heartland Institute
  •  The Heritage Foundation (lots of names and info about it at that link) Also : Policy Review was founded by The Heritage Foundation. Tucker Carlson of Crossfire was once an editor there.
  • Hillsdale College
  • The Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society
  • Human Events Online
  • The Human Life Review
  • Independent Women's Forum
  • Insight on the News
  • Institute for Humane Studies
  • Institute for Policy Innovation
  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • ISI Books
  • Landmark Legal Foundation
  • Lawsuit Abuse Makes Us Sick
  • Leadership Institute
  • LifeNews.com
  • The Lone Star Report
  • Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute
  • Mackinac Center for Public Policy
  • Maryland Public Policy Institute
  • Massachusetts News
  • Media Research Center
  • Mountain States Legal Foundation
  • National Center for Policy Analysis
  • The National Center for Public Policy Research
  • National Legal and Policy Center
  • National Review Online
  • National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc.
  • National Taxpayers Union & NTU Foundation
  • Ohio Taxpayers Association & OTA Foundation
  • OpinionEditorials.com
  • The Optimate
  • Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Pacific Research Institute
  • The Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
  • The Philadelphia Society
  • The Project for California's Future
  • The Reagan Ranch
  • religionjournal.com
  • RetireSafe.org
  • Small Business Survival Committee
  • State Policy Network
  • Susan B. Anthony List
  • Tax Foundation
  • Taxpayers League of Minnesota
  • Tech Central Station
  • Texas Public Policy Foundation
  • Townhall.com
  • Traditional Values Coalition
  • U.S. English, Inc.
  • U.S. Term Limits
  • The Washington Times National Weekly Edition
  • The Weekly Standard
  • The World & I
  • World Congress of Families
  • World Magazine
  • The Yorktown Patriot
  • Young America's Foundation

Contact Information

214 Massachusetts Ave NE

Washington, DC 20002

Tel. 202-608-6099

Fax 202-544-7330

web site: www.townhall.com

Additionally, there is a list of regressive organizations which is probably worth checking out. One of our DUers mentioned the Rutherford Foundation (below this post), there is a Rutherford Institute (is that the same one?)