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makes videos (ads)
i thought he was fading, but see fake news, pal of k conway
wow, see ag 21 at bottom (dir mail?)
crazy or just fear monger?
amicus in secret energy task force lawsuit ctr for gov't integrity
see citizens united org
anita hill? CU ads for clarence
black voices for trump stacy washington pjt 21
see western jrnl
capt bak 818/720
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RWW
03/30/2026
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- Todd Starnes has a message for the millions of protesters who turned out for the "No Kings" rallies: "Donald Trump is not your king. He’s your daddy."
- Floyd Brown says that Islam "represents an existential threat to the United States Constitution."
- William Wolfe laments that "after 9/11, we could have restricted Muslim migration, investigated every mosque, and denaturalized/deported every potential threat. Instead, we instead decided to force American citizens to suffer the humiliation ritual of modern TSA screening and then let so many Muslims in over the last 20 years that Dearborn looks like a foreign country and Mamdani got elected mayor of NYC. Insanity."
- Tony Perkins believes that "one of the best indicators of what is happening across America is what we're hearing on conservative talk radio."
- Elijah Schaffer vows that his new show will be "the most racially real, anti-Israel, pro-male, anti-India, pro-America, pro-white, sexual patriot, raw, real, anti-trans agenda, anti- Iran war, daily show."
- Finally, when Hank Kunneman instructs his congregation to do something, he expects them to "move quickly": "We gotta learn, when God says something, move."
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rww
07/30/2025
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Christian nationalist Floyd Brown says the Founders constructed the Constitution to ensure that "change would come slowly." That's good when Democrats are in charge, Brown says, but bad when it slows down Republican effort to bring about "the kind of reformation of culture that America needs."
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RWW
06/02/2025
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Last month, Right Wing Watch reported that Christian nationalist activist Floyd Brown had been appointed to serve as a vice president at the Kennedy Center, which President Donald Trump took over shortly after returning to the White House earlier this year.
Last week, CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reported on Brown's position and his history of bigoted and controversial statements. Kaczynski's reporting, in turn, quickly led to Brown's dismissal from his position.
On Friday, Brown appeared on "The Lance Wallnau Show" to discuss his firing, which he blamed on Satan.
Brown began by complaining that his controversial statements had all been made before he was appointed to serve as the Kennedy Center and therefore his dismissal was unjustified and unfair.
"First of all, I made those comments about three years ago, long before President Trump was chairman of the Kennedy Center and long before I accepted the position at the Kennedy Center," Brown said. "So, it really didn't have to do with my Kennedy Center job; you know, what I said in the past at a Christian conference."
"I wasn't going to disavow any of my Christian beliefs around traditional marriage," he added. "This video triggered a lot of the people that work in the higher up levels of the Kennedy Center and so it led to me being dismissed because of my beliefs and I think that's wrong."
"I was doing the job and I was doing it well," Brown insisted. "Every day that I went to work there, I was praying for Ambassador [Richard] Grenell. I was praying for the staff of the Kennedy Center. I was praying circle prayers around the building. I was praying hedge of protection prayers.
"I knew from day one, because of the discernment given to me by the Holy Spirit as a believer, that I was contending in a spiritual battle and that I was near the top of the mountain, I was near the gates, and I was contending with those spiritual powers at that gate," Brown declared, using language reflective of the Seven Mountains Dominionism theology that he promotes.
"I think the closer that I got to the gate and the more Christians I brought in the door, the more Satan was pushing back against what I was doing," Brown said. "We were making real progress, not only in the natural but in the spiritual, and so Satan counterattacked and I really think that's the main reason that I was fired."
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RWW
05/23/2025
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- Religious-right activist and Seven Mountains dominionist Floyd Brown is now serving as a vice president of the Kennedy Center.
- Joshua Feuerstein was recently at Mar-a-Lago and the U.S. Capitol.
- Mario Murillo proclaims that America will soon see so many supernatural events that atheism will be rendered obsolete.
- Rick Joyner declares that Hamas is the "ultimate manifestation of evil" and even worse than the Nazis and that "THOSE WHO SIDE WITH THE ANTISEMITISM THAT IS RISING IN OUR COUNTRY ARE LIKEWISE JOINING WITH, AND PROMOTING SOME OF THE WORST EVIL CIVILIZATION IS NOW FACING."
- Finally, just days after going full QAnon, Benny Johnson was on Capitol Hill using Rep. Tim Burchett's office as a studio to interview multiple GOP members of Congress.
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10/28/2024
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Floyd Brown, a Christian nationalist activist who is serving as Kari Lake's senatorial campaign manager, says the Biden/Harris administration is so hostile to Christianity that he "wouldn't be surprise if they go ahead and outlaw spreading the Gospel in America."
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10/24/2024 rww
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- Douglas Wilson
that if Kamala Harris wins in a close election, it'll only be because the election was stolen and will spark a constitutional crisis. - Floyd Brown says that America has "become completely paganized" and prays that "the spirit of delusion" over the nation will be broken.
- Neo-Nazi Ryan Sanchez makes the "The Nationalist Case For Trump": "Trump will buy us four more precious years to build a revolutionary consciousness among our People, and organize a movement to take back our Homeland."
- Trump campaign troll Brenden Dilley is calling upon his "meme team" to "unleash their absolute dankest memes" in the closing days of the presidential campaign.
- Finally, Joel Webbon
that his fellow Christians should not criticize him for his extreme views because it is radicals like him who help to shift the Overton Window.
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rww10/18/2024
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- Jason Rapert says "the Democrat Party is a sponsor of evil": "America cannot survive much longer with Democrats in power. May God allow the defeat of Democrats at every level of government."
- Dave Daubenmire declares that "only sissy men will ever vote for Harris and the twinkie boy": "American women, and their sissy husbands are voting for Harris only out of their hatred for masculinity."
- Floyd Brown praises Lance Wallnau for all he has done "to show Americans the spiritual side" of the election and breaking the "spiritual delusion" over America.
- QAnon conspiracy theorist Dave Hayes asserts that if you haven't spent thousands of hours studying Q's "drops," then you are not qualified to criticize the movement.
- Finally, while complaining about being ostracized from the right-wing movement because of his virulent antisemitism, Nick Fuentes correctly notes that you can be overtly racist, Islamophobic, and sexist and still be perfectly welcome in the movement.
On the Watchlist worst of the wk
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Lance Wallnau
Mario Murillo during an episode of "Fire Power"
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Mario Murillo
Shadowy figure
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Joel Webbon
Nick Fuentes with bullhorn at a Stop The Steal rally
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Nick Fuentes
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Kari Lake’s Campaign Chairman, Floyd Brown, Is A Seven Mountains Dominionist
Kyle Mantyla | February 9, 2024 rww
Seven Mountains Dominionism is a radical theology that advocates having right-wing Christians control all aspects of society. As Right Wing Watch has explained before, followers of Seven Mountains theology believe that they are to “do whatever is necessary” to take control of the seven main “mountains” that shape our culture—education, government, media, business, arts and entertainment, family, and religion—in order to implement the will of God throughout the nation and the world.
As evangelist Lance Wallnau, a leading proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, explained just this week, advocates of this theology believe that they have been uniquely granted “a kingly anointing” by God to serve as his “royal priesthood” on Earth and “occupy territory” atop each of the seven mountains in order to “bring Heaven down into the realm that we’re invading.”
During a recent appearance on the His Glory TV network, Christian nationalist Floyd Brown revealed himself to be a proponent of Seven Mountains theology who is intent on seeing conservative Christians “reclaim” these positions of power from Satan and “his spirits of darkness.”
“You’re talking about the Seven Mountains, which is the business mountain, the government mountain, the education mountain, all of these different mountains, the church mountain, the family mountain,” Brown said. “These mountains are very significant. Scripture talks, especially in the Old Testament, a lot about the high places and the gates. I believe that Satan sets up his gates in the high places with his spiritual forces, his principalities, his spirits of darkness, and as Christians, we’ve got to go and reclaim those mountaintops for Jesus.”
“I’m all in to claim them all,” Brown added.
Brown’s embrace of Seven Mountains Dominionism is particularly relevant given that he is currently serving as chairman of MAGA cultist Kari Lake’s campaign for the U.S. Senate in Arizona.
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Christian Nationalist Floyd Brown Is Kari Lake’s Campaign Chairman
Kyle Mantyla | January 24, 2024
During Tuesday night’s “FlashPoint” broadcast, religious-right activist Floyd Brown revealed that he is serving as campaign chairman for Kari Lake’s campaign for a seat in the U.S. Senate.
Lake is a far-right MAGA cultist and stolen-election conspiracy theorist who ran unsuccessfully for governor of Arizona in 2022, though she steadfastly refuses to accept her defeat. She is now running to be the Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in the 2024 election and she has reportedly tapped Brown to lead her campaign.
Brown was a guest on last night’s “FlashPoint” program, prompting host Gene Bailey to disclose Brown’s connection to the Lake campaign, which Brown confirmed.
“My title is Campaign Chairman and I’m very active in the campaign,” Brown revealed on “FlashPoint.” “I really felt lead of the Holy Spirit to be involved in her campaign as part of my worship in 2024.”
Brown is a full-blow Christian nationalist who has advocated for Christians to gain control over America by taking over local governments, declaring that “every church should run their town.” [twts] vid
Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal, declares that right-wing Christians must "take back America" by having their church literally take over their town: "Every church should run their town."
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OFFERED HER A JOB IF WD QUIT SENATE RACE?!
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Conservative Operative Floyd Brown Keeps Up Dirty Tricks With Western Journal Site
one of the longest-lasting symptoms of the prion disease that has destroyed the higher functions of the Republican Party ever since Ronald Reagan first fed it the monkeybrains of movement conservatism in the early 1980s is the idée fixe element of advanced Atwater Syndrome.
There is always something, somewhereabout your political opponent that remains just out of reach.So, therefore, it is permissible to just make it up on your own. Because of this parasitical agent, old ratfcking never really dies. It just goes on manifesting itself in different ways. For example, there's David Bossie.
In the early days of the Whitewater ratfcking—which, of course, included things far beyond a failed real-estate deal pitched by crooks and grifters—Bossie began in 1992 as one of the first gumshoes to embark on The Great Penis Hunt. Once, he invaded a hospital room of a man recovering from a stroke to question his wife about whether their daughter had killed herself because she was carrying Bill Clinton's lovechild.
Bossie went on to become a congressional staffer after Clinton was elected, and was so unprincipled in that capacity that he was dismissed at the behest of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, who considered Bossie's tactics to be counterproductive. Being too much of a ratfcker for Gingrich is not a concept on which I wish to dwell.
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Bossie has enjoyed a storied career in ratfcking.
Bossie, as it happens, began his career in ratfcking for an organization called...drumroll, please...Citizens United, the brainchild of a ratfcker of even longer standing named Floyd Brown. (It was Brown who had concocted the now-legendary race-baiting Willie Horton ad aimed at 1988 Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.)
By 1991, Bossie was running CU and producing vicious and meretricious "documentaries," including one called, Hillary: The Movie,the purpose of which was to torpedo Hillary Rodham Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Certain television stations refused to run ads for the movie and the Federal Election Commission ruled that the movie violated the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law. CU fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court, which, in 2010, ruled in its favor, legalizing influence-peddling throughout the land in the process.
But what of Floyd Brown, the man who brought David Bossie, as well as Willie Horton and a whole brigade of Arkansas grifters, into our politics? The New York Times is glad you asked.
In the America presented on their news and opinion website, WesternJournal.com, tradition-minded patriots face ceaseless assault by anti-Christian bigots, diseased migrants and race hustlers concocting hate crimes. Danger and outrages loom. A Mexican politician threatens the “takeover” of several American states. Police officers are kicked out of an Arizona Starbucks. Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, proposes a “$100 billion handout” for black families.
The Western Journal is not quite a household name. Until recently, some of its most prolific writers used pseudonyms. Though it publishes scores of stories each week about national politics, the company has no Washington bureau, or any other bureaus. Indeed, it rarely dispatches reporters into the world to gather news firsthand. In the parallel universe of Facebook, though, The Western Journal has been among the most popular and influential publications in America, shaping the political beliefs of more than 36 million deeply loyal readers and followers. In the three years ending in March, according to a New York Times analysis, Western Journal’s Facebook posts earned three-quarters of a billion shares, likes and comments, almost as many as the combined tally of 10 leading American news organizations that together employ thousands of reporters and editors.
The NYTstory is hung primarily on the efforts of big tech companies to rein in sites like Western Journaland, thus, to stop being platforms from which ratfcking can be launched into the political ecosystem, which is an interesting enough story, especially since it is an article of paranoid faith on the right these days that they are being oppressed by The Man in Silicon Valley. (Google already has "blacklisted" WJ.) But it's the involvement of Floyd Brown that most interests me. Evidently, he's brought his son into the family ratfcking business as well.
Patrick Brown presents as an unlikely merchant of outrage. He is six-foot-three, but stoop-shouldered and soft-spoken. When expressing a thought that might draw dispute, he often shrugs uncomfortably and spreads his hands, as if to cushion the blow. Mr. Brown attended a small Christian college in Pennsylvania, and his first company, a site called Liftable.com, featured viral, often religious-themed stories meant to inspire readers rather than enrage them: Good Samaritans who saved the life of an accident victim, for example, or the actor Johnny Depp visiting a children’s hospital.
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Some things never change.
His exposure to politics came through his father, a larger-than-life veteran of Washington’s partisan wars. Floyd G. Brown reveled in the infamy surrounding his successful Horton ads, which featured mug shots of a black convicted murderer to stoke fears that the Democratic candidate, Michael Dukakis, was soft on crime. Over the following decades, Mr. Brown would start political organizations employing the same basic formula: Apocalyptic direct-mail appeals to raise money, innuendo-laden ads to thrash Democrats and outrageous claims to draw mainstream news interest.
Apparently, young Patrick has designs on making WJ into something akin to those "respectable" conservative news sites that only hint that jihadis are storming the southern border in pick-up trucks full of gay-married opioid smugglers. He insists that Papa Floyd is largely in the background now.
"I would never want to do what he did,” Mr. Brown said. “When you make an ad or something, you are — your whole goal is to just convince someone of something, right? I mean, our goal is not that. Our No. 1 goal is to inform — truthfully.”
And I am the Tsar of all the Russias.
In March 2018, Floyd Brown declared on Fox News that Facebook had been “optimized to the thought police.” The same month, The Western Journal published an in-house study concluding that Facebook’s algorithm changes disproportionately favored liberal news outlets. (Cameron Hickey, a disinformation researcher at Harvard, told The Times he considered the study’s methodology flawed, since it did not assess the quality or reliability of the news sources, merely their purported ideological tilt.)
It should not be necessary to point out that nothing like this exists on the political left—not with this kind of depth and not with this kind of longevity. The extreme right has engaged in ratfcking across all the platforms that have emerged since Floyd Brown first encountered Willie Horton. It has shown a remarkable—if malignant—ability to adapt and to weaponize new technologies. Old ratfckers never die. They just go digital.
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doug mastriano
...She calls the shofar "a weapon of our warfare. And when we blow it, the power of God comes full force into that situation."
One aspect of the tour is the evident cross-fertilization of the factions of the religious and political right that is reshaping American conservative politics and public life, from the MAGA movement to Jan. 6 to the Mastriano campaign.
Controversial right-wing activist and publisher Floyd G. Brownexplained a bit about how this works in his introduction of tour regular Pastor Dave Scarlett at an April 2022 ReAwaken event in Salem, Oregon. Many people who watch Scarlett's "His Glory" show are Christians, Brown said, "but many of them aren't."
"They are Patriots," he continued. "And I've heard him say many, many times, if you watch 'His Glory' and you're a Patriot, you often become a Christian. And if you watch 'His Glory' and you're a Christian, and if you don't know what's going on, you slowly become a Patriot."
Brown announced that "His Glory" would air on his new commercial streaming service, Liftable TV, which seeks to promote a "biblical worldview" and "truth-centric news." It's like a Reader's Digest of Christian-right streaming, rebroadcasting shows from the likes of anti-abortion activist Abby Johnson, Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, 7 Mountains Dominionist Lance Walnau and, of course, Dave Scarlett, who often hosts Julie Green as a guest.
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jane mayer on anita HILL book 1994
https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Justice-Selling-Clarence-Thomas/dp/0395633184
https://archive.org/details/strangejusticese00maye
floyd brown ad, direct mail CU; bolick, ricky
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The Western Journal was founded in 2009 by political activist Floyd Brown, who has falsely claimed Obama “hates Christianity” and “is a Muslim”.25 The Western Journal is funded by paid advertising, digital subscriptions and donations and is owned by Liftable Media, a business founded by Brown’s son Patrick.26 The Western Journal deploys an army of large Facebook pages to reach tens of millions of users.27
Described by the New York Times as “a potent online disinformation mill”, the site has a record of publishing false or misleading stories. As well as misinformation about Muslims and immigrants, it has also touted hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malaria drug, as potentially effective in combating Covid.28
In 2017, Facebook curtailed the site’s reach after being publicly alerted to its misinformation.29 In 2018, Google News blacklisted the publication for alleged misleading business practices.30 In an effort to restore its reach, the Western Journal removed old misinformation articles, set up a corrections page and published editorial standards. The site also un-anonymized dozens of its Facebook pages in a bid to show transparency.31 The site has returned to Google News, runs Google Ads and continues to reach millions of readers on Facebook
This Western Journal article included in our sample citesfalse claims that climate science, including recent UN reports, “actually don’t support drastic changes to stop climate change”.32 This article has carried a Google ad for Chevrolet under its headline
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https://www.minotdailynews.com/opinion/national-columnists/2021/11/climate-democracy-dies-in-darkness/
tim graham
British leftist group calling itself the Center for Countering Digital Hate has issued a report on what it calls the “Toxic Ten,” which are so-called fringe websites spreading “climate change denial.” The ten include our group,the Media Research Center, as well as Breitbart, The Daily Wire, Townhall Media, Newsmax, The Washington Times and The Western Journal.
So, any challenge to Greenpeace climate-crackdown orthodoxy is now classified as “toxic” and “digital hate.”
Their solution? To press Facebook and Google to “stop monetizing” these conservative sites, stop allowing them to buy ads and to “comprehensively label” their climate reporting as misinformation. You don’t have to prove conservatives wrong. Just “comprehensively label” them as false.
Once again, the left wants to win debates by stopping any debate from happening. The founder of this “Digital Hate” squad is a man named Imran Ahmed, who previously co-authored the book “The New Serfdom: The Triumph of Conservative Ideas and How to Defeat Them,” with Angela Eagle, a Labour Party member of Parliament.
Ahmed can already count on jihad from the “objective media.”Their British socialist friends at The Guardian awarded their report with the headline “‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook.”
Offering any criticism of climate panic (and climate policy) is “super polluting.” Does this sound like science, or does it sound like political hyperbole? Naturally, Ahmed told The Guardian, “big tech is once again on the wrong side of science, truth and human progress.”
The Washington Post also provided a pliant piece headlined “Breitbart has outsized influence over climate change denial on Facebook,report says.” Tech reporter Cat Zakrzewski warned, “The far-right news and commentary site is one of just 10 publishers responsible for nearly 70 percent of interactions with climate change denial content on Facebook.”
On Twitter, Zakrzewski gushed, “The nonprofit has been effective in drawing policymakers’ attention to falsehoods on social media, as it did with its ‘disinformation dozen’ report earlier this year.”
The Post reporter avoided any evidence of “falsehoods” by engaging with conservative articles. She blithely wrote that, “For years, Facebook has faced pressure to issue a broad ban on climate misinformation,” and that somehow doesn’t strike her as distasteful censorship.
My column on ClimateDepot founder Marc Morano’s book “Green Fraud” was pictured under the Daily Wire section of the report. The MRC section is illustrated with a Joseph Vazquez article on NewsBusters about … Marc Morano. He’s apparently Digital Hater No. 1.
In my Morano column, I noted that the climate panic lobby is never held accountable for failed predictions of doom from decades ago. In one PBS series called “Race to Save the Planet,” Meryl Streep claimed, “By the year 2000 — that’s less than 10 years away — the earth’s climate will be warmer than it’s been in over 100,000 years. If we don’t do something, there’ll be enormous calamities in a very short time.”
In 2021, that can be defined as climate misinformation.
But panic helps Democrats sell a crackdown.The Post story quotedSen. Sheldon “Whites Only” Whitehousecomplaining, “Facebook and other social media companies make money when they send users down rabbit holes of climate change denial. That’s a very dangerous business model for the future of the planet.”
Apparently, the “business model” is this: Only the leftists get to talk on climate policy; everyone else should be suppressed. No one is allowed to question the failed predictions and overwrought “solutions” of climate experts like Greta Thunberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The Washington Post should embrace their business model with the slogan “Climate Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
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https://www.birchgold.com/floyd-brown-interview-gold-historic-form-of-money
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Floyd Brown, the leader of the National Campaign Fund, the Legacy Committee, Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and the Policy Issues Institute, once bragged he was part of the the heart and soul of the right-wing conspiracy. has a history ofsurfacing every four years to make right-wing attacks against Democrats in presidential elections. Most infamously, Brown was responsible for the racist 1988 Willie Horton ad against Michael Dukakis. Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton's administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim "filthy campaign tactics. After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and David Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, make a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry.[swift boat]
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The first interesting thing about Gary Johnson is that he decided to set up his campaign headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah, just a few blocks away from the HQ of the Church of Latter-Day Saints. That’s where Gary Johnson’s main Super PAC is located as well. Gary Johnson isn’t Mormon.
The Salt Lake City Tribune also thought it was a little weird, so they asked about it in a story headlined"Ex-New Mexico guv bases his presidential campaign in — Utah?" which begins:
A Republican presidential candidate has landed his national campaign headquarters in Salt Lake City, just a couple of blocks from the Utah governor's mansion. But it's not the White House contender you might think it is.
It turns out there’s a simple answer: Gary Johnson’s campaign chief, Ron Nielson, is based here. Ron Nielson runs a conservative polling firm called NSON Opinion Strategies, whose headquarters is the same three-story building on South Temple Road as Johnson’s campaign headquarters, and the same address as Gary Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" nonprofit, which launched his bid for the presidency in late 2009.
Unfortunately, the SLT didn’t pry any further, because this is where things start to get interesting. For one thing, NSOM has a history of working with GOP right-wingers including crotchety Mormon asshole Orin Hatch and ex-witch and masturbation-denier Christine O’Donnell, as well as the Koch’s 'Reason' magazine. They also worked on a smear campaign against Harry Reid in the run up to the 2010 election, but I’ll get to that later.
The point here is that Gary Johnson’s campaign headquarters is located in Romney’s backyard, in a right-wing Republican polling firm’s office. Gary says he likes transparency and believes he should wear his backers’ labels on his jacket like a NASCAR driver. Let me help him into his coat....
According to documents filed with the state of Utah, the person responsible for filing the paperwork to register Gary Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" is Maureen Otis, a Texas attorney with deep roots in the far-right Minutemen movement, and with Republican Party voter-suppression dirty tricks. Otis’s Texas law office is listed as the mailing address for Johnson’s "Our America Initiative."
Maureen Otis has a long history with far-right anti-immigration vigilante groups. Just a few years ago, Otis served as board secretary for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, which the Southern Poverty Law Center described as a "nativist extremist" group that "targets individual immigrants rather than immigration policies." That Minuteman outfit collapsed after donation funds went missing, much of it paid to Maureen Otis’s own private company, "American Caging," a company that specializes in "caging as the name implies.
"Caging" was used by Bush operatives to suppress the minority vote in 2000 and 2004. Slate offered this definition of vote "caging":
"Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters (who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren't living at (because they are, say, at college or at war)."
Maureen Otis’ clients for American Caging included nonprofits set up for Alan Keyes, a fundraiser for Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Alliance, and other assorted homophobic Christian groups.
So what does the attorney who registered Gary Johnson’s "Our America" outfit really believe, the libertarian end of the Republican spectrum that Johnson represents, or the reactionary extremism of the Minutemen and Christian homophobes she serves?
Maureen Otis answered that question herself on her own twitter feed, such as this June 5 tweet followingScott Walker’s win in the Wisconsin recall:
"Great news for WI & start of an important trend for Repub's in the fall. Time for everyone to $$ to Romney campaign."
If Maureen Otis were the only hard-right operative involved in Gary Johnson’s campaign, her confused allegiances might just seem odd. But as you’ll see, extremist right-wing operatives like Otis are all around Gary Johnson, beginning with the "Our America Initiative" nonprofit that launched his campaign.
The lawyer who incorporated the "Our America Initiative" charter documents, an A-list GOP dirty tricks operative from Orange County namedJim Lacy, also worked with and supported the same Minutemen outfits as Maureen Otis. Like her, Jim Lacy also operates a bland-sounding direct-mail business called "slate mail" that targets Democratic voters with mailers purporting to come from fake liberal groups with names like "The John F. Kennedy Alliance" with a soothing photo of JFK on one side, and a slate of supposedly "Democratic" candidates on the other side. In reality, Republican candidates pay to have their names and faces secretly mixed in with the liberal candidates whose names and faces appear to give it a semblance of authenticity. Lacy’s slate order business is, he claims, the largest in the state of California, if not the entire country, and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose. Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County’s voters, and the courts agreed, saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny.
So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right-wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes, but more importantly, both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving Democratic Party voters.
Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical-right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom. In recent years, Lacy has been a major backer of anti-immigrant Minutemen groups, Islamophobia, and "birther" conspiracy-theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign-born Muslim.Lacy co-founded a handful of far-right immigrant-bashing outfits with "Birther" leader Gary Kreep, Orly Taitz’s creepier half in joint lawsuits filed to "expose" Obama’s birth certificate as a fake. Both Kreep and Jim Lacy have provided legal help to Minutemen groups in San Diego, when they were at their violent peak terrorizing homeless illegal migrant workers and vandalizing their shanties.
This summer, Jim Lacy opened up his bag of dirty tricks to get Gary Kreep get elected Superior Court judge. How he did it is instructive: On the eve of the San Diego vote, a Lacy outfit bombarded Latinos and Democrats with robocalls claiming that the sitting judge had been releasing drug dealers into their neighborhoods. Kreep won by just over 1,000 votes, and now they might have to someday face a judge who boasts of his pro bono work for the Minutemen.
But Gary Kreep is just a warm-up act. Jim Lacy’s much more serious partner in political dirty tricks operations over the past two decades is Citizen United’s co-founder Floyd Brown, a Republican Sasquatch who gets a lot of credit for the notorious Willie Horton race-baiting ads in 1988, designed to scare whites into believing Dukakis would empty out the prisons on weekends and allow black inmates to rape and rob white women. The ad worked.
As soon as Obama’s candidacy surged ahead of Hillary in 2008, Lacy and Brown unleashed a barrage of birther-propaganda, and they haven’t let up yet.Their National Campaign Fund outfit produced some of the first "birther" conspiracy commercials, including
Just days after Obama’s inauguration, Lacy and Brown were running a new campaign, ImpeachObama.com already comparing his first week in office to Hitler and Stalin’s rule.
And here is where the Gary Johnson third party Libertarian campaign begins to cross paths with these Republican dirty tricksters. As the first stimulus bill was being debated, Lacy and Brown announced another smear project, ExposeHarry.com, aimed at weakening Nevada Sen. Harry Reid’s support and turning voters against him in time for the 2010 elections. To understand where Harry Reid was most vulnerable, they hired a Republican polling firm out of Salt Lake City. That polling firm, NSON Opinion Research, is the same polling outfit whose offices serve as Gary Johnson’s Libertarian Party presidential campaign headquarters, and whose founder, Ron Nielson, is Gary Johnson’s campaign chief.
Ron Nielson later helped create Gary Johnson’s "Our America Initiative" to launch the start of his campaign for 2012. This nonprofit was incorporated by GOP dirty trickster Jim Lacy, and is represented by far-right activist, "voter caging" specialist and Mitt Romney booster Maureen Otis.
It might seem strange to see so many nasty, hard-right dirty tricksters running Johnson’s "principled" campaign, but the notion that Johnson is in any way "liberal" or a friend of progressives is nonsense. Johnson’s liberal creds begin and end with one plank of his platform: legalizing pot.
Johnson’s actual record as governor of New Mexico was that of a law and order authoritarian, on the right-wing fringe of the Republican Party.Johnson ran on a “law and order” platform, stiffening prison sentences (while recklessly privatizing the prisons), along with a broader program of slashing taxes, slashing social programs, and privatizing schools. He was divisive, and his law and order policies led to some of the worst prison violence in decades.
It wasn’t until after Gary Johnson won his second term and final term as New Mexico’s governor, and turned his attention to the national stage, that he had his big epiphany about locking up marijuana smokers. Johnson’s about-face on locking up drug offenders sounded brave and newsworthy to outsiders who didn’t know his record — wow! a pot-friendly Republican governor, how cool! Johnson wanted to make the jump to the national stage, and what easier way than adopting the one popular plank in the Koch brothers’ libertarian political platform, legalizing pot, to make journalists and the public forget about all the grim libertarian policies he’d not only talked about but implemented.
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Advisory Board
John FarahJoseph Farah, Chairman of PAC Advisory Board, is founder, editor and CEO of WND.com (World Net Daily) and a nationally syndicated columnist with Creators New Service. He is the author or co-author of 13 books, including his latest, “The Tea Party Manifesto,” and his classic, “Taking American Back,” now in its third edition and 14th printing. Farah is the former editor of the legendary Sacremento Union and other major-market dailies.
CorsiJerome Corsi is Senior Staff Reporter for WND.com, where he works as an investigative journalist. A Ph.D. from Harvard University, Corsi has written 6 NY Times bestselling non-fiction books, including the #1 “Unfit for Command – Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry” and the #1 “The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality.”
Floyd Brown is the Chairman of the Board of Citizens United, which he founded in 1988, and served as founding President until 2000. He served as Executive Director of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), and also as President of the Board of the YAF Reagan Ranch. In 1988, Brown was political director of Americans for Bush. He is currently the head of the Western Journalism Center
Richard Viguerie is the chairman of ConservativeHQ.com and American Target Advertising, Inc. The “Funding Father” of the conservative movement, Viguerie transformed politics by pioneering the use of direct mail fundraising. His advertising firm has mailed billions of letters over the past 40 years. He is our era’s equivalent of Tom Paine, using a direct mail letter rather than a pamphlet to deliver his call to arms
William Murray is the chairman of the Religious Freedom Coalition in Washington, DC. For more than three decades Murray has been at the forefront of social conservatism. He has appeared on ABC, CBS, CNN, and NBC nightly news as well as on various FOX programs. He is the author of seven books including his autobiography, “My Life Without God,” which details his childhood in the dysfunctional home of atheist/Marxist leader Madalyn MurrayO’Hair.
Thomas Freiling serves as Executive Director and Treasurer of Takeover Super PAC. He formerly served as Executive Director of Patriot Super PAC, one of the country’s largest “Tea Party” PAC’s; VP at Salem Communications (Nasdaq: SALM); Managing Director at Eagle Publishing, Inc. (Regnery, Human Events); founder and CEO at Xulon Press, Inc. He also served on the campaign and legislative staff of James M. Inhofe (R-OK), and has authored books on Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and George W. Bush.
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https://www.mediamatters.org/people/floyd-brown
A Media Matters study found that Facebook pages of some mainstream conservative media outlets, Republican media figures, and even apolitical clickbait sites are part of promotional campaigns involving websites with a history of promoting anti-Islam fake news and conspiracy theories.
Liftable Media owns three sites that have pushed anti-Islam pieces: Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal, both right-wing propaganda sites, and it’s inspiration content site Liftable.com. Media Matters tracked links from Facebook to one of the sites, Conservative Tribune, and found 74 pages posting URLs with codes indicating that the links were part of a promotional campaign seemingly coordinated with Liftable Media. They included pages for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Fox News contributor Herman Cain, former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, and conservative commentator Dick Morris, among others.
Fifteen of the pages that posted the links were verified with blue or gray badges, meaning Facebook has verified that the page is “the authentic Page or profile for this public figure, media company or brand” (blue) or that it is “an authentic Page for this business or organization” (gray).
Liftable Media’s websites have promoted anti-Islam fake news and conspiracy theories.
Three of Liftable Media’s websites have spun anti-Islam conspiracy theories.
Liftable.com, which Liftable Media describes as a site for “uplifting and inspiring stories,” has posted articles vilifying Islam as a violent religion. One article on the site claimed that “Islam has been on a bloody rampage to conquer, convert or kill the world since 620 A.D.” Another said that the Quran “orders every follower to conduct their lives with violence and brutality, butchering all who refuse to convert and comply.”
Another Liftable Media site, The Western Journal, has attacked Muslim immigrants and Islam with articles labeled as “commentary.” The smears in these articles focus on “warning” readers that an influx of Muslim immigrants in the U.S. and Europe will lead to violent culture clashes and supporting bans against Muslim immigrants as a solution.
The third Liftable Media site, Conservative Tribune, has the most extensive history of spreading viral fake news against Muslims. A review of data from Crowdtangle shows that the site’s anti-Islam content has generated over 1.5 million Facebook impressions. The site has falsely claimed that Sharia was being implemented in Dearborn, MI, and it pushed similar fake news claiming that Muslims were attempting to establish a Sharia court in Irving, TX. Conservative Tribune also showed support for Irving residents who deployed intimidation tactics against Muslim residents, including people armed with AR-15s who protested outside a local mosque and released the names of Muslims living in the area.
For over a year, Conservative Tribune also pushed viral debunked conspiracy theories about Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old student from Irving who was arrested after bringing a clock to school. In multiple articles, Conservative Tribune suggested that Mohamed was a “pawn” in an orchestrated stunt that his fatherstaged in order to make “fake” accusations of “Islamophobia.”
The site characterized Mohamed as a “punk kid,” “liar,” “con artist,” “petty miscreant,” “another Benedict Arnold,” and possible “Islamist.”
Conservative Tribune baselessly suggested that Mohamed was involved with terrorists. One article suggested a potential connection between Mohamed and a mosque he “grew up near” in Dallas, which Conservative Tribune claimed faced allegations of terrorist financing. Another implied it was suspicious that “innocent” Mohammed was invited to visit Qatar by “an organization with strong ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.” Yet another said: “If you’re a terrorist, what better role model than Ahmed ‘Bomb Clock Boy’ Mohamed?”
After Mohamed’s family filed a civil suit against the city and school district, Conservative Tribune attacked Mohamed for “stabb[ing] his school, his town and his country in the back.”
Recently, Conservative Tribune attacked Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, saying he “cozied up to [a] terror group” just because Israel hired a member of the civil rights advocacy group Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Conservative Tribune has an extensive history of smearing CAIR and falsely claiming it is a terrorist group involved with Islamic indoctrination and efforts to impose Sharia.
Liftable Media has been expanding its presence in conservative media.
Liftable Media is owned by Patrick Brown, whose father, Floyd Brown, founded WesternJournalism.com. Floyd Brown is a Republican consultant with a history of promoting racist conspiracy theories through political ads. According to Newsweek, Patrick runs Liftable Media’s four main websites, Conservative Tribune, The Western Journal (formerly known as Western Journalism), Liftable.com, and the sports news site The Wildcard, and Floyd, who is chairman of Liftable Media’s board of directors, helps provide funding for the company. Before starting Liftable Media in 2014, Patrick worked for an organization his faither chairs, The Western Center for Journalism (WCJ). Patrick is listed on WCJ’s site as a “trainer,” as are far-right figures James O’Keefeand Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily.
Liftable Media has acquired various other hyperpartisan sites, including the now-inactive Tea Party News Network and USA Radio Networks (Floyd is the latter’s current CEO). Most recently, Liftable Media acquired Liberty Alliance, a media company that ran a membership network of conservative and fake news sites. In a press release on the acquisition, Liftable Media stated that Liberty Alliance would “expand Liftable Media’s reach by an additional 2 million Facebook followers.”
There are at least 74 Facebook pages that have shared Conservative Tribune links using UTM codes between January 2018 and April 2018.
UTM codes are parameters that can be added to a URL in order to track web traffic from a specific source on Google Analytics without changing the destination of the URL. There are four types of parameters (source, medium, content, and campaign), and labels for each parameter are customizable and trackable by whoever is running a website domain. The tool is used by companies to track the source of traffic to a specific page on their site (Facebook, Twitter, email newsletters, et cetera).
A Media Matters study of Conservative Tribune’s Facebook traction between January 2018 and April 2018 found 74 pages posting links to conservativetribune.com that used UTM codes that included the name of the page or company behind it -- indicating someone was tracking the traffic from that page/company. Of the 74, seven pages had over 2 million page likes; 11 had between 1 and 2 million page likes; and an additional 12 had over 500,000 page likes. Thirty-eight of these pages seemed to be operated by Liftable Media, based on the UTM parameters used and the pages’ “About” sections. Many of the other 36 pages seemed to be separately operated by a combination of marketing companies, clickbait sites, and the personal pages of Republican figures including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Fox News contributor Herman Cain, former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, and conservative commentator Dick Morris.
These are the Facebook pages sharing Conservative Tribune links with UTM codes:
Deep 6 The Deep State with Dick Morris}:
Conservative 50 - Living the American Dream
No microsoft word, I didn't spell my last name wrong.
A REAL man doesn't love million girls He loves one girl in million ways
Rep. Trey Gowdy for Speaker of the House
Obama Is Officially The Worst President In American History
Conservative Republicans of Texas
We Love President Donald Trump
Thirteen of these pages are blue-badge verified, some of which belong to Republican figures and organizations.
Thirteen of the pages posting links with UTM codes are verified with blue badges, which Facebook says means the page is “the authentic Page or profile for this public figure, media company or brand.” All 13 verified pages used UTM parameters corresponding to the owner and/or name of the page (for example, Mike Huckabee’s pages included the parameter “mikehuckabee”). Using Crowdtangle data, Media Matters looked through all links posted by these blue-badge pages between January 1, 2018, and January 31, 2018, and counted the percentage of links posted that go to Liftable Media’s four main brands, Conservative Tribune, The Western Journal, Liftable.com, and The Wildcard. (We did not look at links from Facebook pages for Liftable Media’s brand sites -- The Western Journal, Conservative Tribune, and Liftable.com.)
Several of these blue-badge pages are affiliated with Republican media figures, including Brewer, Huckabee, and Cain. Both Liftable Media owner Patrick Brown and his father, Floyd, donated to Huckabee’s 2016 presidential bid. Floyd also donated to Herman Cain’s 2012 presidential PAC....
- Some conservative organizations also appear to be part of Liftable Media’s promotional network. Family Research Council (FRC), which has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, has previously, though infrequently, shared links to Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal with UTM codes specific to FRC. Ken Blackwell, a senior fellow at FRC, regularly shares Liftable Media links with UTM parameters specific to his name.
Another page, The Tea Party, seems to be run by Liftable Media and does not actually pertain to the tea party movement. This page, which links to westernjournal.com in its “About” section and to a liftablemedia.com email address, has over 3.2 million likes, significantly more than the actual “Tea Party” Facebook page.
Since January, Eagle Rising has stopped posting articles from Liftable Media brands. Gov. Brewer’s page stopped on February 28.
At least 41 other websites belong to the same promotional Facebook networks as Liftable Media.
Liftable Media has 38 Facebook pages, and 16 of them post links with UTM codes to six non-Liftable Media websites: The Daily Wire, Faith Family America, Shared, American Military News, Little Things, and Providr. And the same non-Liftable Media pages that promote Conservative Tribune and other Liftable Media sites also promote at least 35 other websites, including the mainstream right-wing site The Blacksphere with Kevin Jackson; fake news sites American Military News, BizPac Review, Clash Daily with Doug Giles, and Daily-Vine (formerly known as Freedom Daily); Christian and inspirational websites including Faith It, Glad Wire, and Inspire More; and apolitical clickbait sites including Cooking Panda and Watch This.
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ondon Mayor’s Office Warns of Death for Children Carrying Knives
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As Conservative Tribune reported last week, the city of London actually surpassed the murder rate of New York City, despite London’s gun ban and strict gun-control laws.
The high number of murders in the capital of the United Kingdom has largely been attributed to a surge in knife crime — they still suffer from some gun violence in spite of the gun ban, by the way — which has led to law enforcement’s crackdown on bladed weapons and other items that could be utilized as dangerous weapons.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who in the past has bragged about how safe his city is/was, recently announced a number of measures his administration was taking to address the “scourge of violent crime” in the city.
In sharing that announcement via Twitter, Khan ludicrously stated, “No excuses: there is never a reason to carry a knife. Anyone who does will be caught, and they will feel the full force of the law.”
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One aspect of the mayor’s crackdown on knife crime is through the creation of a violent crime task force and expansion of police “stop and search” powers, which Khan had previously rolled back to near non-existence for fears that such tactics were “racist” and discriminatory toward young minorities and immigrants.
The mayor also helped launch a public relations campaign aimed at young Londoners titled, “London Needs You Alive,” which “brings together role models and youth influencers to send a positive message to young people — that they shouldn’t put their lives at risk by carrying a knife.”
The PR campaign is embodied in the following video featuring several diverse young Londoners sharing the reasons why their lives are needed, and ended with a few stating the phrase, “So I don’t carry a knife.”
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While it is possible the creators of this campaign may have intended to state something to the effect of “kids shouldn’t risk others’ lives by carrying a knife,” that is not how the actual message came across.
Rather, both the new policy announcement and accompanying PR campaign video catchphrase imply that the simple act of carrying a knife automatically places a young person’s life at risk, as if the inanimate knife itself will somehow compel the young person to stab someone or be stabbed themselves.
That sort of reasoning is in line with ludicrous anti-gun arguments which assert that the mere presence of inanimate objects like firearms automatically endanger the lives of everyone around them, and avoids the root causes of violent crime, such as lax enforcement and sentencing of criminals, reluctance to take down criminal gangs composed largely of minorities, basic cultural clashes or the fundamental fact that some people simply hold evil in their hearts.
But as we all know, knives don’t cut or stab people by themselves, just as guns don’t shoot people on their own.
Furthermore, there are millions of people — young and old alike — across the U.S. and other civilized nations who routinely carry a knife on their person every single day, for the purposes of work or protection, who somehow manage to avoid stabbing someone or being stabbed themselves.
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Given that obvious fact of reality, one can only wonder exactly where the mayor of London sees the greatest danger posed to young people from knives as coming from — the actual knives themselves, criminals misusing knives in a violent manner, or in the government’s response to the mere act of carrying a knife.
Considering this is a country that has effectively banned the possession of firearms and acts of self-defense, and is now jailing people for saying the wrong “unapproved” or “offensive” things, that third possibility is actually the most worrisome of them all in terms of individual freedom and liberty.
A previous version of this article ran under the title “London Mayor’s Office Threatens Death for Children Carrying Knives,” implying a deadly intent on the part of the mayor or his government that was inaccurate. The title has been corrected, and we apologize for the error.
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:{Blog:(style="box-sizing:border-box"):}: ››› March 14, 2014 1:01 PM EDT ››› MATT GERTZ & BEN DIMIERO
Earlier this week Fox News hosted the "professional dirty trickster" who founded an anti-Hillary Clinton group with the acronym "C.U.N.T." The day before, it was the attorney who pushed fabricated anti-Clinton stories in the 90s. Last month, it was the woman who has suggested the Clintons may have had her husband killed.
Fox has never had particularly high standards for who they put on air, and it appears there's no source too incredible for Fox to host as long as they are willing to smear the Clintons. And that list is long.
As Joe Conason and Gene Lyons detailed in their book The Hunting of the President, in the 1990s, an array of conservative operatives, right-wing journalists, and opportunists sought to drive the Clintons from the White House. Their backgrounds were often shady, their methods deceitful, and their claims fraudulent.
So who might be the next guest for a network with no standards and an urge to stop a potential Hillary Clinton presidential run? Some of these figures have gone on to extensive careers in the conservative media, while others haven't been in the public eye for decades.
But all have literally unbelievable stories to tell.
The Former FBI Agent Who Claimed Hillary Hung Crack Pipes On The White House Christmas Tree
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Gary Aldrich is a former FBI agent who wrote a 1996 book about his time inside the White House during the first three years of the Clinton administration. CNN described the book, produced by a right-wing publisher and flacked by a Republican operative, as filled with "second-hand, unsubstantiated sexual rumors about and bitter attacks against President and Mrs. Clinton," including ludicrous claims that President Clinton was regularly ditching his Secret Service detail for trysts at a downtown hotel (Aldrich later said that allegation was a "hypothetical"). Aldrich also wrote that on "orders from the First Lady's Office," the White House Christmas tree was decorated with crack pipes and other drug paraphernalia as well as sex toys and condoms (unsurprisingly, the White House denied the charge).
Aldrich used the notoriety from his book to become a professional conservative. He founded the right-wing Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty in 1997 to support federal whistleblowers (Linda Tripp was among the organization's first clients), but the bulk of the group's spending soon focused on raising money and paying Aldrich's salary. The group was largely silent during the Bush administration, but re-emerged to support tea party groups in 2010. Aldrich has written op-eds for TownHall and the Daily Caller.
The Man Who Says He Was The Clintons' Personal Assassin
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Larry Nicholsspent years at the heart of the conservative campaign to smear President Clinton. A former jingle writer who became a marketing consultant for the State of Arkansas, he was fired from the Arkansas Development Finance Authority in 1988 for making hundreds of phone calls to Nicaragua contra leaders and their American political supporters on the taxpayer's dime, and apparently held a grudge. Shortly before Bill Clinton's 1990 re-election as governor of Arkansas, Nichols held a press conference announcing he was suing Clinton for allegedly using state funds to conduct affairs with five women. All five women subsequently signed affidavits denying the claims and threatened to sue Nichols, who later issued a statement saying he had wrongfully issued the accusations because he was mad about being fired. But the incident nonetheless ushered in the right-wing focus on Bill Clinton's sex life.
Nichols, who described himself as "smut central" in a 1998 interview, spent years tracking down sketchy rumors about women who had had affairs with the president and trying to peddle them to everyone from supermarket tabloids to major newspapers. Last year, he offered a new explanation for why he had spent years trying to destroy the Clintons -- he claimed to have "beat up women and beat up husbands to protect the Clintons" and even "killed people" for them for money until they turned on him and he had to defend himself.
..The conservatives behind some of the worst political smear campaigns have started a super PAC.
- Takeover Super PACis backed by a team that includes Joseph Farah, founder of the fringe conspiracy site WND; Jerome Corsi, a leading member of the Swift Boat and birther campaigns; and Floyd Brown, producer of the racist Willie Horton ads.
The group says it will "win elections and take our country back from the liberals and socialists" and exhorts potential donors, "If you're tired to [sic] putting your money to work for turncoats and traitors, join us." Takeover claims liberals want to eliminate the right to privacy, the Second Amendment, religion, want to "permanently enslave the American people" with Obamacare and entitlements, and ultimately desire "a tyrannical dictatorship."
In a fundraising email announcing the PAC, Farah stated that he's "not giving my money to the RNC any longer. I'm not giving a dime to Karl Rove's Tea Party-hating PAC, and I'm not supporting spineless Republicans who lead us down the same liberal roads. I'm giving my money to Takeover Super PAC." Farah and other conservatives have been feuding with Rove, a fight that intensified when the former Bush adviser launched an effort to protect Republicans against tea party challengers.
The group is the latest in a large field of conservative political organizations, many of which are spending vast amounts of money on consultants and fundraising instead of support for candidates.
The section of Takeover's website for supported candidates is currently empty. Several navigation buttons on its website, such as links to its Facebook (which links to "facebook.com/takoversuperpac [sic]"), Twitter (which links to"twitter.com/takoversuperpac [sic]"), and YouTube pages do not work -- and a page devoted to the "Takeover Store" is also blank.
Takeover's advisory board indicates the group will be heavily intertwined with professional consultants.
The super PAC's executive director and treasurer is "Internet marketing and communications entrepreneur"Thomas Freiling. He previously headed Patriot Super PAC, which paid him $78,239 during the 2012 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commission data via OpenSecrets.org. Freiling's consulting firm Fairfax Technologies also received $18,044. Patriot Super PAC paid $374,976 to Internet communications consulting firm Grassroots Action Inc. Grassroots is headed by Steve Elliott, who also sits on Takeover's advisory board. Patriot Super PAC raised $922,266 during the 2012 cycle, and spent $163,418 on independent expenditures.
Board member Floyd Brown is president of Excellentia Inc., a conservative marketing firm. Another board member, Richard Viguerie, pioneered the use of direct mail fundraising.
The toxic background of the group's board members may actually end up hurting any supported candidates. Here's a closer look at three of the group's advisors.
Activists Sold On Gold, Guns, And The Chinese Threat
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- phOENIX -- The demographic death spiral of the conservative movement has a laugh track. It was recorded live in Barry Goldwater's hometown on Saturday night, in front of a 1,000-person ballroom audience, during a banquet roast of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the gala conclusion to the annual Western Conservative Conference, known until last year as Western CPAC.
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne laid down the basic comic framework for his fellow roasters, totaling a dozen conservative dignitaries of local and national reputation. "Apologies to the Civic Center," said Horne, "but half of the kitchen staff was arrested tonight upon arrival of Joe and his deputies. Because of a budget crunch, the sheriff's cutting way back. No more green baloney for prisoners -- just an extra beating at suppertime. Over the years, Joe's touched many people. We know because many are now pressing charges."
Chuckling throughout Horne's routine on stage next to Arpaio was Russell Pearce, a recalled state senator with a documented fondness for neo-Nazi websites, and the primary architect of Arizona's controversial immigration bill S.B. 1070. Pearce smiled as his one-time ally in the 1070 fight, Arizona State Rep. John Kavanagh, began his set asking, "How many Hispanics did you pull over on the way over here, Arpaio?" He later added, "All these years I figured he was rounding up Hispanics because you had a grudge from [fighting in] the Spanish-American War. But if you were in the Korean War, how come you're not rounding up Asians?" Kavanagh was doing a bit about the difficulties of dining out with Arpaio -- "When we go into a restaurant, most of the wait staff and cooks dive out the back window" -- when he spotted a passing waiter who appeared to be Hispanic holding a platter of stuffed chickens, and screamed, "There's a brave one! Get him! Sic 'em!"
The crowd roared; the waiter turned red. Thus did a day of strategy sessions on how to reclaim the White House and build a new conservative majority end with national movement leaders affectionately teasing a divisive deport-'em-all drug-war dinosaur, whose roast material revolved entirely around the three facts of his being old, sadistic, and having a bit of a brown-person problem. The Tea Party's loud rejection of immigration reform shows it has also refused the message of electoral emergency delivered by Barack Obama's 2012 victory map. But if anyone needed another reminder, they now have the image of Joe Arpaio receiving a "Medal of Freedom" award in recognition of his rough detainment and deportation techniques, and a taste for racial profiling so aggressive it has resulted in a federally appointed monitor in Maricopa County.
The man behind the Western Conservative Conference, Floyd Brown, has never been very good at helping the GOP build bridges. In 1988, he created the infamous "Willie Horton" ad that has dogged his party's outreach efforts ever since. But Brown's interests and achievements are more diverse than scorched-earth political advertising. He has been a Zelig-like presence on the right for the better part of three decades, zig-zagging his way through and connecting the worlds of conservative organizing, publishing, opposition research, campaigning, fundraising, marketing, and predatory investment advice.
A co-founder of Citizens United, Brown now runs a marketing company, Excellentia Inc., helping clients "achieve success in the conservative and Christian marketplace." He works as a traveling speaker for groups like the Oxford Group claiming to offer "insider" stock tips and advice. He also pushes gold coins and municipal bonds, sometimes in mutual exclusion of the other, depending on his audience.
All of which makes Brown a perfect impresario for today's conservative grassroots activist circuit, where organizing and politics can seem incidental to the interests of an interlocking constellation of thinly veiled data mining, fundraising, and precious metals operations. This was sometimes the case in Phoenix, where an older, nearly all-white group of activist-attendees from Western states paid $399 to train under the tutelage of organizers from Heritage Action and the Leadership Institute, as well as hear national figures pitch gold coins and radio shows. The bold-face names who appeared live or by video included Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Rick Perry, and embattled National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent, who was welcomed despite being under fire for racist attacks on President Obama.
"The next, most important step": Right-wing media push Obama impeachment
Research ››› October 14, 2010 1:40 PM EDT ››› DAVID SHERE
The New Republic's Jonathan Chait predicts that the if the Republicans retake the House of Representatives this November, Fox News and the conservative media will drive them to impeach President Obama. Indeed, the conservative media has been banging the impeachment drum since as early as March of 2009.
WND's first national convention: A spectacle of birtherism and bigotry
Blog ››› September 21, 2010 5:18 PM EDT ››› ZACHARY PLEAT
With the guest lineup of World Net Daily's Taking America Back 2010 national conference, it was no surprise that birtherism and bigotry were prevalent throughout the convention. After all, WND's Joseph Farah and Jerome Corsi are perhaps most (in)famous for their repeated birther attacks against President Obama.
Displaying shocking ignorance of his own publication, Farah kicked off WND's first national convention by asking if "anyone at WorldNetDaily ever asserted" that President Obama "is foreign-born." We can. It turns out that one of WND's commentators, Craige McMillan, has referred to President Obama as an "illegal alien" in at least three separate posts on WorldNetDaily's website. Despite Farah's suggestion that WorldNetDaily held itself above the tired questions about President Obama's citizenship, Jerome Corsi was quick to jump on the case.
Questioning the president's citizenship, and thus his eligibility as president, was not the only way speakers at WND's convention attacked Obama. Speaker after speaker attacked Obama's faith as a Christian. Jerome Corsialternatively claimed that Obama "doesn't believe in God" and that he's a Muslim,Floyd Brown claimed that Obama "hates Christianity" and "is a Muslim," while Aaron Klein said that the president "has a certain affinity toward Islam."
Other attacks against Obama included the zombie lie that Obama supported "infanticide" and an absurd demand by Corsi that Obama "come out and renounce Lucifer." Floyd Brown also stated that the "most important step" for the next session of Congress is to impeach President Obama.
Anti-gay bigotrywas also out in force at the Taking America Back convention. WorldNetDaily founder, editor, and CEO Joseph Farah suggested gay marriage would lead to "sexual anarchy" and claimed that opposing gay marriage was akin to opposing "sexual offenses" such as "polygamy, incest, statutory rape, child pornography, molestation, [and] prostitution." Noted anti-gay bigot Robert Knight similarly compared a gay marriage ban to bans on polygamy and incest. However, Jerome Corsi refused to be outdone in this vein, going so far as to link same-sex marriage to pedophilia and bestiality.*
Speakers at the convention were also, to put it mildly, displeased with Imam Rauf's proposal to build an Islamic community center in Manhattan to serve an existing Muslim community as a place for worship and community. After nine months of right-wing anti-Muslim bigotry and incidents of violence against mosque sites nationwide, WND's speakers decided to rachet up the rhetoric against the Islamic community center by declaring that its intention is to promote further attacks by Muslims against America. Aaron Klein flatly stated that "the individuals behind" the Islamic community center in Manhattan don't "have peaceful intentions." As well, WND speaker William Murray said that the purpose of the community center is to host "raiders" to "do even more damage" in America.
Just how does WorldNetDaily plan to top all of this with its next national convention?
Floyd Brown claims Obama "hates Christianity" and "is a Muslim"
Video ››› September 21, 2010 2:14 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
Floyd Brown: After taking Congress "the next, most important step for them is to impeach Barack Hussein Obama"
Video ››› September 21, 2010 1:52 PM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
Another radical comes out against Kagan
Blog ››› July 1, 2010 6:53 PM EDT ››› PETER ANDERSON
Today on Townhall.com, columnists Floyd and Mary Beth Brown are arguing for a filibuster of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, claiming that she is a radical:
Consider this: Elena Kagan is a radical. Barack Obama and his allies in the left-wing media have made every attempt to paint Kagan as a "moderate," but this truth is evident if you listen to her answers. She has a life-long history of extreme and radical left-wing political activism and her personal history clearly indicates that she will not hesitate to pursue Obama's far-left wing agenda from the bench.
Specifically, the Browns parrot the tired claims that Kagan has socialist views and that she banned military recruiters from campus. We've debunked these myths on several occasions.
And furthermore, it is the height of irony for Floyd Brown to be attacking someone else as radical. Brown is perhaps most famous for being the creator of the infamous Willie Horton ad that stoked racial fears against then-Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
Brown is also a birther, having falsely claimed that President Obama has not proven "definitively that he is born in the United States."
Pushing Obama impeachment, WND's Floyd Brown says Obama hasn't proven he's American-born
Video ››› October 16, 2009 7:53 AM EDT ››› MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
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http://www.constantinereport.com/on-floyd-brown-and-david-bossie-deconstructing-the-obama-smear-machine-2/
www.mediatransparency.org
May 5, 2008
Floyd Brown and David Bossie: Back in the Swift Boat captain's chairs
Two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning are mainstreaming attacks on Clinton and Obama
Floyd Brown and David Bossie have spent a good part of their political careers making life miserable for Bill and Hillary Clinton. Unlike Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire financier who was unremitting in his efforts to take the Clintons down during the latter part of the twentieth century and whose newspaper endorsed Senator Hillary Clinton prior to the Pennsylvania primary, neither Brown nor Bossie have had a pro-Hillary conversion.
These days, however, Brown's new organization, The National Campaign Fund -- which launched a new website "ExposeObama.com" -- and Bossie's Citizens United have added Sen. Barack Obama to the mix.
Brown recently told Time magazine that "he had established several other front groups to fund a long-range effort to erode Obama's support, including a second PAC, called The Legacy Committee, a 527 organization called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and a so-called "social welfare" 501(c)4nonprofit called the Policy Issues Institute."
Bossie told Newsweek that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."
Best known for his infamous Willie Horton television advertisement that helped put the kybosh on Democratic Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis' presidential aspirations in 1988, Brown's National Campaign Fund has prepared a new TV attack ad called "Victims," which lambastes Obama for being too easy on gang murderers.
"The campaign by Hillary Clinton has not been able to raise Obama's negatives," Brown told Time. "It is absolutely critical that Obama's negatives go up with Republicans." Time reported that copies of the ad were "e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message."
While declining to comment on how much money he was hoping to raise, Brown pointed out that "All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded. This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever."
"The ad draws a parallel between Obama's weakness on gang violence and the war on terror," said Brown. According to the conservative news site, NewsMax.com, the ad "tells of a woman leaving church choir practice who was killed by gang gunfire while shielding her 6-year-old daughter, a 15-year-old boy beaten with bricks after a gang member crashed into his car, and a 14-year-old boy shot five times in the back for refusing to flash a gang hand sign."
"That same year, Barack Obama -- then an Illinois state senator -- voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders, the ad points out," NewsMax reported. The ad ends: "When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. So the question is: Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"
According to Time, "Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the use of the death penalty if the perpetrator of a crime belonged to a gang. The links between Obama's vote on that issue and the deaths of three Chicago resident's are indirect and tenuous, as is the further connection the ad draws between the issue of Obama's position on the death penalty and the issue of international terrorism."
The ExposeObama team consists of Brown, who is also president of Excellentia Inc., which according to his bio, is "a consulting company specializing in non-profit organizational strategy, development and the marketing of ideas"; executive director Bruce E. Hawkins, "a highly skilled political strategist" who has worked for such conservative as Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan and Mike Huckabee; treasurer and general counsel James V. Lacy, the co-founder and managing partner of Wewer & Lacy, LLP and the cofounder in 1978, along with the late anti-tax crusader Howard Jarvis, of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association.
On another front, a group called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America, headed by California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, teamed with Brown to attack both Obama and Hillary Clinton for wanting to raise taxes on the American people. According to DeVore, both senators "want to raise taxes. Americans should have this information and be aware of the other extremely liberal positions Obama and Clinton hold."
"The ad draws a parallel between Obama and Clinton's records on taxes," said Brown. "The bottom line is that they can't deal with our economic problems by raising taxes. International competition cannot be addressed by raising taxes and raising the costs of business in America."
In the early 1990's Brown penned "Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton," and he took credit for creating a 1-900 line for callers to listen to edited excerpts of telephone conversations between Bill Clinton and Arkansas lounge singer Gennifer Flowers who, during Bill Clinton's run for the presidency in 1992, claimed that she had had a twelve-year relationship with him.
Last summer, when it looked as if Hillary Clinton was a sure-fire cinch to be the Democratic Party's presidential nominee, Brown announced that he was working on a movie that, according to the website of Citizens United, would "expose the truth about her conflicts in the past and her liberal plot for the future."
Now, with Brown having moved on, "Hillary: The Movie" (website) is about to "explode onto the scene!" claims Citizens United's website. Produced by CU Chairman of the Board and President, David Bossie, the author of the recently released book, "Hillary: The Politics of Personal Destruction," the movie contains more than 40 interviews "with experts, opinion makers, and many of the people who personally locked horns with the Clintons."
The film has "a cast to end all casts," and includes Dick Morris, Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich, Jeff Gerth, Buzz Patterson, Michael Barone, Billy Dale, Cyrus Nowrasteh, Tony Blankley, Dick Armey, Bay Buchanan, Joe Connor, Mark Levin, Frank Gaffney, Peter Paul, Gary Aldrich, Dan Burton, John Mica, Michael Medved, Kathleen Willey, Kate O'Beirne, and Larry Kudlow.
Two Trailers for the film and three clever -- one 30 second and two 10 second -- advertisements for the film are featured at CU's website. The ads have been the cause of legal action: In late March, CNN reported that the Supreme Court had rejected CU's fight "to air commercials promoting" the movie without having to "indicate by name its sponsorship and disclose its political donors."
According to CNN, The case, rejected on jurisdictional grounds by the Supreme Court, had been appealed after a federal District Court refused to issue a preliminary injunction clearing the way for the promotions to run.
"At issue," CNN reported, "was whether broadcast ads promoting the 90-minute documentary ... are subject to strict campaign finance laws on political advocacy, or would be considered a constitutionally protected form of commercial speech." The three-judge District Court panel "rejected the group's arguments that the documentary is more akin to news or information programs like PBS' 'Nova' or CBS' '60 Minutes.'"
"'The Movie' is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous place in a President Hillary world, and that viewers should vote against her," wrote the judges in their ruling.
Both trailers are fast paced goulashes of Hillary sound-bites, flashing headlines and talking heads. The first one begins with a campaigning former North Carolina Senator John Edwards cautioning against "nostalgia," and climaxes with a long quote from former Clinton aide and Fox News Channel commentator **Dick**Morris: "We must never underestimate thiswoman. We must never underestimate her chances of winning. And we must never forget thefundamental danger that this woman poses to every value that we hold dear. You see," says Morris," I know her."
Although in reality, the film is "explod[ing] onto the scene" in only a handful of selected venues, the American Spectator's Quin Hillyer called it (and the companion book), "The best compendium of Hillary mendacity (and at-least-near-criminality) available right now." Hillyer acknowledges that he "did a final copy-edit for -- but did not write -- the book." Hillyer assures readers that the film does not merely re-hash Hillary's greatest hits, but includes "an examination of more recent scandals that never received the attention they deserved."
David Bossie is also the president and manager of an entity called The Presidential Coalition LLC, described by SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media and Democracy as "a Republican front group that registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a Section 527 political action committee on June 30, 2005 ... [and] is affiliated with Citizens United. The group's IRS filing stated that the PAC was "Organized to directly or indirectly accept contributions and/or make expenditures to influence the selection, nomination, election or appointment of individuals to federal, state or local public office, or office in a political organization."
Bossie "was fired in 1998 from his job as chief investigator for the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight -- which was investigating alleged Clinton White House campaign finance abuses -- for his role in releasing selectively edited transcripts of former Clinton administration official Webster Hubbell's prison conversations," Media Matters for America has reported. "(Hubbell went to prison for defrauding his Little Rock, AR, law firm.)"
He is also the author of a spate of books attacking Democrats including "Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore (2000), "Intelligence Failure: How Clinton's National Security Policy Set the Stage for 9/11" (2004), and "The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why This Massachusetts Liberal Is Wrong For America" (2004).
Ramping up the rage and ranting up the rhetoric about Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers
According to Newsweek, David Bossie has placed Obama in his sights. The magazine reported that Bossie maintained that he was "assembling material for TV spots about Obama's ties with [Bill] Ayers, a Chicago professor and unrepentant former member of the Weather Underground, a group that bombed several government buildings to protest the Vietnam War."
Shortly after Obama's victory in the Wisconsin primary, longtime conservative columnist Cliff Kincaid, accused the Illinois Senator of having "controversial socialist connections." Kincaid, the editor of Accuracy in Media, a right wing media watchdog group, and a contributing editor to FamilySecurityMatters.org, charged Obama with being "an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler."
Questions about Obama's relationship with Ayerswere subsequently raised by conservative radio and Fox News Channel talk show host Sean Hannity. ABC News' George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about Ayers during the Obama-Clinton debate prior to the Pennsylvania primary.
Recent columns by Charles Krauthammer and Ann Coulter also raised the specter of Ayers.
According to Krauthammer, Ayers, along with Tony Rezko, "the indicted fixer," and Jeremiah Wright, "the racist reverend," make up Obama's "Three Amigos":
Obama makes it sound as if the relationship consists of having run into each other at the DMV. In fact, Obama's political career was launched in a 1995 meeting at Ayers' home. Obama's own campaign says that they maintain 'friendly' relations.
Obama's defense is that he was 8 when Ayers and his Weather Underground comrades were planting bombs at the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and other buildings. True. But Obama was 40 when Ayers said publicly that he doesn't regret setting bombs. Indeed, he said, 'I feel we didn't do enough.'
Would you maintain friendly relations with an unrepentant terrorist? Would you even shake his hand? To ask why Obama does is perfectly legitimate and perfectly relevant to understanding what manner of man he is.
Newsweek reported that "Obama, who lives near Ayers in Chicago's Hyde Park, attended an event at Ayers's house when Obama ran for the state Senate in 1995 -- and served on the board of a nonprofit with him for several years. Obama is aware of the acts Ayers committed when he was 8 years old and has called them 'detestable,'" says spokesman Ben LaBolt, adding that Obama occasionally bumps into Ayers in his neighborhood 'but has not seen him for months.' At a recent dinner party, according to one guest who asked not to be identified discussing a private gathering, Ayers 'ridiculed' the notion that Obama shared his left-wing views: 'He thought the idea that there was a political connection between them was absurd.'"
In early March, John Ponder of the Pensito Review wrote that Obama biographer, John K. Wilson, author of "Barack Obama: This Improbable Quest," who said that Ayers was "not affiliated with the Obama campaign," described the Ayers relationship: "In 1995, State Sen. Alice Palmer held an event for supporters at the home of Ayers, where she announced her plans to run for Congress and introduced Obama as her chosen successor. Obama also served on the board of directors for a progressive foundation, the Woods Fund, from 1999-2001, when Ayers was also on the board. In 2001, Ayers gave $200 to Obama's state senate campaign fund. And Obama and Ayers appeared together on a 1997 panel at the University of Chicago dealing with juvenile justice (Obama also praised Ayers' approach on the subject in an op-ed he wrote that year), and on a 2002 panel on public intellectuals at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Just as Obama's explanations about his relationship with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- and Wright's increased public presence -- has not put that saga to rest, there is no doubt that right wing columnists, talk show hosts, partisan advertising and public relations specialists, pundits and two longtime practitioners of negative campaigning, Floyd Brown and David Bossie, will squeeze every last drop out of the Ayers controversy.
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=236
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David Bossie
The 29-year-old currently works for Senator Lauch Faircloth. Previously, he served as the national youth director in Senator Robert Dole's 1988 presidential campaign. In 1992, he became the executive director of Floyd Brown's Presidential Victory Committee which produced an ad and a 1-800 number with recordings of Gennifer Flowers' alleged conversations with Bill Clinton. Floyd Brown also worked on Dole's 1988 campaign as the Midwest political director but is most famous for creating the Willie Horton commercial that helped sink the Dukakis campaign. In May 1994, Bossie claimed to be working sixteen hours a day on Whitewater.
Additional Information on David Bossie
Bossie held August 1994 impeachment press conference with Howard Phillips. On August 10, 1994 David Bossie -- who was identified as "Director of Government Relations and Communications for Citizens United" along with Howard Phillips chairman of the Conservative Caucus held a press conference addressing the "Latest Whitewater Developments, Impeachment Possibility."
Citizens United press release, 8/10/94
At the press conference, Bossie said he would present Jack Brooks, the House Judiciary Committee chairman with petitions with 10,000 signatures calling for impeachment hearings. Phillips said he would present Brooks with 26,000 petitions calling for Clinton's impeachment. Bossie was also highly critical of Robert Fiske at this press conference.
Gannett News, 8/10/94
Columbia Journalism Review described Bossie in May 1994. In May 1994, Trudy Lieberman, a senior editor at Consumer Reports wrote: "Bossie, the twenty-eight-year-old political director for Citizens United, a conservative Republican operation, runs an information factory whose Whitewater production lines turn out a steady stream of tips, tidbits, documents, factoids, suspicions, and story ideas for the nation's press and for Republicans on Capitol Hill. Journalists and Hill Republicans have recycled much of the information provided by Citizens United into stories that have cast a shadow on the Clinton presidency."
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1994
The article also described him as a "source par excellence to journalists dredging the Whitewater swamp" who claims to get eighteen calls an hour.
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June1994
In 1992 Brown & Bossie harassed the family of a suicide victim. In April, 1992, 30 news organizations received "an anonymous and untraceable letter" by fax "claiming Clinton had had an affair with a former law student who committed suicide 15 years ago." Floyd Brown attempted to link Clinton to the 1977 suicide of this, "emotionally distraught young woman, seven-months pregnant," Susan Coleman.
CBS Evening News, 7/13/92
Brown's associates "repeatedly contacted the woman's family in an unsuccessful attempt to confirm the charges."
San Francisco Chronicle, 7/28/92; "CBS Evening News," 7/13/92
Bossie and ex-DC police officer Jim Murphy questioned Susan Coleman's mother and her husband as well as her friends. They even tried to find out what was in Susan's suicide note.
"CBS Evening News," 7/13/92
Bossie and Murphy followed Susan's mother to an Army hospital in Augusta, GA where her husband was being treated for a stroke. They "burst into the sick man's room and began questioning the shaken mother about her daughter's suicide."
CBS Evening News, 7/13/92
Bossie & NBC executive producer chased Schaffer around Fayetteville. In January 1994, Brown's associate, David Bossie was seen with NBC network producer Ira Silverman attempting to interview former Arkansas state Banking Commissioner Beverly Bassett Schaffer. Silverman admitted using Bossie for background information, but denied working together on the interview. Schaffer's husband said the two "jumped out from behind [a] car... [and] chased her through the streets."
Chicago Tribune, 3/27/94; Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1/20/94
Beverly Bassett Schaffer said she was "ambushed" and then "stalked" around Fayetteville by Bossie and Silverman. Schaffer said that her car was rushed twice by Silverman, an NBC camera crew, and Bossie.
The Fayetteville Morning News, 1/15/92
Silverman said, "I talk to them [Brown and Bossie] along with everyone else. Back in October and November it was difficult to develop sources."
Columbia Journalism Review, 5-6/94
Bossie claimed to be fueling Whitewater. In May 1994, Bossie said that "Citizens United" had provided Whitewater information to "the top fifty major publications, networks, and editorial boards... We've provided the same material on the Hill both on the House and Senate side." Bossie also claimed that he would have gladly provided documents to Democrats, but they haven't asked.
Columbia Journalism Review, May/June 1994
Bossie praised Brown... called politics a "full contact sport." In 1994, Brown claimed that he was harsher and meaner than most in politics and Bossie said, "That's right, Stick and jab. Stick and jab and keep on moving. Politics. It's definitely a full-contact sport."
New York Times, 4/24/94
Chicago Tribune described Bossie in March 1994. In March 1994, Carol Jouzaitis of the Chicago Tribune wrote of Bossie, "The researcher, David Bossie, harvests tales of alleged wrongdoings from a network of Clinton enemies, then peddles them to Capitol Hill and media contacts in hopes of prompting scandalous stories."
Chicago Tribune, 3/27/94
Time described Bossie's dirt-digging in January 1994. In January 1994, Time magazine wrote, "Brown's associate, David Bossie has been to Little Rock several times digging for dirt. Evidently some Whitewater tale tellers prefer to deal with Brown & Co., figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources.
Time, 1/24/94
In mid-January Time reported that Floyd Brown was covertly feeding information and "hard-to-find" documents to reporters and Hill Republicans looking into Whitewater. Time said that David Bossie had been to Little Rock several times "digging for dirt." Evidently, some Whitewater "tale tellers" prefer to deal with Brown and Bossie "figuring Brown can be trusted to protect their sources."
Time, 1/24/94
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Who is Behind these Lies?
Roger Stone boasts about being the sleaziest man in politics and that his rules are "Attack, attack, attack?never defend? and ?Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.? As a young operative, Stone was involved in Watergate, causing him to be fired by Bob Dole. Stone was also forced to cut ties with New York Senate Republicans after he left a harassing message on the voicemail of Eliot Spitzer?s father. Even Republican Ed Rollins says Stone ?always had this reputation of being a guy who exaggerated things, who pretended he did things. Roger was never on Nixon?s staff, was never on the White House staff. I don?t think you?ll find anyone in the business who trusts him. Roger was always a little rat.? Stone recently said ?McCain himself should not run a slash-and-burn campaign, but a slash-and-burn campaign will have to be run by others.?
Floyd Brown, the leader of the National Campaign Fund, the Legacy Committee, Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and the Policy Issues Institute, once bragged he was part of the ?the heart and soul of the right-wing conspiracy.? has a history of surfacing every four years to make right-wing attacks against Democrats in presidential elections. Most infamously, Brown was responsible for the racist 1988 ?Willie Horton? ad against Michael Dukakis. Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton?s administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election?which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim??filthy campaign tactics.? After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and David Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, make a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry.
David Bossie, who runs Citizens United, has paired with Floyd Brown for years. Bossie and Brown harassed the Clintons throughout Bill Clinton?s administration, with even George H.W. Bush calling his behavior in the 1992 presidential election?which included harassing the family of a recent suicide victim??filthy campaign tactics.? After writing a 2000 book about Al Gore that went little-noticed, in 2004, Brown and Floyd Bossie, working as the group Citizens United, made a movie called Celsius 41.11 and ran television ads attacking John Kerry. In 1998, Bossie was fired from his job with the House Committee investigating Bill Clinton. When Bossie selectively released tapes, removing information that exonerated the Clintons, and improperly obtained phone records, even Newt Gingrich said he was ?embarrassed for the conference at the circus that went on.?
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https://www.newsweek.com/2016/12/16/floyd-brown-maestro-media-manipulation-528591.html
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Floyd Brown couldn’t believe what he was watching. It was November 11, 1993, and NBC was doing a story about Whitewater, a failed real-estate venture involving Bill and Hillary Clinton. As one of the leaders of Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, Brown had provided sources to the network, and his colleague, David Bossie, had even guided a producer on a helicopter fly-by of the Whitewater properties in Arkansas. The conservative activist had been confident the story would make the president and first lady look bad. But as he watched the segment, he was shocked and delighted: NBC had linked Whitewater to a larger conspiracy, the death of White House aide Vincent Foster. “It was [Brown and Bossie’s] first success on a national news broadcast,” writes James Stewart in Blood Sport, his book about the Clinton scandals. “A success even beyond their fondest expectations.”
More than two decades have passed since that NBC segment aired. The Clintons were never charged with any crimes regarding Whitewater, and two investigations ruled that Foster’s death was a suicide. Brown, meanwhile, has gone on to build a media empire with his son, Patrick. The younger Brown runs the sites, while Floyd Brown helped provide the funding for them, serves as the chairman of the board of their parent company and contributes columns to WesternJournalism.com.
As of December, theBrowns’ sites, Conservative Tribune and Western Journalism, get approximately 32,986,786 unique visits per month, which means they together receive more monthly unique views in the U.S. than almost any adult entertainment site besides PornHub, according to the analytics site Alexa. During the 2016 election, many of their most popular stories had a pro-Donald Trump or anti-Hillary Clinton spin, and they were shared by prominent conservatives such as Mike Huckabee.
Critics say much of their content is, at best, misleading. While pundits spent 2016 blaming Pepe the Frog–loving trolls for sharing fake news, the Browns’ sites were pumping out bogus articles claiming the FBI had proof Hillary Clinton took several trips to Jeffrey Epstein’s “orgy island” and saying there was “new evidence ” linking the former secretary of state to Foster’s death. “Brown’s sites,” writes Lee Fan of the Intercept, “churn out bombastic headlines with little regard to the truth.”
Not all of their stories are completely false, and that’s what makes them more “dangerous” than completely fake news sites, says Judy Muller, a professor of journalism at the University of Southern California. “If you hate Hillary Clinton or you hate Barack Obama and someone dangles this kind of red meat in front of you, you're going to want to believe it. They put just enough in there to make it sound like it could have happened.”
Via an email to Newsweek, Floyd Brown declined to be interviewed for this story. In a separate email, the younger Brown said his sites post legitimate news and simply offer an anti-establishment point of view.
Response from Patrick Brown by Newsweek on Scribd
The burgeoning success of the Browns’ sites come as fake-news outlets have received increased scrutiny in the aftermath of Trump’s electoral victory. And Floyd Brown’s career is a testament to how media manipulation has evolved. As the head of Citizens United, he spent the 1990s leaking stories to mainstream outlets, backing up his work with primary sources and working hard to make sure the media trusted him.By 2008, however, his goals had changed. He spent that year’s presidential campaign running online ads claiming Barack Obama was a secret Muslim.
This shift away from traditional media was informed by his experience with political advertising. In 1988, he created the infamous Willie Horton ad, which played on racist fears of black criminals to make Michael Dukakis, the Democratic presidential nominee, appear soft on crime. (Brown’s Citizens United later successfully challenged federal election laws before the Supreme Court.)
In 2009, he took over the Western Center for Journalism, a nonprofit that trains conservative activists to use social media.Five years later, his son Patrick established Liftable Media, Inc., which acquired the domain WesternJournalism.com. Since 2009, the site’s page views have increased from 1,000 a day to often more than 1 million, according to Patrick’s bio on the Western Center website. “For many years,” the younger Brown writes on that site, “the same few media entities have largely...decided what is newsworthy, what is worthy of discussion, and, ultimately, what is ‘true.’” Now, he says, there are alternatives.
Deciding what’s news and even what’s true has become increasingly difficult for Americans. Fake or misleading stories became far more prevalent during the 2016 campaign because of social media. As BuzzFeed’s Craig Silverman wrote,fake-news sites garnered more interaction on Facebook than “19 major news outlets” combined during the last three months of the election.
The Browns’ sites make deciphering the truth even more difficult by hedging their language and manipulating what quotes mean. In one article titled “BREAKING: American Muslims Ordered to Vote Hillary,” the author uses an innocuous statement from a Muslim leader and makes it sound like something sinister. Another twists a quote by Obama to claim the president “possibly” encouraged “illegals” to vote. (He didn’t.)
Muller, the University of Southern California professor, believes Western Journalism and Conservative Tribune don’t necessarily fit the definition of fake news, but “they are not real news sites. They are not verifiable, independent, accountable news sites…. If [a publication] doesn’t match those three things, it’s something else. And in this case, I’d say that something else is propaganda.”
Either way, with the election of Trump, Floyd Brown—and his websites—may soon become more influential. Bossie, once his chief pupil, was Trump’s deputy campaign manager and is on the president-elect’s transition team. (Bossie says he doesn’t stay in touch with the elder Brown, who, in his email declining to be interviewed, said he’s had no interaction with the Trump campaign during the election). But according to Bloomberg and sources close to the Trump transition team, Bossie, the man who once arranged the helicopter flyover for NBC, is now angling to become the next chairman of the Republican Party.
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Patrick Brown is President and CEO of Liftable Media Inc, a top 100 US digital media company.
Liftable Media was founded in 2014 to engage the under-served Heartland America audience and now reaches over 40 million consumers every month.
Liftable Media's brands include Conservative Tribune (top 100 site in US), Western Journalismand Liftable (Top 150 sites in US) and The Wildcard, a growing sports brand.
Patrick is passionate about creating compelling content that reflects the traditional values and interests of Heartland America while meeting and exceeding the quality of mainstream media brands.
Ultimately, he hopes that Liftable Media will be a driver of positive cultural change in our country.
Patrick graduated from Grove City College. He and his wife Katie live in Arizona with three children.
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FLOYD G. BROWN
As the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Citizens United, Brown can only be categorized as an “ultra-conservative, dominionist” with a radical agenda for the United States of America. Along with Citizens United he has served as the Executive Director of Young America’s Foundation, an outreach program whose goal is indoctrination of our youth into the culture of extreme politics. Active on college campuses, the YAF engages such speakers as John Stossel, Ann Coulter, and David Horowitz. The YAF also promotes Horowitz’s Intellectual Diversity Movement which believes that the curriculum being taught is based in liberalism and that the conservative ideology is not being presented.
The YAF operates the Reagan Ranch, also known as Rancho Del Cielo where it conducts conferences, seminars, internships, and disseminates “educational” materials throughout the nation.
Brown’s ultra-conservatism doesn’t stop there, however. He is also President of Excellentia, Inc. which he founded in 2007. Excellentia, Inc. bills itself as a Conservative and Christian Marketplace. They provide fundraising; campaign and strategy development; direct mail; copy writing and production; radio and TV production and scripts; and ad placement and analysis services. According to their website:
“Climb your mountain of success with our help. We have a passion for serving in the marketplace of ideas. We have been in the business of promoting conservative and Christian ideas for over 30 years. Our professionals have developed some of the most memorable marketing campaigns in recent history. We will help you reach your community of interest with unparalleled success. Successful clients have included non profit organizations, political campaigns and publishing organizations.”
A frequent guest on network and cable TV shows, and a contributor to several publications, Brown became obsessed with the Clinton’s. He published a slim paperback entitled “Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton,”in which he went on the standard diatribe about Clinton being a friend of labor unions and a “draft dodger” he also asserted: “Bill Clinton’s America sees no difference between families of ‘homosexual lovers’ and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family…In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party.”
In 2007, Brown co-founded the National Campaign Fund along with Bruce E. Haekins,James V. Lacey, Tim Kelley and Michael Reagan. The purpose was to fund the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Rudy Giulianias they were concerned about the popularity of Hillary Clinton.
In 1992, during an interview with the Washington Times, Brown stated:
“I have a sense of what connects with people like me. We’re not culturally Republicans. We’re not libertarians. We’re not neo-conservatives or former liberals. We’re just old-fashioned, blue collar social conservatives. These are people who couldn’t care less about politics, want to be left alone by government, but if their country calls for them to fight abroad, will. You win elections by cultivating people like me.”
Nothing could have been further from the truth. The barely thirty-one year old Brown had waded into the dark side of the political arena several years earlier when he started Citizens United and began to organize political campaigns along with an effort to secure Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas an appointment, and the campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton.Brown came to notoriety, however, during the Dukakis campaign when he produced the infamous “Willie Horton ads.”Later, he played a prominent role in the Whitewater Scandal.
Brown and his National Campaign Fund created an anti-Obama website which they update regularly at ExposeObama.com. Filled with anti-Obama hatred and venom accusing him of being soft on crime and islamo-fascism, the website has been criticized nationally for the misinformation that it distributes.
Brown sits on the Council for National Policy, a powerful and highly secretive group of largely Dominionist political figures who hold clandestine meetings and initiate policies to further an extreme agenda of theocracy and ultra-conservatism.
While Brown is considered odious in many circles, he carries a big stick and hob-nobs with others even more tainted than he. His expertise in the area of swift-boat advertising is much sought after by the right and the desperate. This does not, however, diminish the effectiveness of Brown’s campaign acuity. His associates are every bit as ruthless as Brown, and every bit as determined to succeed.
To realize just how connected Floyd Brown is, check out the chart below which depicts those with whom he hob-nobs, influences, and supports as well as some of their affiliations.
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https://theintercept.com/2016/11/26/laura-ingraham-lifezette/
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EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON of fake news spread by Facebook and other social media during the 2016 presidential election has been largely portrayed as a lucky break for Donald Trump.
By that reckoning, entrepreneurial Macedonian teenagers, opportunists in Tbilisi and California millennials have exploited social media algorithms in order to make money — only incidentally leading to the viral proliferation of mostly anti-Clinton and anti-Obama hoaxes and conspiracy theories that thrilled many Trump supporters. The Washington Post published a shoddy report on Thursday alleging that Russian state-sponsored propagandists were seeking to promote Trump through fabricated stories for their own reasons, independent of the candidate himself.
But a closer look reveals that some of the biggest fake news providers were run by experienced political operators well within the orbit of Donald Trump’s political advisers and consultants.
Laura Ingraham, a close Trump ally currently under consideration to be Trump’s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette, a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One video produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled “Clinton Body Count,” promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had some role in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as the deaths of various friends and Democrats.
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Another LifeZette }:video, picking up false claims from other sites, claimed that voting machines “might be compromised” because a voting machine company called Smartmatic, allegedly providing voting machines “in sixteen states,” was purchased by the liberal billionaire George Soros. Soros never purchased the company, and Smartmatic did not provide voting machines used in the general election.The video, published on Facebook from LifeZette’s verified news account, garnered over 400,000 shares and 14 million views.
One LifeZette article misleadingly claimed that theUnited Nations backed a “secret” Obama administration takeover of local police departments. The article referenced Justice Department orders that a select few police departments address patterns of misconduct, a practice that, in reality, long predates the Obama presidency, is hardly secret, and had no relation to the United Nations.
Another LifeZette article, which went viral in the week prior to the election, falsely claimed that Wikileaks had revealed that a senior Hillary Clinton campaign official had engaged in occult rituals. Ingraham’s site regularly receives links from the Drudge Report and other powerful drivers of Internet traffic.
But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites run by Floyd Brown:{, a Republican consultant close to Trump’s inner circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago for his role in helping to produce the “Willie Horton” campaign advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to derail Michael Dukakis’s presidential bid. Brown is also the political mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trump’s presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United group. In an interview this year, Brown called Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway a “}
Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content through a company he co-owns with his family called Liftable Media Inc.,which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of Brown’s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the U.S. with 13 million monthly unique monthly visitors, according to rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative Tribune, is the 50th largest site with over 19 million monthly unique visitors. Liftable Media is run on a day to day basis by Brown’s son, Patrick, who is the president of Liftable Media.
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As the fact-checking website Snopes was quick to }:note, it was no signal of surrender and the bleached white version of the White House logo, complete with a white flag, was not even an Obama creation. The white logo dates back to as early as 2003, under the Bush administration, which used it for official documents.Brown’s sites churn out bombastic headlines with little regard to the truth. One viral piece shared by Brown’s news outlets claimed that President Obama had redesigned the White House logo to change the American flag to a white flag, “a common symbol for surrender, which has many people wondering if Obama was trying to secretly signal to America’s enemies that he was surrendering.” The Facebook post touted the article with the line, “We all know Obama hates the United States, but what he just did to the White House logo is beyond the pale.”
The Conservative Tribune and Western Journalism provide a steady stream of similarly deceptive, eye-catching headlines.
“BREAKING: Muslims Ordered to Vote Hillary,” is the headline for one election post that grossly mischaracterized a mundane article about a Pakistani American activist going to door to door to help Clinton’s campaign. “Obama Urges Illegal Immigrants to Vote Without Fear of Getting Caught,” blared Western Journalism, claiming that President Obama had suggested in an interview on issues facing Latino millennial voters that noncitizens could vote and “will never get caught if they do.” The article left out the part of the Obama interview in which he said noncitizens “can’t legally vote, but they’re counting on you to make sure that you have the courage to make your voice heard.”
The hits go on, with posts on a regular basis making claims ranging from the assertion that Clinton went on a “drug holiday” before the Las Vegas presidential debate to rumors that Obama’s birth certificate is under serious scrutiny.
Thanks to views sourced largely to referrals from Facebook, Brown’s websites now outrank web traffic going to news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and NPR, according to data compiled by Alexa. Both Western Journalism and Conservative Tribune are certified by Facebook as bonafide news providers.
Trump’s relationship with one particularly influential online news site with a history of fabricated stories couldn’t be much closer. Steve Bannon,the chairman of Breitbart News, took a leave of absence from the organization to become the chief executive officer of Trump’s presidential campaign and has been tapped to serve as Trump’s chief strategist in the White House. Trump himself regularly promoted Breitbart stories, including a tweet used to justify his campaign to prove Obama was not born in the U.S.
Breitbart News blends commentary and journalism with inflammatory headlines, in many cases producing fake stories sourced from online hoaxes. The site once attempted to pass off a picture of people in Cleveland celebrating the Cavaliers as a massive Trump rally. The site furiously defended Trump’s false claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey were “cheering” the 9/11 attacks, a claim that multiple fact-checking organizations have thoroughly debunked.
Other conservative content farms, including WorldNetDaily, maintained ties to the Trump election effort. Campaign finance records show that Great America PAC, aTrump-backing Super PAC, paid WND, known as the largest purveyor of Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories, for “online voter contact.”
The surge of fake news has been much commented on in the mainstream media — and its effect on Trump’s election victory has been widely debated — with little mention of the purveyors close to the Trump campaign.
A Buzzfeed News article that came out shortly before the election famously traced more than 100 pro-Trump websites to young entrepreneurs in a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, who discovered that the best way to generate clicks — at a fraction of a penny per click in ad revenue — is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook. After the election, New Yorker editor David Remnick described President Obama as “talking obsessively” about that article, and quoted him bemoaning its significance. “[T]he capacity to disseminate misinformation, wild conspiracy theories, to paint the opposition in wildly negative light without any rebuttal, ” Obama said, “that has accelerated in ways that much more sharply polarize the electorate and make it very difficult to have a common conversation.”
The Washington Post interviewed Paul Horner, the “impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire,” who sounded somewhat aghast when he said, “I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything.”
Another Washington Post story described two Southern California slackers turning their website of made-up pro-Trump clickbait in a virtual goldmine. The New York Times profiled a fake news operation run by three brothers in Tbilisi, Georgia, who experimented with a variety of content, sometimes lifted from other sites, at other times made up from whole cloth, finding that pro-Trump material was the most popular, and therefore the most profitable.
Finally, a Washington Post story this week alleged a Russian government role in spreading fake news to help Trump. But its sources were not remotely credible. For instance, it cited a list that characterized as “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda” a number of well-established and well-respected websites including Truthdig, a site published by award-winning journalist and long-time Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer, Naked Capitalism, and Truth Out.
The growth of fake news isn’t confined to Trump or to conservative sites. A number of left-wing political sites have trafficked in demonstrably false stories, including deceptive pieces stoking fear about vaccines. Earlier this year, when critics called for Clinton to release the transcripts of her three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, as well as to other interest groups, Daily News Bin, a new liberal website specializing in viral hits, published a piece titled, “Video surfaces of Hillary Clinton’s paid speech to Goldman Sachs, and it’s completely harmless.” The video embedded in the piece, however, was not one of Clinton’s paid speeches; it was a public event sponsored by Goldman Sachs. The article was shared over 120,000 times.
“We live in a time when people don’t care about facts,” said Judy Muller, professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.
During the last three months of the campaign, Buzzfeed News found that the top 20 best-performing hoax stories related to the election had more Facebook engagement than the 20 best-performing stories from major news outlets.
Facebook has responded to the recent outcry over fake news websites with promises to crack down on obvious phony sites. Many critics are still worried that Facebook is not doing enough to counter outright lies promoted by the platform; meanwhile, others are concerned that such efforts risk suppressing critical information.
Muller said that if Ingraham is nominated by Trump to be his spokesperson to the press, she will have to distance herself from her growing Facebook content empire.
But the demand for fake news is unlikely to subside.
A recent study by Stanford University researchers found that students have difficulty discerning between fake content, corporate sponsored advertorial content posing as journalism, and legitimate news.
“People only care about opinions that support their own biases,” said Muller. “So they’re not reading other people’s facts, they’re not checking the facts, and they don’t want to know — and that’s the scariest development to me.”
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https://boingboing.net/2016/11/26/trumps-presidential-hires-an.html
Floyd Brown invented the Reagan-era Willie Horton lie, helped create the Citizens United group, and now owns Liftable Media, including sites like Conservative Tribune (50th most-trafficked site in the USA) and Western Journalism (81st), whence came fake news stories like the lie that Obama had altered the White House logo to include a white flag of surrender (the logo change came from GWB's White House); the lie that Muslims had been "ordered" to vote for Hillary; the lie that Obama had encouraged millennial non-citizen Latin@s to vote without fear of reprisals; the lie that Clinton had a Vegas "drug holiday" before the debate; the lie that Obama's birth certificate was not accepted by experts as genuine -- Brown's sites are all included in Facebook's verified news sources.
Brown is a Trump advisor, also identified by Trump's spokesperson as "a close friend."
Laura Ingraham is another Trump ally who's been tapped to be his presidential secretary: she owns the Ingraham Media Group, including sites like Lifezette, which produced the hoax video "Clinton Body Count," which accused the Clintons of conspiring to crash John F Kennedy, Jr's airplane and of complicity with many other deaths, a video that was shared 14,000,000 times after its successful viral debut on Facebook.
Lifezette also produced a viral hoax video about George Soros buying a voting machine company whose products were widely used in counting US ballots (Soros didn't invest in the company, nor does that company supply US ballots). Other Lifezette hoaxes include a story asserting that a Wikileaks-published document linked Clinton to occult rituals.
Most significant of all, though, is Trump's presidential chief strategist Steve Bannon, whose Breitbart News is a font of hoaxes and slanders:
Breitbart News blends commentary and journalism with inflammatory headlines, in many cases producing fake stories sourced from online hoaxes. The site once attempted to pass off a picture of people in Cleveland celebrating the Cavaliers as a massive Trump rally. The site furiously defended Trump’s false claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey were “cheering” the 9/11 attacks, a claim that multiple fact-checking organizations have thoroughly debunked.
Some Fake News Publishers Just Happen to Be Donald Trump’s Cronies[Lee Fang/The Intercept]
THE EXTRAORDINARY PHENOMENON of fake news spread by Facebook and other social media during the 2016 presidential election has been largely portrayed as a lucky break for Donald Trump.
By that reckoning, entrepreneurial Macedonian teenagers, opportunists in Tbilisi and California millennials have exploited social media algorithms in order to make money — only incidentally leading to the viral proliferation of mostly anti-Clinton and anti-Obama hoaxes and conspiracy theories that thrilled many Trump supporters. The Washington Post published a shoddy report on Thursday alleging that Russian state-sponsored propagandists were seeking to promote Trump through fabricated stories for their own reasons, independent of the candidate himself.
But a closer look reveals that some of the biggest fake news providers were run by experienced political operators well within the orbit of Donald Trump’s political advisers and consultants.
Laura Ingraham,a close Trump ally currently under consideration to be Trump’s White House press secretary, owns an online publisher called Ingraham Media Group that runs a number of sites, including LifeZette, a news site that frequently posts articles of dubious veracity. One video produced by LifeZette this summer, ominously titled “Clinton Body Count,” promoted a conspiracy theory that the Clinton family had some role in the plane crash death of John F. Kennedy, Jr., as well as the deaths of various friends and Democrats.
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Another LifeZette video, picking up false claims from other sites, claimed that voting machines “might be compromised” because a voting machine company called Smartmatic, allegedly providing voting machines “in sixteen states,” was purchased by the liberal billionaire George Soros. Soros never purchased the company, and Smartmatic did not provide voting machines used in the general election.The video, published on Facebook from LifeZette’s verified news account, garnered over 400,000 shares and 14 million views.
One LifeZette article misleadingly claimed that the United Nations backed a “secret” Obama administration takeover of local police departments. The article referenced Justice Department orders that a select few police departments address patterns of misconduct, a practice that, in reality, long predates the Obama presidency, is hardly secret, and had no relation to the United Nations.
Another LifeZette article, which went viral in the week prior to the election, falsely claimed that Wikileaks had revealed that a senior Hillary Clinton campaign official had engaged in occult rituals. Ingraham’s site regularly receives links from the Drudge Report and other powerful drivers of Internet traffic.
But LifeZette, for all its influence, pales in comparison to the sites run by Floyd Brown, a Republican consultant close to Trump’s inner circle of advisers. Brown gained notoriety nearly three decades ago for his role in helping to produce the “Willie Horton” campaign advertisement, a spot criticized for its use of racial messaging to derail Michael Dukakis’s presidential bid. Brown is also the political mentor of David Bossie, an operative who went to work for Trump’s presidential campaign this year after founding the Citizens United group. In an interview this year,Brown called Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway a 
.”
Brown now produces a flow of reliably pro-Trump Internet content through a company he owns called Liftable Media Inc., which operates a number of high-impact, tabloid-style news outlets that exploded in size over the course of the election. One of Brown’s sites, Western Journalism, is the 81st largest site in the U.S. with 13 million monthly unique page views, according to rankings maintained by the site Alexa. Another, called Conservative Tribune, is the 50th largest site with over 19 million monthly unique visitors.
As the fact-checking website Snopes was quick to note, it was no signal of surrender and the bleached white version of the White House logo, complete with a white flag, was not even an Obama creation. The white logo dates back to as early as 2003, under the Bush administration, which used it for official documents.Brown’s sites churn out bombastic headlines with little regard to the truth. One viral piece shared by Brown’s news outlets claimed that President Obama had redesigned the White House logo to change the American flag to a white flag, “a common symbol for surrender, which has many people wondering if Obama was trying to secretly signal to America’s enemies that he was surrendering.” The Facebook post touted the article with the line, “We all know Obama hates the United States, but what he just did to the White House logo is beyond the pale.”
The Conservative Tribune and Western Journalism provide a steady stream of similarly deceptive, eye-catching headlines.
“BREAKING: Muslims Ordered to Vote Hillary,” is the headline for one election post that grossly mischaracterized a mundane article about a Pakistani American activist going to door to door to help Clinton’s campaign. “Obama Urges Illegal Immigrants to Vote Without Fear of Getting Caught,” blared Western Journalism, claiming that President Obama had suggested in an interview on issues facing Latino millennial voters that noncitizens could vote and “will never get caught if they do.” The article left out the part of the Obama interview in which he said noncitizens “can’t legally vote, but they’re counting on you to make sure that you have the courage to make your voice heard.”
The hits go on, with posts on a regular basis making claims ranging from the assertion that Clinton went on a “drug holiday” before the Las Vegas presidential debate to rumors that Obama’s birth certificate is under serious scrutiny.
Thanks to views sourced largely to referrals from Facebook, Brown’s websites now outrank web traffic going to news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, CBS News, and NPR, according to data compiled by Alexa.Both Western Journalism and Conservative Tribune are certified by Facebook as bonafide news providers.
Trump’s relationship with one particularly influential online news site with a history of fabricated stories couldn’t be much closer. Steve Bannon, the chairman of Breitbart News, took a leave of absence from the organization to become the chief executive officer of Trump’s presidential campaign and has been tapped to serve as Trump’s chief strategist in the White House. Trump himself regularly promoted Breitbart stories, including a tweet used to justify his campaign to prove Obama was not born in the U.S.
Breitbart News blends commentary and journalism with inflammatory headlines, in many cases producing fake stories sourced from online hoaxes. The site once attempted to pass off a picture of people in Cleveland celebrating the Cavaliers as a massive Trump rally. The site furiously defended Trump’s false claim that “thousands” of Muslims in New Jersey were “cheering” the 9/11 attacks, a claim that multiple fact-checkingorganizations have thoroughly debunked.
Other conservative content farms, including WorldNetDaily, maintained ties to the Trump election effort. Campaign finance records show that Great America PAC, a Trump-backing Super PAC, paid WND, known as the largest purveyor of Obama birth certificate conspiracy theories, for “online voter contact.”
The surge of fake news has been much commented on in the mainstream media — and its effect on Trump’s election victory has been widely debated — with little mention of the purveyors close to the Trump campaign.
A Buzzfeed News article that came out shortly before the election famously traced more than 100 pro-Trump websites to young entrepreneurs in a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, who discovered that the best way to generate clicks — at a fraction of a penny per click in ad revenue — is to get their politics stories to spread on Facebook. After the election, New Yorker editor David Remnick described President Obama as “talking obsessively” about that article, and quoted him bemoaning its significance. “[T]he capacity to disseminate misinformation, wild conspiracy theories, to paint the opposition in wildly negative light without any rebuttal, ” Obama said, “that has accelerated in ways that much more sharply polarize the electorate and make it very difficult to have a common conversation.”
The Washington Post interviewed Paul Horner, the “impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire,” who sounded somewhat aghast when he said, “I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything.”
Another Washington Post story described two Southern California slackers turning their website of made-up pro-Trump clickbait in a virtual goldmine. The New York Times profiled a fake news operation run by three brothers in Tbilisi, Georgia, who experimented with a variety of content, sometimes lifted from other sites, at other times made up from whole cloth, finding that pro-Trump material was the most popular, and therefore the most profitable.
Finally, a Washington Post story this week alleged a Russian government role in spreading fake news to help Trump. But its sources were not remotely credible. For instance, it cited a list that characterized as “routine peddlers of Russian propaganda” a number of well-established and well-respected websites including Truthdig, a site published by award-winning journalist and long-time Los Angeles Times columnist Robert Scheer, Naked Capitalism, and Truth Out.
The growth of fake news isn’t confined to Trump or to conservative sites. A number of left-wing political sites have trafficked in demonstrably false stories, including deceptive pieces stoking fear about vaccines. Earlier this year, when critics called for Clinton to release the transcripts of her three paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, as well as to other interest groups, Daily News Bin, a new liberal website specializing in viral hits, published a piece titled, “Video surfaces of Hillary Clinton’s paid speech to Goldman Sachs, and it’s completely harmless.” The video embedded in the piece, however, was not one of Clinton’s paid speeches; it was a public event sponsored by Goldman Sachs. The article was shared over 120,000 times.
“We live in a time when people don’t care about facts,” said Judy Muller, professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.
During the last three months of the campaign, Buzzfeed News found that the top 20 best-performing hoax stories related to the election had more Facebook engagement than the 20 best-performing stories from major news outlets.
Facebook has responded to the recent outcry over fake news websites with promises to crack down on obvious phony sites. Many critics are still worried that Facebook is not doing enough to counter outright lies promoted by the platform; meanwhile, others are concerned that such efforts risk suppressing critical information.
Muller said that ifIngraham is nominated by Trump to be his spokesperson to the press, she will have to distance herself from her growing Facebook content empire.
But the demand for fake news is unlikely to subside.
A recent study by Stanford University researchers found that students have difficulty discerning between fake content, corporate sponsored advertorial content posing as journalism, and legitimate news.
“People only care about opinions that support their own biases,” said Muller. “So they’re not reading other people’s facts, they’re not checking the facts, and they don’t want to know — and that’s the scariest development to me.”
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i can find no evidence he had job in RR admin
response dynamics:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1110699
[http://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/reprehensible-misrepresentation/
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create space self publ
Obama's Enemies List: How Barack Obama Intimidated America and Stole the Election
by Mr Floyd G Brown
2013 book
ne of the attractions of Obama in 2008 was his tone and countenance, his willingness to engage seriously in the issues and toss out the bitter and brittle politics of all. He said we should "resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long." And millions of Americans were proud to support such a man. But then something happened to the Obama presidency, something very disappointing. Obama stopped being the president he said he would be. And now a very real sense of regret is settling in. Because just like Richard Nixon, Obama keeps an enemies list. Obama's Enemies List gives you the who, what, when, where, why and how of this never before told heartbreaking story. It also chronicles how intimidation and dirty politics helped Barack Obama steal the election in 2012. This book tells a story the mainstream media will never tell, but it is a story every American must hear.
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Citizens United was created in November 1988 by conservative activist Floyd G. Brown,[1] It is "a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Virginia and tax-exempt under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code."[2] Citizens United is affiliated with The Presidential Coalition, a 501(c)(4), and the 2007 Conservative Victory Committee, a Section 527 political action committee. Previously, it was affiliated with the National Security Political Action Committee (National Security PAC), Presidential Victory Committee and Americans for Bush. Citizens United is led by David Bossie, who has served as president since 2000. Its offices are on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capitol hill area of Washington, D.C.
- 1 History
- 2 Controversies
- 3 Supreme Court decision in *Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission*
- 4 Projects and affiliated programs
- 4.1 American Sovereignty Action Project (ASAP)
- 4.2 Boycott France
- 4.3 Center for Government Integrity (CGI)
- 4.4 Citizens United for the Bush Agenda (CUBA)
- 4.5 Citizens United Foundation
- 4.6 Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CU-PVF)
- 4.7 Counter George Soros
- 4.8 National Citizens Legal Network (NCLN)
- 4.9 National Committee for Faith and Family (NCFF)
- 4.10 "Taxpayers Defense Committee"
- 5 Legal Briefs
- 6 "Policy Papers"
- 7 Mailing List Issue
- 8 Official Mission Statement
- 9 Officers and Board of Directors
- 10 Registration and financial information
- 11 Contact information
- 12 Articles and resources
History
Citizens United was founded by Floyd Brown[3] in 1988.
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Movies
Opposition to Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton
By far to date, Citizens United's biggest controversy surrounds its efforts to influence the 2008 presidential elections through "Hillary: The Movie."[6] A federal court ruled that "Citizens United could not run ads for its negative film on Hillary Rodham Clinton without disclosing the ad’s donors. The group wants to release and promote 'Hillary: The Movie' to coincide with the dates when many states will hold primary elections, but the court found that in order for the ads to adhere to current campaign finance law, Citizens United would have to disclose who paid for the ads."[7] The group has appealed this case all the way to the Supreme Court. For more information about the legal arguments in that case and its implications for individual rights in a democracy as compared with corporate rights, see Portal:Corporate_Rights
Opposition to Presidential Candidate John Kerry and to Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11"
In September 2004, "Fred Thompson, Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes, Michael Medved, Michael Barone and Bill Sammon among other Washington veterans" were featured in Citizens United's film , "Celsius 41.11."[8] This movie purported to "[counter] the lies and deceptions ofFahrenheit 9/11 and [provide] a full deconstruction of Senator John Kerry, the Democrat presidential nominee."[9]
In June 2004, Citizens United also joined the right-wing campaign to block distribution of Fahrenheit 9/11, by filing a complaint with theFederal Election Commission, claiming that the movie violated federal election law.[10]
Opposition to the ACLU
Citizen United produced ACLU: At War With America. The film featured "Michael Boos, Mark Corallo, Former Congressman John Hostettler, Michael Medved, Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III, Deroy Murdock, U.S. Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, Michael Reagan, Alan Sears, Mathew Staver and Victoria Toensing."[11][12]
Opposition to the United Nations
Citizen United produced: Broken Promises: The United Nations at 60.[13]
Role in Anti-Immigration Campaigns
Citizens United produced Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration[14]
Other Movies
- Blocking "The Path to 9/11"
- 'HYPE The Obama Effect
- Rediscovering God in America
- Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny
- We Have the Power
- Perfect Valor
Rediscovering God in America, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, and We Have the Power were hosted by Newt Gingrich.
Television Ads
The group has run ads against Democratic candidates and in favor of Republican policies. For example:
- In March 2003, Citizens United "launched a national ad campaign supporting Bush's hard-charging approach to Baghdad," with Fred Thompson as the "face" for the anti-war "counter movement."[15]
- Alex Castellanos'[16] National Media, Inc. "produced ads that ran in February and March 2003, supporting the war in Iraq and supporting the troops."[17]
- The Strategy Group for Media is connected with Citizens United PAC[18] through Brian J. Berry[19], who is a member of the Citizens United board of directors.[20] The Strategy Group produced an ad criticizing John Kerry.[21]
However, the group did produce a television advertisement that revealed supposedly "liberal" legislative actions taken by then Presidential candidate Senator John McCain.[22] The Group aired the ad on Fox News Channel.[2] But the relative amount of funding spent on this as compared with other efforts could be viewed as window dressing and certainly does not make their criticism "bipartisan."
Donatelli Group and the Swift Boat connection
The Citizens United online store is operated through DonationReport.com, plus an extension code for Citizens United.[23]
The connection for the DonationReport.com website[24] arrives at a Login[25]—requiring both a User ID and Password—which belongs to eDonation.com, a member of The Donatelli Group, a fundraising company that has raised campaign funds for the Republican National Committee, Republican National Convention, Bush-Cheney '04 Inc., John McCain, the NRA[26] and an exhaustive list of Republican members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as other political organizations.[27]
The Donatelli Group, using its "primary segment" Campaign Solutions[28], is associated with Creative Response Concepts, the public relations firm that advised Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the "organization that accused Kerry of inflating his Vietnam War record" during the 2004 presidential campaign.
The Donatelli Group, which produced the RNC website[29], also created the SWIFTBOATVETSFORTRUTH.ORG website July 30, 2004, with Connell Donatelli Inc.[30] (a.k.a. The Donatelli Group) as Registrant. Connell Donatelli Inc. was also listed as both Administrator and the Tech Organization for the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth website.[31]
Projects and affiliated programs
American Sovereignty Action Project (ASAP)
- This is also known as the American Sovereignty Project (ASP).
Boycott France
- See the Citizens United website.[32]
Center for Government Integrity (CGI)
Citizens United for the Bush Agenda (CUBA)
Citizens United Foundation
Citizens United Political Victory Fund (CU-PVF)
- CU-PVF is Citizens United's political action committee.
Counter George Soros
- See the Citizens United website.[33]
National Citizens Legal Network (NCLN)
National Committee for Faith and Family (NCFF)
"Taxpayers Defense Committee"
In 1993, the Taxpayers Defense Committee was a "joint project of the Citizens United and the Conservative Victory Committee."[34]
Legal Briefs
See "Courtroom Advocacy: A Listing of Filed Legal Briefs":[35] See also SourceWatch's Corporate Rights portal for more information on the legal briefs filed in the Supreme Court case over "Hillary: The Movie."
Citizens United also filed briefs in the following controversies, among others:
- Amicus Curiae Brief supporting Vice-President Dick Cheney in the GAO's lawsuit (Walker v. Cheney)
- Amicus Brief opposing the Illinois Attorney General's attempt to dictate or othewise restrict the content of non-profit organization communications (Ryan v. TelemarketingAssociates)
"Policy Papers"
See "Policy Papers".[36]
Mailing List Issue
Response Unlimited lists Citizens United for the Bush Agenda, Citizens United Foundation, and The Presidential Coalition on a mailing list used for "Reagan Republicans for the New Millennium" Donors".[37][38]
An Eagle List Company list for USA Next Donors (United Seniors Association Donors) updated January 21, 2007, listed the Citizens United for the Bush Agenda among users for the "past six months".[39]
Campaign donors for 2000 presidential hopeful Steve Forbes listed by the Eagle List Company included Citizens United and the American Sovereignty Project.[40]
Official Mission Statement
Citizens United describes itself as "an organization dedicated to restoring our government to citizens control. Through a combination of education, advocacy, and grass roots organization, Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security. Citizens United's goal is to restore the founding father's vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and good will of its citizens," its website states.[41]
Officers and Board of Directors
Also see Officers and Board of Directors:[42]
- David N. Bossie, President, Citizens United & Citizens United Foundation, Burtonsville, Maryland
- Michael Boos, Vice President & General Counsel & Director of Citizens United American Sovereignty Action Project, Manassas, Virginia
- Floyd G. Brown, Chairman of the Board; Executive Director, The Reagan Ranch & Young America's Foundation, Santa Barbara, California
- Brian J. Berry, Director; Media Consultant, Austin, Texas
- Douglas L. Ramsey, Secretary-Treasurer, Seattle, Washington
- Ron Robinson, Director[43][44]; President, Young America's Foundation, Reston, Virginia[45]
- Bob Barr, Congressman and Honorary Chairman
Registration and financial information
A disclaimer at the bottom of the Citizens United online store page[46] states:
"Information concerning Citizens United's registration and financial information can be obtained from the following: Florida Division of Consumer Services by calling within the state 1-800-help-fla, reg. No. SC-04837, 100% of contributions are received by the organization; documents and information submitted under Maryland's charitable solicitation act are available, for the cost of postage and copies, for the Maryland Secretary of State, State House, Annapolis, MD 21401, (410) 974-5534; Mississippi Secretary of State's Office by calling 1-888-236-6167; Attorney General of the State of New Jersey by calling 973-504-6215; New York State Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271; North Carolina Department of the Secretary of State, solicitation licensing section, 919-807-2214; Pennsylvania Department of State, or by calling, from within Pennsylvania, 800-732-0999; Virginia Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs; Secretary of State (State Washington) by calling 1-800-332-4483; West Virginia Secretary of State, State Capitol, Charleston, VA 24305; or by contacting Citizens United, 109 Carpenter Drive, suite 210, Sterling, VA 20164. Registration with a government agency does not imply endorsement by that agency."
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The following short excerpt from my documentary PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes follows Citizens United’s origins and how a small lawsuit became a crisis for democracy. Featuring People For the American Way’s Marge Baker, The Nation’s John Nichols, Public Campaign’s Nick Nyhart, Marianne WIlliamson, Jessica Levinson, Brad Friedman, and President Barack Obama in his State of the Union Address.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=14&v=c0c6_v2ZG9E 6 min
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Rusty Humphries Rebellion; [wollow cirve ~ pain 30 ails] is employed by Floyd Brown. sr polit advisor; mary bet ;kitchen table, hillary 1st campiagn: pro corp! no longer at CU $= sp what we spend = who we are' control us, pols can't control us; allow unions not corps; special intrests created b/c of 2700$ dinesh d's; unlimited but disclose; but if disclose they send IRS after you;
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Floyd Brown
CEO at USA Radio Networks
Phoenix, ArizonaAreaOnline Media
Current
USA Radio Networks
Previous
Arizona Christian University, Western Center for Journalism, Citizens United
Education
University of Washington
Websites
Blog
500+
connections
Summary
Radio Host at 570 KVI for 5 years
Experience
USA Radio Networks
CEO
USA Radio Networks
October 2015 – Present (10 months)Phoenix, Arizona Area
USA Radio Networks produces news and talk programming for hundreds of radio stations across America. Founded in 1984 by Christian talk radio host Marlin Maddox,USA is now a owned by the digital media firm Liftable Media Inc.
Arizona Christian University
Chairman
Arizona Christian University
April 2014 – March 2016 (2 years)Phoenix, Arizona Area
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Western Center for Journalism
President
Western Center for Journalism
April 2007 – October 2015 (8 years 7 months)Phoenix, Arizona Area
Western Center for Journalism runs a large multi-blog for conservatives at WesternJournalism.com. We trains bloggers and citizen journalists to build audience online using commentary, video and the power of ideas. We also produce a highly popular daily email of news and top conservative commentary.
Founding Chairman
Citizens United
October 1988 – September 2007 (19 years)
An organization dedicated to citizen activism and citizens control of government.
Young America's Foundation
Executive Director
Young America's Foundation
January 2001 – July 2006 (5 years 7 months)
I was responsible for the Reagan Ranch and building the Reagan Ranch Center. I was responsible for development and the Santa Barbara based youth programs.
Host KVI 570
Fisher Broadcasting
1995 – 2000 (5 years)
I was host of an evening talk-show and I rotated as a host in every single other day part.
Skills
Radio BroadcastingPublic SpeakingJournalismNew MediaBloggingNews Writing
How's this translation?Great•Has errors
Education
University of Washington
University of Washington
BA, Economics
1981 – 1983
Linfield College
Linfield College
1980 – 1982
Interests
HuntingRiding HorsesOutdoors in God's CreationTravel
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Brandon Baker
Director of Marketing at Liftable Media
Ben Kalkman
B. Christopher Agee
Managing Editor
Nancy Tengler
Director, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Heartland Financial USA and Arizona Bank & Trust
Johnna Gale
Executive Chef/CEO at Kitchen Shaman
Paul Briski
CEO of Trelevate
Doug Ramsey
Strategic Metals Broker at Swiss America Trading Corporation
Melody Birkett
Anchor at USA Radio Networks
Daniel Noe
Website and Newsletter Editor
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pay 2 pay coingate
dann AG siad not prepared for job?
paul hackett senate. ohio chickenhawk sob =b2, ken menhlman rnc bury hackett usmc iraq vet vs schmidt jean R ~ murtha hit (siad she did not know he was decorated marine) 2005? gerrymander
xian v strickland
sherrod brown
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}:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/11/you-get-what-you-pay-for_n_118311.html
They are the loyal troops of the conservative revolution, at least 2,824 of them, almost all of them elderly, their 65th birthdays an increasingly distant memory — men and women who were middle-aged when Ronald Reagan was first elected California Governor in 1966.
Recently these Americans reached for their checkbooks in response to an undated letter signed by Michael Reagan, the son of the former president, who sent the following message on ‘The Republican Presidential Elections Committee’ letterhead:
Do you believe in a strong national defense?
Do you believe in smaller government and lower taxes, instead of a massive overblown federal bureaucracy that endlessly gobbles your tax dollars?
Do you believe in strong, honorable, courageous leadership in the War on Terror?
I think I know your answer — but these are the critical issues that are at stake in Election 2008.
This is what separates John McCain from the Democrats....
Your contribution will help me and the R.P.E.C. be more effective at disseminating the Republican message and supporting John McCain for President.
This letter was in fact from the Legacy Committee Political Action Committee and similar to solicitations from its sister organization, the National Campaign Fund. Together thetwo PACs have raised at least $1.66 million (in contributions ranging from $1 to $5,000) — not a bad chunk of change for an independent expenditure drive.
In a fundraising mailing from the National Campaign Fund sent shortly before July 4, prospective donors were told:
For months now, Obama and his pals in the liberal media have been attacking John McCain. They’ve been attacking his policies. They’ve been impugning his conservative record. And the pundits are eating it up! They are predicting a sweep for Obama!
We can’t allow this to happen, my friend. We can’t let the Democrats destroy a man who has spent a lifetime honoring our country. We can’t let them defeat a man who spent five Independence Days in captivity, being tortured and starved. John McCain knows the meaning and importance of freedom....
Please help me honor our country today by doing three things: 1.Proudly display your American flag in a place of honor in your home; 2. Sign the Independence Day Certificate of Commitment, promising to help me work to elect John McCain to the White House this year; 3. Rush your signed certificate back to me along with yourmaximum contribution to the National Campaign Fund.
The PACs are the work of two men, **Floyd Brown** — whose Willie Horton ads won fame 20 years ago helping defeat Michael S. Dukakis; andJames V. Lacy, one of the co-founders of Howard Jarvis’ Taxpayer Association, the driving force behind California’s 1978 Proposition 13, and a board member of such groups as the American Conservative Union and the Young America Foundation.
Most of the direct mail fundraising for the two PACs has been performed by a collection of five companies run by Ron Kanfer, who, two decades ago, helped raise money to pay for the 1988 Willie Horton ads.
The contributions to the Legacy and National Campaign PACs — often ill-remembered by their aging donors — have paid for two web sites,www.exposeobama.com and www.helpJohnmcCain.com.
The ExposeObama site hosts four videos produced by Floyd Brown.
One video, titled “They Died In Chicago,” shows footage of an urban slum while the announcer describes a series of gang killings. Then the voiceover declares, “A Chicago state senator named Barack Obama voted against the death penalty for gang-related murders. When the time came to get tough, Obama chose to be weak. So the question is: Can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?”
Another web video titled “Was Obama a Muslim,” suggests that Obama was a Muslim as a child and is now lying about it. “It does matter if he is not telling the truth now,” the announcer says at the end.
None of these four videos has received significant media attention - the key to going from the minors to the majors — and fundraising by the two PACS appears to have stalled.
As of the most recent filing with the Federal Election Commission last June, the two PACS had a combined total of $56,906.50 left in the bank, along with debts of $15,060, for a net of $41,846.50.
Lacy, the treasurer of both committees, contended that there has been little spending on actual electioneering activities for a number of reasons.
First and foremost, he said, “Neither of these two committees has gotten to the so called ‘tipping point’ where it actually has a profit. They haven’t got to that point yet.”
In addition, he said, “The entire effort of these two groups is focused on the general election in November, not earlier....Even if revenue was ten times what it is — or more — right now, these groups would not be spending any serious funds on advertising, as we are good managers and correctly conclude it would be a complete waste of the donors contributions to do so.”
Finally, according to Lacy, “The economy is in recession and as other parts of the economy have been affected, so has political giving through direct-mail. Because of the typically smaller margins on direct-mail fundraising, unless response rates and dollar amounts are high, the program can lose money. The economy has depressed both response rates and dollar amounts of contributions, at least from what we were hoping for.”
The two committees have paid the $1.12 million to fiveKanfercompanies, all operating from the same Vienna, Va., address: Mid-America Printing; Response Dynamics, Inc.; Fulfillment Management Services; The Best List, Inc.; and Direct Response Data Management.
Kanfer won fame by helping raise money to put the 1988 Willie Horton ad on television. Since then he and his firms have been the subject of adverse publicity.
In 2005, the College Republicans terminated a contract with Kanfer’s companies after newspaper disclosures in the Seattle Times and Durham Herald-Sun of fundraising practices using front organizations that collected huge sums, including contributions from elderly people with dementia, some of whom gave away all their savings.
“I don’t have any more money,” Cecilia Barbier, 90, a retired church worker in New York who made more than 300 donations totaling nearly $100,000, told the Seattle Times. “That was all the savings. . . . Now I’m scrounging.” Monda Jo Millsap, 68, of Van Buren, Ark., told the Times that she emptied a savings account, then got a $5,000 bank loan to give a total of $59,000.
Kanfer, in a brief interview with the Huffington Post, sought to deflect all questions to Lacy and others involved in the management of Legacy and National Campaign. “We are just one of several direct mail vendors,” Kanfer said. “They [Lacy and others] would have all the information.”
The Legacy and National Campaign committees are governed by federal campaign law and can only accept a maximum of $5,000 from any single donor.
Almost all the contributors to the two committees are listed as “retired.” Of the first 50 donors who listed occupations on the most recent Legacy filing with the FEC, 44 identified themselves as retired.
The Huffington Post contacted a dozen of the donors, and four were willing to give their ages: 92, 91, 80 and 78. None immediately recognized the name of the committee they had contributed to, although all said they give regularly to Republican and conservative causes.
One 80-year-old woman who is listed as giving a total of $240 in amounts of $50 or less said “I think I did (give) at one time. I really don’t know. I maybe just gave once.”
A 91-year-old retired homemaker in North Carolina also listed as giving numerous relatively small amounts totaling $273 said she only gave “once and it was a long time ago. I stopped when I found out I wasn’t getting what I expected.”
In fact, the organizers of Legacy and the National Campaign Fund may have set themselves up for a fall by choosing to become federally regulated PACs prohibited by law from taking contributions in excess of $5,000, instead of becoming tax-exempt groups known as 501c4s and 527s for sections of the Internal Revenue tax code which govern them.
Tax exempt groups can accept unlimited contributions, and the success of one of the most famous of these, the 2004 Swift Boat Veterans For Truth,was crucially dependent on mega-contributions from three angels, oilman-corporate raider T. Boone Pickens, who early on gave $500,000; Houston homebuilder Bob Perry,who gave $200,000; and Aubrey McClendon, founder, chair and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corporation who gave $250,000.
This cash, in turn, allowed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to make a relatively modest $546,587 buy to run its first anti-John Kerry ad on five cable channels — a buy that produced what many believe to have been a record amounts of free coverage (so called ‘earned media’) on news shows.
Chris LaCivita, the senior adviser to the Swift Boat Veterans, said during a Harvard Institute of Politics conference looking back on the 2004 election:
In June [2004] about ten of those guys [veterans opposed to Kerry] came to me and said, ‘Hey we held a press conference in May and no one bothered to give us any attention. . . .How do we get attention?’ I said, ‘the only way you can essentially get attention is if you raise enough money and put it on TV’. . . . The pure intention of that first ad was to generate earned media [free media] about the message we were conveying. And yes, it was in your face. There was no other way to communicate it.
At the moment, Legacy and the National Campaign Fund are in no position to replicate the Swift Boat Vets, and, with just over 80 days until November 4, the prospects do not look good.
“We have to raise a lot of dollars. Voters need a concrete message that is hammered and hammered again and again,” Lacy said. Because of their weak fundraising this cycle, “We can’t put together a viable budget,” he said, adding almost wistfully, “If a theme catches, then we can roll with that.”
Gourley, in a telephone interview from Sioux Falls, says the high-pressure direct mail campaign "was not a problem that I started." He blames Response Dynamics for the excesses and points out that the College Republican National Committee first signed its contract with the Virginia-based company when he was 10 years old, and, "It's sort of silly to be pointing blame." He adds that he proposed a resolution, unanimously adopted, that terminated the contract with Response Dynamicsat the College Republicans' national board meeting last year. The group is working with a new direct mail firm now.
(The College Republican National Committeeis an independent organization, having severed its formal ties with the Republican National Committee in 2001. A spokeswoman for the RNC said she had no comment about the college group's fundraising efforts.)
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Just like in the Wizard of Oz, the curtain was torn back and leading proponents of anthropogenic (people-caused) global warming have been caught lying.
Called Climategate, the scandal exposes the global warming shysters who are conning the public into a massive restructuring of the global economy, while attempting to silence any dissent. But don’t expect to see this in our mainstream media, because they are the spinsters who promote this manipulation of data and propaganda.
It all began when an anonymous person hacked into the computers at the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit in England, releasing 61 megabytes of confidential files, including 1079 e-mails and 72 documents onto the Internet. These files are a wealth of information.
The most damning indictment of proponents of global warming hysteria is a long series of communications discussing how best to squeeze dissenting scientists out of the peer review process. The e-mails even included fantasies of violence against those who question anthropogenic global warming. These e-mails show disturbing patterns of “conspiracy, collusion in exaggerating warming data, possibly illegal destruction of embarrassing information, organized resistance to disclosure, manipulation of data, private admissions of flaws in their public claims and much more,” says Australian Sun’s Andrew Bolt.
Man-made global warming hysteria has long been fueled by people using junk science, fear and hyperbole to support an agenda that they personally profit from. As they attempt to lead the world into a green revolution, these propagandists are hiding the truth that the average global temperature has fallen since 1998.
The leading profiteering propagandist is Al Gore. After losing the presidential election in 2000, Al Gore became the leader of the hysteria movement. However, this “Eco-Prophet” has hidden a few inconvenient truths of his own. He just happens to be involved with a venture capital firm that has invested approximately a billion dollars in green companies that stand to make a bundle if Cap-and-Trade becomes law.
Reports state that Gore’s net worth now stands at $100 million, when it was $2 million when he left politics. He’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Al Gore has a history of playing loose with the facts.
Recently on TV, while discussing geothermal energy, Al Gore made the outrageous claim that “the interior of the earth is extremely hot, several million degrees.” However, the actual temperature here on earth is between 5,000 and 9,000 degrees. This is a gaffe that if Sarah Palin had made, the media would ridicule as her stupid.
Speaking of hypocrisy, Al Gore is a living embodiment of it. As he lectures the world on energy use, and lobbies Congress to regulate productive American companies out of business, Gore consumes more than twenty times more energy than the average American, according to the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. This doesn’t count the energy consumption of his jet.
Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” is full of instances where he plays loose with the facts. A 2007 British court ruled that Gore's film has nine significant refutable errors. These are examples of Gore’s scare tactics to induce the public to take radical action (to his financial benefit).
Not only is Gore prone to hyperbole, hypocrisy and blatant distortions, he is also a bully. Professor Richard Lindzen of MIT wrote about scientists being "in the crosshairs" of Gore, who "tried to bully" them into changing "their views and supporting his climate alarmism." Lindzen also refers to a failed Gore effort to "enlist Ted Koppel (then a TV host) in a witch hunt to discredit anti-alarmist scientists."
When one side tries to shut another side out of the debate, it is typically because they feel their arguments won’t stand up to scrutiny.
These propagandists use various tactics. A favorite is to make people feel guilty if they don’t jump on the “green” bandwagon, and those who do are praised for helping the environment.
With the Copenhagen meetings just around the corner, expect to see “green” propaganda exponentially increasing. Open your eyes to these manipulators of data and people, who while acting like do-gooders, see great (green as in money) gain.
Tags: Climate, Economy, Energy, Propaganda, Sarah Palin, World, Hypocrisy, Dissent,Copenhagen, earth, side, mainstream, scandal, warming, temperature, public, England, information,Climategate, research, university of east anglia, Climate Research Unit, east anglia, truth, Al Gore, global warming hysteria, Bullying, hysteria
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Horton ad
buddy Craig Shirley at NSPAC anti-clinton
worked w/ YR bossie bogus editing of audio tapes (pre-o'keefe)
Floyd G. Brown is the Chairman of the Board of Citizens United, which he founded in 1988, and served as its founding President until 2000.[1]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-0) He is also president of Excellentia Inc., "a company specializing in marketing to conservatives and Christians"[2]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-1), described as "a new media company specializing in the IPTV[3]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-2) field."[4]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-3) Brown served 2001 to 2006 as Executive Director of Young America's Foundation.[5]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-4) In 1988, he was political director of Americans for Bush, which was affiliated with Citizens United. He also served as President of the Board of the Reagan Ranch, a division of the Young America's Foundation.[6]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-5) Brown is also the head of the Western Journalism Center.[7]
Brown is described as an "ultra-conservative" who "remains proud of the 1988 Willie Horton ad, widely denounced as racist pandering" by The Public Eye.[8]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-7) Brown is "perhaps best known as being one of the major architects, along with Lee Atwater, behind the infamous and racist Willie Horton ad that some credit to George H.W. Bush winning the presidency in 1988," Bryan Pfeifer wrote February 5, 2007, in The UWM Post, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student newspaper.[9]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-8)
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Profiles
According to his Citizens United profile[10]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-9), Brown is "active in the Republican Party and was a delegate to both the 2000 and 1996 National conventions. In 1996 he served on that Republican National Convention Platform Committee. He has been an advisor and consultant to many political campaigns including the Bush, [Bob] Dole and [Steve] Forbes for President Campaigns. He managed the Dole for President Campaign in Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and Nebraska in 1988.
"He served in President Reagan's campaigns and as a political appointee in the Reagan administration. He credits President Reagan’s 1976 campaign, in which he served as a student volunteer, for sparking his interest in public service."
"Brown currently is also a member of the board of directors or a permanent standing committee of numerous civic and educational organizations. These organizations include the National Rifle Association, Citizens United, the American Conservative Union, and Michael Reagan's Legacy PAC."[11]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-10)
- Note: Brown is President of the Board of Directors of The Reagan Legacy Foundation, "a non-profit, charitable organization founded by Michael Reagan, son of former President Ronald Reagan." No mention is made regarding an affiliated political action committee.[12]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-11)
"Brown has written extensively for many magazines and newspapers including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Times, National Review and Human Events. As a commentator he has appeared on numerous network and cable TV shows including: CNN's Crossfire, the CBS Evening News, ABC's Primetime, NBC's Today Show, FOX News, MSNBC and more."[13]
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On Bill Clinton
Brown "published 'Slick Willie:' Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton, a slim paperback book distributed as part of a direct mail fundraising effort. The book is a right-wing tirade designed to document Clinton's lack of character. What it also showed was that Brown unabashedly mixes sexism and homophobia in his conservative analysis. Along with standard attacks on Clinton as a draft dodger and friend to labor unions, Brown asserts: 'Bill Clinton's America sees no difference between families of 'homosexual lovers' and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family...In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party.'" David N. Bossie was the "main researcher for Brown's Slick Willie book, and wrote for ClintonWatch."[14]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-13)
In his Citizens United profile, Brown describes his activities thusly:[15]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-14)
"Several Brown organized campaigns have been studied for their effectiveness; these include the effort to secure the confirmation of Judge **Clarence Thomas**, and the independent expenditure campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. The anti Dukakis effort produced the famous Willie Horton commercial."
The "independent expenditure campaign" to which Brown refers was the Presidential Victory Committee, a successor Citizens United project to Americans for Bush.[16]^(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Floyd_G._Brown#cite_note-15)
Contact information
Web: http://www.floydbrown.com/
Resources and articles
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Executive summary: Ultraconservative smear merchant
Greatest hits include the Willie Horton ad for George H.W. Bush in 1988, spreading rumors in the 1990s that Vince Foster was murdered by Clinton operatives, and 2008 campaign ads suggesting that Barack Obama is a Muslim.
Wife: Mary Beth Brown (three children)
High School: Olympia High School, Olympia, WA
University: University of Washington
Excellentia Inc.
Citizens United Chairman of the Board
National Conservative Campaign Fund
Reagan Legacy Foundation
Reagan Ranch President of the Board
:{Young Americans for Freedom National Board Member
Young America's Foundation Executive Director (2001-06)}:
Official Website:
http://www.floydbrown.com/
Author of books:
:{Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton (1992, nonfiction)
Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore (2000, nonfiction, with David N. Bossie)
Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan }:(2004, nonfiction)
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Citizens United
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| Citizens United | Citizens United |
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| Motto | Dedicated to restoring our government to citizen control. |
| Formation | 1988 |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC |
| President, Chairman | David Bossie |
| Website | http://www.citizensunited.org |
Citizens United is a conservative non-profit organization. Its President and Chairman is David Bossie.
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[edit] Overview
Citizens United describes its mission as being dedicated to restoring the United States government to "citizens' control" and to "reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security." To fulfill this mission, Citizens United undertakes various educational projects, including television advertising and feature films.[^^1]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-About-0)
Citizens United was founded in 1988 by conservative activist Floyd Brown[^^2]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-1). David Bossie has been its president since 2000. Its offices are on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Capitol Hill area of Washington, D.C. The associated Citizens United Foundation is a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organization.
[edit] Advocacy
Citizens United is known for supporting conservative causes even when they conflict with the Republican Party.The group produced a television advertisement that reveals several "surprisingly liberal" legislative actions taken by John McCain,[^^3]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-2) which aired on Fox News Channel.[^^4]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-3) On October 2, 2006, in reaction to revelations of a GOP cover-up of inappropriate communications between Congressman Mark Foley and teenage pages, Citizens United president David Bossie called on Dennis Hastert to resign over his role in covering up the scandal.[^^5]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-4)
[edit] American Sovereignty Project
The American Sovereignty Project is the grassroots lobbying arm of Citizens United, focused on issues related to American sovereignty and national security. Its goals include a complete withdrawal from the United Nations, defeat of the treaty establishing a permanent International Criminal Court, and "rejection of one-world government".[^^1]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-About-0)
[edit] Leadership
Citizens United's current leadership includes David N. Bossie, President and Chairman; Michael Boos, Vice President and General Counsel; Douglas L. Ramsey, Secretary-Treasurer; and Directors Ron Robinson, John Bliss, Kirby Wilbur.
[edit] Citizens United Productions
Citizens United Productions, headed by president David Bossie, has released 14 feature-length documentaries and will release three more films in Fall 2010. The following is a list of films produced by Citizens United Productions.
- ACLU: At War with America IRONY
- Blocking 'The Path to 9/11'
- *Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration*
- Broken Promises: The UN at 60
- *Celsius 41.11*
- *Hillary: The Movie*
- HYPE: The Obama Effect
- Perfect Valor
- *Rediscovering God in America*
- Rediscovering God in America II: Our Heritage
- Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny
- We Have the Power: Making America Energy Independent
- *Generation Zero*
- 9 Days That Changed the World
Rediscovering God in America, Rediscovering God in America II, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, We Have the Power, and Nine Days That Changed The World were hosted by the married couple New:{t Gingrich:(style="background-color:#ffff66;"):}: and Callista Gingrich.
[edit] Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Citizens United was the plaintiff in a Supreme Court case, *Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission*. The case began as a challenge to various statutory provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, known as the "McCain-Feingold" law. The case revolved around the documentary Hillary: The Movie which was produced by Citizens United. Under the McCain-Feingold law, a federal court in Washington D.C. ruled that Citizens United would be barred from advertising its film.[^^6]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-5) The case (08-205, 2010 U.S. LEXIS 766) was heard in the United States Supreme Court on March 24, 2009. During oral argument, the government argued that under existing precedents, it had the power under the constitution to prohibit the publication of books and movies if they were made or sold by corporations. [^^7]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-6) After that hearing, the Court requested re-argument specifically to address whether deciding the case required the Court to reconsider those earlier decisions in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce and McConnell v. FEC. The case was re-argued on September 9. On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court overturned the provision of McCain-Feingold barring corporations and unions from paying for political ads made independently of candidate campaigns.[^^8]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United#cite_note-7)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center
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The Western Journalism Center (also called the Western Center for Journalism), founded in 1991 by Joseph Farah and James H. Smith, who had previously worked together as editor and publisher, respectively, of the Sacramento Union. The Center is based in Sacramento, California.
The Center helped fund Christopher W. **Ruddy** (who later founded NewsMax) to investigate conspiracies surrounding the death of Vincent Foster, which was part of the Arkansas Project.[^^1]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-foster-0) Eventually, "the Center placed some 50 ads reprinting Ruddy's *Pittsburgh Tribune-Review* stories in the *Washington Times*, then repackaged the articles as a packet titled "The Ruddy Investigation," which sold for $12." In addition, "Farah also bought full page ads publicizing Ruddy's allegations that appeared in papers including *The New York Times*, *Washington Post*, *Chicago Tribune*, and *Los Angeles Times*" and "the ad campaign brought in over $500,000, half from individual donors-many of whom bought Foster conspiracy materials-and half from foundations, including $100,000 from Carthage." The Carthage Foundation is controlled by Richard Mellon Scaife, whose foundations gave $330,000 to the Center in 1994 and 1995.[^^2]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-scaife-1) Later, "WJC circulated a video featuring Ruddy's claims, Unanswered-The Death of Vincent Foster, that was produced by conservative James Davidson, chairman of the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) and co-editor of the Strategic Investment newsletter."
In 1998, the Center sued the IRS claiming it was audited in 1996 for political reasons. The lawsuit was thrown out, with appeals denied. A lower court ruled that the IRS could not be sued on allegations of politically motivated auditing practices, while a federal appeals court ruled that the Center's lawsuit was barred by the statute of limitations.[^^3]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-lawsuit2-2)
In 1997, Farah created the news website WorldNetDaily as a division of the Western Journalism Center. In 1999, WorldNetDaily was spun off[^^4]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-3) as a for-profit division of the Center. The Center and Farah own a majority of WorldNetDaily's stock.[^^5]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-4)
In 2004, Smith became publisher of a revived website/magazine version of the *Sacramento Union*, but was ousted from that position in June 2005.
The Center doesn't include either an address or telephone number on its letterhead, but is believed to be headed by conservative political operativeFloyd Brown.[^^6]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-5) In March 2009, the Center sent out an email to conservatives promoting conspiracy theories regarding Barack Obama's citizenship.[^^7]^(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Journalism_Center#cite_note-6)
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- **^** ""Western Journalism Center - Joseph Farah"". Public Eye. http://www.publiceye.org/conspire/clinton/Clintonculwar8-06.html. Retrieved November 29, 2005.
- **^** ""Decades of Contributions to Conservatism"". The Washington Post (May 2, 1999). 1999-05-09. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/scaifegraf050299.htm. Retrieved June 29, 2006.
- **^** "Journalism group can't sue over 'politically motivated' audit," Associated Press, December 20, 2000
- **^** World's 'No. 1 website' goes for-profit
- **^** Krepel, Terry (2002-02-19). "The 'O' Word". ConWebWatch. http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2002/wndown.html. Retrieved 2008-02-02. "So, who owns WorldNetDaily? Joseph Farah is a little reluctant to answer."
- **^** "About". Western Center for Journalism. http://www.westernjournalism.com/?page_id=2. Retrieved 2009-04-02. "Today the Center is led by columnist and veteran broadcaster Floyd Brown."
- **^** Krepel, Terry (2009-03-31). "The Return of the Western Journalism Center". Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/terry-krepel/the-return-of-the-western_b_181270.html. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
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- Western Journalism Center website
- "The Vincent Foster Factory," Columbia Journalism Review, March/April 1996. An examination of the Western Journalism Center's promotion of Christopher W. Ruddy's reporting on the Vincent Foster case.
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met Jim Johnson, who egged resistance to Ark integration, in 88 p 72
HORTON: Nat Sec Action Commitee behind Am for Bush (sponsored ad) dtr friend of helms, raised 9M$ on ads? p 73 FEC investigated Ailes connection, but blocked by partisans
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Citizens United - Floyd G. Brown
The web banner for Citizens United explains that the group is dedicated to "Reasserting Traditional American Values: limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, national sovereignty and security."85 The group claims 150,000 members, but that is most likely a count of anyone who has sent money for projects touted in frequent direct mail appeals. The group has a member newsletter, Citizens Agenda, and a specialty periodical, ClintonWatch, sent to selected reporters and political activists.86
Citizens United is the project of Floyd G. Brown who published "Slick Willie:" Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton, a slim paperback book distributed as part of a direct mail fundraising effort. The book is a right-wing tirade designed to document Clinton's lack of character. What it also showed was that Brown unabashedly mixes sexism and homophobia in his conservative analysis.87 Along with standard attacks on Clinton as a draft dodger and friend to labor unions, Brown asserts: "Bill Clinton's America sees no difference between families of `homosexual lovers' and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family...In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party."88 It's no surprise to find cites to the ultra-conservative Human Events and neo-conservative American Spectator in "Slick Willie."
Brown's bio establishes his ultra-conservative credentials and his success at attracting media attention:
In 1988 and 1992, Mr. Brown's independent expenditure campaigns supporting President Bush produced effective and memorable ads including the now-famous "Willie Horton ad." In 1991 Citizens United produced the highly controversial ad "Who Will Judge the Judge" in its successful campaign supporting Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court...A frequently sought after commentator and lecturer, Mr. Brown has appeared on radio and television talk shows including CNN's Crossfire and Inside Politics, NBC News, ABC's Prime Time Live, CBS News, FOX Morning News, Comedy Central's Politically Incorrect, Donahue, and many more.89
Brown remains proud of the 1988 Willie Horton ad, widely denounced as racist pandering. In 1992, he attempted to place ads for a $4.99 paid phone call that would play tapes of Gennifer Flowers in a telephone conversation with then-governor Clinton. The hook was a promise that the conversation probed sexual matters. The incident was so tasteless that the Bush/Quayle campaign was again forced to condemn Brown and his tactics.90 Brown also arranged a screening for a reporter of Militia leader Linda Thompson's video, "Waco: The Big Lie," a potage of conspiracy theories linking Clinton to premeditated murder.91
In a 1994 Chicago Tribune opinion piece, reporter Carol Jouzaitis wrote that the main researcher for Citizens United, David Bossie, "harvests tales of alleged wrongdoings from a network of Clinton enemies, then peddles them to Capitol Hill and media contacts in hopes of prompting scandalous stories.92 Bossie was the main researcher for Brown's Slick Willie book, and wrote for ClintonWatch. Jouzaitis found that some members of the mainstream media regularly checked in with Brown for "for the latest Whitewater grist." For instance, Jouzaitis reported that "Members of The Wall Street Journal'seditorial board...[met] with Brown and examined his pile of information." Following that meeting, "the Journal devoted nearly half of its editorial page one day to reprinting" materials obtained from Brown:93
Brown and Bossie claim that "dozens" of networks, newspapers and magazines-including Time and Money magazines, NBC and the London Times-have used them for information or interviews.
When journalist Trudy Lieberman researched the influence of Citizens United for the Columbia Journalism Review, she reviewed some 200 news stories in late 1993 and early 1994 and found four stories where there was "an eerie similarity between the Citizens United agenda and what has been appearing in the press, not only in terms of specific details but in terms of omissions, spin, and implication." Lieberman tracked one incident where Citizens United repackaged previously reported charges about a letter from Vincent Foster in a more dramatic form, and sent the charge out to media contacts. According to Lieberman, "From January 1 to the end of March, twenty-three news organizations referred to the Foster letter--more than triple the number that picked up the story after the November 3 Washington Postpiece." According to Lieberman, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, The Arizona Republic, The Boston Globe, and Newsday regularly featured what ClintonWatch had highlighted.94
The worldview of Citizen's United is easy to trace to the anti-Clinton Republicans in the House. According to an article from the New York Times News Service posted on the Free Republic Web Page:
The dominant staff member of the House committee [investigating campaign finances] is its chief investigator, David N. Bossie. He reports directly to [Rep. Dan] Burton and not through the general counsel....He was an investigator in last year's Whitewater inquiry conducted by Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y.95[AILES camp mgr]
Bossie was later removedfrom the Burton probe for allegedly passing information to reporters.96
As reporter Francis X. Clines reports, Burton, an ultra-conservative republican from Indiana, seemed to have adopted the Citizen's United line:
"Who moved the body?" Burton boomed from the House floor in rejecting the official finding of suicide and feeding conspiracy theories with an account of re-enacting the event in his own backyard by shooting bullets into a "head-like object."97
Brown's ClintonWatch newsletter, which referred to Clinton's "radical socialist agenda,"98 reflects the apocalyptic conspiracism commonly found in the hard right. Despite this, Brown's work reached deep into mainstream politics. In 1994, according to Jouzaitis:
Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) quietly invited Brown to give 10 junior House Republicans his highly partisan take on Whitewater probes. Brown's materials also have wound up in the hands of Rep. Jim Leach (R-Iowa) whose staff also has been doing its own investigation as the congressman presses for hearings into Whitewater. Leach's spokesman, Joe Pinder, declined to say how they got there.
Two of Brown's senior staff are veterans of the ultra-conservative subculture with its conspiracist worldview of communism as a vast left wing conspiracy-a worldview that originated in the Old Right.99 Cliff Kincaid is director of Citizens United Foundation's American Sovereignty Action Project. He the author of two conspiracist books on the United Nations, Global Bondage: The U.N. Plan to Rule the Worldand Global Taxes for World Government, both published by Huntington House.100 Kincaid's claims about the UN are promoted within the patriot movement.101 Kincaid also works for Accuracy in Media, and writes columns for Human Events and the American Legion Magazine, with a circulation of 3 million.102In a 1991 article for Human Events, Kincaid red-baited groups protesting the Gulf War and quoted right-wing undercover operative Sheila Louise Rees, claiming antiwar demonstrations were concocted "by the traditional hard-line peace activist organizations that have always worked with the Communist Party U.S.A."103 Human Events is now published by Eagle/Phillips Publishing. Regnery Publishing is primarily owned by Phillips Publishing and the Regnery family.104
Michael Boos, a longstanding hard right ideologue, is the Legal Director of the National Citizens Legal Network, which is a project of Citizens United Foundation.105 In the Winter 1982-83 edition of the Young Americans for Freedom magazine, New Guard, he wrote an article headlined"The Nuclear Freeze Fairy Tale: Communist Front Groups Behind the Peace Movement."Boos warned that the "peace movement" is in fact not spontaneous but "Rather, it is a well conceived and thus far successfully implemented sinister scheme being directed by the Soviet Union through its front groups in the U.S. and abroad." In 1984 Boos spied on the anti-intervention group CISPES, then wrote a report titled: "Group in Nation's Capitol to Aid Left-Wing Terrorists." Boos also filed a story with the right-wing newsletter from Phillips Publishing, American Sentinel, and sent an unsolicited copy to the FBI, which promptly distributed it to 32 of its field offices. The FBI launched an official probe of CISPES based in part on the Boos report.106
Citizens United is an example of how the players and themes in conspiracist anticommunism shifted seamlessly to conspiracist antiliberalism and joined the campaign against a demonized Clinton, pulling their conspiracy theories into the mainstream media and Congress.
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SUBMITTED BY: Peter Montgomery, Wednesday 05/15/2013, 11:33am
An email sent from Charisma media, a Pentecostal media company, brings the “news” that Obamacare has killed its millionth person. Amazingly, this milestone was reached even before health care reform has been fully implemented. The claim is not documented or explained in any way. It seems to be mostly an attention-grabbing way to promote some right-wing hucksterism. Here’s how the letter starts: Obamacare Just Killed its Millionth Person... Dear Concerned Citizen, The eleventh hour is upon us. In the coming weeks, the full impact of Obamacare will take... MORE >
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Religious Right Activists Warn GOP Not To Nominate Mitt Romney
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Wednesday 07/13/2011, 1:39pm
Right-wing activist and former California legislator Steve Baldwin has organized an open letter to “Conservative, Catholic and Evangelical Leaders” asking them to refuse support for Mitt Romney’s campaign for president. Already a number of activists including failed US Senate candidate and Tea Party hero Joe Miller; Rick Scarborough of Vision America; Brian Camenker of MassResistance; Linda Harvey of Mission America; Michael Farris of the Home School Legal Defense Association; Ted Beahr of WND and Movieguide; Gary Glenn of American Family Association-Michigan, Kelly... MORE >
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Dozens of GOP Leaders Declare Solidarity With Those Who Want To See Homosexuality Outlawed
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Wednesday 12/15/2010, 11:21am
Last week when Jeremy Hooper discovered that the Family Research Council was planning to roll out a campaign fighting back against the Southern Poverty Law Center's designation of the organization as an anti-gay hate group, we noted that FRC was asking people to sign on to the campaign to "stand in solidarity with Family Research Council, American Family Association, Concerned Women of America, National Organization for Marriage, Liberty Counsel and other pro-family organizations that are working to protect and promote natural marriage and family." By doing so, we pointed... MORE >
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SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Friday 11/12/2010, 6:36pm
Justin Elliott @ Salon: Top Palin aide is on Soros' payroll. George Zornick @ Think Progress: Fox News Stands Behind Beck’s Latest Soros Attacks While Jewish Groups See Anti-Semitism. Ryan Grim @ Huffington Post: George Bush Book 'Decision Points' Lifted From Advisers' Books. Stephanie Mencimer @ Mother Jones: How Not to Win Friends in Washington, Tea Party Edition. Towleroad: Iowa GOP Senate Leader: Four Remaining Judges Will be Removed Unless the People Get to Vote on Gay Marriage. Eric Kleefeld @ TPM: West Backs Kaufman Against 'This Left-Wing,... MORE >
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Rep. Bachmann Signs on to Fringe Fest
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Monday 06/28/2010, 10:26am
Last year, we wrote a series of posts about the How To Take Back America Conference which was hosted by Janet Porter and Phyllis Schlafly and several other Religious Right groups and featured as speakers everyone from Mike Huckabee to Michele Bachmann to Trent Franks. This year, the event has been taken over by Joseph Farah and WorldNetDaily and seems to have lost most of its ties to the Religious Right, which is why we had not really mentioned it until now. The speaker's list contained just the sort of fringe right-wing activists you'd expect from a WND-organized conference: ... MORE >[democ 21?]
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"Does He Simply Hate Christianity... Does He Hate the United States... or Both?"
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 10/08/2009, 10:19am
That is the question asked by those behind the new effort to impeach President Obama which is, of course, being covered by WorldNetDaily: A political activist who was behind the famous Willie Horton advertisement that left Gov. Michael Dukakis' candidacy for president floundering and was among the first to sound the alarm on the need for Bill Clinton's impeachment says the United States is collapsing around its citizens right now, but there is a defense. "Make no mistake. We're now in the middle of a bloodless coup – the takeover of an entire nation by the hate-America crowd... MORE >
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Surprise! The Right Opposes Sotomayor
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Thursday 07/23/2009, 10:38am
In a move that nobody could have ever predicted, 150+ right-wing activists have signed on to a letter to the Senate opposing the confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court: 156 conservative and constitutional cause leaders and citizens have signed a letter to members of the U.S. Senate expressing opposition to the confirmation of President Obama's nominee to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor. One of the letter's signers, Richard A. Viguerie, said, "The media and Republicans aren't defining President Obama as an extremist politically... MORE >
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Dusting Off the Dirty Playbook
SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Mantyla, Tuesday 04/22/2008, 4:16pm
It looks like the man responsible for 1988’s infamous Willie Horton ad is back and has his sights set on Barack Obama: Starting Tuesday, a group of conservative activists led by Floyd Brown, author of the famous Willie Horton ad used so effectively against Michael Dukakis in 1988, will begin a campaign to tar Obama as weak on crime and terrorism, a strategy that aims to upend Obama's relatively strong reputation among Republican voters. … Brown's new ad focuses on a 2001 vote by Obama in the Illinois Senate to oppose a bill that would have expanded the... MORE >
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FLOYD G. BROWN
As the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Citizens United, Brown can only be categorized as an “ultra-conservative, dominionist” with a radical agenda for the United States of America. Along with Citizens United he has served as the Executive Director of Young America’s Foundation, an outreach program whose goal is indoctrination of our youth into the culture of extreme politics. Active on college campuses, the YAF engages such speakers as John Stossel, Ann Coulter, and David Horowitz. The YAF also promotes Horowitz’s Intellectual Diversity Movement which believes that the curriculum being taught is based in liberalism and that the conservative ideology is not being presented.
The YAF operates the Reagan Ranch, also known as Rancho Del Cielo where it conducts conferences, seminars, internships, and disseminates “educational” materials throughout the nation.
Brown’s ultra-conservatism doesn’t stop there, however. He is also President ofExcellentia, Inc. which he founded in 2007. Excellentia, Inc. bills itself as a Conservative and Christian Marketplace. They provide fundraising; campaign and strategy development; direct mail; copy writing and production; radio and TV production and scripts; and ad placement and analysis services. According to their website:
“Climb your mountain of success with our help. We have a passion for serving in the marketplace of ideas. We have been in the business of promoting conservative and Christian ideas for over 30 years. Our professionals have developed some of the most memorable marketing campaigns in recent history. We will help you reach your community of interest with unparalleled success. Successful clients have included non profit organizations, political campaigns and publishing organizations.”
A frequent guest on network and cable TV shows, and a contributor to several publications, Brown became obsessed with the Clinton’s. He published a slim paperback entitled “Slick Willie: Why America Cannot Trust Bill Clinton,” in which he went on the standard diatribe about Clinton being a friend of labor unions and a “draft dodger” he also asserted: “Bill Clinton’s America sees no difference between families of ‘homosexual lovers’ and the traditional, monogamous, faithful family…In addition, Mr. Clinton has surrendered completely to the pro-abortion feminists who dominate the Democratic Party.”
In 2007, Brown co-founded the National Campaign Fund along with Bruce E. Haekins, James V. Lacey, Tim Kelley and Michael Reagan. The purpose was to fund the presidential campaigns of John McCain and Rudy Giuliani as they were concerned about the popularity of Hillary Clinton.
In 1992, during an interview with the Washington Times, Brown stated:
“I have a sense of what connects with people like me. We’re not culturally Republicans. We’re not libertarians. We’re not neo-conservatives or former liberals. We’re just old-fashioned, blue collar social conservatives. These are people who couldn’t care less about politics, want to be left alone by government, but if their country calls for them to fight abroad, will. You win elections by cultivating people like me.”
Nothing could have been further from the truth. The barely thirty-one year old Brown had waded into the dark side of the political arena several years earlier when he started Citizens United and began to organize political campaigns along with an effort to secure Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas an appointment, and the campaigns against Michael Dukakis and Bill Clinton. Brown came to notoriety, however, during the Dukakis campaign when he produced the infamous “Willie Horton ads.” Later, he played a prominent role in the Whitewater Scandal.
Brown and his National Campaign Fund created an anti-Obama website which they update regularly at ExposeObama.com. Filled with anti-Obama hatred and venom accusing him of being soft on crime and islamo-fascism, the website has been criticized nationally for the misinformation that it distributes.
Brown sits on the Council for National Policy, a powerful and highly secretive group of largely Dominionist political figures who hold clandestine meetings and initiate policies to further an extreme agenda of theocracy and ultra-conservatism.
While Brown is considered odious in many circles, he carries a big stick and hob-nobs with others even more tainted than he. His expertise in the area of swift-boat advertising is much sought after by the right and the desperate. This does not, however, diminish the effectiveness of Brown’s campaign acuity. His associates are every bit as ruthless as Brown, and every bit as determined to succeed.
To realize just how connected Floyd Brown is, check out the chart below which depicts those with whom he hob-nobs, infuences, and supports as well as some of their affiliations.
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Richard Mellon Scaife: Who Is He Really?
by Edward Spannaus
Printed in The Executive Intelligence Review -- a Series, Beginning March 21, 1997.
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Who Is Richard Mellon Scaife?
Part I
The following article will be continued in a forthcoming issue.
He's considered the stupidest member of his extended family, and was kicked out of Yale, not once, but twice. He's a (supposedly recovered) alcoholic, as have been most members of the family. The kindest description of his personality is ``dark and mysterious.'' He is known for never looking his own employees straight in the eye.
He has a long history of using the U.S. Justice Department to target his enemies. He got his own sister's fiancé indicted; after his sister married the poor chap, the man ended up dead within a year--some say suicide, some say murder.
He owns a network of newspapers, but he himself refuses to be interviewed by reporters from other publications. On one occasion, when a reporter for the Columbia Journalism Review tried to question him, he berated her as a ``f--king Communist c--nt.''
He gave a million dollars to Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP), and he is the biggest funder of right-wing think-tanks in the United States today.
Meet ... Richard Mellon Scaife.
His name is hardly a household word, but in the past quarter-century, Dickie'' Scaife has been one the most powerful behind-the-scenes operators in the United States. His power comes purely from his wealth, and specifically, from the way that he has deployed that wealth at the instruction of the Anglo-American banking families that he represents. Dickie is not known for his brains\--in fact, he was kicked out of college twice, first expelled as the result of a drunken brawl, and flunked out the second time. His family made him go local,'' to Pittsburgh University, which he tried to make up for, by majoring in British history.
Only recently has Richard Mellon Scaife come into public prominence, as a result of the disclosure that he is the bankroller of a cushy ``retirement'' position for Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr at Pepperdine University. This raised eyebrows, to put it mildly, because Scaife is the principal funder of a news media propaganda campaign aimed at defaming and discrediting Starr's main target, President William Clinton. Scaife has also bankrolled a nationwide crusade charging that White House aide Vincent Foster did not commit suicide, but was murdered; something which is also the subject of official investigation by the recipient of Scaife's largesse, Kenneth Starr.
In the 1980s, Scaife also coordinated and financed a similar campaign of media defamation against Lyndon LaRouche, a Presidential candidate and founder of EIR, and Scaife has a long history of using his own newspapers to smear others who have drawn his ire.
But this is nothing new for Scaife. What he is now doing to President Clinton, and what he did to Lyndon LaRouche, is what he was trained and deployed to do. Scaife is not simply a ``multimillionaire supporter of conservative groups,'' as he is portrayed in the news media; nor is he simply an eccentric rich man who has an obsession against President Clinton.
To understand what is being done to President Clinton today, and to understand what lies behind the campaigns of defamation run by the news media against figures such as Clinton or LaRouche, it is necessary to know who and what, someone like Richard Mellon Scaife actually is.
That story, naturally enough, starts in London.
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The Anglo-American OSS
Dickie Scaife is what one might call a second-generation ``OSS brat.'' During World War II, Dickie's father, as well as a number of his father's close business and familial associates, occupied high positions in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS)--America's wartime intelligence service. Alan Scaife, his father, was a lieutenant colonel in the OSS. A number of cousins of Dickie's mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, also had very high positions in the OSS.
For example: Paul Mellon (a cousin of Dickie's mother and a rabid Anglophile) was recruited in London to the OSS by his brother-in-law, David Bruce. Paul trained with British troops, became a major in the OSS, worked under Allen Dulles in Berne, Switzerland, and commanded a unit responsible for conducting propaganda operations behind disintegrating German lines.
David Bruce, husband of Paul Mellon's sister Ailsa Mellon Bruce, was designated by OSS head William Donovan to oversee all OSS operations in Europe from his base in London. (Although some say, with justification, that it was Bruce who was designated by the U.S. banking-establishment families to oversee Donovan.) Another OSS cousin was Larimer Mellon, who likewise worked on Allen Dulles's staff in Berne.
David Bruce (a direct descendant of the Scottish Bruce dynasty) later divorced Ailsa and married his second wife, Evangeline, an OSS secretary whose father had been a special liaison to British intelligence from the U.S. State Department.
It is reliably reported that these Anglophilic OSS circles around Scaife's father were the crucial influence on steering Dickie into intelligence-related philanthropy''-\-i.e., the private funding of joint British-U.S. intelligence projects which were commonly mis-identified as CIA'' projects or fronts.
It is more accurate to describe the CIA as a front'' for these Anglo-American banking families. But even that would be too simple. The CIA is an agency of government, and is thus subject to the institutional and bureaucratic pressures to which any agency of government must respond. The families'' attempt to control the CIA, as they do with the State Department and other agencies. The principal means of control is through the private financing of think-tanks, conferences, publications, etc., which attempt to train the personnel, and set the agenda, for the institutions of government. This is precisely what Dickie Scaife and his family money did when the Reagan-Bush administration came into office in 1981.
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The "Focal Point" and First Boston
Another element of this bankers-intelligence apparatus is what is called the Focal Point system. The public may misconceive of this apparatus as CIA''-\-but the CIA is simply a secondary component of this operation, which encompasses the old families, military intelligence capabilities, and private intelligence operations. One intelligence source, familiar with this system, said recently that CIA'' is simply a ``cover story'' for activities that the banking families and other institutions and agencies carry out in the name of the CIA.
The Focal Point system, within the official government apparatus, was originally created in the mid-1950s by then-CIA Director Allen Dulles. It functioned as a capability extending into other agencies, particularly the Department of Defense, for conducting covert operations and paramilitary special operations.'' A particular emphasis was counterinsurgency and civil affairs'' (as taken over from the British); an included feature of this was psychological warfare and propaganda.
Within the military, the Focal Point system was centered in the Joint Chiefs of Staff--and remnants of this system still exist to this day, in the Support Activities Branch of the J-3 Special Operations Division.
There was also a substantial ``private'' component to the Focal Point system, the precursor of the privatized intelligence operations authorized under the Reagan-Bush Executive Order 12333. But this privatized intelligence system was already active in the 1950s, according to knowledgeable sources, with the First Boston Corp., the First National Bank of Boston (now Bank of Boston), and other banking houses playing a leading financial role.
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Of particular interest here, among the many families which played key roles in this Anglo-American bankers' intelligence network (such as the Astors, Rockefellers, and the du Ponts), are three families: the Roosevelts, the Mellons, and the Welds.
Mellon Securities had merged into First Boston in 1946, and as of about 1980, the Scaife family held about 6% of First Boston, and the combined Mellon and Scaife families about 13%. First Boston's principal law firm was Sullivan and Cromwell, out of which Allen Dulles ran U.S. intelligence after the termination of the OSS and until the creation of the CIA. This is also Paul Mellon's law firm; his and much of the Mellon family's financial affairs were run by Stoddard Stevens of Sullivan and Cromwell, who has been described as Paul's ``father figure.''
Dickie Scaife was brought into this system by his OSS relatives no later than 1973, and in 1979 he was placed on the board of directors of First Boston, where he remained until 1987. At that time, 40% of First Boston was owned by Crédit Suisse-White Weld (of the dope-running family of former Justice Department official William Weld). In 1988, First Boston became CS First Boston, and the size of the board was apparently considerably reduced.
Already in 1929, a White Weld banker, John A. Gade, had proposed the creation of an American central intelligence agency, to be modelled explicitly on British intelligence. The current, most public, standard-bearer of the Weld family, is William Weld, who organized the judicial frameup of Lyndon LaRouche from his positions as U.S. Attorney in Boston and, then, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. William Weld is married to a Roosevelt, Susan, the daughter of another OSS veteran, Quentin Roosevelt.
The Oyster Bay branch of the Roosevelt family is deeply enmeshed in this OSS-Wall Street intelligence apparatus, and they are especially close to Cord Meyer, a key operative of this network who shows up again and again as a top operative with responsibility for handling CIA'' front organizations. It was Teddy Roosevelt's grandson Kermit (Kim'') Roosevelt, who had proposed the creation of a propaganda and intelligence agency'' to Wall Street lawyer William Donovan during World War II. Kermit subsequently worked with British intelligence to overthrow the Mossadegh government in Iran in 1953, an action which worked to the financial benefit of not only British Petroleum, but also of Gulf Oil, a Mellon family enterprise which was closely tied to First Boston after the 1946 Mellon Securities merger. In 1958, Kermit retired'' to take the strategic position of vice president for government relations with Gulf Oil.
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Dickie gets his assignment
When he was 40 years old, having been trained and disciplined through some particularly nasty operations to be described in our next installment, Dickie Scaife was formally inducted into the top levels of the Anglo-American bankers' intelligence apparatus. In 1973, he took control of the Scaife family foundations, which he had previously run jointly with his sister Cordelia. He dramatically changed the focus of foundation grants, to emphasize British-intelligence-oriented ``right-wing'' think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation, or the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. This was not something totally new; funding from the Scaife family foundations for some of these institutions, such as the National Strategy Information Center, goes back into the early 1960s.
Of singular importance is the position Dickie was given in early 1973, when he was allowed to take over ownership of Forum World Features, a joint British intelligence-CIA news media operation based in London. This is probably the most important career advancement for Dickie, for it defines the track he has pursued since: the use and the manipulation of the news media to promote favored causes, and to attack and defame adversaries. There is a direct path from Forum World Features, to the Bush secret government's'' Public Diplomacy operation created in 1983, which in turn spawned the Get LaRouche'' task force, all the way through to the anti-Clinton propaganda machine which Scaife directs and finances today.
The background of Forum World Features (FWF) is instructive. Although accounts of its creation vary, it appears that it was a division of Kern House Enterprises, created by Kermit Roosevelt in the 1960s; one account says that Kermit ``was entrusted with creating the CIA's publishing empire.'' Kern House was set up by Roosevelt with Mellon money; in turn, it set up a London subsidiary, Kern House Enterprises, Ltd. Kern House begat Forum World Features, financed with funds from the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC), based in New York. FWF's major purpose was to supply feature material to newspapers around the world, including at least 30 in the United States. It also commissioned a number of books.
One of the premier private intelligence think-tanks, NSIC was formed in 1962, primarily with Mellon family money; on the board was Prescott Bush (of the Harriman-linked Bush family, and George's brother), John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia (one of the authors of Bush's EO 12333), and various representatives of the corporate and intelligence world, as well as personnel associated directly with Scaife.
From 1966 to 1973, FWF was headed by John Hay Whitney, a raving Anglophile who had been U.S. ambassador to Britain, and who was the publisher of the New York Herald Tribune. In 1973, Dickie Scaife purchased Kern/FWF, and headed it until its demise in 1975-76, following its exposure as a ``CIA'' front. At the time of its dissolution in 1976, its three directors were Scaife, Scaife's top operative Daniel McMichael (former president of the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council), and Lewis Preston, the chairman of Morgan Guaranty Trust (and later head of the World Bank).
In 1975, a British weekly, Time Out, and the Washington Post, published a 1968 memorandum from the CIA station chief in London to then-director Richard Helms, describing FWF as an agency-sponsored operation providing a significant means to counter Communist propaganda.'' The memorandum portrayed FWF as a CIA proprietary, which was run with the knowledge and cooperation of British intelligence.'' The overseer of FWF in the United States was Cord Meyer.
(Cord Meyer, incidentally, not only promoted the publication of material favorable to the Anglo-American banking-intelligence establishment, but attempted to block publication of disfavored material. Author and former CIA officer Victor Marchetti reports that in 1972, Meyer, whom he describes as the number-two man in the CIA Clandestine Services, visited the New York offices of Harper and Row to attempt to stop the publication of Alfred McCoy's first edition of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia. As a result, the publisher insisted that McCoy submit the manuscript to the CIA before it would be published.)
Although FWF was dissolved, its operations were not. Its day-to-day operations in London were managed by Brian Crozier, a British writer long associated with both U.K. and U.S. intelligence. In 1970, Crozier had also become the head of another FWF-created organization in London, which was renamed the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). Between 1973 and 1979 alone, Dickie Scaife's private trusts gave over a million dollars to Crozier's ISC.
In a 1980 proposal, Scaife's aide Daniel McMichael described ISC as doing a first-rate job in conducting research on `low-level conflict,' i.e., political and psychological warfare, revolutionary activities, insurgency operations and terrorism.'' McDaniel boasted that ISC work is consistently used by the Thatcher government,'' and that the ISC had ``solid working relationships with the Heritage Foundation, the National Strategy Information Center, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis [associated with Tufts University and its Fletcher School] and a number of other Scaife-supported organizations.'' On ISC's board of directors at that time were a number of top, easily identified British intelligence and counterinsurgency officials.
After FWF was dumped, its book publishing operations were taken over by Rossiter Publications, later renamed Craven House. Crozier was also its managing director. Among authors published by Crozier's shop was Robert Moss, a British intelligence operative who floats between the ISC, the London-based Royal Institute for International Affairs, and the Heritage Foundation in the United States.
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Promoting his British "Heritage"
Scaife is also one of the biggest financiers of British-linked think-tanks in the United States promoting conservative'' social and economic policies\--prototypical of which is the Heritage Foundation. Although beer magnate Joseph Coors is more publicly identified with Heritage, the fact is, that Scaife has provided more funding for Heritage than has Coors. From 1974 up through the end of the 1970s, Scaife provided about $200,000 a year to Heritage; after a shakeup in the late 1970s\--which transformed it into what one Heritage staff member termed an outpost for British intelligence in the United States''--Scaife's support jumped to the range of $1 million a year.
(In November 1994, just after the commencement of the short-lived Gingrich revolution'' of the 1994 elections, Newt opened a speech at the Heritage Foundation President's Club by praising two people who have really created modern conservativism--Dick Scaife and Ed Feulner.'' Gingrich went on: ``Dick Scaife is a remarkable citizen who has spent many years as a key force in sustaining conservative ideas and who has played a major, major role on the Heritage Foundation's board, and he's been a good friend and a good ally for a very long time, and I remember working with him starting in the late '70s.'')
In fact, Scaife's role at Heritage increased after the 1976-77 shakeup, when he personally brought in Edwin Feulner to head it up. Feulner (a board member of the Sarah Scaife Foundation) placed many Brits into key policy positions at Heritage, among whom was Stuart Butler, a member of the British Fabian Society. A socialist at the conservative'' Heritage Foundation? Not so strange. Both are motivated by a deep-seated, bitter hatred of industrial capitalism. It was, after all, the Fabian'' London School of Economics to which Friedrich von Hayek, later the founder and head of the Mont Pelerin Society, had moved his ``Austrian School'' of economics in the 1930s.
In a 1981 interview with EIR, Butler explained it as follows: ``In the case of the Reagan government, we are using a conservative government to impose a quite radical, left-wing program--all based upon solid, liberal economic principles. There really isn't so much difference between the people in the Fabian Society, people like myself, and Milton Friedman. We really overlap in the middle of things on such ideas as local control.''
What Butler said then, goes many-fold for Gingrich's 1994 Contract with America.
But that gets ahead of the story. First came the so-called Reagan Revolution,'' which on virtually every level was run by operatives associated and financed by Mellon Scaife, along with four other foundations which make up the Philanthropic Roundtable.'' The Roundtable includes the Smith Richardson Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation (these four are known as the ``Four Sisters'' because they finance almost all of their projects in common), plus the J.M. Foundation.
Even more important, was the reorganization of intelligence operations in the Reagan administration, and the creation of what became known as the secret government'' run under the personal direction of Vice President George Bush in the 1980s. This secret and parallel government'' was simply the Scaife Mellon network of think-tanks and and academic retainers, brought into the government, and made ``official.''
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Who is Richard Mellon Scaife?
Part II
Part 2 of our exposé on the moneybags behind the media campaign against the President. Edward Spannaus reports on Scaife and the Bush ``secret government.''
Richard Mellon Scaife has recently come into prominence as the bankroller of a news-media campaign aimed at President Clinton, while he is sponsoring a cushy
retirement'' position for Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr. In Part 1 (EIR, March 21), we showed thatDickie'' Scaife has been deployed for almost 25 years by the old Office of Strategic Services Anglo-American financier-intelligence circles, to do exactly this sort of thing.
Since Dickie Scaife was allowed to take over the Scaife family foundations and trusts in 1973, he has been a principal funder of that network of nominally ``conservative'' foreign policy think-tanks which operates as a training ground and as the agenda-setter for the foreign service and intelligence communities. During the Reagan-Bush administrations, this cluster of conservative think-tanks virtually became the government.
In reality there were two governments in the Reagan-Bush administration--the official, public government, and the secret government'' run by Vice President George Bush. The official government, particularly the National Security Council, the State Department, and the intelligence community, were riddled with Scaife's grantees and beneficiaries. But behind the official government lay what became known as the secret government''--and Scaife's network of think-tanks and foundations provided the intellectual rationalization which justified its creation, including the infamous Executive Order 12333. As far as is known, most of Scaife's hirelings didn't dirty their hands with actual drug-running or assassinations, but they did provide key funding and staff for the entire so-called Project Democracy'' apparatus, and also for the semi-official public diplomacy'' propaganda machine which ran cover for Bush's Contra drug-runners and Afghansi terrorists. [fn1]
Then and now, Scaife does not limit his largesse to strategic and foreign policy matters, but he is also a primary funder of a burgeoning network of think-tanks and propaganda mills promoting the feudal economic policies coming out of the Mont Pelerin Society. Under the guise of Thatcherism,'' these groups provided the social and economic policies, and much of the staffing, for the so-called Reagan Revolution,'' and more recently, for the Gingrich-Gramm gang in the wake of the Republican Party takeover of Congress in the 1994 elections. One could say that the earnest money for the ``Contract with America'' was paid by Dickie Scaife.
A third distinctive cluster of organizations funded by Scaife are the right-wing legal foundations and litigation groups; originally founded to counter civil libertarians and environmentalists, they have increasingly become pro-environmentalist and libertarian in their outlook--as well as financing legal attacks on President Clinton and the Clinton administration.
Here, we will look more closely at the intelligence and foreign policy think-tanks which virtually took over the Reagan administration in 1981, and which provided the underpinning for Bush's ``secret government'' built up in 1981-86.
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Origins of the secret government
As the Iran-Contra scandals played out in televised Congressional hearings in 1987, many Americans began to get a glimpse of what some Congressmen called the parallel'' government, and others simply called the secret government.'' What most Americans didn't know, is the intellectual foundations were developed by Richard Mellon Scaife's hirelings.
Two Scaife-funded operations played central roles in preparing the way for the creation of this secret government'' machinery. The first was a series of national security seminars held during 1973-79 by the International Security Studies Program at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University\--organized by Prof. Uri Ra'anan. The second was a series of seven conferences held during 1979-84 by the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence,'' organized by Roy Godson.
Both Godson and Ra'anan were subsequently deeply involved in what became known as the ``Iran-Contra'' scandals; and--not surprisingly--both were personally and heavily involved in dirty operations against Lyndon LaRouche.
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Ra'anan and the Fletcher School
The Fletcher School is the oldest graduate school of diplomacy in the United States. Its students are tracked into careers in the foreign service, the CIA, and the military. From its founding, the International Security Studies Program within the Fletcher School was financed almost exclusively through grants from the Scaife family foundations and trusts. On its Advisory Council in the 1980s were R. Daniel McMichael and Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, both trustees of Scaife family foundations.
After the arrest of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in November 1985, Ra'anan, the chairman of Fletcher's International Security Studies Program, was quoted praising his former student Pollard in the New York Times as bright and articulate.'' Upon Pollard's graduation from the Fletcher School in 1978, he had gone to work for U.S. Naval Intelligence. One of his classmates, Mira Lansky Boland, went to work for the CIA for two years, and then for the Pentagon; in 1984, Boland transferred to the Washington office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), where she soon became devoted full-time to the Get LaRouche'' task force.
Pollard was no accident, nor was Boland. Ra'anan (born Heinz Felix Frischwasser in Central Europe in 1926) spent the war years in London, and then emigrated to Israel. He came to the United States in the early 1960s, and, working out of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, set up an Israeli spy-recruiting unit. In 1967, he joined the faculty at the Fletcher School.
In 1973, the International Security Studies Program initiated a series of annual conferences, funded by Scaife, on a wide range of strategic topics. Dozens of senior figures in the U.S. military-intelligence community were brought in to participate. The last seminar, in April 1979, was on ``Intelligence Policy and National Security.'' Ra'anan himself was named to an advisory committee in 1980 to help shape Reagan's foreign policy and defense platform.
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Godson and the Consortium
Roy Godson, a wholly-owned asset of Scaife, Inc., is the son of a longtime Lovestonite State Department official, Joe Godson, who served principally in London and Belgrade, Yugoslavia after the war, and who founded the London branch of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Roy Godson, after getting his master's degree at Columbia University (where he was already known as a ``CIA watcher of left-wing groups''), was immediately sent to Pittsburgh, where he was given his first teaching post at Carnegie-Mellon University (1967-69), and where he was also hired as a program director of the Pittsburgh World Affairs Council (where Scaife's aide R. Daniel McMichael was president). Godson's first book, American Labor and European Politics (1976), was financed by a grant that McMichael arranged; his next book was published by the National Strategy Information Center (NSIC).
From Pittsburgh, Godson went to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and by the late 1970s, was regarded as an ``expert'' on Soviet methods. In 1979, Scaife money enabled Godson to launch the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI), a direct extension of the 1970s Fletcher conference series, reflecting the expectation that the Republicans would be victorious in the 1980 elections, which would present an opportunity to get in on the ground floor of re-organizing U.S. intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities.
The Scaife-funded effort by the American Tories to take over and subvert the country's intelligence reorganization had an important, if unwitting, ally in the new Director of Central Intelligence
And although Casey was not a great fan of George Bush, he was an enthusiast of ``off-the-books'' covert operations, and he often preferred using non-CIA personnel to run such operations--usually drawing on Pentagon personnel requisitioned through the NSC--which effectively put Vice President Bush in charge of such operations.
The charter'' of the secret government and privatized intelligence operations was Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan on Dec. 4, 1981, along with EO 12331 (signed Oct. 20, 1981, which reconstituted the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, or PFIAB), and EO 12334 (also signed Dec. 4, 1981, which created the three-member Intelligence Oversight Board). The relationship between the three orders, was that PFIAB would identify areas where intelligence active measures'' or covert operations were desired; the Oversight Board then reviewed covert actions and provided the legal justification for them.
EO 12333 and its sister orders were the product of the Godson CSI Consortium process, along with a workshop on ``Law, Intelligence and National Security'' sponsored by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security held in Washington in December 1979. All of this was funded by Scaife, and naturally, almost everyone who played a major role in the creation of EO 12333 was involved with the Sciafe-funded think-tank network. It was reportedly drafted by two regulars at the Godson Consortium--Angelo Codevilla, from the Hoover Institution and a senior staffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Kenneth deGraffenreid, also a former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer and a Reagan-Bush NSC official--and then run through the Senate and House Intelligence Committees.
Others reportedly involved in the drafting were Paul Seabury and Anne Armstrong of PFIAB, and Prof. John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia, who became the chief legal consultant to the Intelligence Oversight Board.
EO 12333 was touted as ``unleashing'' the intelligence agencies from the restrictions of the Carter years, much of which stemmed from the post-Watergate Congressional investigations of the intelligence agencies in 1975-76.
Among significant changes from the previous 1978 Executive Order 12036, was that the President could designate agencies other than the CIA to conduct special activities'' (covert operations), and that CIA was permitted to conduct special activities'' inside the United States. Although private contracting had been permitted under the earlier EO, it could only be done covertly with the approval of the Attorney General; EO 12333 allowed concealment of private contracting without any approval by the U.S. Attorney General. According to one source who was involved in the process, deGraffenreid had sought an even broader privatization charter; this was beaten back, but the loophole was still big enough to permit almost anything that the dirty deGraffenreid faction wanted. This also opened the door even wider for the Bush networks to bring British and Israeli intelligence operatives into official U.S. intelligence operations.
EO 12333 also designated the NSC as the highest Executive branch entity'' for review and guidance of all foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and special activities.'' Under the committee structures being set up within the NSC, Vice President Bush was then effectively put in charge of all intelligence activities.
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Theodore Shackley and covert operations
The role of Theodore Shackley requires special mention--for it was critical to the creation of the Bush ``secret government.'' When Bush was CIA director in 1976-77, Shackley was his deputy director for plans (covert operations). Shackley was forced to resign from the CIA in 1978, but he had already built up a vast financial and intelligence network in Asia and the Middle East, which he put at Bush's disposal during the Reagan administration. Vice President Bush's national security adviser, Don Gregg, was a Shackley protégé; it was Gregg who brought his longtime associate Felix Rodriguez on board for the Contra gun- and drug-running operation.
At the December 1980 Consortium event on Intelligence Requirements for the '80s: Covert Action,'' in Washington, Shackley's presentation laid out a detailed proposal for rebuilding'' America's covert paramilitary capabilities. The Shackley speech was a recipe for the subsequent Contra and related efforts, complete with the ``offline'' funding. According to one intelligence source, Shackley gave a similar presentation to the Reagan Presidential transition team on intelligence. Attending the briefing, according to the source, were Casey, Bush, and Max Hugel, Casey's first deputy for covert operations.
Shackley reportedly urged that the rebuilt covert intelligence and paramilitary apparatus be run offline''-\-which meant using the band of intelligence community asteroids'' who had gathered around him from his days as CIA station chief in Miami and later in Laos, such as Felix Rodriguez and the operatives who staffed the Oliver North-Richard Secord Contra supply operation and their international arms ring. Shackley also reportedly urged that the new special teams be run directly out of the White House: What this meant in practice, was through the NSC staff apparatus that functioned under Vice President Bush's direction under the authority of EO|12333, and National Security Decision Directives 2 and 3.
All of Shackley's proposals were enthusiastically promoted by Godson in the seven-volume proceedings of the CSI. The proceedings were published by the Scaife-funded NSIC, which appointed Roy Godson to head up its expanded Reagan-era Washington office.
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Caught!
Scaife's network did not just provide the intellectual'' underpinnings for the secret government'' and offline intelligence operations. In a couple of instances, his operatives were caught directly laundering money for the drug-running Contras, and they almost found themselves indicted as a result of the Iran-Contra investigation. Two of these were Godson and the aptly named Clyde (Terry'') Sleaze, who described himself, during his Iran-Contra deposition in 1987, as having been general counsel for Richard M. Scaife and his family and entities'' during 1974-86. Sleaze testified that he had met Godson while the latter was working for the NSIC, and Sleaze said that he had attended some of the NSIC seminars, as well as having often visited the NSIC to check up on what they were doing with Scaife's money.
Sleaze testified that Godson had asked him for a contribution involving Nicaragua, and that as a result, he had then met personally with Oliver North, then-National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, and Roy Godson in the White House Situation Room, where they asked Sleaze to raise $400,000 for a Contra organization. However, Sleaze testified that he raised only $5,000 from another individual, which he sent to Godson to be deposited with an offshore entity called ``I.C. Inc.'' Sleaze also said that he had arranged a substantial contribution (actually, $60,000) to Godson from a Goldman Sachs stockbroker, and that then there was another $100,000 donated to the Heritage Foundation, arranged through Ed Feulner, for Central America.
The money was laundered through Heritage, then through another non-profit organization controlled by Richard Miller and Frank Gomez, and then into I.C., Inc. The $60,000 contribution ended up in one of the North-Secord ``Enterprise'' bank accounts (that of Lake Resources) in Switzerland.
Miller was subsequently indicted and pled guilty to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States by using tax-exempt organizations for improper purposes. Gomez was given immunity from prosecution in exchange for cooperation with the independent counsel. Godson, Sleaze, and Feulner managed to escape indictment.
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Footnote
- For a thorough description of Bush's
secret government'' apparatus and Public Diplomacy, see *EIR Special Report* [George Bush and the 12333 Serial Murder Ring,''](http://american_almanac.tripod.com/sources.htm#Bushmurder) October 1996, Chapter 2.
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Documentation:
Richard M. Scaife's private government
Following is a partial listing of grants from 1973 through about 1993, made by the three Scaife family foundations run by Richard Mellon Scaife that publicly report their grants. The three are the Sarah [Mellon] Scaife Foundation, the Allegheny Foundation, and the Carthage Foundation. The complete list of grantees is much longer. There are also three private family trusts that do not report their activities publicly; it is reported that some of the most sensitive, intelligence-related grants made by Dick Scaife are handled through the private trusts. These are the Richard Mellon Scaife Family Trust No.|1 and No.|2, and the Trust for the Grandchildren of Sarah Scaife.
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Intelligence and foreign policy think-tanks
National Strategy Information Center (NSIC)
Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Georgetown University, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Law and National Security
The Committee for the Free World
Committee on the Present Danger
Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts
American Security Council Foundation
U.S. Global Strategy Council
Jamestown Foundation
University of Virginia Law School, Center for Law and National Security
New York University, National Security Education Program of the Graduate School of Public Administration
Freedom House, New York
Prodemca (Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America)
National Endowment for Democracy
Institute for the Study of Conflict, London, U.K.
Center for European and Strategic Studies, London, U.K.
World Affairs Council, Pittsburgh
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Social-economic policy think-tanks
Mont Pelerin Society
American Enterprise Institute
Heritage Foundation
Cato Institute
Reason Foundation
Free Congress Foundation
Atlas Economic Research Foundation
American Legislative Exchange Council
National Taxpayers Union
Foundation for Economic Education, Irvington-on-Hudson, New York
Manhattan Institute, New York
Citizens for a Sound Economy
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
National Center for Policy Analysis
Rockford Institute
Institute on Religion and Democracy
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Population control
Planned Parenthood
Population Action International
Population Crisis Center
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
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News media propaganda
Accuracy in Media
American Spectator
American Spectator Educational Foundation
Center for the Study of Popular Culture
Foundation for American Communications, Los Angeles
Foundation for Cultural Review
Media Institute
Western Journalism Center, Sacramento
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Legal foundations
National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington
Washington Legal Foundation, Washington
Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento
Landmark Legal Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri
Atlantic Legal Foundation, New York
Mid-Atlantic Legal Foundation, Philadelphia
Southeastern Legal Foundation, Atlanta
New England Legal Foundation, Boston
Mid-American Legal Foundation, Chicago
Capital Legal Foundation, Washington
The Mountain States Legal Foundation, Denver
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The new administration
From the very beginning, the Reagan administration was packed with officials who had come from Scaife-backed and -financed private institutions. Some of these were:
- Martin Anderson: Assistant to the President for Policy Development; Hoover Institution, Committee on the Present Danger (CPD).
- Richard Allen: Reagan's first national security adviser; a founder of Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); then senior staffer at Hoover Institution.
- Richard Pipes: National Security Council (NSC) Soviet specialist; attended five of seven CSI seminars; CPD.
- Geoffrey Kemp: NSC Middle East specialist; from Fletcher School; CSIS.
- Roger Fontaine: NSC Latin America specialist; CSIS, American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
- Roy Godson: NSC consultant; National Strategy Information Center (NSIC); entire career was Scaife-financed and -sponsored.
- Kenneth deGraffenreid: NSC director of intelligence programs; attended six of seven CSI seminars.
- David Abshire: head of national security transition team, chairman of President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB); CSIS.
- Leo Cherne: PFIAB; Freedom House, CSI seminars.
- Paul Seabury: PFIAB; all seven CSI seminars.
- Glenn Campbell: transition team; chaired Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB); Hoover Institution.
- John Norton Moore: chief legal consultant to IOB; University of Virginia Center for Law and National Security.
- William Casey: Director of Central Intelligence
- William Van Cleave: Reagan's transition team on defense; financed by Scaife grant at University of Southern California.
- Jack Marsh: Secretary of the Army; NSIC; worked directly for Scaife.
- John Lehman: Secretary of the Navy; Foreign Policy Reseach Institute (Philadelphia).
- Fred Iklé: Undersecretary of Defense; CSIS, CSI seminar.
- Alexander Haig: Reagan's first Secretary of State; board of Foreign Policy Reseach Institute (Philadelphia).
- Jeane Kirkpatrick: Ambassador to United Nations; AEI.
- Edwin Meese: Counsel to President, then Attorney General; Center for Criminal Justice Policy and Management, University of San Diego; Pacific Legal Foundation.
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Who is Richard Mellon Scaife?
Part III
Part 3 of our exposé on the moneybags behind the media assault against President Clinton and Lyndon LaRouche. Edward Spannaus reports.
A certain irony exists, in the fact of Richard Mellon Scaife's bankrolling of a network of anti-capitalist Mont Pelerin Society think-tanks in the U.S. The Mont Pelerin Society--the modern-day embodiment of the feudal, aristocratic ``Austrian School'' of monetarist economics--bitterly hates industrial capitalism and any form of centralized, dirigist measures through which a nation-state can build up its own industrial-technological base, while restricting access to predatory international financial looters.
The fact of the matter is that the Pittsburgh Scaife family was a pioneering U.S. industrial family, especially in the 19th century. At one time, the family was wont to boast that the Scaife Company (formerly William B. Scaife & Sons) was the oldest manufacturing company west of the Alleghenies.'' It was undoubtedly a beneficiary of the American System'' of economics--national banking, protective tariffs, and internal improvements--as was practiced off-and-on through the 19th century.
The company grew out of a tin-plating enterprise begun in 1802; it produced ordnance for the War of 1812 against the British, and also during the Civil War against the British-sponsored Southern secession. Throughout the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, the Scaife metal-working company continually invented new products; it built boilers for steamboats and for railroad steam engines; it invented ``range boilers''--the forerunners of today's hot-water heaters for households--and high-pressure vessels, and provided corrugated iron roofing and structural iron for factories and warehouses.
But Dickie's father Alan Scaife preferred the financier-oligarchy milieu of the Mellon family to his own family's industrial tradition. He joined the Mellons for boozing, steeple-chasing, and fox-hunting, and married into the Mellon family in 1927. In 1940, he joined the Mellons' Gulf Oil, and within two years he had been brought into the Oh So Social'' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which shipped him off to London. After the war, he served as the Mellon family representative on Gulf's executive committee, and was made a Vice President of T. Mellon & Sons\--the newly created non-profit family forum and trust, which was explicitly based upon a British model. Despite all this, Alan Scaife was never treated as a full-fledged Mellon. Dickie would later describe his father as sucking hind tit'' to the Mellons.
As he grew older, young Dickie became resentful of the treatment that his father had gotten at the hands of the Mellons, and he often made his animosity known, particularly toward his uncle, Richard King Mellon. Dickie became known as a ``bull in a china shop.'' Some attributed his impetuousness to his being thrown by a horse at age 9; his skull was partially crushed, and was repaired with an aluminum plate and much plastic surgery.
As soon as his father died in 1952, Dickie sold off the Scaife Company for one dollar.
Politically, Dickie became a Goldwaterite, when the Mellons were mainstream Republicans. In the 1960s, the Pennsylvania GOP split between the Rockefeller and Goldwater wings; Dickie bankrolled many of the right-wingers.
Nevertheless, by 1973, he was tamed and house-broken. The method by which this was accomplished is illustrative, and became the model which Dickie would go on to use against his targetted adversaries and enemies--including Lyndon H. LaRouche and, now, President Clinton. This may also, by the way, shed some light on Scaife's obsession with the death of White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster, and his fanatical backing of the effort to ``prove'' that Foster did not really commit suicide.
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The taming of Dickie
In the 1950s, Scaife began to hang around his sister Cordelia's boyfriend Robert Duggan, who took young Dickie under his wing. In 1963, Dickie helped Duggan get elected as district attorney of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, on the GOP ticket. But Duggan was an Irish Catholic from the wrong side of the tracks, and Dickie's besotted mother, Sarah Mellon Scaife, would never let Cordelia's boyfriend into her house. Duggan's ambitions grew large, and Dickie wanted to make him governor of Pennsylvania, something which the Republican establishment, controlled by the Mellons, George Bush's cousin Elsie Hillman, and U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott, were not going tolerate.
After Richard Nixon was elected President in 1968--with the help of Scaife money--Duggan tried to block the appointment of Rockefeller man Dick Thornburgh as U.S. Attorney in Pennsylvania; Duggan lost the fight. The victorious Thornburgh came into office with an agenda for what many regarded as a political vendetta.'' Thornburgh changed the priorities of the federal prosecutor's office to focus on political corruption'' and ``white-collar crime,'' and before long, rumors began circulating about DA Duggan's alleged ties to the mob. The Internal Revenue Service got in on the case, and Scaife and Duggan attempted to use their contacts in the Nixon Justice Department to squelch the investigation--after all, Dickie had chaired the finance committee for Nixon-Agnew in 1968, and would go on to give over $1 million (broken up into 334 separate checks to avoid gift taxes) to Nixon's Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) in 1971.
But Thornburgh persisted, subpoenaing four detectives from Duggan's district attorney's office, giving them immunity, and forcing them to give evidence against their boss. In the fall of 1971, Dickie was turned'': He crawled to Thornburgh's office to join in the destruction of his erstwhile political mentor and his sister's boyfriend. Dickie began to target Duggan in the newspaper he had purchased, the *Greensburg Tribune-Review*. As a book about the Mellon family puts it: Shorn of Scaife's influence, Duggan became easy pickings.''
Thornburgh was preparing a tax-evasion case against Duggan, and made preparations to interview Cordelia Scaife, to squeeze her for information about Duggan. She and Duggan quickly got married, meaning that she could not be compelled to provide evidence against her husband. Dickie, according to one account, ``was intensely upset. He went into orbit.'' Shortly after that, Dickie and Cordelia stopped speaking with each other; by all accounts, they have not spoken since.
On March 5, 1974, Thornburgh got a federal grand jury to hand down a six-count indictment for tax fraud against Duggan. But, a few hours before the indictment came down, Duggan was found dead, apparently of a blast from a shotgun which was found nearby without any fingerprints on it. Duggan's death was officially ruled a suicide--although, according to a number of sources, Cordelia has always believed Duggan was murdered, as has Duggan's family.
By 1975, Dickie Scaife had publicly reconciled with the mainstream Republicans in Pennsylvania, declaring himself a middle-of-the-roader,'' and proclaiming: I'm now enthusiastic about Rockefeller.'' But by 1974, as we described in Part 1 (see EIR, March 21, 1997), Dickie had been inducted into the old OSS intelligence circles of the Anglo-American bankers, and from that point on, all of his ``philanthropy'' went in whatever direction they dictated. Dickie had learned to follow orders: His betrayal of Robert Duggan was his rite of passage.
Scaife became notorious for using the Tribune-Review to target opponents. Two cases in the 1970s were particularly flagrant: that of Dr. Murdoch Head, and that of Dr. William Mansour. (These two cases were described in detail in an April 1981 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette series on Scaife, which was recently confirmed to the author to have been very accurate, by a knowledgeable source.)
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The Murdoch Head case
Dr. Murdoch Head ran the Airlie Foundation near Warrenton, Virginia, which included a conference center and a film-making operation. Scaife was introduced to Airlie officials by executives of the Smith-Richardson Foundation (a CIA- and Bush-linked operation which, to this day, works in tandem with Scaife's foundations). Also involved was then-U.S. Rep. Jack Marsh, who progressed from being a board member of Airlie, to a Scaife staff member, and then secretary of the Army in the Reagan-Bush administration.
Beginning in 1968, money from the Scaife foundations, at that time jointly run by Dickie and sister Cordelia, financed many Airlie conferences and films. By 1972, Dickie Scaife and the Airlie crowd were at odds, with Scaife pushing a heavy anti-Communist theme for Airlie films, which Dr. Head's associates resisted. (During this time, his estranged sister Cordelia continued to maintain close relations with Dr. Head and Airlie.)
Airlie found itself subjected to IRS audits in 1974 and again in 1976, for which it blamed Scaife. In 1978, Airlie tax documents and records were leaked to the Warrenton-based local weekly, Fauquier Democrat, and were also sent to the Virginia State Corporation Counsel and Attorney General. In 1979, Head was indicted by the U.S. Attorney in Alexandria, Virginia, on charges of tax evasion, conspiracy, and attempting to bribe Pennsylvania Congressman Daniel Flood and others. Head was not convicted on the substantive tax or bribery charges, but was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the IRS. (The parallels to the LaRouche case, which likewise involved the Alexandria U.S. Attorney's Office, the Virginia Attorney General, leaks to the Loudoun Times-Mirror--a sister paper of the Fauquier Democrat in Northern Virginia's oligarchical Hunt Country--and a tax-conspiracy case, are striking.)
Meanwhile, back in Pennsylvania, Scaife's Tribune-Review was devoting so much coverage to the Airlie case and Dr. Head's trial in Alexandria, that reporters, in both states, were dumbfounded.
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The William Mansour case
In reporting on the case of Dr. William Mansour in 1981, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote that ``some people believe that once you run afoul of the forces of Scaife, you also run afoul of the forces of the federal government, that he is, in some way, able to get federal agencies like the Justice Department to look closely at those he does not like.''
Mansour was a local physician in Westmoreland County, Pa., who owned a local hospital, as well as a competing newspaper to Scaife's Greensburg Tribune-Review. He also held liberal political views, hence doubly drawing Scaife's intense dislike. Scaife went after Mansour in 1973, and, using the local U.S. Attorney's Office under Dick Thornburgh and the FBI, was able to instigate an FBI investigation. In fact, Scaife was able to arrange to have an FBI agent visit one of Mansour's former sisters-in-law at her Detroit home in September 1973 to interrogate her about Mansour's alleged ties to the Middle East, and whether he had given $500,000 to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which Mansour denied.
Scaife himself had long-standing connections into the FBI, and has been described as ``a friend from an early age of J. Edgar Hoover.'' (Perhaps not so coincidentally, the FBI agent who was deployed in Detroit at Scaife's request was a 22-year veteran of the bureau, Phil Mercado, who, during 1974, became the case agent and handler for informant Vernon Higgins. Higgins had been infiltrated the National Caucus of Labor Committees, the philosophical association founded by Lyndon LaRouche, and its 1970s political wing, the U.S. Labor Party. Higgins provided a pretext for armed FBI agents to raid the Detroit offices of the NCLC and USLP in June 1974. When Mercado's deposition was taken by NCLC and USLP's lawyers in 1975, the authorization for his testimony, and the restrictions upon it, was signed by then-Assistant U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh.)
In 1977, the Justice Department officially opened an investigation of Mansour. Scaife's lawyer Clyde Sleaze (whom we met in last week's installment) was kept abreast of the grand jury investigation, which resulted in Mansour's indictment in 1980. As with the Airlie/Head case, Scaife's Tribune-Review devoted an inordinate amount of coverage to Mansour--all of it negative--which resulted in a drop in business for Mansour's medical practice. Justifiably, Mansour publicly accused Scaife of being behind his problems with the Justice Department.
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"Get LaRouche!"
One of the earliest and most persistent of the ``LaRouche-watchers'' was Roy Godson--who, as we noted in Part 2 last week, went to Pittsburgh in 1968 to teach at the Carnegie-Mellon Institute, and was executive director of the Scaife-financed and -run Pittsburgh World Affairs Council; later, Godson's position at the National Strategy Information Center and his creation of the Consortium for the Study of Intelligence (CSI) was also bankrolled by Scaife.
As early as 1967-68 at Columbia University, in New York City, Godson was already known to be watching the new political movement founded by Lyndon LaRouche, whose activities there were targetted by the FBI. Bureau documents further show that, in January 1976, Godson, accompanied by Tom Kahn of the AFL-CIO, went to FBI headquarters and briefed the head of the FBI's Internal Security Section on his pet theories about LaRouche and the NCLC. Godson was particularly fixated on speculating about the source of funds for the NCLC: According an FBI memorandum, he suggested that the NCLC was getting money from Iraq and from the Soviets, and he offered his intelligence reading on relations between LaRouche and various European communist parties. About two weeks after this, Godson called the FBI to offer his observations about alleged Greek communist influence on the NCLC during 1968-69.
In the course of one of the Godson-organized CSI seminars in the early 1980s, described in our last installment, EIR was explicitly attacked as being a vehicle for Soviet disinformation by former CIA counterintelligence official Donald Jamieson, and by Herbert Romerstein, a consultant to the U.S. Information Agency.
In the Reagan administration, Godson was one of the most vocal against LaRouche. During the early part of the Reagan administration, LaRouche and his associates often met with officials of the NSC and other federal agencies, particularly during the 1982-83 tenure of William Clark as national security adviser. Clark's executive assistant, Richard Morris, a witness for the defense at LaRouche's federal trial in 1988 and in a Virginia state trial of an associate of LaRouche in 1990, testified about a grouping within the NSC staff who were sharply opposed to LaRouche; Morris testified that the most vocal opponents of LaRouche were Kenneth deGraffenreid, Walter Raymond, and Roy Godson. Morris reported that Godson characterized Lyndon LaRouche as ``as a socialist, as a communist, as a member of the KGB, as a fascist, and always he was an extremist,'' adding that Godson insisted that Morris stop meeting with LaRouche and his representatives.
In January 1983, the demand for an investigation of LaRouche was brought into the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB) by the circle associated with Scaife and Godson--the latter being a consultant to PFIAB at the time. According to an FBI document, a complaint by Henry Kissinger was raised at a PFIAB meeting of Jan. 12, 1983, by fellow PFIAB member David Abshire of Georgetown University's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)--a Scaife-funded think-tank. The vice chairman of PFIAB at the time was Leo Cherne, the founder of Freedom House, also a Scaife-funded institution. The PFIAB discussion did succeed in triggering an FBI investigation of LaRouche; the FBI responded with a memorandum repeating the Godson-Jamieson line, that activities of the NCLC and EIR ``dovetail nicely with Soviet propaganda and disinformation objectives.''
However, the FBI stated that, officially, it did not have an investigation of the NCLC going at that time under either domestic security or foreign counterintelligence guidelines. In order to remedy this, a campaign of news media defamation of LaRouche was organized, starting in early 1983 by the Bush-Scaife-Godson crowd. This was a joint public-private effort growing out of the Public Diplomacy'' operation, which we detailed in our October 1996 *EIR Special Report* on George Bush and the 12333 Serial Murder Ring.''
Public Diplomacy was headed at the NSC by Walter Raymond, a long-time CIA propaganda specialist who worked with Cord Meyer, and who intersected the London-centered Forum World Features operation headed by Dickie Scaife in the 1970s. In mid-1982, Raymond was posted to the NSC at the recommendation of Vice President George Bush's national security adviser Don Gregg. DeGraffenried became a deputy to Raymond. On Jan. 25, 1983--less than two weeks after the PFIAB meeting where the demand to get LaRouche was raised--Raymond drafted a memorandum proposing the creation of a private-donor group to fund Public Diplomacy propaganda programs supporting administration policies in areas such as Afghanistan, Central America, and Western Europe. ``We can not, forever, rely on one or two good souls, such as Smith-Richardson or Mellon-Scaife,'' Raymond wrote. (The Smith-Richardson Foundation, along with the John M. Olin Foundation and Scaife's foundations, comprise a cluster of intelligence-connected foundations which fund almost all the same institutions and programs as those we listed in Documentation last week, on p.|67.)
In March, Raymond sent another memo to National Security Adviser Clark, describing efforts to pull together the private-donors group: ``The group was largely pulled together by Frank Barnett, Dan McMichael (Dick Scaife's man), Mike Joyce (Olin Foundation), Les Lenkowsky (Smith-Richardson Foundation) plus Leonard Sussman and Leo Cherne of Freedom House. A number of others including Roy Godson have also participated.'' Frank Barnett was from the NSIC--funded by Scaife as well as the other cited foundations.
In the spring of 1983, the same group convened a meeting at the New York apartment of Wall Street financier John Train--known as ``the last of the OSS `old boys' on Wall Street.'' Dickie Scaife personally attended that meeting, as did about two dozen news media representatives. There were at least two followup meetings in 1983-84. Mira Lansky Boland, a graduate of Tufts University's Fletcher School of Diplomacy, and the Washington, D.C. Fact-Finding Director for the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), later testified that she attended a meeting at Train's residence in 1984, at which Roy Godson was also present.
The Train meetings were devoted to the coordination of planted articles and features hostile to LaRouche in the news media, and they directly resulted in attacks on LaRouche during the 1984-86 period on NBC-TV, in the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, Reader's Digest, and thousands of others. It also ultimately resulted in a book-length attack on LaRouche published in 1989 with funding from the Smith-Richardson Foundation.
The campaign of news-media defamation of LaRouche was a precondition for the judicial frame-up of LaRouche and his associates. The first indictment against LaRouche was brought in Boston--where the Weld and Mellon families' First Boston Corp. wielded enormous power. When the Boston federal case against LaRouche flopped, a second indictment was brought in Alexandria, Virginia--the intelligence agencies' favorite U.S. court district--under the overall direction of U.S. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh.
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"Get Clinton!"
As should be clear to the reader by now, Dickie Scaife's current financing and coordination of the news-media attack on President Clinton, is exactly of the same form as what Scaife has been deployed to do since the early 1970s, when he was assigned to take over Forum World Features/Kern House by the Anglophile bankers' intelligence network. Forum World Feature's specific purpose was to finance and circulate selected features and articles for the news media internationally. The ``Public Diplomacy'' operation in the 1980s which Scaife financed did exactly the same thing as FWF, including orchestrating news media attacks on targetted adversaries.
The Columbia Journalism Review put it slightly more politely in a 1981 profile of Scaife: It said that he ``has made the formation of public opinion both his business and his avocation.... Scaife could claim to have done more than any other individual in the past five or six years to influence the way in which Americans think about their country and the world.''
Today, almost on a weekly basis, one can pick up a newspaper and find full-page ads on the Vincent Foster death, reprinting articles written by Christopher Ruddy for Scaife's Greensburg (now ``Pittsburgh'') Tribune-Review. The ads are paid for by Scaife, with funds laundered through the Western Journalism Center (WJC). WJC also occasionally reprints articles by the British Intelligence stringer and London Sunday Telegraph Washington correspondent Ambrose Evans-Pritchard--who also writes directly for the Tribune Review.
Other ads promoting theories about the alleged coverup of the Vincent Foster death can also be found, produced by Accuracy in Media (AIM), another group bankrolled by Scaife since the 1970s, and long known for its defense of the CIA against any attacks, not to mention its protection of George Bush's drug-running Contras in the 1980s. Currently, Scaife's foundations are AIM's largest contributors, having given them $630,000 from 1989-93.
The WJC and AIM also produce features on the Foster case for newspapers and television programs. AIM's Reed Irvine has a weekly broadcast on National Empowerment Television (NET), a cable channel founded by Paul Weyrich's Free Congress Foundation, to which Scaife gives about $1 million a year.
At the end of 1993, the Whitewater scandals against President Clinton, which had been dormant since the 1992 primaries, were revved up again with the publication of the Troopergate'' story in the British-linked *American Spectator*. Already in the 1970s, Scaife had given over $1 million to the *American Spectator'*s publishers, and this has continued to the present day; between 1989 and 1993, Scaife gave $1.3 million to the American Spectator Educational Fund for research'' and other purposes.
Another top purveyor of Vincent Foster conspiracy theories is Strategic Investment newsletter, run by former Times of London editor Lord William Rees-Mogg, and James Dale Davidson, chairman of the National Taxpayers Union, also Scaife-funded. Davidson has produced a video jointly with the Western Journalism Center called ``Unanswered: The Death of Vincent Foster.''
What does Scaife himself say about all this? Very little publicly, but, in a rare interview he gave to the New York Times in 1995, he proclaimed, ``The death of Vincent Foster: I think it's the Rosetta Stone to the whole Clinton administration,'' adding that Foster's death had the potential to become the political story of the century.
The other major means by which Scaife finances attacks on the President--apart from his funding of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's GOPAC and right-wing think-tanks such as the Heritage Foundation--is through the cluster of right-wing legal foundations and litigation centers. Prominent among these (see Documentation, p.|67 in our previous issue's installment) is the Landmark Legal Foundation, which has offered advice and assistance to Paula Jones in her sexual-harassment claim against Clinton, and which has ensconced itself in other Whitewater-related matters.
Another, similar Scaife-financed organization is the Washington Legal Foundation, previously known as the Capital Legal Foundation. On its Legal Policy Advisory Board are Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, John Norton Moore of the University of Virginia Law School, and Massachusetts governor and former LaRouche prosecutor William Weld. On its National Board of Advisers are Senators Fred Thompson (Tenn.) and Orrin Hatch (Utah)--both involved in Senate investigations of the Clintons--and Jesse Helms, who played a role in the dumping of the first Whitewater independent counsel and his replacement with Kenneth Starr.
The work of Scaife's network of conservative legal foundations is overseen by the Washington-basedNational Legal Center for the Public Interest (NLCPI), which he, of course, also funds. One of the directors of NLCPI is David Davenport, president of Pepperdine University; Scaife is on Pepperdine's board of trustees. Davenport and Scaife also sit together on the advisory board of the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace in Palo Alto, California.
It is David Davenport who has offered Bush-leaguer Kenneth Starr a cushy position at Pepperdine University, financed in large part by Scaife, when Starr wraps up his investigation and legal assault on President Clinton as the Whitewater independent counsel. Starr may be ``independent'' of the administration, but he is certainly not independent of Dickie Scaife.
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Brown says the initial effort,
will be aired later this month in North Carolina and e-mailed to between 3 and 7 million conservatives this week, with a plea for more funding to further spread the message. "All of the efforts I have ever done in my life have been significantly funded," Brown claimed, though he declined to describe the size of the purchase. "This is going to be the most Internet-intensive effort for an ad debut ever."
The new ad recounts the deaths of three Chicago residents in 2001 at the hands of criminal gangs. "That same year, a Chicago state senator named Barack Obama voted against expanding the death penalty for gang-related murders," an ominous female narrator intones. "So the question is, can a man so weak in the war on gangs be trusted in the war on terror?"
Brown is funding the initial ad campaign through a political action committee called the National Campaign Fund, which had $14,027 in the bank at the end of March. Brown said he had established several other front groups to fund a long-range effort to erode Obama's support, including a second PAC, called The Legacy Committee, a 527 organization called Citizens for a Safe and Prosperous America and a so-called "social welfare" 501(c)4 nonprofit called the Policy Issues Institute.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1733873,00.html#ixzz0xqPD2asE
ag 21
BS NCCR?
note bold is them, i took our red
John R. Houk
© September 26, 2012
The United Nations keeps on finding deceptive ways to enlist the United States of America into a sovereignty ending compact with the United Nations. If the UN is able to trump a national government’s sovereignty that essentially makes the UN a global governing body making the rule of law on a global basis.
In America’s case the existence of a global rule of law authority would nullify the U.S. Constitution eradicating the best Liberty-Rights the world has ever seen basically making the Bill of Rights portion of Constitution subservient to United Nations legal precedent.
Free Speech would be reduced hindering minority beliefs.
Religious Freedom would be regulated to meet varying standards; e.g. Biblical Christians could not have the same public worship say a Muslim may have (Church bells no – Islamic :{adhan by muezzin}: yes); Biblical Christians would be jailed preaching against homosexuality, Biblical Christians could be jailed for preaching (:{Christ’s Great Commission}:) for atheists and non-Christians might be offended and incited to violence and so on and so on.
The Second Amendment for American individuals to bear arms for protection would controlled or ended by the UN because armed citizens is always a threat to government authority and essentially the UN would be the World Government.
Undoubtedly there are other Constitutional Rights that would be curtailed or terminated by UN authority.
The most notorious path the UN has been implementing Agenda 21 which is using ecological-Global Warming-Agriculture-Depopulation as the path to operate a top to bottom global government.
Here is a brief description of Agenda 21:
Awareness of Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development is racing across the nation as citizens in community after community are learning what their city planners are actually up to. As awareness grows, I am receiving more and more calls for tools to help activists fight back. Many complain that elected officials just won’t read detailed reports or watch long videos. “Can you give us something that is quick, and easy to read that we can hand out,” I’m asked.
So here it is. A one page, quick description of Agenda 21 that fits on one page. I’ve also included for the back side of your hand out a list of quotes for the perpetrators of Agenda 21 that should back up my brief descriptions.
A word of caution, use this as a started (sic) kit, but do not allow it to be your only knowledge of this very complex subject. To kill it you have to know the facts. Research, know your details; discover the NGO players in your community; identify who is victimized by the policies and recruit them to your fight; and then kill Agenda 21. That’s how it must be done. The information below is only your first step. Happy hunting.
What is Sustainable Development?
According to its authors, the objective of sustainable development is to integrate economic, social and environmental policies in order to achieve reduced consumption, social equity, and the preservation and restoration of biodiversity. Sustainablists insist that every societal decision be based on environmental impact, focusing on three components; global land use, global education, and global population control and reduction.
Social Equity (Social Justice)
Social justice is described as the right and opportunity of all people “to benefit equally from the resources afforded us by society and the environment.” Redistribution of wealth. Private property is a social injustice since not everyone can build wealth from it. National sovereignty is a social injustice. Universal health care is a social justice. All part of Agenda 21 policy.
Economic Prosperity
Public Private Partnerships (PPP). Special dealings between government and certain, chosen corporations which get tax breaks, grants and the government’s power of Eminent Domain to implement sustainable policy. Government-sanctioned monopolies.
Local Sustainable Development policies
Smart Growth, Wildlands Project, Resilient Cities, Regional Visioning Projects, STAR Sustainable Communities, Green jobs, Green Building Codes, “Going Green,” Alternative Energy, Local Visioning, facilitators, regional planning, historic preservation, conservation easements, development rights, sustainable farming, comprehensive planning, growth management, consensus.
Who is behind it?
ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (formally, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives). Communities pay ICLEI dues to provide “local” community plans, software, training, etc. Addition groups include American Planning Council, The Renaissance Planning Group, International City/ County Management Group, aided by US Mayors Conference, National Governors Association, National League of Cities, National Association of County Administrators and many more private organizations and official government agencies. Foundation and government grants drive the process.
Where did it originate?
The term Sustainable Development was first introduced to the world in the pages a 1987 report (Our Common Future) produced by the United Nations World Commission on Environmental and Development, authored by Gro Harlem Brundtland, VP of the World Socialist Party. The term was first offered as official UN policy in 1992, in a document called UN Sustainable Development Agenda 21, issued at the UN’s Earth Summit, today referred to simply as Agenda 21.
What gives Agenda 21 Ruling Authority?
More than 178 nations adopted Agenda 21 as official policy during a signing ceremony at the Earth Summit. US president George H.W. Bush signed the document for the US. In signing, each nation pledge to adopt the goals of Agenda 21. In 1995, President Bill Clinton, in compliance with Agenda 21, signed Executive Order #12858 to create the President’s Council on Sustainable Development in order to “harmonize” US environmental policy with UN directives as outlined in Agenda 21. The EO directed all agencies of the Federal Government to work with state and local community governments in a joint effort “reinvent” government using the guidelines outlined in Agenda 21. As a result, with the assistance of groups like ICLEI, Sustainable Development is now emerging as government policy in every town, county and state in the nation. (READ THE REST – Agenda 21 In One Easy Lesson; Worldview Times; 04/04/11)
Now that I have the stage with Agenda 21 become aware of the next UN scheme to terminate American Sovereignty. That scheme is called the :{Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities:(style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700"):}: (CRPD) SA _{[:{Phyllis Schlafly}:}_]. This is a United Nations sponsored international treaty that has a name that evokes the emotion of sympathy. I mean who doesn’t help Disabled People? Who wants to be labeled a wicked miser for refusing compassion for the Disabled?
The thing is there are loads wording that would nullify the United States Constitution.
Below is a :{Western Center for Journalism}: (WCJ) email that is informative and gives you the ability to participate in mass faxing to your Senator (The Senate must approve all foreign treaties).
JRH 9/26/12
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GOP Senators Pushing Constitution Subverting UN Treaty
By Floyd Brown
Sent: 9/25/2012 10:04 AM
Sent by WCJ
What Would You Say If We Told You That The United States Senate Is About To Ratify A U.N. Treaty That Seeks To • Eradicate Your Parental Rights • Advance Abortion Around The World • Sexualize Children As Young As Five-Years Old • And Institute Population-Control Measures At Home And Abroad?
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And what would you say if we told you that a number of Senate Republicans have joined hands with the Democrats and are actually pushing the ratification of this United Nations treaty, either because they are legitimately ignorant when it comes to the actual language of this treaty, or are simply too scared to oppose it because it is masquerading as an international effort to affirm the rights of disabled persons?
We couldn’t have made it up if we tried. As a matter of fact, Senator Jim DeMint, who is leading the charge in opposition to this United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) treaty, came right out and said: “When you look at the language in the treaty you realize THERE ARE OTHER THINGS AT STAKE HERE. A LOT OF THE LANGUAGE IN THERE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DISABILITIES....” [Emphasis Ours]
And now, CRPD actually stands a better-than-even chance of actually being ratified because RINO Senators Richard Lugar, John Barrasso and Johnny Isakson, voted with the Democratic majority in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to send it to the full Senate for ratification… and we’re not about to let our elected officials pass this unholy thing in the dark of night while no one is looking.
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The Problem With The CRPD Is That It’s Not Really About Helping Persons With Disabilities. In Actuality, It’s A Ploy To Trick Us Into Voluntarily Surrendering Our Sovereignty.
Make no mistake, the canard of addressing the needs of the disabled is simply pretty ribbons and bows. What’s inside the actual package is the surrender of our sovereignty to the America-haters and tyrannical third-world dictatorships that call themselves United Nations Members.
And we’re not the only ones saying it. The Heritage Foundation writes that:{:{“ratifying it [the CRPD] would subject the U.S. to }:UNTOLD THREATS:{ against its }::{sovereignty}::{ and invite further intrusion by U.N. officials into sensitive social and domestic policies.”}::{ [Emphasis Ours] }:
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Heritage goes on to say: “However, U.S. ratification of the [CRPD] is more than merely superfluous; the [CRPD] threatens American sovereignty in a variety of ways. As with other human rights treaties, the [CRPD] established a treaty body composed of unelected ‘experts’ … that evaluates the compliance of state parties to the treaty.”
Those are mighty strong words coming from an organization like Heritage that strives to phrase just about everything in as dignified and academic a manner as humanly possible. There can be no mistake, CRPD is all about the surrender of our national sovereignty… and we’re in no mood to surrender it… we’re not going to stand by a let it happen without a fight.
Senator Jim DeMint said: “We don’t need to go beyond our Constitution and federalist system by allowing our fundamental rights to be dictated by unaccountable and unelected international bureaucrats.”
John Bolton, the former-Ambassador to the United Nations, was making an obvious reference to the CRPD as the hat-trick to LOST and ATT when he recently said: “I think there are a lot of threats to American sovereignty that the Obama administration has had cooking in the U.N. They’ve kept it kind of low key.”
And Bonnie Alba, an independent columnist, who served in various positions in the Department of Defense, said of the United Nations: “[I]f we acquiesce to the U.N. plan to run the world under the guise of helping the poor and weak, there is one guarantee. Over time all nations would lose their national sovereignty to the U.N. which would end up performing as a Banana Republic Dictatorship through enforced collection of taxes. And accountable to no one.”
And what is perhaps the ultimate irony is that this treaty, if ratified, would probably do nothing to safeguard the innate, inalienable (and for those of us in the United States, God-given) rights of people with disabilities. Instead, it WOULD erode (or even eradicate) the civil liberties of your children and grandchildren; and that’s why we must speak out and make our voice heard at this very moment.
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But The Eradication Of Our Sovereignty Is Not The End Game. It’s Just The Beginning.
Mike Farris with the Home School Legal Defense Fund clues us in to the first bit of United Nations trickery on CRPD when he tells us that the “CRPD provides no specific definition of disability.” And Farris is not alone. Heritage concurs: “Other language in [the CRPD] is troubling… such as its lack of a clear definition of disability, which it defines as ‘an evolving concept.'” Of course, neglecting to clearly define the term “DISABILITY” in the 50 distinct articles of the “Convention on the Rights of Persons with DISABILITIES” treaty WAS NO ACCIDENT. It’s Standard United Nations Operating Procedure.
An unelected and unaccountable body of America-haters and third-world thugs, or as Heritage put it, “a treaty body composed of unelected ‘experts,'” will define this “evolving concept” as they go. The definitions of what constitutes “disabilities” and “rights” will constantly change, expand and morph to include greater numbers of people, and as more “rights” are allocated to an ever-increasing numbers of people who are deemed “disabled,” others will demand these newly created special “rights” as well.
And our enemies will simply rinse-and-repeat the process, continually abuse this “evolving concept” and impose unfunded, unconstitutional and even sublimely ridiculous mandates upon you, your children and your grandchildren, under the guise of “securing the rights of the disabled.” In reality, they’ll simply be attempting to overwhelm our already strained entitlement system, and crippling the United States under the weight of that same entitlement system.
If you think that ObamaCare and Barack Obama’s other economy crippling shenanigans are bad, know that the demagogues of the third-world are just itching to show us how it’s really done… but we’re not going to give them the chance.
We can’t give them the chance because we might not be able to close Pandora’s Box once it is flung open; and once our own cowardly politicians start to tell us that we are obliged to follow the DICTATES of this body of third-world thugs and America-haters (and tyrannically enforce OUR compliance on THEIR behalf), it’s all over.
Article VI of our own Constitution requires compliance: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.”
As for our enemies, they won’t comply; and all the America-haters at the United Nations will simply turn their backs and look at us with blank stares on their faces. ‘What do you mean Iran is not complying with the provisions of the treaty… of course they’re in compliance… however, the other member nations of the panel would like to address some more issues involving your compliance with you.’
After all, THEY define the terms and THEY make the rules as they go. As with many United Nations treaties and resolutions, CRPD will mean whatever they say it means on any given day, and our children and grandchildren will be left with no national sovereignty… no individual liberties… and a wreaked economy. Our children and grandchildren will be reduced to serfdom under the iron fist and the autocratic rule of those who despise freedom, liberty, and most of all, us… but it doesn’t have to be that way. We can put a stop this menace today.
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Did You Know That The Promotion Of The Radical Worldwide Abortion Movement Goes Hand In Hand With Safeguarding The Rights Of Persons With Disabilities?
And just what do abortion and the rights of the disabled have to do with each other? We still don’t know, but we DO KNOW that the United Nations has become infamous over the years, for constantly sneaking coded abortion advocacy language into treaties and resolutions that should have nothing whatsoever to do with abortion; and CRPD is no exception.
Article 25 of the CRPD which addresses issues of “Health” states that the “State Parties” are mandated to “take all appropriate measures” to ensure those covered under the treaty have access to “gender-sensitive” health services… and “free or affordable health care and programmes… in the area of sexual and reproductive health…” (“sexual and reproductive health,” is known to be United Nations-speak for abortion).
And just so you know not only how committed the Left is when it comes to promoting a radical worldwide abortion agenda, but also how the United Nations intentionally interjects “code phrases” in treaties and resolutions; consider what happened when Senator Marco Rubio actually introduced an amendment to the CRPD in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which simple stated:
“The United States understands that the phrase ‘sexual and reproductive health’ in Article 25(a) of the Convention does not include abortion, and its use in that article does not create any abortion rights, cannot be interpreted to constitute support, endorsement, or promotion of abortion, and in no way suggests that abortion be promoted as a method of family planning.”
ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE. Chloe Cooney with the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) wrote: “These extreme views in opposition to women’s rights and U.S. participation in the global community only succeed in marginalizing a bipartisan effort like the [CRPD],” and Senator Barbara Boxer echoed that statement: “No senator in my view should use any international treaty to push his or her views on an issue that isn’t part of this treaty.”
Did you catch that? The United Nations is advancing a treaty that allegedly attempts to safeguard the innate and inalienable rights of persons with disabilities and interjects the promotion of abortion into the document THROUGH THE USE OF CODE WORDS; and when a Marco Rubio sought to clarify that the treaty on the rights of the disabled “in no way suggests that abortion be promoted as a method of family planning,” Barbara Boxer and her denizens of the Left accused RUBIO of interjecting HIS “views on an issue” into the debate.
And the Democrats and the RINOs on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Rubio down. That’s why we need 34 Senators to go on record NOW and put their opposition to CRPD in writing. We need to send the world a message. The United States refuses to even hold a vote on lunacy.
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And Did You Know That Our Children Have The “Right” To Sexual Gratification From The Moment They Emerge From The Womb And This Disability Treaty Is Going To Enforce That “Right” Too?
Senator DeMint and Mike Farris have very real and well-founded concerns when it comes to Article 7 of the CRPD, which mandates that states ensure that “the best interests of the child” shall be the primary consideration in all actions concerning the “rights” of the child.
As Farris, who sees the dangers in his capacity as one of the nation’s leading, if not the nation’s leading, homeschool advocate states: “Should the government’s assessment of the child’s best interests differ from that of the parents, the government gets to make the decision, not the parents.”
DeMint says: “We’re afraid that if the language suggests that parental authority is not absolute, we’re going to have an international body telling our parents they can’t homeschool.”
What DeMint and Farris aren’t addressing is that the dangers posed by this treaty to your children and grandchildren are far worse. Article 23 of the CRPD, deceptively and ironically titled, “Respect For Home And The Family” mandates that children have “access to age-appropriate information, reproductive and family planning education are recognized, and the means necessary to enable them to exercise these rights are provided.”
You might be interested in knowing what the United Nations typically means when it uses the term “age-appropriate” in reference to “reproductive and family planning education,” because it doesn’t mean what you think it means… at least not to far too many United Nations officials and NGOs.
As an aside, you may have also realized that the term “rights” is also a United Nations code word that typically means “coerced mandate;” a scary proposition when the word is used in relation to the topics of “abortion,” “health care,” “the disabled,” and “child gratification.”
One of the good-guys, Family Watch International, a NGO that attempts to prevent some of the more radical anti-family notions that come out of the United Nations from ever seeing the light of day, tells us about the term “age-appropriate:”
“The International Guidelines on Sexuality Education,” which is a “publication issued by UNESCO, UNICEF and the United Nations Population Fund “maintains that children have a right to receive instruction in sexual pleasure, masturbation and homosexuality…”
Other UNESCO guidelines tell us that children as young as five-years-old should be taught “that they can touch their body parts for sexual pleasure” and;
A significant number of activists connected to the United Nations assert “that children are sexual from birth, and as such, are entitled to experience sexual pleasure.”
Volumes have been written on this subject. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people have never read anything issued by the United Nations and United Nations’ recognized NGOs; and if you are so ignorant as to believe that the sexualization of your child is not “age-appropriate”… well that’s just too bad.
Under the terms of the treaty, the United States Government will be mandated to enforce the dissemination of “age-appropriate information” and “reproductive and family planning education” to your child, whether you, as the parent, like it or not. It’s your child’s “right.”
As Senator Boxer would probably say, you really should not “use any international treaty to push” your personal “views on an issue that isn’t part of this treaty.” We say “nuts” to that… our God-given liberties are non-negotiable and it’s essential that we communicate that message to our elected officials.
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And Did You Further Know That Population-Control And The Rights Of The Disabled Go Hand In Hand Too?
Article 25 of the CRPD, which has already been quoted in part, also mandates that “State Parties” provide access to “population-based public health programmes…” And just what is a “population-based public health” program?
One example that may actually be familiar to you is something called “Agenda 21,” a term which should conjure visions of former Vice-President Al Gore’s “Earth In The Balance”-enviro-babble; but a good, hard, look at Barack Obama’s Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, John P. Holdren, should more accurately solidify what is meant by “population-based public health programmes” in your mind.
As it turns out, Van Jones wasn’t the only “nut” in Obama’s inner-circle, and what is probably even more startling is that the United States Senate actually confirmed Holdren.
In 1997, Holdren co-authored a textbook entitled “Ecoscience,” which advocated mass sterilization, compulsory abortion, one-world government and the establishment of a global police force to enforce these population control measures… errrr… “rights.”
Here are several more of the “greatest hits” from Holdren’s tome:
“Indeed, it has been concluded that compulsory population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution [he’s talking about the United States Constitution] if the population crisis became sufficiently severe to endanger the society.” -page 837
“If this could be accomplished, security might be provided by an armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force. Many people have recognized this as a goal, but the way to reach it remains obscure in a world where factionalism seems, if anything, to be increasing. The first step necessarily involves partial surrender of sovereignty to an international organization.” -page 917
“… a comprehensive Planetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable… the Regime could have the power to control pollution not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but also in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes that cross international boundaries or that discharge into the oceans. The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade… including all food on the international market.” -pages 942 and 943
“The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits. Control of population size might remain the responsibility of each government, but the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits.” -pages 942 and 943
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Why Would So Many Republican Senators So Willingly Support The Surrender Of Our Sovereignty To The United Nations?
We’ve got our work cut out for us because Senators Lugar, Barrasso and Isakson aren’t the only Senate Republicans supporting this atrocity. Senators John McCain, Jerry Moran and Bob Corker have already gone on record in support of the CRPD as well… and more are certain to follow if our elected officials don’t hear from you right now.
These 6 RINOs only need 8 more Senate Republicans to agree to this affront to our sovereignty, and there are plenty that are ripe for the picking… Senators Lindsey Graham, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Scott Brown, Kay Bailey-Huchinson, Lamar Alexander, Mark Kirk, Thad Cochran, Michael Enzi, John Thune and Lisa Murkowski come immediately to mind.
That’s more than 8 and that list is by no means inclusive. Senators Moran and Barrasso, who stood in opposition to LOST, are actually pushing CRPD. McClatchy even reported that Jim DeMint is very aware that he’s “up against other Republican senators” and that he “faces an uphill battle in preventing ratification.”
Why would these Republican Senators so willingly surrender our sovereignty to the United Nations? Why ask why? History, after all, is clear. In the “Federalist Papers” Alexander Hamilton observed that “a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people” and “that of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying obsequious court to the people….”
Perhaps it is enough to say that it takes intelligence, discernment and courage to do the right thing; particularly when the “right thing” is opposing something that masquerades as an effort to advance the rights of the disabled.
Isakson’s own office inadvertently confirmed the above by issuing a slyly-worded statement that said he “voted in favor of the [treaty] in the committee because ratification would signal to the world that the U.S. is committed to continuing its role as the international leader in disability rights.”
But hold on… wait until you hear what came next. Isakson’s office actually added that the treaty “will not erode our sovereignty.” Is he serious?
Perhaps, but it’s more than certain that Isakson and far too many of our Republican leaders didn’t bother to read Article 46 of the CRPD, which explicitly states: “Reservations incompatible with the object and purpose of the present Convention shall not be permitted.”
Isakson and Company should know better; but they don’t. Mike Farris said: :{“They lack the knowledge to execute their offices AND IT’S SHAMEFUL.” [Emphasis Ours]
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One thing is certain. When our elected officials are done picking up the mountains of faxes that will spill from their overflowing fax trays onto their floors… they won’t be able to use the excuse that they “lacked knowledge.”
So let’s make our demands known. Tell our elected officials in no uncertain terms, with an election approaching, that there will be dire career-ending consequences UNLESS they send the opposition a clear message that even bringing this treaty up for a vote is an effort in futility. We want them on record… and we want it in writing.
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