31
Jul
The Tides Foundation is something I don’t like.
The current situation ( pre-2004 Presidential Election ), is that the wife of a candidate for President donates heavily to The Tides Foundation. The Tides Foundation in turn donates to some very radical organizations along with moveon.org, who has made it their mission to get the incumbent president out of office. Their message is very mean-spirited and tasteless, attempting to run advertisements comparing Bush to Hitler. IMO, the money moveon.org receives should be considered political contributions and regulated by Federal Election Commission. The candidate would then be held liable for their content if they receive money from them.
All in all, I really think the Heinz-Kerry / Tides / Moveon.org relationship smells BAD and is borderline illegal and Teresa Heinz-Kerry is dangerous as the primary influence on the President of the United Statues.
Why people aren’t asking more questions about this is beyond me. If I were working for Bush, I’d be hammering the Kerry / Tides / moveon.org relationship every single day.
Here are the most recent financials of The Tides Foundation, see if you can connect any dots between who the Heinz Foundation claims to have supported and where that money went: tides.pdf ( Adobe PDF file )
This ain’t right, and in conjunction with 527′s in general, needs to be eliminated. If a candidate donates to people like Tides, and Tides subsequently contribute to that candidate, it needs to be illegal.
26
Jul
A few days ago John Kerry held a fundraiser with the social darlings of Hollywood. Being what they are, they all tried to one-up each other being the most obnoxious ( because they can ). Apparently Whoopi Goldberg won the competition by comparing George W. Bush to her genitalia. Pretty gross comparison of anything if you ask me. Immediately after her performance, Slim-Fast, one of her sponsors, canned her. Apparently as grossed out as I was. Very shortly afterwards Arnold Schwartzeneggar, governor of California ( yes, the very same state ), called state legislators opposing a bill of his “girlie-men”. Not to be topped, Linda Rondstadt ( former girlfirend of a former governor of, you guessed it, California ), topped the other two by praising the movie Fahrenheidt 911, a very crass movie criticizing President Bush. She was run off stage as people through stuff at her, people demanded their money refunded, and Aladdin Casino promptly dumped her.
There was a furor on the Motley Fool bulletin board over Whoopi getting fired, basically implying that freedom of speech was being trampled by right-wingers. I asked, only to be ignored, why it would be right-wingers when Arnold took heat as well, and he is one of them? Won’t get an answer for that. But, it did make me think why Whoopi’s bush was more important than Arnold’s “girlie-men”, and definitely got more play than Linda’s beating her drum. Whoopi and Linda lost income over it, Arnold just got a little heat, but since most people recognized it for what it was ( “girlie-men”, if you didn’t follow the link, was a satire of Arnold ), it didn’t carry quite the punch I guess. So, that just narrows it to Whoopi and Linda. Two women spoke their minds, both said rather loaded things, one is all over the media, one was barely mentioned. The simple cop-out answer would be because Whoopi is black and Linda is not. That’s not the way I look at things tho. The NAACP didn’t rush to Whoopi’s defense on this, which struck me as odd. I really think because of her name, and the way she approaches things, Whoopi’s not “black enough” to merit sympathy from the NAACP. OK, that leaves it a woman-woman thing. About the only angle I can make of it now is that Linda has a history of being radical, and saying radical things, and Whoopi has sold her career on being a sort of middle of the road type performer. That is what Slim-Fast bought into, and Whoopi shattered that image by saying what she did, while Linda just upset her crowd.
